Iona, Lydia, Matilda, Anna or Olivia - Which girl's name?

[rebeccahill]

Help! We've got under 2 weeks to register our daughter's name, and don't know which of the above to choose. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you.

Hi

Matilda= lovely girly
Lydia= i love it its on my list
Olivia= nice
Anna=nice
Iona= not really my taste

Anna

or Matilda, but that's redhot atm, if that sort of thing bothers you.

Thanks for all your suggestions. Been trying out a different name every day.

Lydia keeps reminding me of the one person I have known called Lydia who was very square, frumpy and a real swot. Would this association go with time????

Anna is lovely, but our first daugher is called Emma and I think they might be too similar.

Still love Olivia even though there are loads and I don't like the shortenings. Maybe I'll be lucky and no one will name their daugher Olivia round here!

Probably going to have Iona as a second name cos my partner loves it, but it doesn't really flow off the tongue.

Gone off Matilda cos it's just not her at all.

So it's now going to be Olivia Iona or Anna Iona (or Lydia Iona if I can forget about the girl i knew when i was younger!) What do you think? (First daugher being Emma Isla.)

Iona - nice name, had never heard of it
Anna - inoffensive, bit dull????
Olivia - far too popular
Lydia - pretty
Matilda - also pretty

Well, I think of your options you should go for Lydia Iona.

(I think when your daughters are older they will have a nice chuckle about their parents' island obsession. Am now just thinking about the options for a boy ... Sark ... Skye ... no, it has to be Muck.)

Anna

Iona better as a first name IMO.

If your partner loves Iona, why not use that? Or are you not so keen?

Have a lydie who is never Lyd always "shortened" to lydie

of your list I like Anna and matilda aswell

Olivia is wayyyy to popular. I would go with Anna it's the nicest out o f all of the list. Although matilda is nice too....

Iona is lovely, the name and the island - do you have any Scottish connections? If so I would def go for Iona