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What do you think of Diana

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starbrightnight · 24/02/2018 00:14

as a girl's name?

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halcyondays · 25/02/2018 11:47

My dd aged 9 hadn't even heard of Princess Diana until quite recently so
I can't imagine it would be much associated with her for the current generation.

It's a nice name.

CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 11:43

I have a friend who is a Deanna. She loves her name but constantly gets called DEEna, Dinah, Diane. It’s pronounced like De-Anna.

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starbrightnight · 25/02/2018 11:20

Don't like Dinah (Dinah Dinah show us your leg, show us your leg, show us your leg - awful song I remember from somewhere)

Deanna sounds nice (is it American I wonder) but doesn't have the same feeling to me as Diana.

WegmansCookies Glad you like your lovely name, and am reassured you don't mind it shortened to Di. I still have a problem with later being an 'Auntie Di', to me it's like saying 'Auntie, drop dead!'.

I might be overthinking it ...

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strawberrypenguin · 25/02/2018 08:03

What about Deanna instead?

WegmansCookies · 25/02/2018 08:02

I'm also a Diana (mid 30s). I've always loved my name, even the nickname Di.

cliffdiver · 25/02/2018 07:56

I'm not keen.

Have you thought of Dinah? (Pronounced dye-nah).

Coconutspongexo · 25/02/2018 07:54

Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson

PhuntSox · 24/02/2018 19:40

Love it!

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 24/02/2018 18:47

It's a beautiful name. I know a Diana, in her fifties, her nn is Dee.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 24/02/2018 18:04

A colleague and I were showing children at school pictures of random famous people and asking if they knew who they were... Apparently Lady Diana is the mayor of Chesterfield 😂😂

Annabelle4 · 24/02/2018 17:52

I love it.

Out of interest, I just asked my teen DD if she knows who Princess Diana is/was, and she has no idea (which is quite sad)

daisypond · 24/02/2018 16:46

I like it a lot - Roman goddess. It's a classic name, and not very common these days.

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starbrightnight · 24/02/2018 14:42

I get the feeling Diana is a bit of a Marmite name then. Thanks all, very helpful. Smile

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PenguinDi · 24/02/2018 14:33

@starbrightnight yeah I do get called Di a lot mostly at work and friends, it doesn't bother me really. What does annoy me is the miss spellings of the name Dianna, Dianah etc

CatsForgotPassword · 24/02/2018 14:33

The only Diana I know also goes by “Dee” for a nickname not Di.

greendale17 · 24/02/2018 14:31

Hate it. Dated, old woman name

CatsForgotPassword · 24/02/2018 14:31

I like it. I associate it with Wonder Woman more than the princess. I’m 23, if that helps

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starbrightnight · 24/02/2018 14:29

Who is Dirty Diana?

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Coconutspongexo · 24/02/2018 14:29

I actually think of Dirty Diana

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starbrightnight · 24/02/2018 14:26

PenguinDi - I'm glad you like your name! Do you get called Di a lot and does that bother you?

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PenguinDi · 24/02/2018 14:23

@starbrightnight as a Diana I like it, yes you get the Princess Diana references, but it is rare and I find people often call you Diane anyway. My mum hates me being called Di though but mostly it's Lady Di for a nickname.

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starbrightnight · 24/02/2018 14:17

MikeUniformMike I think it might take another generation or two for the association with Princess Diana to diminish, like it has done for Princess Grace, who I don't think about when I hear the name Grace - though 30 or 40 years ago I probably would have done.

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slashdragon · 24/02/2018 14:03

Yuck no way! Aside from the obvious association it's just an awful name. Sorry.

MikeUniformMike · 24/02/2018 13:56

I think it is a beautiful name.
Do people associate every Grace with a princess?

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starbrightnight · 24/02/2018 13:47

I think of Diane as an entirely different name from Diana though apparently it is the French variant of Diana. I don't like Diane at all.

Diana is a Divine Goddess - of the hunt, of the moon and of nature and who could communicate with animals. Diana is also the Goddess of childbirth and women.

Agree Dee is better than Di but I don't feel it does Diana justice and reminds me of Sandra Dee from Grease.

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