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Camille or Clara

38 replies

mommyandmore · 02/01/2025 23:02

We've whittled it down to two names! Which do you prefer?

Clara
Camille

DD1 is Orla :) (Not fussed about keeping siblings in the Irish category)

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Berlinlover · 02/01/2025 23:03

Clara is a beautiful name.

Moreteaandchocolate · 02/01/2025 23:04

Clara is gorgeous!

CatchHimDerry · 02/01/2025 23:06

I personally would not like the -a at the end of both, feeling it’s a bit “samey”, but that’s just me

So Camille :)

CherryPinkAppleBlossomWhite · 02/01/2025 23:08

Clara is lovely

DazedLion · 02/01/2025 23:12

Camille & Orla goes best (less of a mouthful with the la’s & ra’s

RosesAndHellebores · 02/01/2025 23:13

I like Clara best but not with Orla so Camille. Chloe?

PreggersWithBaby2 · 02/01/2025 23:15

Love love LOVE the name Clara, but couldn't use it. Orla and Clara sounds lovely.

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 02/01/2025 23:16

Clara is pretty and if it matters, imo works well as a sister name to Orla - yes, obviously they are very different origins but the repeated letters somehow link them.

Camille is nice enough but seems a very different style to Orla, to me Clara is somehow a middle ground without going for the obvious sibset name (Maeve, Niamh etc)

VelvetWildflower · 02/01/2025 23:16

Clara is beautiful.

Jasrun · 02/01/2025 23:17

Clara is beautiful

Twinklybeam · 02/01/2025 23:28

Clara

Thatcastlethere · 02/01/2025 23:29

Clara

Imonmyway · 02/01/2025 23:29

Clara

Also like Cora

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 02/01/2025 23:31

Objectively, Clara, but ‘Clara and Orla’ is a mouthful, so Camille - but even better, Camilla.

Idontevenknowmyname · 02/01/2025 23:33

How will Camille be pronounced? Because in French it sounds like Cami. In English I suspect it will become camel, or cam-eel. Which is less nice.
Of course Clara can be Clare-ah or clah-rah. So I guess either could be a challenge.

I like Clara, with the second pronunciation above.

Kalasbyxor · 02/01/2025 23:35

Camille is lovely. I tend to think of it as a boy's name but know it's unisex. I suppose Camilla isn't on the cards, or you would probably have said?

SkaneTos · 02/01/2025 23:38

They are both lovely names.

ConstanceM · 02/01/2025 23:39

Camilla will NEVER be my Queen. 👑

Nc54684 · 03/01/2025 08:01

Camille sounds French and I feel like I would think your child was half French. I like Camilla instead.
also like Clara

GreyhoundGal1 · 03/01/2025 08:27

Much prefer Camille with Orla. I think Clara is too similar. Like both names though!

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 03/01/2025 08:43

I like Camille but really don’t like Clara

mommyandmore · 03/01/2025 19:48

Thank you all for your thoughts! Seems like Clara has the majority! X

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EcruCardigan · 03/01/2025 20:40

I don't really like either of them, but I do like Cara.

Scutterbug · 03/01/2025 20:43

Love Clara.

Bizarrely don’t like Camille but really like Camilla!

Onlyvisiting · 03/01/2025 20:50

Camille

Clara seems over popular, based on the amount of times it crops up on here the last few months I predict an abundance of little Clara's in the next year!.
I'm not sure where it's come from, I've never met a clara in my life and can't think of any particularly famous ones? In fact my only association with it is Aunt Clara in bewitched! Which isn't negative but not very baby friendly.....

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