What’s the most beautiful name you’ve ever heard?

[Renenma]

Just that really

What’s the most unique and beautiful name you’ve ever heard?

Most beautiful to me are Priya and Heimana. When I had a DD I didn’t feel I could use either due to being neither south East Asian (Priya) or Polynesian (Heimana). To be fair, very pale and freckled DD wouldn’t suit either name so it’s probably just as well although still disappointing 18 years on.

Sofia

I have met anyone with this name but I think the French boys name Etienne is beautiful.

Emmeline
Eloise
Anastasia
Phoebe

@Redheadedstepchild not tempted by Colomba?

I love that too

There’s a Saint Columba.

Not the Corsican version....

Rosalind or Miranda

I've never met a Colomba. The closest I've known is somebody who had the portrait of Colomba, as seen on beer cans of the beverage bearing the same name - tattoo'ed on his arm.

He was sort of Marseille/Algerian though.

Yay, all three of my girls names have been mentioned!

I also love:

Hazel
Cora
Evangeline

I’m a top Gemma fan! Wanted it for my kids but my exh refused. Tosser

Mariella

mix between my mom and Nan’s name

Celeste

I prefer Mariel to Mariella @happy20218

Emerald

Oh yes, a wonderful name!

👀

Louisa
Elyssia
Penelope
Storm (recently discovered, but adore this)
The

Sacha is my all-time favourite male name, closely followed by:
Theo
Oscar
Riley
Pascal

One of my all-time favourites, too, though many people would say it is Sloaney. I associate it with Byron (who picked it up in Venice): to me it's the name of a little girl of that era.

I also love the name Vivien, which I see is becoming quite popular.

I have always loved the boy's name Leopold, which many think beyond the pale.🙂I like German boys' names generally: Sigismund, Waldemar, also nice and not well known in the UK. Very 19th century and probably not used much anywhere now (though Waldemar is Vladimir, which is used)

Woodbine also means honeysuckle, but seems to have fallen out of use even for the plant - wonder why? 😃
I can't see that one taking off as a name anytime soon...

Cecily and Clover from "What Katy did?" When I read that book as a child I adored the name Elsie, for my favourite character. (These days I'd go with Katy instead, and I confess I think Elsie is the most sickly, wishy-washy name!)

Not if you’re northern - here it would be pronounced Duv

Thinking about it, I have a certain Georgian/early 19th thing going with girls names, as aside from Allegra I also quite like Louisa, and have loved the name Caroline since childhood. This one is also, like Allegra, the name of a child in white dress to me - though every Caroline I have known has been quite a strapping lass, and not a bit like the image the name conjures in my mind!

...and Maria and Sophia, pronounced with the hard "i" as in England circa 1810..