What comes to your mind when you hear these names?

[LivLavender]

Livia
Clelia
Lavinia
Virginia

Livia - Labia
Clelia - Misspelled Celia
Lavinia - Lav, as in toilet
Virginia - The Virginia Company, tobacco

Livia - lovely name
Clelia - think of Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden - like it
Lavinia - I like, but I would never use a name that starts 'lav'
Virginia - like, but also awkward shortening - one to go in the middle?

Livia the O fell off the front (I know it’s a name but it sounds unfinished to me)

Clelia Towie

Lavinia someone who runs the local WI in Midsummer Murders

Virginia tobacco; virgin

Sorry it’s not very positive from me, but the first things that popped into my head were:

Livia - sounds unfinished - short for Olivia?
Clelia - hope this a typo for Celia
Lavinia - frilly
Virginia - the US state/ virgins.

Labia, Cello, Romeo & Juliet then a lovely hotel in Sri Lanka, Creeper.

Middle age toffs 😂 sorry to say

Clelia is not made up. It's an Italian name, derived from ancient Roman Cloelia.

Livia feels like a typo when trying to write Olivia for me.

Clelia also feels like a typo when trying to write Celia. It’s not one I’ve come across before but I see a pp has sad it makes them think of something so I’ll have to look it up.

Lavinia feels like a cross between Lavender and Virginia- it’s not my fave and I know that my mother would immediately comment on the “lav” bit as other posters have done so I don’t think I could get past that.

Virginia is a nice name and in an ideal world would be my favourite of the names mentioned but personally brings to mind a girl who lived on my estate when I was a child. I’m not usually fussed about bullying from other kids over names because they do always find a way, but the girl I knew routinely got bullied with comments about her being a Virgin or not even from the age of 8 or so... so I might be a bit worried about that. It’s a name that really does lend itself to that specific kind of bullying quite quickly and I did always feel terrible for her when people were unkind because it was relentless and pretty vicious all the way into her late teens. Might not be an issue now but worth thinking about how likely that is to happen where you are!

If I was to choose, I would choose Livia, but would be inclined to adjust to Olivia myself.

Ooh, see you’ve explained Clelia! How do you pronounce OP? Really interested as it’s a new one for me!

I love Livia!

It's pronounced KLEH-lya.
It's an old fashioned name but it's making a comeback in Italy, entered the top 200 a few years ago.

Just posting to say my maternal great grandmother was called Clelia, she was a lovely lady and its a beautiful name (she was italian)

@LivLavender ooh that’s actually lovely! Will adjust my choice to that one aha- my initial thought would have been “Klee-lya” which is much less nice for whatever reason. Thanks for explaining!

Livia - wife of Augustus; a friend of mine; a baby I met recently!

Clelia - Roman, can't think that I know any

Lavinia - the Aeneid

Virginia - someone I know in her 40s

I think unfortunately Clelia is a bit difficult in English. Claudia is nice though? Julia and Gaia are also a bit nicer as Roman names. I also know an Ilaria and an Eliana.

First three - Ancient Rome, blood and gore.
Virginia - old American lady.

Livia - short version of Olivia (I know it isn't, but there are so many Olivias around called Liv or Livia for short that it will be assumed)

Clelia - really dislike the Clel feels like too many Ls.

Lavinia - fine, no real associations.

Virginia - I always think of the US state, for absolutely no reason. As it is a name based on the word Virgin (as in the virgin Queen - names after Elizabeth 1) I think I woudl feel cautious about using it. Although I suspect most go by Ginny as a short name

Livia - Nivea, or that you meant Olivia and it's a typo
Clelia - Again, I'd assume this was a type and you meant Cecilia or Celia
Lavinia - Nice name. I might assume she was black
Virginia - it's ok, obviously reminds me of virginity and America

I like Virginia best.
I'm in Italy and have students with all 4 names.
Clelia- they've all been named after their grandmother. Which is traditional still in many families. Ditto Lavinia.

Livia - dropped the ‘O’
Clelia - sounds like something from a Latin textbook and is a bit of a mouthful
Lavinia - one of the characters in a Miss Marple book, but I quite like it. It’s old fashioned but not too off the wall.
Virginia - I think of the US state, but it’s a perfectly okay name.

Livia - nice Italian name, inspector Montalbano’s girlfriend
Clelia - sounds like a disfigurement
Lavinia - posh, wasn’t this the name of that Oxford student that stabbed her boyfriend?
Virginia - Woolf

I'm writing this before reading the other answers so I can't be influenced
Livia - Roman, pretty name, maybe short for Olivia, name of a friend's child, relatively posh name but not overly so
Clelia - misspelling of Celia? If not, hard to say, unless it is pronounced some other way than it looks.
Lavinia - It does make me think of toilets I'm afraid, and also the nasty girl from A Little Princess. Buttoned up and snooty.
Virginia - Ginny from Harry Potter, the US state, Virginia Water which I think is in Surrey, and virginal. Not a name I would want to be saddled with myself.

I love Livia though.

Livia - Colin Firth’s wife or someone to lazy to say Olivia
Clelia - “how the fuck do I pronounce this?”
Lavinia - Mean girl from the book “A Little Princess”. Lavatory/Latrine
Virginia - Woolf. Virginity. Virgin.

Livia, Lavinia and Clelia, I'd assume they were Italian (if pronounced properly) and maybe a bit pretentious if not.
Virginia makes me think of Virginia Woolf