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In order of preference:

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Leda
Lada
Anais
Cleo

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I'd consider using Leda (I'll probably use Lena as a nickname for Magdalena) if L names weren't so hugely popular here. Lada is also nice, but I associate it with a former teacher I didn't like. Anais Nin makes this one a GP for me. I consider Cleo a nickname for Cleopatra and like it as such.

This message was edited 8/17/2012, 11:26 AM

Lada and Leda I don't like at all. I don't like the way they sound or the way they look tbh. Anais is alright, though I wouldn't use it. Cleo I love and would consider using it if DH liked it.

Lada: I don't really like it; it sounds like someone is saying Layla with a stuffy nose. My nn is Layla and when my young cousins who are just learning to talk say my name is sounds like Lada.

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Anais: I first heard of this name from a cartoon and I actually like it; it's different. I had a girl in my class last year of Latin race and her name is Anai, which I think I like better.

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Cleo: Never liked this name it's just... I don't know what it is, I just don't like it.

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Leda: I actually kind of like this; it has an old-school vibe; nice.

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The Young & The Helpless

Lada = cheap Russian car. I didn't know it was a name! Also, not sure it works in non-rhotic British English, because it sounds exactly like larder.
Leda has a similar problem, sounding like leader. Also, never having met anyone with the name, all I can think of is the whole swan rape thing - and the unpleasant ephebophile photographer character in I Capture the Castle.
Anaïs is pretty, but the pronunciation is not intuitive in English. So I'd go for Cleo. It's cute and simple.

I'd be happy to see any of them used but would be most inclined to use Leda, myself.

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In fact I'd order them in reverse: Leda, Cleo, Anais, Lada

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Though is Clea were an option that'd be my first choice :)

Lada: I don't care for it. It's the "lay" that gets me.
Anais: Nin. I couldn't use it without thinking of a bohemian writer having sexual fantasies about her father, so...yeah.
Cleo: Cute, but it's more of a pet name.
Leda: Old-fashioned and not overused in a way that Clementine or Abigail is. Two thumbs up.

A Lada is a car. I know a lot of Russian linguists who are connoisseurs of the Lada. Hell, I am. It's still not something I'd name a child.

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Anais, Cleo and Leda are all pretty. I think they're a little incomplete feeling. I feel like Cleo had nickname written all through it and Leda is minimalist. Also, the swan-bonking puts me off a little, even if I do kind of love the names Phaedra, Antigone and Pandora and the queen of all squick myths, Pasiphaë, has always struck me as interesting. So who am I to talk? It still feels incomplete.

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I think Anais is lovely and elegant. I don't ever feel inclined towards using it or thinking about using it, though.

I love Anaïs and Leda, and would love to see both of them used on a more frequent basis, though the former may be more difficult to use in English-speaking nations. I'm surprised Leda hasn't become a popular alternative to Leah and Lea.

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Cleo isn't my style, and I've always considered it to be a bit "cutesy". That said, I don't think it's too bad.

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I don't like Lada at all, which may be surprising given my liking for Leda. For some reason Leda is an elegant yet understated name, while Lada just looks like two syllables squashed together. It sounds like a babble a baby would make.

Anaïs - A very special name. But probably I would, but used in Espaňol or Portugal.
Cleo - This is a good name for a girl to bad weather :-)
Leda - The name has a nice meaning.
Lada - as well as at Cleo

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Lada and Cleo

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Most I used Lada, that name is really beautiful. It used to be the name of a mythical goddess of love, beauty and marriage.

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I don't really like Anais, it just sounnds ugly to me, I like the others tgough, especially Leda and Cleo.