Celeste or Eleanor?

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Which name do you prefer and why?

Yeah probably

Lettie is the obvious shortening of Celeste to me.

Cel, Celly, Leste, Lesty, Letty, Sally, Ellie, Cece, Tete.

Les, Lessie.

I'm an Eleanor, I love my name. Never had issues with anyone's pronunciation and I've travelled all over 🤷🏻‍♀️

Obviously my vote is Eleanor, but they're both lovely names.

I LOVE the song Lady Eleanor by Lindisfarne.
I HATE the song Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles.

Ooh yeh, Cece, pronounced See-see, like her off First Dates who works in the restaurant!

I like Celeste. I prefere the sound. I also love Celestine. CeeCee is cute too.

Eleanor is grand. I don't get the multiple pronunciation bit. I have only heard Ellen-or. I hate Ellie though, so that puts me off. I like Nell though.

I prefer Eleanor.
Do you like Celia or Cedella?

Eleanor for sure. Celeste is one of those dreary names that you never hear or want to.

Eleanor. Reminds me of a Lindisfarne song, Lady Eleanor, probably their finest song.

Celeste is lovely, but remind me of a pill I used to take.

Eleanor is beautiful and classic. I like Nora for short if that's not too much of a stretch.

Celeste is sweet (Babar) but reminds me of the old contraceptive pill with similar name, Cileste, or the naff 90s pop duo.

Eleanor always has a nice sound to it but for some reason to me it seems old-fashioned however, there are quite a few ok nicknames that could be used,: El, Ellie, Lenore, Lena, Leni.
I like Celeste better however.

Eleanor, with Nell as a nickname if you don’t like Ellie.

I find Celeste a bit frilly/contraceptive-y.

I like both. Celeste reminds me of the Marie Celeste so maybe avoid Mary or Marie as middle.

Find Eleanor boring and bland IMO. Celeste is ok!

Eleanor is lovely with lots of lovely shortenings. (I adore Nell!)

Celeste is too cutesy and frilly-who would choose to be a 50 year old Celeste?

I don't like Celeste at all, makes me thing of Babar the Elephant. Eleanor is OK but a bit dull.

Celeste sounds like a contraceptive.

Eleanor is quite formal unless you are going to shorten to Ellie.

OLD THREAD ALERT

Why did you re-open an old thread?
@sadeightiesthrowback

@FayCarew First of all, my apologies for the mistake and for inconveniencing you and anyone else.

I'm new to MN, I posted on this thread because it was there I guess. I didn't look at the dates ( which I see now) when posters before me posted.
In fact, I have no idea how that happened. Not sure how to make sure it doesn't happen again; any tips on how to avoid that? Again, I realize that was a mistake, and I apologize, thanks for pointing it out @FayCarew.

Eleanor is a classic and has some very interesting historical namesakes (Aquitaine, Roosevelt and even the Beatles song). I’m sure there must be a famous historical Celeste other than the literary Elephant but none immediately sprung to mind.

There are also so many potential diminutives with Eleanor, that she has a very varied choice if for some reason she doesn’t like the name (in fact the only names I can think of with more are Elizabeth and Margaret).

@sadeightiesthrowback ,it happens and often there will be a pile up of posts about how trashy/naff/meh the name is, only the baby was named quite some time ago.

We don't know if OP was naming a baby or about to, but the Babar and Cileste comments might be a bit hurtful if little Celeste is now a 1 year old.