I like [name]Aria[/name], but can’t commit to it, but I can’t scratch it off either!
I need to be swayed one way or the other, so I’m welcoming your negatives with open arms!
I love it! I think it’s short and sweet, lovely name. I knew a girl named [name]Ariana[/name] that went by [name]Aria[/name] - lovely.
I hear you on being torn on [name]Aria[/name]. I’m in the same boat.
It just reminds me of singing sopranos and that is good/bad at the same time. (Good because its related to beautiful music/ Bad because sopranos give me a headache). Otherwise I like that the name is a great short name and I’d potentially consider it as a mn to a much longer fn (I like long names) - that is if I could decide how I felt about it. I’m sure this post didn’t help one bit, but that’s okay. 
I’m actually not an [name]Aria[/name] fan at all. I much prefer the [name]Ariana[/name]/[name]Arianne[/name] family! [name]Aria[/name] just feels very incomplete to me, and lacks substance. [name]Ariana[/name] and [name]Arianne[/name] feel like full names, feel like they have substance, but [name]Aria[/name] sounds a bit wimpy to me.
That being said, I really love [name]Aria[/name] for you–it’s sweet, understated, musical (I know how much music means to you!), and I think it could really suit your personality. In a really good way, not in an I accidentally underhandedly called you wimpy way. 
haha. You know what I mean?
To be honest, I really like it. I don’t have any negative connotation with it and [name]Aria[/name] just has such a melt-in-your-mouth, breezy quality when said aloud. So it looks good in print AND vocally.
I also love the name [name]Lesley[/name] in your signature as well. Surprised to see it because most think it’s a “dated” name, but I really like it. I know two [name]Lesley[/name]/[name]Leslie[/name]'s that are incredibly smart and talented people so that’s just my 2 cents 
I don’t dislike it at all. I think it’s lovely.
I myself wouldn’t use it as a name because I had a parrot I named [name]Aira[/name], I’d feel weird naming my child the same name I gave a pet.
I never used to like the name [name]Aria[/name] as I always associate it with being a crossword puzzle answer (seriously every other crossword has [name]Aria[/name] in it). But then I fell in love with [name]Arya[/name] while reading Game of Thrones. So I too am torn on this name. I think it has a beautiful sound and if I think it’s a great choice for anyone with strong musical connections.
I love it.
People have said it’s insubstantial. Is it all the vowels? Because I think it sounds complete and is a beautiful name.
I love the name [name]Aria[/name] but I do worry that with the TV shows “Pretty [name]Little[/name] Liars” and “Game of Thrones” that it’s going to become very trendy. That’s the only downside to the name that I see.
I like it a lot, actually. It has such a pretty sound while not being overly frilly.
Well, I had to take [name]Aria[/name] off of my list. It is too close to [name]Arianne[/name] for me. I have a niece named [name]Arianne[/name]. I have added [name]Alia[/name] instead. I like [name]Alia[/name] because it is short, fresh, and pretty too.
I like [name]Alia[/name], [name]Arya[/name], and [name]Arianna[/name], and [name]Adriana[/name], and [name]Ariella[/name] / [name]Arielle[/name] and that lot, but for some reason I don’t like [name]Aria[/name] that much, though it’s not bad. Seems to be missing a little or a lot. I really like the nickname [name]Ari[/name], though. And a grounded middle name, like [name]Aria[/name] [name]Katherine[/name] or [name]Aria[/name] [name]Juliet[/name], I like a bit more. I don’t know really, lol.
I love it, but I love short sweet names/nns for girls. [name]Love[/name] the GoT character, she’s a tough cookie.
ARGH, you guys are making this harder! Haha, thank you so much for all your inputs though.
I feel that [name]Aria[/name]'s lacking in substance because my own name has a lot more consonant sounds and is longer in letters, but it just flows out so nicely, and is whimsical which I love. But then it’s air-heady feeling to me as well, but I love the nn [name]Ari[/name], and I don’t like any [name]Ari[/name]- names as much.
Ugh.
Still torn.
@ashthedreamer I totally get what you were trying to get at, thanks.
