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Emma, Alice, Lucy, Louisa and Maria

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RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 20:16

What are your opinions on these names and what's your favourite and least favourite? Thanks.

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RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 20:23

I am going to add 3 more to that list: Freya, Rose & Eve.

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20viona · 29/04/2022 20:23

All totally dull sorry just my opinion.

MajesticWhine · 29/04/2022 20:26

Favourite : Louisa
Least favourite : Alice

RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 20:27

@20viona Don't be sorry, I asked for opinions.

So to pull them all together: Emma, Alice, Lucy, Louisa, Maria, Freya, Rose, Eve.

I like Eliza and Jane but can't use either.

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Hallyup89 · 29/04/2022 20:29

Love Lucy, don't like Maria, the rest are alright.

MargaritasOnMe · 29/04/2022 20:30

My favourites are Freya and Lucy.
Least favourite is Alice.

AdaColeman · 29/04/2022 20:30

All lovely names.
My favourites are Freya Alice & Louisa.

Rose & Eve have been very popular for some years so I wouldn’t use them.

LadyEloise10 · 29/04/2022 20:30

Favourite:Alice and Freya Rosie not Rose
Least Favourite: Louisa and Maria

Elysant · 29/04/2022 20:33

RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 20:27

@20viona Don't be sorry, I asked for opinions.

So to pull them all together: Emma, Alice, Lucy, Louisa, Maria, Freya, Rose, Eve.

I like Eliza and Jane but can't use either.

I like Emma, Alice, Lucy, Freya and Rose.
They are all overused and all perfectly fine and sweet names. Also all super common as filler middles.

They are fine, but would personally choose more rare middle.

SBAM · 29/04/2022 20:33

I like them all though admittedly I have a preference for classic/boring names that can be shortened.
Freya is quite popular at the minute, as is Ava/Evelyn so I’d personally steer clear of those.
If it were me I think I’d pick Louisa (though could be about to increase in popularity with Luisa from encanto?) or Rose (& likely end up calling her Rosie).

SpaceJamtart · 29/04/2022 20:36

Really like Alice, Freya, Emma and Rose.

Maria, Eve and Lucy are nice enough, but I knew a Lucy who was only called Loo Seat so that is all I hear when that name is said.

Don't like Louisa, just as to me it sounds prissy and 80s

motherofchihuahuas · 29/04/2022 20:40

Incredibly outing but I name changed recently so I don't care but my Dd is Maria Eve.

There are no others that I know of.

ANUsernam · 29/04/2022 20:40

Not so keen on Emma, Lucy and Freya, to me they all are a bit 80s. I like all the rest of them, to me they're all pretty, classic names.

motherofchihuahuas · 29/04/2022 20:41

We shorten it to Mia now and again.
I wanted to call her Ophelia. Her dad picked Maria I picked eve.

YvanEhtNiojYvanEhtNioj · 29/04/2022 20:42

Maria and Freya are the best of a bad bunch.

The rest are deadly dull.

WimpoleHat · 29/04/2022 20:43

Maria is my favourite; Eve my least.

MakkaPakkas · 29/04/2022 20:46

I like Emma. Could be more interesting as Emmeline, but classic as it is. The names as a group sound like my 80s primary school class

RosesAndHellebores · 29/04/2022 20:48

My dd has one of those names. When we chose it, it was quite unusual Hmm and then blasted off. Was also my grandma's name.

I think your dilemma is to chose something classic, pretty and that endures. I think you need to forward to the next generation: Shirley, Silvia, Patsy, Jane, Susan Shock.

SunshiningBoo · 29/04/2022 20:49

My favourite is Lucy and least favourite is probably Alice, but I think they are all lovely.

3peassuit · 29/04/2022 20:50

Maria and Lucy are lovely the rest are nice though Eve seems very popular at present.

Penguinsaregreat · 29/04/2022 20:52

My favourites are Emma and Louisa.

AnnaSW1 · 29/04/2022 20:58

I really love Emma

BackToWhereItAllBegan · 29/04/2022 21:01

I've always loved Louisa and Lucy'

RedDiamond · 29/04/2022 21:01

Alice

cptartapp · 29/04/2022 21:03

Love Louisa.
Lucy is rather wet.
Meh to the others.

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