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Delilah? Honest opinions please!

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SqueezyB · 11/01/2010 11:50

What does anyone think of the name Delilah? Probably shortened to Lila. I decided I loved it after hearing the song 'hey there Delilah' when I was pregnant with DD - but by then I was already set on the name Polly for her.

Now I'm pregnant with no.2 and Delilah is the only girls name I am stuck on - only other one is Isabel, but that's just way too popular.

I love DD's name - Polly - as it's not particularly common, I've never met another Polly, but it's not contrived or weird either, and everyone knows how to spell it. Trying to find one just as nice but not too common is really hard!

Do you think she would get teased cos of the Tom Jones song, or will that all be forgotten by the next generation?!

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ILoveGregoryHouse · 03/04/2010 10:44

It's nice. One of the wee girls in my son's year at school is called Delilah but her mum says De-lee-la (she's American). And I like that too. She's a sweet girl.

skihorse · 03/04/2010 10:27

Love it and it was on our girl's list - even though we always, always ended the discussion with "e's only gone and 'ad 'is wee'abix"!

MumtoLila · 03/04/2010 09:54

I have a Lila and I love it. We considered Delilah but decided we would never use it, and I thought it was weird to have a name you never use on the birth certificate (as someone who grew up with one, though I use that name now...so that's not really a great example).

Anyway, Lila is fab, it's very pretty, and unusual without being made up, and doesn't have the negative connotations of Delilah.

dizzydixies · 03/04/2010 08:49

sorry, tired typo - I knew it was Polly because I know of one with a sister Rosie

NormaSknockers · 03/04/2010 08:41

dizzy - it does go nice with Poppy but the OPs DD is Polly not Poppy

NormaSknockers · 03/04/2010 08:40

I think it's a gorgeous name. If it's what you want then go with it & sod what other people think.

DS has a biblical name (the actor who played Frodo, his name!) & to this day my Grandad in law refuses point blank to call him by his name (DS is now 20 months) & has referred to him as 'the little fella' but recently has started calling him Nigel because 'it sounds similar'

Quite frankly I'd like to tell him to F off but he's 80 odd & it wouldn't go down well. Sorry going off on a tangent here - with names there is always going to be someone who doesn't like it but you do & that is all that counts

dizzydixies · 03/04/2010 08:14

if she's going to be Lila then why not just Lila - goes nicely with Poppy

and for what its worth, Isabel may be popular but there is a reason for that, its a classic, beautiful name and DD1 is Isabella and one of only 2 we know (the second one being years younger) its only popular in certain places so I wouldn't rule it out making an effort trying to be different to everyone else

HerHonesty · 03/04/2010 07:28

why not just lila?

CheerfulYank · 03/04/2010 01:20

I think it's very pretty, and Lila a lovely nickname. Polly and Lila sound very cute together too.

thingamajig · 03/04/2010 01:18

Go on, call her Delilah, because I can't call a future dd that because of dh (TJ reasons).
When I was pregnant with dd I swam loads and Hey there, Delilah seemed to come on the radio in the car every time I drove there, so I tried and tried to persuade him.

Spottyshoes · 03/04/2010 01:08

I love the hey there delilah but you WILL enevitably get the 'older' members of your family asking 'whyy whyyy whyyyy???' and thinking they are highly amusing!!!! . I do like lila but would go for a lengthened version so she has a choice later on....

Poohbearsmom · 03/04/2010 01:02

I like Lila but LOVE Isabel! Or Isabella which is one of my fav girls names, Polly is lovely I met the cuteeeest ikle twin girls recently called Polly & Daisy

troublewithtalk · 02/04/2010 23:49

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KAEKAE · 02/04/2010 23:33

I quite like it and I do like the NN.
And I think it goes nicely with Polly.

loobylu3 · 02/04/2010 22:50

I think it's really pretty but DH refused to consider it because of the Biblical connection (we are not religious).

tummytickler · 02/04/2010 22:19

I like Delilah - ds goes to nursery with one.
I do not like Lila as a nn though.

jengotseoul · 02/04/2010 22:09

my daughter is called Delilah, My grandma is in her eighties and refuses to say her name because she doesn't like it . Everyone else loves it, I work with lots of young people and my partner is a teacher, they all seem to love the name and never reference the Tom Jones song, they dont know that song! No one in my 8 month old daughters school class will even know who TJ is. If you choose a unique name its never going to be popular with everybody, If you wanted that you would call your child Jane or Sarah

NadiaWadia · 11/01/2010 22:08

I really like it.

BadGardener - agree about reclaiming 'bad women' names from the bible.

Jezebel is nice too. And Lilith.

LaTristesse · 11/01/2010 14:15

Sorry but I have a pathological hatred of TJ and that song, and can't get past it I'm afraid...
And I think Lila sounds a bit too much like Lilo for my liking, sorry again...

LetThereBeRock · 11/01/2010 12:42

Awful and people will sing that song to her forever more.
I've had 25 years of having to listen to people singing the song with my name in it and it isn't funny.

Motherdare · 11/01/2010 12:29

Why? Why? Why?

She will get it all the time.

rubyslippers · 11/01/2010 12:26

i don't mind it

i much prefer Daliah

HallelujahHeisBorntoMary · 11/01/2010 12:25

I loath it (sorry), and now I've got a Tom Jones earworm in my head!

MrsvWoolf · 11/01/2010 12:21

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lou33 · 11/01/2010 12:15

i love it, in fact i wanted to call dd1 it (who is now nearly 18), but had to compromise and settle for it as her middle name