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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.