Boy and girl name opinions?

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Thinking of:

Luke

Cara

Thoughts welcome? 👀

My second choice girl name is Julia

Really like Luke.

Cara is nice but I prefer Julia.

Love Cara! Don’t like Julia at all, it’s a very mumsy name to me.
Luke is fine, a little boring but nothing wrong with it.

Love all three of these. Tara is lovely too.

@OopsieeDaisy yeah I can see how Julia might be seen as mumsy. The ones I know are around 40 years old.

@SaracensMavericks Tara is nice too!

Both fine! Prefer Clara to Cara though but personal taste.

I love them all. Cara, Julia and Luke - in that order.
Do you like Carla?

I like Luke. I don't like Cara because I don't like endearments as names.

Clare? Juno? Helen?

I love Julia, it's so classic and relatively unusual. Do you like Juliet too? Cara is fine, but did you consider Clara?

Quite like Luke.

Nice. I like Julia and Carla more than Cara personally.

@Pemba so written down, I prefer Clara. But, my accent butchers it. I'm Scottish and the CL sounds so clunky and hoarse almost as though I'm about the bring up some phlegm 🫣

When English people say it, I think it sounds lovely though 😆

Carla would be really unusual I think for this time. Yeah, I quite like that.

Again, find Juliet hard to say!

Yeah, Julia sounds very elegant to my ears but then I think is it a bit like Linda still? You know, nice sounding but of a certain time.

Thoughts on Carly? 👀

Oh I love Carly!

Love both names! If I’d had a second girl, she would’ve been called Cara. It’s Irish for friend ❤️

I like Luke - there are a ton of Lucases and Lucas around at the moment though, if that bothers you.

Julia is most certainly not mumsy! It’s an elegant classic, and it’s on the rise (along with Juliet) at the moment.

Cara is nice, but quite insubstantial compared to Julia.

Definitely not Carla or Carly, they are definitely low rent and 50/60s in a bad way, like Linda. (Italians called Carla is are a different matter.)

I actually think Julia is a lot more timeless than Cara, Carla or Carly.

It's popular in a lot of European countries right now. I know a few babies and toddlers called Julia.

Erm, Julia is nothing like Linda!

Hmm yeah I like Julia, but I feel Cara is more of a 'could be anyone' name. What if DD is not elegant like a Julia (or Linda, just kidding, think I'm on my own with that one 😆)

Okay Carly and Carla are out.

Is Cara 'low rent' this concerns me a bit? I'm looking for classless. I see Luke as classless. Also see the name Zoe as classless.

I actually quite like Juliet and think it works as a baby, toddler and adult name. I also like Megan, Tabitha and Rosemary.

Love Carly and Carla, also Caroline.
Julia is lovely. Luke is a fine name.
Chloe
Isla
Amelia
Emily
Matthew
Samuel
David
Lucas

If you’re scottish, why not Caragh