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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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lakeswimmer · 29/04/2022 21:09

My favourites are Emma, Rose and Eve.

I prefer Louise to Louisa and Mary to Maria.

PierresPotato · 29/04/2022 21:12

Louisa sounds the best to my ear.

DramaAlpaca · 29/04/2022 21:30

I like all except Maria and Freya.

It's hard to choose a favourite because I love all the others, but I'll say Emma because I'd have used it if I'd had a girl.

resm · 29/04/2022 21:51

I really like your name list and don’t think you can wrong with any of them - classics, not dull at all.

My least favourites are Alice and Freya, while two perfectly nice names they just aren’t to my taste.

I love Emma, Lucy, Maria and Eve probably equally. I think Emma and Maria sound so refreshing for a 2022 baby.

ladygindiva · 29/04/2022 21:55

Freya because its the most interesting. Its lovely.

timoteigirl · 29/04/2022 21:56

Emma and Alice are classic names to me. Alice is my favourite of these. What about Grace?
Lucy to me overly sweet name.
Louisa is good. what about Maud?
Maria way too common to my liking.
Freya - goddess of agriculture and fertility.
Rose okay.
Eve way too common.

Holly60 · 29/04/2022 21:57

Lucy, Alice and Rose are my favourites

Firebird83 · 29/04/2022 22:14

I love Louisa. Maria is nice too.

Lemonlemon88 · 29/04/2022 22:18

I think they all nice names! Freya would be my least favourite, i think Alice Louisa or Louisa Alice is lovely.

17caterpillars1mouse · 29/04/2022 22:22

I really like Lucy Alice as a first name, middle name combo. I also really like Louisa and quite like Emma

Eve is my least favourite and I find Rose very dull as it's so overdone. I do like Rosa though

Mumofgirls2017 · 29/04/2022 22:50

Alice
Louisa
Lucy
Maria
Emma

that order. All classics, all nice enough though

Mumofgirls2017 · 29/04/2022 22:52

Like Rose and Eve but prefer Rosa and Eva.

I think Freya will date? But not sure

TheYearOfSmallThings · 29/04/2022 22:53

Those are all good names - my favourites would be Alice and Lucy, and my least favourite would be Freya.

RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 22:55

Thanks for all the feedback, I can understand why some see them as boring names. I'm drawn to safe/plain names because mine is an unusual one and I had bad experiences with it at school. I like Cicely for example but I'd be worried to use it.

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RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 22:56

I think Freya is lovely but I've just searched popularity and I'm shocked to see how popular it is in England and Wales.

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PinkSyCo · 29/04/2022 23:05

They’re all nice enough (apart from Alice), but I’d probably chose Maria as it’s the least common.

wizzler · 29/04/2022 23:13

I like Emma, Maria and Louisa the most and Freya the least, but I think they are all lovely

Puplover · 29/04/2022 23:16

Favourites Emma and Maria
Least favourite Alice

WhereIsMyBrain · 29/04/2022 23:17

Absolutely love them all except Eve. Slight preference for Mary over Maria. Classic and beautiful.

Keladrythesaviour · 29/04/2022 23:18

I like Maria, Rose and Eve. The rest are really dull imo. I love Maria but mostly as a middle name.

Luckyelephant1 · 29/04/2022 23:20

I love Rose, the rest are extremely meh.

stopwaitingforpermissiontobeyou · 29/04/2022 23:20

RoseAreRedolent · 29/04/2022 20:16

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

I work in a school, so that can affect things.

I have a friend called Louisa and I love it.

Emma is nice, as is Lucy.

Not an Alice or Maria fan.

stopwaitingforpermissiontobeyou · 29/04/2022 23:21

OP didn't ask about rose 🤣

MinglingFlamingo · 29/04/2022 23:27

In order of preference Alice being my favourite

  1. Alice
  2. Freya
  3. Lucy
  4. Louisa
  5. rose
  6. Emma
  7. Eve
  8. Maria