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Rebecca. No comments just now, maybe later.

Helena - I like Helena, but not the pronunciation hel-ay-na
Rebecca - I hate all the nicknames for this name, but in itself it's quite nice
Tabitha - this is a new love, my favourite of these.
Olivia - I'm tired of hearing it

Helena has too many pronunciation possibilities. I much prefer Helen or Elinor.

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Rebecca is probably my favourite, though I don't enjoy Becky much. Becca is OK.

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Tabitha is way too feline - unlikely to be used in full, it can only shorten to Tabby! I love Talitha and its impeccable feminist history, and I've actually met a couple, though I've never met a Tabitha that didn't say meeow.

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Olivia is a puzzle. I love the sound and the Shakespeare connection, but Olly ... yuck! And a distant relative of mine was named Olivia in about 1910 I think, and insisted on being called Olive instead. Which I don't like at all.

Helena is my favorite! It is funny you describe all of these names as similar and down to earth. I don't really see Helena as down to earth, it seems very regal and a little haughty to me. I like it a lot, though I actually prefer Helen by a bit. Helen seems down to earth IMO.

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I think Rebecca and Olivia are very much similar. Rebecca is boring but I appreciate the sturdy sound of it. Olivia, I've always disliked because of personal association... it is a sound that I would like though. I love O names and I love lilt of -ivia.

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Tabitha is different to me. It's a little whimsical and flighty and... sorceress-y. I LOOOOVE Tabby as a nickname so much it's so cute!!!

In order of preference

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Tabitha
Olivia
Helena
Rebecca

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I love Tabitha, which is unusual enough to always be noticable, but also not 'weird'. it got a lot more use in England in the 1700s and it's nice to ese it not forgotten.

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I would like Olivia a lot more if I hadn't heard so much of it. It was popular in my generation, and now even more so.

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Helena always seems a bit stuffy

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I find Rebecca very boring

I prefer Tabitha. Helena is too old-school for me. Rebecca and Olivia are fine but so common and ordinary. I find Tabitha pretty and spunky too.

Helena seems more posh than the others, classical.

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Rebecca and Olivia are similar, popular, sweet but no nonsense names.

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Tabitha seems a bit wilder, free-living than the others. I like this one best.

Rebecca is my favourite as a full name, but the nicknames, whilst fine, I don't love. Olivia is stunning, but overused. Helena is lovely, apart from the issue of multiple ways to pronounce the name. Tabitha is beautiful, but Tabby as a nickname deters me from loving it, and makes me prefer Talitha. Talia is a nicer nickname.

Helena - my current #2 girls name :)
Rebecca - nice but a bit dated, I know a lot of Rebeccas in their 20s and 30s and not so many young ones
Tabitha - like it, it's very underused
Olivia - very overused and popular

Helena - it's alright, I prefer Eleanor though!
Rebecca - love
Tabitha - like
Olivia - love

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so the ones I love most here are Rebecca and Olivia. I think they'd make a cute sibset, too!

Tabitha is my choice.

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I love both Rebecca and Olivia, but Rebecca was formerly very popular and now dated, and Olivia is currently very popular and will become dated.

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Helena is just not a favorite of mine.

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Tabitha is cute, charming, and woefully underused.

Helena, for the sole reason that my grandmother's name is Helen. Plus, it sounds prettier to me.