Fiammetta

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Another one to ponder... Meaning 'little fiery one'...?

I have a very dear friend with this name - she is Italian of course. We call her "Fia"

No.

I thought it said 'Flammetta'.

It just looks like a disease either way.

Fiammetta / Vienetta the "classic" ice cream dessert.

No.

Fia is nice...Fiammetta is just bizarre unless of course you are Italian or live in Italy and even if you are Italian you should think of the child growing up in a place where that name isn't common and sounds a bit like a disease...sorry pinkwine... good luck with your little darling though. Fia is beautiful

I like it. Can also be shortened to Etta.

Missmelo...by that reasoning, do all non 'English' names apply? "you should think of the child growing up in a place where that name isn't common"

Or just ones that 'sound like a disease'?

What kind of disease does it sound like btw?

No of course not, it was in no way meant to be perceived as discriminating against names from different cultures...I have a name that isn't 'English' its just more mainstream, there are beautiful Italian names out there that are more well known, Francesca, Allegra, Fedrerica etc.
When I hear Fiammetta it sounds like bacteria or a disease, sorry OP and Valpollicella....to my ears it just does.
P.S. I lived in Italy for 2 years and never came across a Fiammetta, perhaps it will suit your little one and our opinions here won't matter a curse to you, but in the mean time since u asked :)

Fia is nice, I agree. But I don't really like the sound of Fiametta...

But there are hundreds of thousands of children growing up in the UK atm who's names aren't 'common'. I really don't think anyone would bat an eyelid! DS's class is a great example of names, from ones in the top ten, to ones I have never heard of before.

Fiametta is quite an old Italian name btw, which is why it's probably not been her of in the usual range of Italian names mentioned above :)

Makes me think of Waynetta, but Etta is OK....

Fia and Etta are cute.....Fiametta is not my cuppa.

This is a daft name except perhaps if you are Italian, or your partner/husband is Italian, in which case perhaps no Italian now of sound mind would bestow such a name.

Refrain.

Find another name.

No!

I know it's a proper name but to be it sounds like a contraceptive pill. Dianette and Fiametta. Oh dear. NO. Sorry. Maybe in Italy. But no.

Also agree that Fia is lovely, but Fiametta just does not do it for me at all

Sounds like another name for slapped cheek disease.

I have twin VERY LOUD horns on my Italian motorbike, which are called Fiammi Freeway Blasters.

That's what it reminds me of.

I think you need to reconsider.

Talking of diseases, has anyone seen the massive ads for the new jewellery range in H Samuel called 'Chamilia'?

The mind boggles

I am reminded on Vienetta, sorry, but I have a Sofia that gets shortened to Fia.

Anyone called Fiammetta is 98 and lost all their teeth a vehhhhhh long time ago.
It would be like calling a British child, er, one of those mad names you find on genealogy lists.

No way, it's ridiculous.

It soudns like a car to me. The new Renault Fiametta...