Claudia / Emily / Lily / Zoe / Sian

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This is our short list, time is running out.

Which do you like best? Any downsides we haven't thought of?

If we like those, what other names should we consider?

Love Chloe, thanks

Zoe

Claudia is very mumsnet (in a bad way)

Love Zoe and Claudia! (And apparently the Claudia meaning lame thing is actually a very commonly repeated mistake. There’s an article I read about it somewhere, I’ll try and find it!)

(Claudia is my favourite, Zoe second place.)

Claudia is my favourite.

Chloe was massively popular about 25 years ago. (9628 registered in 1998). I know loads of them.

dont be put off by the meaning for Claudia
it is the best name in your list.
followed by Zoe

neither of them are overly popular

I love Claudia and Sian.

Zoë or Siân, spelled like that, or Claudia

I love Zoe, Emily, Lily and also PP’s suggestion of Chloe. Sian is OK. Not keen on Claudia.

My name is Sian, I love it! 😍

Zoe I am not keen, and reminds me of gìrls names at school, so see,s a bit outdated.. Emma is popular, but I like Emma and quite timeless.
SIan is unusual and not an popular name , like in the tòp 20, but perhaps this is a good ìdea.
Lily is mice, but overused
Claud, not keen , but think of Claudia Wiñkĺeman, and I like her a d her SIH.

Emily is my favourite from your list. I’m Welsh and Siân is my middle name. I do like it but not spelled Sian without the circumflex. That would completely change the pronunciation and people spell it like that all the time. If it was my first name I could see it being really annoying.

Claudia - I personally don't like this name.
Emily - classic, cannot go wrong
Lily - nice, cannot go wrong again but maybe a bit generic whereas Emily is popular but a 'stronger' name in my opinion
Zoe - don't like it, personally
Sian - really like!

Claudia is by far my favourite from your list. It’s well known, historical, but not overdone. Emily and Lily are so saturated in the population. They’re inoffensive but extremely dull. Zoe and Sian seem a bit dated to me. I had lots of Zoes and Sians around my age (thirties) at school, and don’t know young ones. Both have fallen out of the top hundred since the late 90s, so feel more like names I’d expect a new mum to have, rather than her baby.

The meaning of Claudia puts me off. It's such a strong association - the Latin word for crippled/lame is claudus/clauda/claudum so for anyone who's studied Latin, it's really not a great choice!

And apparently the Claudia meaning lame thing is actually a very commonly repeated mistake.

What ? It's definitely not a mistake!

I really like Lily. What about Erin or Wren?

Zoë is nice. Sian is not nice. The others are very dull!

I also don't like the 'claw' sound in Claudia.

Sian is not nice Siân in a Welsh accent is lovely. I'm not keen on it in a non-Welsh accent. It needs the circumflex.

I like Zoë the best from your list.

Like them all apart from Claudia and Zoe

Claudia - really like

Emily - nice, classic, pretty

Lily- bland, so overused, will be this generations Louise

Zoe - not keen

Sian - not to my taste but ok

All are nice names.
My faves are Zoe and Claudia

Also I like Clodagh.
Do you like Leonor?