Eliabella - I really like this but what are your thoughts?

[ponyness]

My DH & I are thinking of Eliabella Rose Taylor but have had a bad reaction from the only other person I've told so have started to wonder about it. I know it's rather unusual...

Eliza Bella?

pmsl fartin in the bath.

No, it sounds like a letter has fallen out of the middle or something.

I had some pregnancy shockers btw. Berengaria, anyone?

Thanks so much for sorting out this hormone addled head and not saddling a child with a name that everyone does a double-take at!

Hollyroger, I LOVE the fact that you considered Oak for awhile, has made me feel much better .

The problem is that all the names I loved, Elizabeth, Isabella, Annabelle have all be given to kids of close friends of mine so have had to start from scratch - serves me right for being the last one to get pregnant . So back to the drawing board and hopefully with hormones more in control!!!!

not keen on it at all....makes me think Jelly Belly!

Etymologically, it really can't be a Celtic name - the only Arthurian sources it appears in are the French and Italian versions of the prose Roman de Tristan, and it's clearly Romance in derivation. And pretty makey-uppy sounding at that.

ffs

DON'T CALL HER THIS

Ohbugger...absolute epitome of MN in one short post.
Brilliant.

I LOVE it. I have a niece called Faliaballiarina. So unusual.

labiafalliarina would be nicer imo

Hells Bells!

Enjoying this one! How about Lisbet ? Or (completely unrelated) Nina ?

Ponyness has acknowledged hormonally charged brain at work.

Own pg brain is entirely responsible for dd's name, I can only hope that when she's older she'll forgive me!

Ponyness, how about
Eliza
Elspeth
Elizabeth
Louisa
Anna
Clemency
Susannah
....

Mid pregnancy I was hellbent on Lorelei. And our surname begins with L. Hormones calm down towards the end I think.

Dont do it I think its quite bad (Ellabella?!) and I usually like non top 10 names

OP - how about Arabella or Anna?

or Ellie

"Berengaria, anyone?"

Kerala - I had a Lorelai thing at one point as well.

Don't see the problem in giving a name that is the same as one of your friends' dds.

Eliza? Elise? Or indeed Elizabeth or Eleanor as already suggested.

'Eleanor Rose' would certainly show your Democrat credentials!

what about Eliana instead?

Sounds silly, imo.

Eliza
Elizabeth
Eliana
Belle
Bella

All lovely.

'Ella-Bella' - NO

Thanks everyone for such great suggestion - Bellissima, I really like Eleanor Rose!! And it's now currently our front runner - thanks so much

Eliabella sounds like a bacterial disease