What do you think of Diana

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as a girl's name?

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

Hate it. Dated, old woman name

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

@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

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

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

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)

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 😂😂

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

Love it!

Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson

I'm not keen.

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

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

What about Deanna instead?

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 ...

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.

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.