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I like Dinah a lot: strong and bright and unpretentious. We named a cat Alice because she was a little rescue tabby, an alley cat in fact; some years later we adopted a kitten and named her Dinah after Alice's (Wonderland) cat. Also the name of a distant great-great aunt. The only point against it is that it mostly shortens to Di, which is depressing.

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Camellia is too fancy and too floral, as well as redolent of dying sopranos and reminiscent of Kipling's camel and its camelious hump. I far prefer Camilla.