Camille or Clara

[mommyandmore]

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)

Clara is a beautiful name.

Clara is gorgeous!

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 :)

Clara is lovely

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

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

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

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)

Clara is beautiful.

Clara is beautiful

Clara

Clara

Clara

Also like Cora

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

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.

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?

They are both lovely names.

Camilla will NEVER be my Queen. 👑

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

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

I like Camille but really don’t like Clara

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

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

Love Clara.

Bizarrely don’t like Camille but really like Camilla!

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.....