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Elisabeth is pretty. It's more old-fashioned looking and soft than Elizabeth. I like both though.

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I think it would be fine to have Elena Maree and ____ Helene. If it were Helena and Helene, I'd be more reluctant, but as it is Elena and Helene sound different enough and look more different than they are just because of the H vs. E initial.

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I knew that Isabella was Spanish for Elizabeth, but I didn't know Lillian had anything to do with them until just now (I thought it was just a name based on Lily). For me it depends on how similar they look and sound, and if they are different enough that they would be given very different nicknames (Elizabeth and Isabel could both be called Izzy, but Elizabeth and Lillian or Isobel and Lillian wouldn't have nicknames in common.)

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I really like Eira. I tend to pronounce it AIR-uh, but I also like EYE-ra. EAR-a is not intuitive to me at all... "ei" is almost never pronounced "ee", especially not at the beginning of a word. (Although that does remind me of a name I saw recently, Iria... pronounced EER-ee-uh as far as I'm aware).

This message was edited 11/12/2013, 5:26 PM