Layla for a girl, Ethan for a boy.....opinions please! (I won't get narky, I promise)

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unsure about spelling of Layla/Laila tho....

I knew a mean Layla so that colours my opinion! Ethan is lovely though.

love ethan not so much layla

I have an Ethan and he's lovely

I adore Ethan

Really don't like Layla (no idea why!)

I have an Ethan. Didn't settle for the name until a few weeks before he was due. I'd seen it in one of those top 20 most popular name lists, was determined not to give him a trendy name, had other names lined up, but liked it too much in the end.

Layla is lovely.

I went to school with a Leila

Sorry I don't like either. They are both very of the moment and very very popular.

I like them both but I would spell it Leila, I think it looks much nicer

nappyaddict you are obviously far too young to realise that Leila was popular in the 60s!

I like both names. Ethan was my choice for DS2 but DH liked Callum so he became Callum

fortyplus I don't think it was so popular as to be in the top 100 or anything though was it? Anyway names like Isabella, Isobel, Mary, Eleanor, Catherine, Elizabeth, Annie, Heather, Alice, Grace, Rose, Georgina, Martha, Violet, Veronica etc were all very popular years ago but they are making a come back now and are very common and of the moment again.

Our DS1 Ethan just turned 17, I still don't hear / know of that many others, none I know of at the playgroup.

Like Layla
Not keen on Ethan

Both a bit popular and non-traditional. And they don't pass the test - which is: can you imagine the name referring to a bar man, a gardener, a pilot and a high court judge. I don't think so.

I think Ethan passes all parts of that test with flying colours. Not sure how Leila/Layla would fare as a bar man though.

FWIW. I think Ethan is OK (and not at all chavvy), but I don't really like Leila/Layla at all.

SparklyGothKat: My OH likes Ethan for DS2 but I like Callum. Since I will be the one giving birth, he will be Callum rather than Ethan. Also DS1 is Aidan. Aidan and Ethan are a bit too similar.

DD is called Layla so definitely a vote from me. I have yet to meet another little Layla and we live in the Middle East!

DS often gets called Ethan but has an Arabic name that sounds similar so it confuses the Brits ;)

beautiful names