Laura, Susannah

[pooroldEnga]

I like both of these names quite a lot but I lost a bit of interest in Laura after looking at the top 100 and seeing quite a few popular 2 syllables girls names beginning with L. Susannah I love but a friend said it reminds them of Savannah which has turned me off it a bit.

If I like Laura and Susannah what else might I like? I prefer 1-2 syllables. If the name is long I'd be happy to use it as long as there is a shortening I like just as much, for example I like Susie.

Thanks.

I was going to call our son Laura Jane back in 1998 , if he was a girl - which he wasn't!!

Lara is also nice

Wow @Ichnichtenlichten you just move in very classy circles!

Love Susannah.

I LOVE Suzanne.

I prefer Susannah with an H. I feel like it seems more Spanish without the H and the H gives it a classic sophisticated English feel.

I really like both Laura and Susannah, though agree there are a lot of L names in the girls charts ATM.

I think Stephanie has a similar feel, and Stevie is a cute nn
Amy has a similar feel to me too
Rebecca

Susannah/Susana is nice.

Really like Susanna
Anna
Charlotte
Nadia
Julia
Sasha
Claudia
Finlay
Kitty

Both lovely names but Susanna(h) feels a bit rarer and more interesting to me. I don't see it as similar to Savannah at all - one is classic and interestingly old-fashioned, the other sounds very American or "rock star's daughter" to me.

For what it's worth, I once visited a church where one of my distant ancestors is buried, and there were quite a lot of graves of people called Susanna, without the H, from the 18th and 19th century. It might be a slightly rarer spelling but it was obviously popular once - although I did wonder if all these particular Susannas might be distantly related, and all named after the same matriarch!

I like Susannah. It feels sort if sunny.

Soooooo many 40 something Lauras about.

Susannah is lovely and definitely feels fresher, and the name itself has a bit more pizazz. Has a sunny feel to it as @midsomermurderess says.

Susannah has a completely different vibe to Savannah.

It’s a lovely name and underused. I’d personally stick with the h otherwise it will get misspelled and be annoying.

I love Laura and Susannah, they would have been my top two choices but her dad (now my exH) vetoed them

Be careful with the ‘a’ in Katharine. This was my name and a pain in the arse having to explain it constantly.

I changed it to Kate by deed poll in my 20s!

If my second child had been a girl she would have been Katherine or Katharine. The spelling issue was the only thing that gave me pause! Lovely name, but it would have driven me to distraction to be constantly saying 'No, KAY at the beginning, not C, 5th letter is A, not E, -rine ending, not -ryn ...'

The spelling thing is a red herring. One of mine has traditional, reasonably popular name. There's only 2 spellings of it, but she has the most common spelling as I worried about making life hard work with the less well known one. You wouldn't believe how many times it is spent wrongly and how many weird variations people come up with!

I’ve always loved Lorna - feels a bit more substantial than Laura

I don't know why you would think that, as the name Lorna was invented in the 19th century for the novel Lorna Doone.

Whereas Laura as a name comes from the Romans. There's a Saint Laura too.

I suppose you mean the sound of it. I don't mind Lorna, it's quite nice, but definitely prefer Laura and it's a classic.