Votes please! Lorena or Alba?

[Goscat]

Down to our final names and can't decide!

Another one for whom Lorena Bobbitt was the first thing to spring to mind.

Alba and the Irish Ailbhe is lovely.

I like Alva

Wasn’t alba a video cassette company?

alva is to similar to Alvin or vulva

Alba Lorena has a good ring to it.

I agree Lorena is a hill billy name!

Alba is the name of a country, some people like using country names - I knew an India many years ago.

Lorena.

But also have you considered Paloma?

Alba just makes me think of Albert which isn’t a nice name.

i see OP lives in Scotland and Alba means Scotland in Gaelic. If I’m assuming a lot of Scottish people would know that then would that not be a bit odd? Is it commonly used as a name in Scotland?

Which pronunciation for Alba would you use? I find the anglicised version quite harsh and clunky but the traditional ‘Al-ah-buh’ is much softer which I like.
Lorena is a lovely name and won’t be as common for her.

Unfortunately in a bilingual household almost any name we choose will probably need some sort of explaining on one side of the Atlantic🤣. It's Law-ren-ah, but can see where people might initially say it more like the sound in Lorraine.

There's also Lorenia, but not sure if I find it a bit frilly

I like Alba but only if it's pronounced correctly.

I just can't get over the fact that Paloma is "pigeon" in Spanish and I hate pigeons 🤣🤣 it's also dove TBF, but either way!

As in the Gaelic al-ah-ba? Ironically it's actually a Spanish name Al-ba, so yes maybe too confusing

Just Al-ba. It's a Spanish name (means dawn). Al-ah-ba is the Gaelic place name.

Our son has a Spanish name and I just don't feel like Lorna goes with it. I know not vital, but they sound a bit jarring together.

Alba is the name of a political party which would rule it out for me. Although, to be fair, people call girls Tori or Tory. But there’s too much potential for teasing with Alba for me I’m afraid.

Whatever name we choose she's likely to have to spend some time correcting in one language or the other. We wanted to call our son Miguel, but my dad kept saying mig-well 🤣 but it's me-gel (hard g like gold). Whereas my in-laws can't for the life of them say lochlan which was another contender.

I figure people still use the name ted since Bundy 🤣.

Came here to say this too!

So is the pronunciation supposed to be like Lauren with an a on the end? I don't normally like changing names to be phonetic but I'd be inclined to switch it to Lorenna just for an easy life! (And Google tells me that it is sometimes spelled that way)

I'm in the south West and there is a cornish name Lowenna which apparently means joy which is nice. Also morwenna.

How about Sofia or Isabelle, they’d both work well for multi lingual families.

Also thought of Bobbitt immediately, it's not the best association.

I love Alba, but I think it would be strange in Scotland. I'm not sure Lorena would completely work in Scotland either. I think it would get pronounced Lorainne-ah

Alma
Yolanda
Laura
Marisa
Isabel
Ana
Maya
Catalina

What about Isla, ties to Scotland and Spain.

I just can't get over the fact that Paloma is "pigeon" in Spanish and I hate pigeons 🤣🤣 it's also dove TBF, but either way!

Oh ok fair enough ! 🤣

I think of it as a beautiful white dove symbolising peace 🤍🤍🤍

Sofia
Mila
Lucia
Lola

I used to adore this name! However, There's 4 islas in my son's class currently so I've been really out off it!

It is also the literal word for island in Spanish, pronounced eez-la so think people would struggle to change pronunciation to eye-la. We spend a lot of time in Latin America.