Diana for a girl.

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What's your opinions on Diana?

Diana Barry in Anne of GG?

I think Diana Vreeland has to be my favourite Diana

'pink is the navy blue of India' or 'unshined shoes are the end of civilization' among many other such gems.

I love to quote her!

Sorry careless reading there

Yy Diana Vreeland.

Diana Krall!

Yes reuset I didn't say I hadn't heard of Princess Diana. I said I wouldn't think of her when I heard the name. The first famous Diana I think of is Diana Rigg. Not Dors, Vreeland or Wynyarde, though I'm familiar with all of them.

I DO know how to spell Diana Wynyard's name, stupid autocorrect.

What about Deeana?

I like it.

I like it. I too thought of Diana Barry before the Princess. (But I am in the middle of an AoGG series re-read at the moment, which might explain the primary association).

I love Diana! Hate 'di' though!

I thought Dianna as in POW too. I do think it's a nice traditional name and enough time has passed, go for it.

Being a character from a popular children's book doesn't save it. Diana Barry wasn't particularly inspiring either. I prefer Gertie or Cordelia (and the less said about Marilla the better)

Nobody's mentioned Diana Wynne Jones if we're mentioning all the people named Diana we've ever heard of.

And Wynyard was a Dorothy really

I love the name Diana, not too keen on Dianna a la Dianna Agron but it's an alternative.

I'm not sure the princess Diana think will be too much of an issue amongst her peers.

im not keen on Di though

I remember Anne in AOGG being wildly jealous of Diana's name. If I recall correctly wasn't Diana given her name by a visiting minister but Matthew still suspected it was a bit heathenish?

I reckon it will become quite popular again over the next decade. Diana reminds me of the Greek goddess. If you're thinking about negative connotations though there's also Diana Moseley (née Mitford).

I know an 11 year old Diana who is originally from Poland, her name is pronounced Dee Anna which I think sounds so much nicer... It's the Di nickname that puts me off the name

I actually quite like it. Not met one under 35 so quite refreshing. Also like nickname DeeDee

I remember Anne in AOGG being wildly jealous of Diana's name.

Yep, she probably waxed lyrical about 'Diana of Shining Waters' or suchlike (not an actual quote there). But she must have liked the name as she named one of her children Diana. However... she gave her other children names like Joyce, Bertha, Walter, Shirley (I know some were family names, but...)

God yes. I could never get on board with the names she gave her poor kids.

Far to many associations with Princess Diana for me. Although objectively it is a pretty name.

I like Diana, lovely classic name. Roman goddess of hunting.

I like it, everyone can spell and pronounce it. It's a proper name but not super popular.

I think it's a lovely name.