annabelle or imogen

[benandoli]

Which is nicer
Annabelle Sarah Cliff
Imogen Sarah Cliff

Imogen
(Really wanted it for my DD, but DH vetoed it!)

I prefer Imogen marginally. Really don't like Annabel

Imogen is a beautiful name

Imogen.

Went to school with a right cow called Annabel!

Annabel is much less common than Imogen in my neck of the woods. Sounds prettier too IMO

Annabel, but please spell it thus unless you are French!

I prefer Sarah as a first name too

Annabelle. Usually HUGELY against 'different' spellings of names, but this is a well established version and sounds so pretty. Imogen was a pretentious, simpering friend in 'What Katy Did'.

I'm with you on the Annabelle spelling Lady T. - I like the way it looks and I like the nickname Belle (which for me doesn't work if it is Bel - dunno why).

Never read What Katy Did and now I will have to ensure DD doesn't either.

Oops, sorry if you have an Imogen, LLB! But I read it when I was a whippersnapper and in those days I thought it was pronounced IM-MOW-GUN. But it's never held Imogen Stubbs back.

Both very posh . I prefer Imogen, but Annabelle pretty too.

I like them both but prefer the spelling Annabel.

imogen

hello! I think Imogen is very beautiful
I have an Annabel (spelt like that) but tbh lots of people spell it like you do , including members of my own family lol
so I think it is pretty well established as an alternative

Imogen. And I have heard it shortened to Imo.

No worries LadyT - tis only her middle name

Annabel(le) is also still pretty unusual

Imogen is very nice
Immie, Gen...i like shortenings too

Imogen Sarah Cliff

Imogen but then I am biased as it is my 9 yr old sister's name!

Annabel is my fave. Prefer the el spelling too. HTH

Imogen (in her mother's image) is beautiful, the name of my little DD - Immy or Midge for short!
Elderly people often comment on 'these new modern names' when I introduce her & it gives me the greatest of pleasure to discuss the most tender of Shakespear's women first introduced around 1611!

Imogen is in the top 100, Annabel is not, so disagree that Imogen is more unusual. I know of two. That's not loads of course.

However Annabel is like Isabel and Anna.

I prefer Annabel, but Imogen is nice too. Imogen is just a tiny bit more pretentious than Annabel. Not massively pretentious, but just a tiny bit.

Sarah in the mn works well with both.

Annabel

Interesting about the spelling issue with Annabel. I would never have even thought that it might be spelt Annabelle. That looks really fake and weird to me. It kills a modest name and turns it in to something frou-frou.

If you go with Annabel, choose spelling of Annabel, which was good enough for Camilla's sister and Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Annabel Sainsbury.