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Help[Opinions] Re: Isabel or Larissa?
in reply to a message by Guest98
Isabel: neat, dignified, happy, alert. I think slightly of royalty and beautiful black hair, but it's down to earth enough. I'd expect someone under 20.
Larissa: tall, graceful, aloof, adventurous. I get a Slavic vibe from it. I'd expect someone around 30.
I like them both about the same. I lean towards Larissa aesthetically.
My reservation about it, is that it was a small fad 20-40 years ago, and so it does have a sort of "mom-name" image.
My own name is like that, modestly popular 25 years before I was born ... and it really has always been noticeable and irritating to me, that it "sounds old" relative to my actual age. However, Larissa was less common by a pretty good margin. So maybe that'd be less of a thing.
I don't think the popularity of Isabella (since it's so similar to Isabel) is an issue. It's not as common as Jessica or Emily were.
Isabella will be more common than Taylor, though ... so if you do care about popularity, it is something to consider.
In my mind, popularity matters less for "classic" names that stay on the chart for a longer time, and that's what Isabel(la) is like.
- mirfak
Larissa: tall, graceful, aloof, adventurous. I get a Slavic vibe from it. I'd expect someone around 30.
I like them both about the same. I lean towards Larissa aesthetically.
My reservation about it, is that it was a small fad 20-40 years ago, and so it does have a sort of "mom-name" image.
My own name is like that, modestly popular 25 years before I was born ... and it really has always been noticeable and irritating to me, that it "sounds old" relative to my actual age. However, Larissa was less common by a pretty good margin. So maybe that'd be less of a thing.
I don't think the popularity of Isabella (since it's so similar to Isabel) is an issue. It's not as common as Jessica or Emily were.
Isabella will be more common than Taylor, though ... so if you do care about popularity, it is something to consider.
In my mind, popularity matters less for "classic" names that stay on the chart for a longer time, and that's what Isabel(la) is like.
- mirfak
This message was edited 5/3/2023, 12:56 PM
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