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Nice to see some Finnish names here :) Unfortunately none of them is my favorite. I'm not a particular fan of noun names, and Ansa, Ilma & Ilta definitely seem more nouns than names to me. Ritva, on the other hand, is just too grandmotherly: it's a very common name among the baby boomers in Finland.

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My favorites on the list are Astra, Aura (pronounced as OW-rah) and Maeva. Astra reminds me of the Latin phrase "per aspera ad astra", which I like a lot. Aura is my cousin's name and I think it's a nice option for Laura (which I also like and pronounced as LOW-rah). I prefer Maeve, but Maeva is also pretty nice.

I like Ansa and Ilma. I'm not sure about Ritva. It's similar to Rivka, which I love... But I don't like it as much.
Tomer is great.

My favorites are Eudora and Mercy, but I also like Astra and Aura. Maeva is okay but I prefer Maeve.

Ansa - the name of Henle's loop in Portuguese, and since it's always present in my mind I can't see it as a proper name, sorry.
Astra - very pretty, although the association with the Opel model is hard to shake to the point of rendering it unusable imo.
Aura - pretty but slightly out there. I'm not especially keen on word names, though.
Brava - a word in two languages I speak, so nope.
Eudora - it looks pretty when written down, but somehow that's about it .
Ilma - seems a bit old-fashioned, perhaps because it reminds me of a typo of Wilma.
Ilta - don't like the sound or spelling, sorry.
Maeva - very, very beautiful!
Mercy - not a fan. What if she turns out to be super mean?
Ritva - looks like someone got creative with Rita, sorry.
Tomer (m) - reminds me of toner and printers.