Elowen or Dulcie?

[robin04031402]

I am expecting a baby girl very soon, dh and I cannot decide wether to name her Elowen or Dulcie.
As you can gather, we love unique names as we don't want her to start school and have other children with the same name.
We also haven't decided on a middle name either so any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thank you

@CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook I’m sorry this is totally pointless but I’m completely baffled by what you mean about ‘oh the W is silent’
The description of Ell-o-en is surely identical to the word Low.... how would you make it sound any different with the W???

Dulcie is extremely rare there are only about 50 a year to Olivia’s 5,000 or whatever it is. And even the top names are less than 1%. Someone knowing one doesn’t mean it’s not rare.

There are a few more Dolcies than Dulcies a year if that spelling appeals. I love the name and have no idea why it’s so hated on mumsnet but the reaction did remove it from my list.

Elowen is fabulous. Dulcie I quite like but it sounds like a food for some reason!

Elowen is lovely.

I never usually comment negatively on names on here but Dulcie is my least favourite name ever. Sorry.

Elowen is really nice but I just don’t GET Dulcie. Where did it come from? Why is it suddenly everywhere? It’s got like a vintage-nickname feel to it but I’ve never heard it used in old books, movies etc, or met any old people with the name like I have with other vintage-nicknames. Is it made up and then just caught on, like Nevaeh? It’s confuses me.

Elowen is struggle to pronounce. If it's "el-Owen" it reminds me of someone saying LOL. Not a fan, sorry!

Not really a fan of Dulcie either though, again I'd struggle on pronunciation, it just doesn't sound great spoken aloud either imho!

Sorry! Neither are my cup of tea!

Elowen

Neither

Sorry OP