Help with short list

[Pistachiocreme]

Looking for some help and opinions on the following, surname similar to McClement

Freya
Darcy
Layla
Penelope

Order from most liked yo least
Darcy
Freya
Layla
Penelope (This is the only one I don't like)

Penelope McClement (or similar) is a bit of a mouthful, but I like the name. Would she be known as Penny?

Freya - past the main trend - goddess of fertility and agriculture
Darcy - very trendy
Layla - to me this is a granny name, I don't like
Penelope - would you use a nick name?

Do you want any further suggestions or it is one of these four?

Penelope 🫶🫶🫶 all lovely names though

Freya - overused so sounds meh but ok
Darcy - 2010s version of Tracey. Dated already.
Layla - ok, Lily/Lyla type name and a bit samey
Penelope - ok but will be Penny

Given that the surname is a nice one, I'd try to tie the first name and surname, and go for something like Clara McClement or Marcie McClement.

(names suggested are from the top of my head, popular/alternative to Darcy. Penelope is the best on your list)

Penelope if it will be shortened to Penny.

They're all nice names. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them.

Darcy is quite faddy at the moment some will date if that's a concern.

My favourite from your list is Penelope. It's a great name and good nn options. Penny when she's a cute little girl, Nell when she's a cool teen and Penelope when she's a lawyer/doctor/PM.

@Emanwenym i like Clara thank you!

Open to suggestions and yes Penelope would be Penny!

Clara is great. I’d add Eloise

not keen on others except maybe Penelope but I think that’s becoming very popular

@Pistachiocreme , a friend has a Mc surname and I stole the pattern from her. Both her DH and DD have names with the repeated letters, and the names sound very stylish.

Penelope

Love Clara and I like Penelope.

Can’t stand Darcy, agree that it’s the Tracey of its time. Always hyphenated with Rose of Mai.

Freya is just overused.

I love Penelope and Layla. Also really like Freya. I like the name Darcy and I know some lovely girls with the name, but I do worry about how it will date.

Do you like Maisie, Lila, Poppy, Matilda, Priya, Erin, Holly, Florence, Connie, Harriet (Hattie)

Layla

I like Penelope and Clara.

Freya is fine.

Not a fan of Darcy or Layla.

Freya

Penelope and Freya are my favourites from your list. I like Darcy and understand the appeal but it may date -I used a decade-specific-popular name like this for my daughter and regretted it. Layla (along with all the Lilas and Lolas and Leilas) feels over-used.
Ciara
Tessa
Anna
Alice
Greta
Willa
Persephone
Francesca
Eleanor
Antonia/Annie
Philippa/Pippa
Nancy
Lucy
Celeste

Freya by a mile.
I really don’t like Layla, reminds me of the song and I have an irrational strong dislike for Eric Clapton!

Not Layla. I knew a Layla and boys took the Mickey out of her name and said she liked to be laid… juvenile but upsetting

Freya - I love it but there were so many a couple decades ago - it may feel a bit dated to her generation.

Penelope (it's always shortened - I like Nell but not Penny)

Layla - stripper name

Darcy - the Tracy of the 2020s

Other options

Verity
Tessa
Zoe
Esther
Felicity
Ida
Carey
Persephone (it's becoming quite well used)
Clio

Freya - I love it but there were so many a couple decades ago - it may feel a bit dated to her generation. There are even more of them now.
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I like them all actually, but Penelope might be a mouthful with your surname.

Of the other three I would choose Layla

Freya
Leyland
Penelope
Darcy

Very sad about Layla sounding like a stripper name :(

Layla is a lovely name, doesn’t sounds like a stripper name to me!