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I like it, but I'm put off by the fact that my boyfriend had a friend with this name at school, and when she left year 11 (at sixteen, after five years of being in the school), the majority of teachers still struggled to say it. And this was a small school, just under six hundred pupils, so everyone basically knew everyone. I would worry that a daughter with this name would be spelling it out her whole life.

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How about just Nuala? Or Fiona? Or Fenella / Fionola, as others have suggested?