My 'short' list - girls

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Boys to follow. Dp is slowly working his way through the books for his contributions.

Posy
Stella
Poppy
Charlotte
Ida
Abigail
Cora
Verity
Agnes
Lucinda
Tilly
Madison
Ava
Clara
Helen
Olivia
Lucy
Lorna
Ella
Dulcie
Juliet
Lauren
Ruby

Posy - Twee
Stella - Okay
Poppy - Cute but a bit childish
Charlotte - Lovely
Ida - Too old lady
Abigail - Very nice
Cora - V sweet - simple but a bit unusual
Verity - Pretty
Agnes - Too old lady
Lucinda - No, but love Lucy
Tilly - Too cutesy
Madison - A bit down market
Ava - Lovely, v pretty
Clara - Gorgeous
Helen - Great name, refreshing to see on a baby. Also love Helena
Olivia - Nice enough but a bit boring
Lucy - Love it, a favourite of mine
Lorna - Never been keen
Ella - Cute but a bit overused, prefer Eleanor - Lovely
Dulcie - Too cutesy but I do like Darcy
Juliet - V pretty
Lauren - Seems a bit dated and boring
Ruby - Cute

Good list over all. I would narrow it down to

Charlotte
Abigail
Cora
Verity
Ava
Clara
Helen
Lucy
Eleanor
Juliet
Ruby

I would probably pick Lucy

I love Ava. Not too keen on the others really, but in place of Madison, I'd suggest Addison

Clara the best, of course. But check how pronounced. It's caused me problems my whole life.
I also like Lauren and Ava.

Like-Charlotte, Lucy,Abigail,Verity, Helen and Juliet.

Hate Madison, Posy,Ida, Cora, Agnes, Tilly, Ava and Ruby.

Overall Lucy is the one I would choose.

That's a long list!

I like Stella, Agnes (love it, most people hate it tho I should warn you), Ava (quick to write!), Clara.

Some of yr others are rather popular if you mind that (Olivia, Charlotte, Poppy, Abigail, Madison, Ella, Lauren - I know at least 3-4 of school-age children all of those).

You see even piscesmoon who is normally a woman of good taste isn't keen on Agnes

A former colleague, on hearing it was one of my proposed names for DS2 if a girl said "Good thing he was a boy then!".

She's quite rude tho

They would be known as Aggie-which can rhyme with quite a lot!

Posy- too fairy-flowery, what if she wants to play rugby?
Stella- in other languages I think it's pretty, for some reason it doesn't get beyond the Janet/Brenda image for me in English
Poppy- one of my secret likes...would never use it, because it's a bit too Ellie/Evie, but I do like it.
Charlotte- Timeless, classy, elegant. Lovely. Also its last huge growth period was about 15 years ago, so there aren't too many newborn Charlottes.
Ida- Ugly.
Abigail- OK, bit harsh sounding
Cora- I like Cara, but not this
Verity- icky. Don't like faith-hope-charity names
Agnes- Really ugly sounding
Lucinda- OK, bit pony club, but it's better than the dreadful Lucy at least
Tilly - OK
Madison- No, no and thrice no. Do NOT do it.
Ava- bleurgh. Faddy. Love Eve. Loathe Eva/Evie/Ava and any other permutations
Clara- Beautiful, just lovely
Helen- As Clara, well overdue for a revival, would definitely be near the top of my list.
Olivia- And there would be how many in each class?
Lucy- Dripping wet
Lorna- OK, prefer Laura
Ella- see Olivia comments
Dulcie- Janet/Brenda
Juliet- bit too icky, like Julia though
Lauren- see Madison
Ruby - see Poppy

My favourites from your list are

Abigail
Cora
Clara
Helen
Lucy
Lorna
Juliet
Lauren
Ruby

My favourite is Agnes, if we ever have another DD that is what she is gonig to be called.

Juliet, lorna.

Posy - don't like at all
Stella - don't like at all
Poppy - sweet, very popular round these parts
Charlotte - timeless, lovely name
Ida - Nah
Abigail - like it. Like Abi too
Cora - don't like
Verity - don't like
Agnes - too old lady
Lucinda - nope, middle aged horsey woman imo
Tilly - sweet
Madison - nope.
Ava - love it
Clara - love it
Helen - like it
Olivia - don't liek it at all. Know it's v popular though
Lucy - ok
Lorna - nice
Ella - ok on a little girl, not an adult
Dulcie - not keen
Juliet - lovely, again timeless classic
Lauren - like it, but overused
Ruby - don't like it

Dulcie is gorgeous.

