Thoughts on my shortlist

[Songbird21]

First baby expected in April. Surname is long, complicated and South African so wanting something quite simple and classic for a first name. Current favourites:

Alice
Iris
Clara
Rose

My favourite changes week by week, currently love Iris and DH’s favourite is Rose. Other suggestions welcome!

Love Clara and Iris.

Other suggestions
Daphne
Joy
Anna

I love Rose x

Love Iris.

Rose is very overdone.

Alice and Clara are my favourites!

I like Clara as not as widely used.
Iris was on my list but think it because quite popular

Id stay clear of Rose now thanks to Stacey Soloman and Daniel Lloyd

I love Clara.

I like Alice.

Rose is nice, but a bit popular.

I don't like Iris. Just makes me things of eyes.

How about:

Maeve
Anna
Isla
May/Mae

Alice is probably the most truly classic name. The others are more vintage than classic I’d say.

Alice is my favourite. I would have had it on my own list but a close friend named her daughter Alice so I chose a different name.

Having said that Iris is a really beautiful name

Clara

Love Iris. Beautiful flower abd goddess of the rainbow, I think a

Clara or Iris

I love Clara, it would have been my choice if I'd had another girl.

Alice is the only one I like.

Evelyn? Rosalind?

They're all lovely. My favourite is Alice though.

I love Alice. Clara is also very nice, although I prefer the 'Clair-a' pronunciation and I guess you are going for 'Clah-ra' ?

Rose is nice, although I prefer Rosa really.

Iris I don't really like, although the meaning(s) are beautiful, the sound of the word isn't really.

I love Clara and Iris

I love Iris, it's beautiful. (However, I do think it's suits best if you're tall and willowy, not solid like my lot 😄)

Iris

Out of that list, Rose is my favourite.

@OrangeAndYellowAndBlue

I love Iris, it's beautiful. (However, I do think it's suits best if you're tall and willowy, not solid like my lot 😄)

Iris Murdoch was rather chunky 😗

I love Clara.

My grand daughter is Thea absolutely love her name she is also known as Tiz (short for Tizzy) pet name we have for her. Fairly unusual although I have heard it used a bit more recently-our Thea is 10