My daughter is in kindergarten and she talks about the kids in her class and the other kindergarteners alot. I kept hearing about a girl in another class, “[name]Paulina[/name],” and have been thinking how these days it sounds so unusual but still familiar. To me, a great combination! I met her this afternoon. What a cute little [name]Paulina[/name]!
I agree–[name]Paulina[/name] is a very pretty name.
One of the drawbacks of living in a border state is that some names that SHOULD sound fresh, don’t. For instance, I loved the name [name]Silvia[/name] for my DD, but found out that it is more popular among the Hispanic population and there are actually more little [name]Silvia[/name]'s around us than I had previously supposed. [name]Paulina[/name] is another one. It is a pretty name, but I have known at least 2 relatively young Hispanic Paulinas around here, and there are no doubt more. Many lovely names like [name]Cecelia[/name], [name]Diana[/name], etc. have always been popular among Hispanic families so that’s a factor that I have to be aware of when trying to dodge the ‘[name]Anna[/name] S.’ phenomenon.