I like it, but I think it was negative qualities- too vowelly & airy, sounds like ‘area’ when some people say it, feels more pretentious than [name]Ariane[/name] and I associate it with Pretty [name]Little[/name] Liars which makes it feel a bit down market.
But I like the sound. I like [name]Ariadne[/name], but [name]Aria[/name] feels less harsh than this. And less generic than [name]Ariane[/name]. Less princessy than [name]Ariana[/name].
would be scared she would get area. Although [name]Aria[/name] is quickly gaining in popularity, so maybe not such a problem
My friends daughter is named [name]Ariah[/name]. I like it better with the H on the end I think
When I saw this topic a couple of days ago, I decided not to comment…but since it’s still on the front page…anyhow, this is entirely one-sided, but I have a really strong (and so far immoveable) dislike for the name. This is more of a (LONG!) story about how one single thing can put you off a name for life…
During the spring exam period of my first year of undergrad, I decided to treat myself to an expensive coffee at a cafe I’d had my eye on for the whole year. The coffee was amazing, the cafe kind of a perfectly restful place to try and calm down before ploughing back into the studying. Two mums with matching-age infants in chic Quinny/Stokke/Bugaboo type strollers came and sat down right by me. One of the mums had a preschooler as well as the infant, and this preschooler was quite simply the brattiest child I have ever had the misfortune to meet. Her name was Aria. Ahhhhh-ria. In general, I’m pretty tolerant of kids- they’re people too, and have every right to be in public places/trains/planes/buses; parenting is hard and sometimes kids are overwhelmed, overtired, and won’t behave no matter what the parent tries. I get that. But this kid was too old (and too articulate) to be getting away with what she was doing. Wandering all over the shop, interrupting other patron’s conversations, pulling magazines off the counter looking for kids’ books, coming back to whine at her mother when she didn’t find them (mum didn’t tell her to clean up the mess; just laughed to her friend that ‘that’s what the barista’s for’), whining again when mum hadn’t brought the book she wanted. In the mean time, the mums were having an entirely in-keeping conversation about their personal trainers and how Aria and her little brother Leo had the perfect bilingual names, and how that was such an important thing, and how Aria’s school shouldn’t allow kids with parents who didn’t speak french since it slowed down the bilingual learning of the other kids. Then Aria went up to the another table, on the other side of me, this one with a prof who was marking papers and had a croissant on a plate- little Aria said ‘that looks nice, can I have it?’ and put her hand on the pastry. The prof looked at the kid in disbelief. I looked at the prof, and we both looked at Aria’s mom, who FINALLY had to do something. Aria’s mom’s response? ‘Aria, you can’t take food from strangers. Let me get you one, okay honey?’- and BUYS HER A PASTRY, laughing a ‘sorry’ at the prof, and explaining that her daughter isn’t sick. That’s right. Aria’s sleek, stylish, professional-looking mother bought her daughter something, but didn’t even offer to replace the one her daughter had just about grabbed off someone’s plate. Ugh.
Annnyyhow, that incident has stuck with me. And Aria still sounds like an irrevocably spoiled little miss to me- largely because of that incident (which was 7.5 years ago!), but also, I think, because ‘aria’ calls to mind operas, operatic divas, the notion of ‘putting on airs’, and has that long initial ‘a’, which isn’t entirely natural in my accent, and therefore sounds a bit precious.
I think of this every stinking time someone mentions Aria. Usually, I just don’t comment, because my sense of the name as diva-ish, indulgent, and overly precious is just a little bit too coloured by this incident
I mean…
Look, names, because of people that we meet or books that we read or shows that we watch, can be ruined. Mostly, that is an individual case scenario and should not affect a name that you chose ( exceptions are clear Hitler, [name]Jezebel[/name], etc.)
That said, I think [name]Aria[/name] is a beautiful name. There is nothing wrong with it. If it associates artistically to some, all the better. I say use it!
I am a huge fan of [name]George[/name] R.R. [name]Martin[/name]'s A Song of Ice and [name]Fire[/name], and [name]Aria[/name] is such a great character from the series, that I can’t find any drawbacks besides its current trendiness. Sorry 