Settle a name debate!

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For context, Latino/Irish household. We just can't settle on a name we both love for baby girl! Neither of us hate the others choices, but don't love them. Help us out! ,🤣 open to other suggestions

Husband likes
Lorena
Elena
Marnie

I like
Clara
Corina
Ailbhe

Can't help as I love the name Marnie!

Clara Lorena surname

Corina is lovely

I love Marnie and I love Clara as my niece is a Clara

I love Rowan and Keira. If I could only pick from your list I'd go for Clara.

Love Marnie and Clara! How about Iria or Aurelia?

Clara and Lorena are my favourites and also have a similar sound so hopefully you can find a good compromise x

Not keen on any of the names really, I do prefer your husband’s list better though

Marnie is nice. The last one is phonetically Al-va? Is that right? I'm thinking it would get misspelled and mispronounced a lot, it's cute though.

All of your name ideas are nice - Clara, Elena, Corina and Lorena are my personal favourites - all lovely. So hard to choose, isn’t it?!

Marnie or Clara.

If I had to choose just one then Clara.

I can't for the life of me understand the appeal of Marnie.

Lorena is very nice, and so is Elena. Both would easily fit into both cultures.

Clara and Corina are also very nice (though I'd prefer the A spelling - Carina). Again, both would fit into the two cultures.

Ailbhe would be a really hard name for the Latino relatives and for any future residence in H's country of origin or ancestral home. Alvy might work better.

If you want an Irish name that would work in a Latino context, would you consider Orla, Fia, Fiona, Nora, or Cara?

Alternatives:
Cora
Vera
Alma
Lara

Overall, I'd say Elena would be my choice, with Clara a close second.

Elena Ailbhe
Clara Lorena

Corina or Clara (in that order of preference). Don't like your DH's names at all, and Ailbhe is nice but hard to make work in a mixed heritage family.

Lorena - no
Elena - like (or Eleanor)
Marnie - love
I like
Clara - ok
Corina - ok
Ailbhe - wouldn’t know how to pronounce

Alternatives
Leona
Arianna
Maria
Sadie
Freya
Emilie

Thanks for this answer!

I agree, Marnie is my least favourite of the lot! Ailbhe we would probably spell Alva to save confusion.

I love Cara, but it means face in Spanish so a no-go and I have 3 cousins called orlaith which is another of my faves 🙄.

Lara is lovely! Adding it to the contenders!

I like Ailbhe best of your choices. I’d ignore comments about it being difficult to pronounce given a) you’re Irish and b) people (especially family) get on board with spelling and pronunciation of baby names !!

How about Nora, Onora, Nola, Maeve, Elora?

Marnie. As I briefly had a lovely friend when about 5 (many years ago) and she moved away suddenly. It was the first time I felt a connection with someone that was broken

Elena or Clara are beautiful 😍

Sadly our surname ends in an A too, three in a row sounds odd 🤣

Correct! I think we'd consider spelling it Alva as spend a lot of time in Spanish speaking countries

Clara

Or Elena

Clara is gorgeous, so is Elena but she'd be pronounced totally differently by the two cultures I think? Eg like Eleanor vs Elaine-a?
How about Martha/Marta?

1. Elena
2. Marnie
3. Clara

Actually like all of the names, but these would be my top 3.

I love Marnie and Clara.

The others are a bit meh to me.