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Re: Choose one :)
Talya - Talia, perhaps, might be better; but prettied up with a y instead of an i makes it look fake and flimsy.
Isla - Should be past its peak by now! Looks and even sounds unfinished.
Bella - Far, far prefer Isobel, Isabel or Annabel, Rosabel ... Bella is just too pretty-pretty.
Dunya (or Dunja, Dounia - which spelling do you like?) - no doubt OK if one is Russian, but has no context for me so I can't make sense of it. Looks like something or someone out of all those Dune novels where the drug turns your eyeballs blue.
Naira - Don't like the sound of it: if Nai sounds like nai,same sound as the first syllable of Simon, then it's unfortunately rather suggestive in Afrikaans.
Olivia - Great classic; entirely preferable to dull, flabby Olive. Has been too popular, but still excellent.
Alicia - Overblown. I love Alice and would use it IRL; also Alison.
Nephele - Same issue as with Dunya. If you're Greek, then fine; if not, why bother when there are hundreds of names at least as nice and much easier for novices to pronounce.
Joanna - I like it very much. The only thing that would hold me back and make me use Joan instead is the high likelihood of it shortening to Jo. (IRL I'd use Jean for family reasons anyway.)
Nolwenn - Two Ns too many. Olwen is nicer and tidier.
Rosalia - Overblown. Rosalie is infantile and sentimental, but better that than Rosalia, which is all that plus ornate.
Grazyna - Fresher and more interesting than Grace! But, like Dunya and Nephele, you've got the appropriate ethnic and language background, or you haven't. I haven't. That said, it looks more accessible than most other Polish names I've encountered.

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