Nina, Renée, Heidi or Esme

[Leahd89]

Opinions on these names and any other ideas that run along the same theme?
These are the top 4 my husband and I agree on, his order of preference is

1. Renée
2. Esme
3. Heidi
4. Nina

Mine is

1. Nina
2. Renée and Heidi joint

3.

1. Esme

Not sure if we are having a boy or girl but girls names are much more difficult to choose!

Thanks

Esme (Ez - mee)

Love Nina!

Nina
Ez meeeeee

Renee / Heidi

Heidi is the only one I like

Esme is ok

Strongly dislike both renee and nina

I love all your choices but Renee is the winner for me

1 Heidi
2 Renee
3 esme
4 Nina

NoSquirrels I really like Freya too but it's quite popular now and not sure if it's a bit faddy. I like Erin too but not sure if it goes with my surname, our son has an Irish name so it might sound a bit too try hard even though we're both Irish!

Still can't decide if I like Renee after Ciara Doherty called her dd that but Nina is lovely and I only know 1. Don't like the rest

Eira
Ingrid
Iona

All Norse like Freya...

Nina is definitely my favourite by far and seems to have the most votes but it's my husbands least favourite

Esmé
Renée
Heidi
Nina

I'm definitely swayed towards European, international types of names rather than traditionally British or American names, any other names which you guys can think of?

Nina is timeless, international, classic, unusual but recognisable and sassy.

Esme is sweet.

I don’t like the other two at all.

What about Lara, Rosa, Maya, Lotta, Amma, Anya, Greta, Frida, Thea or Mila?

I like Heidi. Don't like Renee at all reminds me of Renee & Renato or Allo Allo.
Esme isn't nice it's too granny. Don't mind Nina but prefer Gina for some reason or even Tina!
Also suggest :
Tia
Sasha
Saskia
Margot
Esther

The whole Es-me / Es-may pronunciation has definitely put me off the name Esme. I'm not keen on having to correct people.

Surprised how popular Nina is and how unpopular Renée is, although I think Nina Renée works well together

Heidi is still up there at number 2 i think

My daughter is a 25 yr old Esme and loves her name ....pronounced Esmeee not Ezmay!!

Nina, beyond a doubt. Gorgeous, sophisticated, understated, wonderful.

Renee is OK, Heidi not great

I really dislike Esme. Dreary.

1. Esme
2. Renee - sorry can't do accent on my keyboard. I like this a lot more than other people it seems.
3. Nina- feels a bit bland to me. I prefer a bit more 'oomph' to names.. very subjective idea and hard to explain I know...

4 Heidi - only one I dislike. Childlike compared to others.

Heidi is one of my favourite girls names, if I hadn’t decided on welsh names for my children I’d have definitely had a Heidi, I quite like Nina too. Tessa feels similar to me.

@NoSquirrels is Eira a Norse name? I didn’t know that! It’s also welsh and means Snow. One of my daughters’ middle name.

I like Renée and Esmée.

@Astronica i know what you mean. More like a sound than a name. I know a few ninas.

You both have Heidi on similar places on your lists so that one makes the most sense to me. I'd discount your last place names totally.

NoSquirrels is Eira a Norse name? I didn’t know that! It’s also welsh and means Snow

Yes - actually I think the original Norse name is Eir, but Eira has become a version. But you're right, I know it mostly as Welsh, it is very pretty I think. I loved Eirlys too but my DH was not keen, and the pronunciation is an issue, I guess.

OP, how about

Mina
Stella
Cora
Willa

@nosquirrels, I love language and how completely separate cultures can come to the same name with completely different meanings!
The ‘ei’ sound is a bit of a tough one I think, I live in South Wales and most people even here will pronounce it as ‘eye’ when they correct pronunciation is more like somewhere between ‘eye’ and ‘ay’ my English in-laws struggle with it.