Posy -- Twee
Stella -- Great
Poppy -- Insubstantial and also a weed
Charlotte -- Great
Ida -- Great, also like Ada
Abigail -- Beautiful, love OT names
Cora -- Harsh-sounding, imo
Verity -- VeryTwee
Agnes -- Beautiful, classic
Lucinda -- Beautiful, classic
Tilly -- Short for Matilda only, if not then no
Madison -- Horrible
Ava -- Lovely but very popular
Clara -- Lovely
Helen -- Prefer Helena
Olivia -- Lovely; very, very popular
Lucy -- Beautiful
Lorna -- Reminds me of 'Forlorn'; prefer Lara
Ella -- Way too insubstantial and popular to the point of cliche
Dulcie -- Taking the old lady thing a bit too far, imo
Juliet -- Beautiful, classic
Lauren -- Lovely
Ruby -- Too popular

Juliet is beautiful, with Dulcie or Posy as a mn.

I live Clara, Verity and Stella too.

Olivia and Charlotte (Lottie) nice if you don't mind popularity. Ruby the same.

I think Agnes is awful. I think the French pronounce it AnYay. Aggnusss is just terrible.

I like Verity the best

Posy - too cutesy and girly. Can't take it seriously.
Stella - nice but quite hard sounding, but means 'star' so I could get over it
Poppy - see Posy
Charlotte - pretty/classic
Ida - harsh, like an old 1960's Coronation St character in a hairnet
Abigail - too 70's, like Karen and Mandy
Cora - unusual Victorian name, quite like it
Verity - harsh sounding, dislike
Agnes - really do like, also Agatha but I know that most people hate it
Lucinda - too Jilly Cooper
Tilly - as above
Madison - where did this come from??? Totally different to al the other names on this list...v American and dare I say pretty chavtastic
Ava - 2 million of them around - Eva/Ava/Evie blah blah
Clara - Love it. Very underused but works at all ages
Helen - too 70's and too plain
Olivia - overused
Lucy - cute, know lots my age but no children
Lorna - don't like but can't say why
Ella - loathe it, too many, too blah
Dulcie - quite like it but most people will hate it
Juliet - boring
Lauren - too chavvy
Ruby - wayyyyy too many these days

Dulcie!

Definitely Lucy.

I like Poppy, Verity, Juliet and Lucy

my lovely nan (RIP) was called Agnes Lilian and she absolutely hated Agnes, and couldn't understand why anyone would name a child with "an old womans name" and so her whole life she went by the name "Lil" and even when ill, would not respond to the doctors if they addressed her as Agnes.

Out of the names you've listed, i really like Charlotte, Abigail, Clara and Lucy - all pretty and classy names.

My favourites are Charlotte and Clara.

Posy - stupid
Stella = a bit "trendy"
Poppy = cute
Charlotte - no
Ida no
Abigail no
Cora no
Verity like
Agnes no
Lucinda no
Tilly no
Madison a little common ihmo
Ava - granny
Clara no
Helen - boring
Olivia - like
Lucy - like
Lorna - old owman
Ella - very overused
Dulcie - sweet
Juliet - lovely
Lauren - ok
Ruby - no

Posy - I don't like; doesn't sound like a "real" name
Stella - don't like
Poppy - pretty, like it,
Charlotte - nice
Ida - don't like
Abigail - not keen
Cora - don't like
Verity - don't like
Agnes - don't like
Lucinda - don't like
Tilly - love it as a nn for matilda, but don't like nn as full names
Madison - don't like
Ava - not keen, prefer Eva or Evie
Clara - don't like, too harsh sounding
Helen don't like, prefer Nell
Olivia - lovely
Lucy -nice, also like Lucie
Lorna - too harsh sounding for me
Ella - ok, prefer Ellie
Dulcie - ok
Juliet - not keen
Lauren - not keen, prefer Laura
Ruby - OK