Please help with my Shortlists. Honest Opinions Needed!

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Final shortlists, we need to cut down, so be ruthless.

Clare
Ada
Lilith
Sibyl
Esther
Gerda
Ismay
Leonora
Cornelia
Cynthia

Damian
Felix
Diggory
Rolf
Edgar
Kurt
Clement

ok, so girls you may keep Clare and Esther. Boys you can have Felix or Digby (but not Diggory).
Well, you did ask for ruthless
Favorites for me are Esther or Felix.

Hmm

Boys
Felix or Clement

Girls
Ismay, Esther or Clare

Clare and Felix
not keen on the others

I like Esme btw , is Ismay pronounced the same?

For me my favourites - being as ruthless as frazzled if not even more so...
Girl - Ada Clare (think this would be lovely - really like Ada and Clare seems to go nicely with it!)
Boy - Felix Damian
Good luck!!

I like:

Clare
Lilith
Esther
Leonora

Damian
Felix

Get rid of the rest

Clare - don't like the others (we would have had a Clare if we had a girl). Struggling to like any of the boy ones to be honest.

Is that ruthless enough ?

Ada and Felix

Same as throckenholt, I like Clare but TBH I don't really like any of the boys names!

Felix = cat (sorry)

Ada = nice but there are going to be a few.

Leonora = nice
Lilth = nice

Kurt = nice but makes me think of books. at self

Damian = nice but makes me think of the devil

Clare is okay.

Sorry, I realise the above looks very critical but everyone likes different names don't they?

not keen on any tbh

Is Clare popular now?

I'd change Ismay to Esme, and Cornelia to Cordelia.

Boys - Clement if pronounced the French way - Cle-mon. And possibly Felix (quite liked it myself, but dire with our surname)

Clare...bit boring and 70s
Ada...dislike
Lilith...dislike
Sibyl...old granny
Esther...like it
Gerda...awful
Ismay....dislike
Leonora...ok but prefer Leoni/a
Cornelia...dislike
Cynthia...dislike, old gran

Damian...hate it, horror films
Felix...OK
Diggory....awful
Rolf...rolf harris and awful
Edgar....dislike
Kurt...Like Curtis
Clement ...dislike, bit girly too

Leonora is beautiful, lovely, I wish I could use that one. Please don't call her Cynthia!

But your boys' names.........could you maybe use Ralph instead of Rolf????

I hate all the girls' names. Sorry.
Damian, Felix or Kurt for a boy.

Is Gerda pronounced "girder"??? I wouldn't like to be called "girder" if it was me.

What jellybeans said!

i don't like any of them - sorry

Yep, Gerda is pronounced Ger-der and Ismay Iz-may.

Hmm Clare is doing well. Is it popular?

I don't much like any of them
I do, however, like Cornelius for a boy for some reason if that helps

and i like Esme
Ismay sounds a bit made up
as does Diggory
(higgory diggory dock obv comes to mind instantly)

I like Ismay a lot, also Sibyl, Esther, Clare, Ada all nice. HATE Lilith.

Felix or Edgar for a boy - both cute.

I don't like any of them. They aren't terrible but they aren't very attractive sounding names.

Felix is the only name I like. Others are all a bit naff.

Girls - Ismay, Esther or Lilith.
Boys - none of them really do it for me but at an absolute push I'd say Edgar or Diggory.