Girls Spanish/English names

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Need name that works in both languages. Don't mind long or short names. Suggestions please ...!

I lived with 2 spanish girls at Uni, one was called Esther and the other Racquel.

When I was in Spain, I had an English friend called Linda. All the Spanish girls thought that was a fab name as it means beautiful! My name is Rebecca - not so beautiful as it means cardigan in Spanish

I love all the suggestions above, also Luisa.

Rosa or Rosalita

Sílvia, Lídia, Anabel, Julia, Clara, Leonora....... Those would be ones I'd use just because I really like which happen to be workable in Spain too.

Maribel is lovely btw. Gorgeous.

JMO, but I think the names in the top ten in spain at the moment are a bit frumpier. Here in GB, super feminine names are 'in' and they are choosing things like Nuria and Noa. JMO.

My DD is a Clara and everyone comments on it in the UK and in Spain.

Amanda

Concepcion, Inmaculada, Purificacion, Cesarea...

My favourites are Alba, Alma, Ines, Natalia, Clara, Lola. I also loved Lucia but worried people would pronounce it 'Luchia' or 'Lusha'.

De tus favoritos me encantan Alma, Ines y Lola. Lucia tambien me gusta mucho, pero hay muchisimas en Espana

No quiero ponerlo aqui en MN pero mi hija tiene el nombre de un pajaro blanco...

Otros.....

Mirabel
Miranda
Matilda
Anabel
Catalina
Eulalia
Isabel
Melissa

My nieces are

Reyna
Linda
Gloria
Angelica
Rocio
Guadalupe
Marta
Lorena
Jesica
Carolina
Elisabeth
Nancy
Evelia

Some lovely names here. We are living in the UK at the moment and I think some of them wouldn't work with an English accent.

Am loving:

Clara
Eva
Ines
Alba
Noa - too much like boys name Noah?

Looks like I'm going for the shorter names! Also love:

Eliana -is this italian?
Natalia
Isabel

Some good nns with the longer names.

Don't want anything too popular, or frumpy, good point TheNewsMonger.

LuLuBai - I think your DD's name begins with a P!

Will run the whole thread by DH later.

Luisa?

Also:

Martha/Marta
Maria
Angela
Ana/Anna

Bénita

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Yup - that's the one! I am surprised how difficult a lot of people find it though, so I might actually recommend a shorter name.

I think you are right to avoid Noa - too close to Noah which is v. popular in this country for boys right now.

Ines is on my list for next DC if it's a girl. Personally I prefer Alma to Alba - but that is probably because I always think of La Casa de Bernarda Alba so it makes me feel claustraphobic.

Eliana is gorgeous. I think it may have Hebrew origins (or so I was told). Isabel and Eva are really lovely and do work in both languages very well but they are enormously popular.

Natalia is very pretty too (not on my list as it is a relative's name).

So really I haven't helped at all as I love all the names you have on your list.

I like:

Rosario
Charito
Luz
Mercedes

though you could argue they don't work brilliantly in English.

Haven't they heard Julio Iglesias crooning about una &^%%$$£ blanca then!?!?!

I don't know what it's short for but the daughter of Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler is called Chábeli. I have never come across another but it is lovely. Maria Isabel probably?

Well NewsMonger it seems not. Nor apparently have they heard of the famous artist's daughter.

The number of times I have had "&^%%$$£ ???". That's an unusual name for a boy.

My usual response is "Yes, very."

Never heard of 'Noa' for a girl, but you'd also have the problem of sounding like 'know her'.

Lourdes
Paloma
Mercedes
Reyna

Lucrecia
Ana
Carla
Ellie
Dahlia
Marta
Cristina
Arianna
Ariadna
Leyre
Ninive
Desiree (Des-e-ray)

Sofia
Noelle

I was thinking of Adriana the other night, but apparently there is a daft model by that name which put me off.

nuria
nadal