Ella?

[buntingandstarcharts]

Hi everyone, you've helped us so much with comments on various names. We have been swinging back and forth with long names shortened to nice nicknames, vetoed about 100 as I've discovered I'm truly fussy!! Now undecided between Emilia, Daisy and Ella. Family told me kindly that daisy is a cows name which has completely put us off despite it being a forerunner initially. Now I'm just thinking that simple is better! Ella, common yes, but pretty? I know that Amelia and Emilia which are our other options seem to be far more popular here than Ella, but what are your thoughts?

Eleanor with nn Ella is lovely! She could also be Nora or Nell.

Ella is timeless and beautiful.

I think it's very common in my dd's year (15). Loads and loads of Ellas, Ellies, Evas, Evies, Eves. So I find it quite boring because it's so popular.

Dislike Daisy - it's too cutesy sounding. The Emilia/Amelia confusion would bug me (despite Emilia's classy Shakespearean image). So that just leaves Ella - which is nice enough, just a little samey with a lot of the other names popular at the moment. Have you considered Stella or Estella, they are very pretty and would stand out a bit more?

I much prefer Emilia to Ella.

@buntingandstarcharts

Thank you everyone I'm SO pleasantly surprised by your comments everyone. I hate being so easily swayed by others opinions, I never felt I was with my sons name. It felt much easier. I was certainly bracing myself for more name-hate. Keep it coming ❤️ does anyone know heaps of Ellas?

I know 3 of my friends - unconnected have called their baby Ella in 2019, not sure if as popular in 2021 x

I know one Ella, she’s now six. It’s a lovely name!

I love the name Ella, there a couple in my sons preschool. It is lovely. It's getting quite common now.

Teacher here- I teach a LOT of Ellas. Not sure how many baby Ellas there are though.

It's not a name that stands out to me at first but when I think about it, it is pretty.

Emilia is by far the nicest. It's pronounced slightly differently to Amelia and is nicer by far.

Ella is pretty, but honestly it's also quite a weak and insubstantial name in my opinion. Sorry. At least it's not as cutesy as Daisy.

Love Ella & Elle .

I liked Ella, but it was top 5 when my DD was born and we didn't want anything too popular. So we chose a similar/ longer name that was much less popular- never got higher than top 75 in the five years before she was born.

Then it turned out her best friend had the same name and there were two others in her year at secondary school. She now goes by the name Ella, but bizarrely we don't know anyone else with that name, despite it being so popular in the early 2000s.

So go with the name you like - you can never predict what will be popular in your school when they grow up.

Ella is lovely. Ella Daisy is a great combination. I don't know anyone called Ella. I do know a few people who go by El/Ella/Ellie as a nickname but their full name is not Ella.

Ella is pretty, not keen on Ellie although I don't think it would get shortened to that.

I like Emilia best cos it’s a proper name innit.
But I do see it’s v popular now.

I do like Ella, but prefer as a nickname for Eleanor or Eloise etc. Emma or Anna might also work?

Not Daisy! I am with your family on that, though it makes me think of an insignificant little flower not a cow.

I love the name Ella it is my DD's name and she really suits it. I imagined a daughter who would be quiet, intelligent but confident and cool and she is fortunately exactly this. She is in her mid-20s now and there were no other Ella's in her primary and only one other in her secondary school. I like to think we started the trend for the name

Ella and Emilia are both lovely but Ella much more unusual.

I know 5 Ellas, and a Gabriella and Daniella both known as Ella. The youngest is 2, oldest is in her 20s. I think it’s nice as a shortening of a longer name, but I admit I find it quite dull on its own.

Ella is gorgeous .. I have an Eleanor that we call Ellie, ella or nelly x

I don’t like Ella personally. It is quite bland and there are so many under 5 at the moment.

Elodie?

Boring.

Ella Daisy is beautiful @buntingandstarcharts

I find it so interesting to read these comments and pleased that mostly it's not given the absolute no-no. Also, I'm a teacher in a huge school and have come across only one other Ella in the last ten years, which was why I was asking whether it is popular where you guys are from. With regards to finding a longer name to shorten to Ella, I think I've found that I oooe the simplicity of it alone which is why many I guess find it dull?

*love

@SemperIdem I like elodie but to me it sounds like 'Ella d' like a surname beginning with d unless of course you're French and say it properly on which case it is just beautiful. 💜