UPDATED: Nordic/Welsh middle name - help!!

[NorseMum]

Thank you for replying to my previous post.🙌 Because I couldn't fit all the names in the poll, I am posting a revised list of names (which we have narrowed down a little)...

Just wanted to ask on here which of these names you find the prettiest. We have Nordic/Welsh heritage and would like to honor it in a middle name. We love meanings, so I have put the different meanings in brackets.

Here is our short list:

Enid (Welsh meaning ”soul” and ”life)
Elise (used in Denmark/Sweden/Norway, meaning ”God’s promise”)
Ida (Nordic, means "industrious," "hardworking," or "prosperous")
Freja (Norse Godess of love and beauty)
Lucia (Nordic, means ”bearer o flight”, In Sweden, Lucia is a major cultural celebration on December 13th)
Ylva (Nordic, means ”she-wolf”)

🤗

What is the first name?

It will most likely be either Audrey, Clara or Maeva 😍

Audrey Lucia is nice.

Or

Maeva Elise.

Clara Elise.

Clara Lucia.

Most of the middle names don't go too well with most the the first names IMO. Sorry @NorseMum Maybe you disagree. (It's JMO.)

I don't like the first names. Most of the middle names are much bicer.
Call her Ylva with a middle name not ending in -a.
Of the first names you've listed, Audrey is the one I dislike the least.

We're still undecided 😅May well be that we use one of our middle names as the first name... I love Ylva, but wonder if it's just too out there for the UK? 😝

Love Freja.

How is Ylva pronounced, because I'm pronouncing it Ulva rhymes with vulva in my head which isn't great? Though being a middle name chances are after the first few weeks of her life no one will ever hear at again and it'll only be used on some official documents, so that might not matter.

@TheJessops , more like somewhere in between EEL-vah and ILL-vah.

Ida, Freja, Lucia.

I love Ida but I don’t think it goes with your first names.

I love Maeve. But, as my mumsnet name makes clear, I was never lucky to have a girl.

I like Enid, Elise, Ida, Freja and Lucia.

Names that sound nice to my ear..

Audrey Lucia
Audrey Elise
Clara Lucia
Clara Elise
Clara Enid
Maeva Enid
Maeva Elise
Ida Lucia
Lucia Clare
Freja Enid

Sticking with Enid. It goes perfectly with all of the first names as well.
I vote for Audrey Enid!

I don’t know how to pronounce Ylva. I’m Welsh - is it E-nid or Eenid. I hear both

@luckylavender , it's neither.
If you mean how do Welsh-speakers say the Welsh name Enid, it's ENN-id.
(same vowel sounds as in Elin).

@PanderBare- depends on where in Wales you live.

I don't want to throw other names at you, but for a name that exists in both places, have you considered Eira?

I think it's a Welsh name, but also separate to that it's a modern version of the Norse goddess Eir, goddess of healing, which is getting more popular in Sweden (we considered it for our baby as I'm Swedish, but he's revealed himself to be a boy).

Enid or Freja as a first name. I prefer your first name choices.
Enid Ylva is fabulous

Not on your list, but as @PanderBarementioned it, Elin is lovely and works for both cultures!

I also read Ylva quickly as vulva 😆

im not keen on middle names ending with “a”. I’d go for Elise, it’s really pretty.

I dislike Audrey.

Love Ylva! My very beautiful fit calm and bendy yoga teacher is named Ylva and she’s lovely. Also didn’t know it meant she-wolf, that is insanely cool!!

@luckylavender , I said Welsh-speakers. If someone introduced herself as 'eenid', they might say it that way, but Welsh is phonetic, so the Welsh pronunciation is 'ennid'.

If it was eenid it would be written Înyd.

Fair enough. And your phonetic Ennid is actually what I meant first for the first option.

Clara Enid
Maeva Elise
Audrey Freya