Everytime I think about my baby’s name I keep going back to [name]Liliana[/name]. I love this name and it sounds great with our last name. My husband really likes this name too and he tells me we should use it.
What do you think? I know [name]Lili[/name], [name]Lilly[/name], [name]Lillian[/name] and [name]Liliana[/name] are very popular right now… Would it be a terrible thing if I named my baby [name]Liliana[/name]?
I was thinking of [name]Luciana[/name] (nn [name]Lucy[/name]) as an alternative?
If you love it, which you obviously do, I would totally go with it!
2,642 babies were named [name]Liliana[/name] last year. Considering the number one name, [name]Sophia[/name], was used 21,695 times, I would say that it’s not overly popular.
[name]Luciana[/name] is beautiful, too, but why settle?
Definitely do it! [name]Liliana[/name] is lovely, and as people always tell you on here, there’s a reason the names are popular…usually because they’re timeless and lovely! If you plan to call her by the full name [name]Liliana[/name], she will be set apart from all the Lilys anyway.
The way I see it, it’s a question of whether you love it enough, and whether popularity bothers you. It varies from person to person. Vast popularity has always kind of bothered me; I love the name [name]Isabella[/name] and the name [name]Ava[/name], but I don’t love them that much. There are just names I like better that happen to be less popular.
However, as PP mentioned, [name]Liliana[/name]'s not drastically popular either. [name]Luciana[/name] is beautiful and I prefer it to [name]Liliana[/name], but it’s not [name]Liliana[/name]. If you keep coming back to [name]Liliana[/name], that means you must truly love it. And if you truly love [name]Liliana[/name], just use it.
If you love the name more than any other, use it! But let me give you some quick stats.
Using the name popularity gauge website that was posted last night, I read that the state that has the most Lilianas is [name]California[/name], and it reports that approx. 3 in 10,000 people have that name. Let’s picture that in terms of school kids. Let’s assume there are 10 schools in the city with 1000 kids attending each. Only 3 of those schools will have 1 girl named [name]Liliana[/name]. The rest won’t even have one.
Of course, my math isn’t perfect and I don’t have nearly enough information to make a more accurate calculation, but hopefully it puts it into perspective for you!
[name]Liliana[/name] and [name]Luciana[/name] are both nice names. However, I know some moms who chose another name over their top choice just because it was so popular and really regreted doing so. Obviously, if you and your husband love it, you aren’t turned from its popularity, so I’d say use it. What you love trumps popularity.
If you love a name enough to use it, you should love it regardless of its popularity. ANY name can become popular in the future and there’s no way to predict it. I came across a book about things that will be gone in the 21st century, and among them were the names [name]Eloise[/name] and [name]Matilda[/name]-off the top 1000 in 1999, but now ranked #449 and #769, respectively! Would you be considering [name]Luciana[/name] if it was as popular as [name]Liliana[/name]? If the answer is no, you shouldn’t use it. Some celebrity could use [name]Luciana[/name] next week, and you’d have picked a name you didn’t love only for it to become more popular than the name you did love.
I definitely would. My fiance and I like the name [name]William[/name] for a boy, and I know some people wouldn’t touch a top-ten name. I really dont’ care though. I am drawn to classic names for boys, and I can’t make myself love a more unique name if I just don’t feel it.
I have had the same internal debate over [name]Emma[/name], but I think I’m just going to have to go with it. If you love it, go for it! They may never even meet another kid with that name. I think it’s hit or miss sometimes. [name]Ava[/name] is much more popular than [name]Riley[/name] but there is one [name]Ava[/name] in my son’s daycare and at least three Rileys!
Thank you for all your comments. I really do love the name so I might just go with it
Maybe I’ll pair it with an unusual middle name… something she can use when she grows up if she wants to feel more “unique”.
I definitely would! My favorite girls’ name is only a letter away from the mega-popular [name]Isabella[/name], and my third favorite girls’ name, [name]Olivia[/name], is on the national top 5. I grew up with a mega-popular name ([name]Ashley[/name]), and it never negatively affected me–in fact, I loved meeting other Ashleys–and the popular names now are nowhere near as popular as the names were when we were young.
[name]LOVE[/name] [name]Liliana[/name], btw! Such a pretty, girly, sweet choice. It also happens to be on my short list. If you love it, I would definitely use it! If you want to avoid the popular [name]Lily[/name] as a nn, you could opt for [name]Annie[/name], [name]Anna[/name], [name]Lila[/name], or [name]Lia[/name] (or even [name]Liana[/name]).
If it was the name I truly loved then I would use it. Also, names are much more diverse nowadays so she’s going to be one of many with that name necessarily and the region your in affects that also. The name may be less popular in your state than the national ranking.
I have experience with an uber-popular name. My ex and I chose [name]Aiden[/name] for our first son in 2004. It hadn’t been on the popularity charts we’d looked at and we loved it. We thought we were getting a unique-but-not-out-there-name, which was very important to me. I was pretty disappointed when it showed up in the top 5 the next year (and the year after, and the one after that…) BUT, I didn’t love the name any less, it was still perfect.
Now we have 3-4 other [name]Aiden[/name]'s in all my son’s classes/sports teams/clubs etc., when I call him in the grocery store 5 kids turn around, and he is perpetually known as [name]Aiden[/name] S. I’ve come to find out that none of that maters to me, and it doesn’t seem to bother him. I would have regretted using a different name. For my second son I fell head-over-heels for [name]Hale[/name]. EVERYONE else hated it with a passion. Family, friends, coworkers, strangers… NO [name]ONE[/name] liked it. I was pushed into choosing [name]Jaxon[/name] and using [name]Hale[/name] as the middle(don’t get me started on the spelling, Ex-hubby and I were divorcing at the time and this was his grand plan). Hearing the name [name]Jaxon[/name] is like nails on a chalk board to me now! It took me a year and a half of brow beating everyone we knew into calling him by his middle name. I still cringe when he gets called into the doctors office and it’s been 5 years! Now, everyone LOVES [name]Hale[/name]'s name and can’t imagine calling him anything else. After living and learning I say use the name you love whether it’s #1 or unheard of!
P.S.- just because it’s funny. [name]Imagine[/name] the look on my face when there was a baby boy named [name]Hale[/name] right next to my [name]Hale[/name] in the NICU! lol It’s the only one we’ve met to date, but I was waiting with bated breath to see if [name]Hale[/name]'s name popped up on the charts the year after his birth!
Yes, I did. I have always loved the name [name]Isabel[/name] ever since I saw it in The Magnificent Ambersons book in high school. I didn’t know that [name]Isabelle[/name]/[name]Isabella[/name] were gonna be so popular. So she has a popular name but at least the spelling isn’t at the top of the list.
After living and learning I say use the name you love whether it’s