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Help deciding baby girl name

(27 Posts)
xoubie Sun 13-Sept-26 11:37:54

My husband and I have differing tastes when it comes to names. We've got two names that we agree on:

Liora and Twyla.

We are both in love with the sound of Liora, but worried because we aren't Jewish and don't want to offend anyone. Twyla is so pretty but we are worried it's too "out there" and the reactions from others we've tested it on haven't been great.

Names I like but my husband dislikes: Melody, Cadence, Violet, Daisy, Annabelle

Names my husband likes but I dislike: Ophelia, Penelope, Lucy, Miriam

Her middle name will be Mae.

Any suggestions if other names? Or opinions on the names Liora or Twyla?

Maggiemaybe Sun 13-Sept-26 14:54:10

Of all the ones you mention, I like Violet and Annabelle. Daisy too but it’s ubiquitous now. We’d settled on it for our firstborn in 1980. It was unusual then and the first person I told fell about laughing at the thought of it combined with our last name. On consideration she had a point, it didn’t really go well. We went for a classic name instead. Of course DD1 dislikes said “boring” name and would have loved to be a Daisy. smile