Daphne, Cordelia, Clarissa, Emmeline,Myrtle

[midnightsonata]

Final five on our list, would love opinions to help us decide

Daphne
Cordelia
Clarissa
Emmeline
Myrtle

None grab me but unlike everyone else I do quite like Myrtle.

Emmeline gets my vote...

Emmeline was on our shortlist but dont like the others, sorry

I quit elike Em,eline. None of the others

I like Emmeline and Cordelia the best.
Clarissa and Daphne are ok.
I don't like Myrtle.

I like Cordelia (but also think of poor, thwarted Cordelia in Brideshead). The other names are all fine, although of all the flower names Myrtle is the one I like least.

Emmeline

Cordelia and Clarissa are nice. I think I prefer Cordelia of the two - it seems strong but also feminine.

Daphne I DON´t like at all I´m afraid (has bad connotations re Malory Towers).

Myrtle and Emmeline, I can objectively see are beautiful names, but they don´t do anything for me.

JLO's DD is called Emmeline, don't know if that will affect your decision or not

I prefer Cordelia and Clarissa to the others. My dp's mum, aged 77 is called Myrtle, and her big sister is Daphne. Emmeline could be abbreviated and there's the suffragette thing, but I don't really like the political views she turned to later in life (Emmeline Pankhurst and one of her daughters, Christabel, supported the Tories although they started off as quite a left wing family in their time. Another daughter Sylvia was much more left wing).

Daphne - bit old fashioned I think
Cordelia - Like it but shortened to Cordie or Delia don't like
Clarissa - too horsey?
Emmeline - love this.
Myrtle - like this but think of Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter and I think a lot of people wouldn't like it if their opinion matters to you?

So I guess I'm saying Emmeline then

My order of preference:

Cordelia, love it
Emmeline, really nice I would shorten to Emmie
Clarissa, ok, makes me think of ducks and cows
Daphne, sounds wet
Myrtle, moaning

Sorry -sounds like a class full of jolly hockey sticks girlies from Malory towers.

I love Clarissa, always have and don't understand why it is not more popular. I also like Daphne- probably from my love of Frasier.

Myrtle is hard to spell and sounds a little hard.

Emmeline to me sounds like some kind of unguent.....

All of them - no, no, no.

our dd3 is cordelia and we LOVE it

has several meanings

celtic - of the sea
latin - heart
and was also the true loyal daughter in King Lear - his only good one so in my eyes has no bad connections at all

other suggestions along similar lines (well other ones we considered as I think we have similar taste) were

Claudia
Clementine
Cecelia
Celeste
Beatrice
Penelope
Arianna

good luck in your choice

oh and
Sylvie - dh wouldn't budge and I loved it

our other dd's are
Isabella and Alexandra btw

cordelia lovely

more brideshead than lear

OP is either very posh or having a larf.

abouteve why do you say that?

Not keen on any of them, but my mother - a Daphne - breathed a sigh of relief when we gave our DD my MIL's name as a middle name & did not have the name Daphne anywhere near her birth certificate! I cannot tell you how much she loathes the name Daphne and she has had 70 + years to get used to it!

Very upper class names and I'd just been reading the joke thread about classical music for pass the parcel.

I like Emmeline.

I take it you are not Scottish as Daphne would not have been on your list. Daphne is a character in the Broons, Daphne was always overweight with a strange haircut and no style. I do however like Celeste and Cordelia.

emmeline, can be shortened to the excellent emma my name )

Cordelia the "good" daughter in King Lear, has noble connotations.....

Others grim, are you charlotte Brontes alter ego?