Emma, Alice, Lucy, Louisa and Maria

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

Emma, Alice, Lucy, Louisa, Freya, Rose, Eve are all pleasant names. Lots of Emmas in their 40s though so wouldn't choose.
Maria is awful. Way too religious in my opinion.

Alice. I have one. She’s such a character.

Louisa
Lucy
Rose
Emma
Eve
Freya
Maria
Alice

My daughter is Lucy. I loved the name from when I was pregnant and now she is 13
I like the name Freya it's not an "average" name whatever that means 😅 but it's a lovely name
I like..
Holly
Rosie
Leah
Sophie
Alex

Emma - dislike but I do love Emily
Alice - My number one on your list
Lucy - Number two
Louisa - Too dated for me
Maria - Least favourite
Freya - Equal with Rose
Rose - as above
Eve - Third favourite.

In order, imo

Alice - love this name, so elegant and cool
Louisa - great name, elegant
Eve - simple, classic

Emma - fourth place because it's very popular, but a lovely name, can't go wrong

Tied for last:
Lucy/Maria/Freya/Rose
Lucy - can't shake Loosey Goosey from my head
Maria - 'The hills are alive..'
Freya - wispy name
Rose - fusty

Overall, lovely names, but I think you're being over-cautious. Have a look at the top 100 girl names. There are lots of classics there.

Cicely is popular at the moment because it's an old lady name.

My eldest is Emma Alice so obviously they're my favourites on your list!

I like lost except for Freya and Maria, which sounds too 'Sound of Music' to me.

Favourites are Lucy and Emma. Also, totally love Eliza.

Not keen on Alice or Maria

The rest are nice.

All lovely, classic names. Particularly like Emma and Alice.
Nothing wrong with any of them, you don't have to give your child a 'yooneek' name. I doubt there would be any with the same name once she's at school.

My favourites are Louisa and Maria. I strongly, strongly dislike Alice for some unknown reason.

Lots of people saying Emma etc are popular but they really arent amongst children. I work across 5-12s and have only come across one Emma for example. Yes every other 40 year old was Emma but its at all common on a child (around here anyway!)

Emily is more common (was top 3 for a bit wasnt it) so would stick with Emma.

Similarly with Alice and Lucy - do my ears in my 40s they are classic names, but quite rare among 5-12s I know so I think a fab choice.

I don't like -a names so would choose Louise over Louisa. Mary over Maria.

I love Maria. Simple, classic, not overused in the UK for babies right now, works in many countries.

I find Lucy too cutesy, and I thought Emma was dreadfully dull in the 80s when every other girl was called Emma…feel the same now.

Cicely is lovely too and not too out there at all, if that’s holding you back.

I like them all. I like classic names. Emma is my favourite, then Maria. Freya was very popular recently which puts me off it a bit and I wouldn't choose Eve because of all the Evies.

Cecily is beautiful, I also love Clara and Cara. I think I read too many old fashioned books when little like A Little Princess and Heidi!

Emma - classic, unfussy. Would use
Alice - classic, unfussy. Would use
Lucy - classic, unfussy. Like
Louisa - like
Maria - like, works internationally
Freya - nice when I only knew one. Now meh
Rose - not keen, very boring as a middle name. Like Rosalind, Rosamund and Rosanna. Not keen on Rosa, Rosemary and Rosale. Rosie too popular
Eve - nice when I only knew one. Still nice but I dislike Eva, Evelyn, Ava, Ivy etc and it just blends in with those

I like Lucy, Louisa, Emma and Rose best for a first name.

I like Alice as a second name following a name without an SSS sound. ie Mary Alice or Jane Alice.

Maria is a beautiful name to say. It flows and works beautifully at any age. It won't date because it's already dated. I think it will become more popular soon as it's been overlooked until now.

Louisa is lovely but I don't like the eez sound.

Ultimately it's very subjective and who cares if people like it or not. You're the one who will be saying it.

Alice and Eve are very overused. Likely to be two in the class. Emma was so overused in the 80s that we are still saturated.

Lucy is a difficult name to dislike and a child or adult could carry it lightly. My only misgiving is that it seems very slight, somehow. It's difficult not to think of gingham. That said, I would be delighted to meet a baby Lucy. Make sure you like Lulu and Luce though! I like Juliet but could never use it because I can't stand Jules.

Love Emma
like Louisa
Don’t personally like Maria but nothing wrong with it

I’d strike off Lucy because it’s wet and Alice, Freya, Rose and Eve because they’ve all been done to death recently

This business of two in the class - we have a funny thing at our school. There is only one Grace, one Jack, one Oliver etc But there are duplicates of far more unusual names - duplicates of a girl and a boy who are both outside the top 100 names. Because their parents wanted them not to be one of two in a class - and now they are! Referred to as Amadeus P and Amadeus S (Amadeus isn't the name but along those lines) exactly as their parents didn't want!

Basic, safe names are popular for a reason. They do the job perfectly. Any of the names you have chosen are nice. And in the future with a complete lack of privacy it may be nice to be difficult to google! Alice Green or similar. Nice name, loads of them, hard to locate.

When dd started school in 2002 there were 3 Alice's and 3 Imogens out of 12 girls! Once she was in 6th form there was an Alice and an Imogen in every year of about 80 girls. Quite interesting there was such a concentrated demograph in one particular school!

Wow that's a tiny secondary school!

Favourites - Eve, Rose
Like - Alice, Lucy
Don't like so much - Louisa, Maria, Freya