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[AverageMummy]

I seem to be drawn to short simple names (although there are some exceptions).

What are your thoughts on these? I’m wondering if pregnancy hormones are drawing me to the unusual....

Alba
Thea
Heidi
Alma
Lyra
Ada

@diddlediddle I have no desire to follow the ‘unusual / unique’ trend but unfortunately a lot of names have been used by relatives - for example Anna / Clara / Lily / Ellen are just some of the names taken.
If anything I’m nervous of going too unusual & ending up in to ‘weird’ territory

Lyra is my favourite on your list

I really like the name Eve

I have done for several years but it won’t go with my surname (one syllable surname too)

If you like the weird and wonderful, there's Thyra.

DH had a random 1 syllable rule, so the girls names on our lists were
Kate
Zoe ( not quite 1 syllable!)
Tess
Jayne
Eve
Jean
Joan

Heidi is my favourite!

What about
Mara
Lyra
Gia
Lola
Dita
Belle
Della
Lana
Dora
Alix
Anna

I have two friends in their forties called Heidi, and both of them are mortified by their name, on the grounds of tweeness and conjuring up images of little dirndl-clad Swiss girls skipping about on mountains with goats being winsome. One of them says that anyone her age or older tends to hum the theme tune to the TV series of Heidi which I vaguely remember from childhood. The other says it's just not an adult name.

What I don't like about it is that it's a diminutive of Adelheid, and I think it doesn't stand up alone.

I’m biased on Ada, it was my grandma’s name and she loathed it. Loved my grandma lots but would never give a child of mine that name given her view

But Ada wasn’t cool for your grandmother’s generation. Now it’s retro-chic. Not to mention a relief from the omnipresent Sophie, Olivia, Amelia/Emilia/ Isabelle/Isabel/Isabella etc.

What about Lorna?
Is anyone called that nowadays...

Eva
Ivy
Rosa
Vera
Marie
Lena/Lina
Ena/Ina

I love Ada.

In which case I think Lyra and Thea are the two loveliest and most memorable from your list "a" names all blur into each other a bit for me, Ada, Ayla, Alma, Anna, anya, etc. Thea and Lyra both have personality and are "proper" names that are neither too unusual nor too common.