Thoughts on names like Zara (boy and girl)

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We like these names... Could we have thoughts on them and similar vibe name ideas:

Zara
Camilla (Milla)
Allegra
Theodora (Thea or Teddy)
Octavia
Ottillie (spelling?)
Bea (Beatrice)
Kinvara
Darcy
Bella perhaps Isabella
Cordelia

Freddie
Henry (although surname starts with H)
Theodore (Theo)
Milo
Louis

Zara - love
Camilla (Milla) - like camilla, milla is very nice, how about camille?
Allegra - dislike
Theodora (Thea or Teddy) - love thea, teddy is cute, dislike theodora
Octavia - cute but hard to pull off maybe? It's one of those names that would be on my own list but I wouldn't be brave enough to use it
Ottillie (spelling?) - love
Bea (Beatrice) - dislike, I'm not a fan of old fashioned names
Kinvara - very unusual, dont think I like it
Darcy - I do like it but ... (deep breath haha) theres something a tad chavvy about it
Bella perhaps Isabella - Isabella is nice but I wouldn't choose it personally, not keen on bella
Cordelia - ok but v posh, not my fave

Freddie - dislike
Henry (although surname starts with H) - really like
Theodore (Theo) - love
Milo - love
Louis - it's ok but not my fave

How about:
Alice
Freya
Aurelia

Sebastian
Arlo
Rory
Rowan

Out your list I like Zara the best

Xanthe gives me similar vibes to Zara. Also, maybe Zinnia, Zosia, Vita, Cosima.

Beatrice is my favourite out of your list. The only one I don’t love is K names just sometimes seem tacky to me.

Like all your boys names but prefer Miles to Milo myself.

Sorry, meant to say the only one I don’t love is Kinvara because I don’t like K names!

I like Allegra and Octavia.
Also like Henry, Freddie and Milo.

I like Zara and Bea.

Bella and Darcey are ok.

I'm not keen on Camilla, Allegra, Theodora,
Octavia, Ottillie or Cordelia. They're all perfectly good names, just too 'fussy' for my taste.

I've never heard of Kinvara. It doesn't seem to go with the others.

How about:

Hermione
Persephone
Aurelia
Marnie
Jemima
Juliette
Cecily
Anastasia

I like all the boys names. My favourite is Milo.

How about:

Aaron
James
Lucas
Jonathan
William
Thomas
Sebastian
Gideon
David
Marcus

The only one I’m not keen on is Kinvara

Adelaide
Ophelia
Matilda
Jemima
Cecily
Violet
Meredith
Tabitha
Viola

Oscar
Alfie
Reuben
Rory
Toby

Lyra
Cassandra
Cressida
Clarissa

Zara- Very nice.
Camilla (Milla) - OK but I don't love it.
Allegra - no
Theodora (Thea or Teddy) like with nn Thea for a girl
Octavia - no
Ottillie (spelling?) - no
Bea (Beatrice) - no but I could cope with Trixie as a nn
Kinvara - no
Darcy - bad associations
Bella perhaps Isabella - Far to overdone
Cordelia - OK prefer Cora

How about Mary, Maria, Alice, Mauve, Emmeline or Elizabeth?

Freddie - like
Henry (although surname starts with H) don't mind, surname starting with H not necessarily a bad thing
Theodore (Theo) ok just very popular and a bit overdone
Milo - ok
Louis - quite like.

How about Edmund, Luca, Micheal or James?

-too

I like Kinvara the best, just because I've never heard of it but it's pretty and not so 'I'm trying to give my child a posh name' (apart from Darcy and Bella which are very common round my area). I'm not getting one vibe from your names, so hard to suggest. Eleanor?

The ones on your list I don’t like are Allegra, Kinvara, Bella and Darcy the others are lovely x

Love Zara and Beatrice.

For a boy how about
Xavier
Quentin
Caspar

Thanks all. Pretty set on Zara or Milla for a girl.

Still stuck on boys. Our top are:
Freddie
Xander (but would mean calling him Alexander and I don't want to risk him becoming an Alex as got a fairly close child relative with that name and I'd only be choosing it for Xander)
Casper (but unsure because of friendly ghost connotations!)
I also love Henry, Hugo, Hugh but we have decided not to do HH initials as there are so many alliterations in our very close family already.
Sebastian

...but unsure about all our boys names so any other ideas of traditional but not overused. Not too pompous though - Quentin pushes it for us- sorry! We aren't easy...

I think if you call him Xander and he answers to that you won’t have a problem with him being called Alex. Your DS will put people right if he’s called that in error.

I find Sebastian much more 'pompous' sounding than Quentin or Caspar but I like all three. How about Reuben?

Sorry OP but I just said Kinvara out loud and DH said "f*ing what?" 😂

Zara - ok
Camilla (Milla) - ok
Allegra -nice but will be Legs
Theodora (Thea or Teddy) - no
Octavia - ok but a bit long
Ottillie (spelling?) - Ottilie. No
Bea (Beatrice) - fine
Kinvara - no
Darcy- no
Bella perhaps Isabella - ok
Cordelia - yes

Freddie - not keen
Henry (although surname starts with H) - ok
Theodore (Theo) - no. don't like it and it's way too popular
Milo - no
Louis - royal baby
Xander - no
Casper - Caspar. yes
Hugo, Hugh - Hugh. Yes
Sebastian - no

I only like Zara from your girls list. All the boys names are nice but especially like Louis

Zara is lovely.
I like Henry best or Harry. Freddie is ok. What about Finley?