Thoughts on this girls list?

[Namethoughtsplease]

What are your thoughts on these names please?

Amelia
Astrid
Celia
Ciara
Clara
Clover
Cora
Erin
Grace
Ivy
Juniper
Mabel
Margot
Mia
Niamh
Oona
Orla
Ottilie
Wren

Interested to hear opinions and suggestions of what I may like.

Celia very much is a name, and is a different name from Cecilia, with both originating from different Latin words and both having different meanings.

Appreciate not everyone likes the same names but perhaps your relations see Ivy as an evergreen, symbol of faithfulness rather than a jagged plant.

My favourites of your list and I really love them:
Clara
Oona
Orla
Erin
Ottilie

Least favourite:
Astrid - I imagine a new age hippy type woman dressed in purple running one of those hippy shops selling crystals and dream catchers in a British seaside town and smells of those herb stick things. It's quite a nice sound though.
Celia - Awful, I have no reason to hate this name so much, but I imagine a really nasty, stuck up woman from the 70's
Clover - Dreadful for a human, it's a cow or a margarine
Ivy - awful, hate this name, it's not a particularly pleasant plant, but it seems very popular on here.
Juniper - Would be friends with Astrid, I'm not a fan but it's quite sweet.
Wren - Not a fan at all. She'd also probably be friends with Juniper and Astrid and help out in the shop. The bird is a very cute little bird, and I think it is fairly fashionable at the moment.

The rest are all perfectly nice names.

Suggestions:
I was recently in Ireland, and I think these names might be a bit old fashioned given the ages of the ladies I met with them but I love Clodagh and Coirla.
You might like Juno too? Although a lot of people don't seem to like that on mumsnet.

Thanks for your reply, the imagery of Astrid running a shop did make me giggle.

Thanks also for the suggestions, I’ve never heard of Coirla before, sounds like a combination of Cora and Orla, both of which I like.

I’m in Ireland and have never heard of Coirla either.

All very pretentious

I've just been googling it and it seems to be very rare and almost unheard of by Google! I've known her so long I just always assumed it was a traditional Irish name, I'm not particularly knowledgeable on Irish names or traditions or spellings!

Perhaps it's not Irish, or it's an odd spelling of another name, or just a very rare one. Who knows but she is definitely a very real Irish person living in Ireland, a and that is definitely her real name 😀

I like Grace, Margot, Niamh and Orla.

Not sure how they can be “pretentious” lol but I would rather that than boring

That’s cool it’s so unusual, how is it pronounced? I could only find Coirle when searching google too!

There's loads of children/teens called Erin where I live, unfortunately the local accent makes it sound like Earn, not so pleasant.

Are you based in Ireland or England if you don’t mind me asking?

Like Corla, so Orla with a C, but the 'i' is slightly pronounced when an Irish person says it so Cor-uhr-lah, very hard to describe, but there's bit more to it than someone like me with a very ordinary sort of home counties English accent would bluntly say Corla. I think Coirle is probably pronounced the same way.

I'll have to ask her where it comes from next time I see her.

Neither. I don't mind you asking.

All quite nice. Nothing particularly out there. I really like that they’re all girl names, not feminised boy names. That was a criteria for us too.

Amelia - fine but a bit old now. Prefer Amelie. People will tell you Amelia is a medical condition.
Astrid - love!
Celia - not for me but inoffensive.
Ciara - pronounced like Keira? I would pronounce it like Chiara upon reading but that’s probably because I have a friend called Chiara.
Clara - nice, bit prim for me
Clover - nice, know one aged 5 ish
Cora - much prefer to Clara
Erin - nice, cool
Grace - boring
Ivy - just always strikes me as a bit ‘mean girl’ weirdly
Juniper - nice
Mabel - nice
Margot - nice, prefer with no T
Mia - dull
Niamh - no
Oona - no
Orla - fine, overdone
Ottilie - know a squillion of them
Wren - nice, was with a 3 year old Wren just this morning. Someone will tell you it’s a boring brown bird though.

Amelia - very over used
Astrid - love it
Celia - not keen
Ciara - not keen
Clara - love it, but Klara is even better to me (though some folk may see Klarna!)
Clover - moooo
Cora - ok
Erin - over used, ok
Grace - ok
Ivy - nooooooo
Juniper - noooooo, too twee
Mabel - just no
Margot - love it
Mia - over used
Niamh - ok
Oona - prefer Una
Orla - ok
Ottilie - nope
Wren - ok but maybe too bird like

I also love Flora, Francine, Katrina, Rebekah, and Louisa.

I have been really honest, hope that's ok.
I'd also be looking at how it flows with surname.

This is surprisingly similar to my take (including the observation that Mabel is very much a cow or old lady) except I really don't think Erin has a nice sound and I can't understand Oona being anything you would call a child but perhaps that's a cultural blindspot and it sounds different to Irish ears. Both sound to me like noises of disapproval, distaste or throat clearing.

I like Amelia but its very heavily used to the point it is a bit boring. I think Clara (I also think Nutcracker - or Heidi!) and Astrid are both fresh but classic.

In general that is a nice list of names! Astrid is my favourite, followed by Erin.

Ottilie and Wren are particular pet hates of mine but MN seems to love them. Clover feels like the name of a cow.

Other ones I like:

April
Marianne
Sophie

I really like Ottilie! I’ve worked with children for over thirty years and have never come across one before. Lovely.
I also like Niamh but you’ll probably spend a lifetime spelling it out. Still gorgeous though and I think I’ve only ever come across one before, maybe two.
I have worked as a nanny, in a nursery, in an infant school and on a paediatric hospital ward! Maybe my little corner of the uk has been sheltered lol!

@Bumbles55 , Celia is a name. (Shakespeare character).

@rainbowstardrops , Niamh was fairly unusual where I grew up.
I'm in my 50s. The area was one with quite a few families of Irish heritage.
Other than people saying it as Neev not Nee-(u)v , and getting the letter order wrong (Naimh, cf. Pheobe), and the odd Nee-um, it shouldn't be a be a problem.
Where in the UK are you???

I’m in my 50’s too and I’ve heard of the name Niamh but like I said, I’ve only come across one or two in my years of childcare. They’ve always been pronounced as ‘Neeve’ as well.

@rainbowstardrops , like with Caitlín, the Gaeilge pronunciation is falling out of use.

I like Clara and Niamh.

Other suggestions-

Nora
Sylvie
Odette
Claudia
Elise
Anna
Ingrid

I’m from Ireland and have known/come across 100s of Niamhs in my lifetime - it’s definitely ‘neev’! Not sure where you’re getting the ‘u’ sound from.

Honestly, this name is way too long.

You should just pick one of them.

😂You are overtired and being silly @Mumtumtastic! Go to bed!