Lara?

[Lanely]

I am in love with the name Lara for DD1. DH likes it but I'm not sure he's as in love with it as I am.

What do you all think of Lara and are there any other short, sophisticated and less popular names that would compare to Lara? (None starting with a hard C please)

Lara is beautiful

If not how about Willa, Pearl, Olive, Wren, Martha

I like the name Lara- my daughter is Lana, quite similar.

Love the name Lara. And the beautiful piece of music, “Lara’s Theme” from Dr Zhivago.

I love Lara

Aster
Stella
Nova
Fleur
Etta
Thea
Zara
Lois
Hazel
Orla
Xena
Posey
Isla
Meryn
Edie
Heidi
Rosa

Lara is very pretty and elegant but is growing in popularity and will often get misread as Laura.

Consider these alternatives:
Ada
Anya
Aria
Belle
Esme
Halle
Lyla
Luna
Maya
Mya
Tara
Zoe

Yes Lara is beautiful. And always reminds me of Lara’s Theme.

@LotusClover is it growing? I hope not too popular 🙁

Lara is lovely. I only know one little Lara and she’s a lovely girl. I don’t think many would read it as Laura tbh.

Lara is classic. I also came on to say Ada.

Olive
Robin
Sadie
Margot
Anna
Neve
Nia
Orla

Lara is very nice.

I think Lara is beautiful and really underused.

How about Mara as an alternative? (Although still prefer Lara)

I also know an Arla which I love too.

Love Lara
Don't quite know how one goes from the elegance of Lara to ...Olive ?

Lara is beautiful. I also really like Lorna, and you don’t come across many of those these days.

Arla, like the dairy company? That's a name I'd avoid tbh, but Lara is beautiful.

I like Lara and only know two - one is Laragh. How about Lydia?

Lana, Lila. Are Cara & Cora hard "Cs"?

Also love Clara

Clara is lovely

Beautiful name

Lara is a gorgeous name.

I also like

Lana
Tess
Nyree
Sadie
Erin
Lois
Petra
Astrid
Eve

I prefer Laura to Lara

Mara
Zara
Vere
Fleur
Leda
Lys
Aster
Hester
Hero
Hera
Anna
Morven

My sister is called Lara. It's okay.

I like Cara, Zara and Lara. Lara is definitely very pretty but a lot of the appeal is because it's underused. I can see it picking up in popularity because it's so pretty and turning into a popular "ar" sounding name like Arlo has done and losing some of its charm. The only downside with sharing on mumsnet is it plants the seed of a beautiful name in the minds of several mommas at once and before you know it there are a gazillion Lara's, Eleanor's, Lucy's and Ophelia's 😂🙈🙈

I like Lara. How about Lorna?

I assumed Lara was one of the names that used to be popular as I knew a few as a teen & then Tomb raider etc