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Thoughts on the name Halia?

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Stephanielainton · 26/09/2019 21:25

Hal or Hallie for short

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s3tut0y3r · 26/09/2019 21:34

I like Hayley better. Or you could use Henrietta and shorten this to Hal.

Morado · 26/09/2019 21:35

How is it pronounced? Like Hay-lee-ah, Har-lee-ah, Ha-LEE-ah? Don't like it whichever way I can think of.

Hallie doesn't seem like it's any shorter.. But it's much nicer!

ncqtime · 26/09/2019 21:39

If you're not English and this means something to you in your language fine. Otherwise, halitosis

highinthesky · 26/09/2019 21:40

If you're not English and this means something to you in your language fine. Otherwise, halitosis

Exactly this.

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Stephanielainton · 26/09/2019 21:42

Hallie more like the nicknamie version not necessarily shortened and pronounced ha-Lee-uh ? I guess lmao like Hallie but with an A

Man these forums are tough on name choices lmao you think you love something and your all creative and then bam 😂

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Peony99 · 26/09/2019 21:43

I really like it! I can think of a few ways to pronounce it, but they all sound good to me.

HeronLanyon · 26/09/2019 21:45

Bam from me too op. Congrats btw.

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Stephanielainton · 26/09/2019 21:46

Just had to google what this meant lol never heard it before! Think people would be that cruel hey, I liked Hallie first but I wasn’t sure if it was too cutesy

I ORIGINALLY had Arlie picked out for months (also cutesy) but felt like I needed to explore other options and I’ve only got 23 days left

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MrsBertBibby · 27/09/2019 06:07

Halima?

joystir59 · 27/09/2019 06:19

Prefer the longer Halitosis personally OP

NoSauce · 27/09/2019 07:07

Worse than Hallie.

BaronessBomburst · 27/09/2019 07:11

No, it's really not good. I read the title and thought it sounded like an infection and then thought halitosis.
So that's 4 posters already.

joystir59 · 27/09/2019 07:24

Aaliyah is a beautiful alternative imo OP

joystir59 · 27/09/2019 07:25

Hallia, Hallie and Arlie all sound hideous made up names a child would give a doll

AverageMummy · 27/09/2019 08:10

It sounds made up

DancingDella · 27/09/2019 08:17

I also thought of Halitosis 🤢

fantasmasgoria1 · 27/09/2019 08:19

Hallie would be good, henrietta is too old fashioned imo. Hayley is good!

CherryPavlova · 27/09/2019 08:21

If the go to a faith school it will be Hallie, Hallie, Hallie, Hallelujah
Otherwise at secondary it will be Hallitosis.

Inlovewitharagorn · 27/09/2019 08:36

I'm sure I've come across this name before in women from Afghanistan. It's ok. I would immediately assume a Halia had origins in that part of the world.

PeterRouseTheFleshofMankind · 27/09/2019 08:39

Normally I'm the first to be like 'that reminds me of....' on these threads, and I tried to for this one, but I have to say halitosis didn't occur to me!

I quite like it.

Although I think I prefer Halle or Hallie.

FartnissEverbeans · 27/09/2019 08:50

I’ve taught a Ghalia and a Hala but never a Halia. It’s nice enough and I wouldn’t be surprised to meet one. I didn’t think of halitosis at all.

Hala is gorgeous imo. In Arabic it apparently refers to the halo of light around the moon - that might be bollocks that I read online but I like it!

LaMarschallin · 27/09/2019 08:58

AverageMummy

It sounds made up

I assume it is. The OP said she thought she'd been "all creative".

It's a "Bam" from me too as I don't like names made up purely to sound creative/different.

Man these forums are tough on name choices

I think the trouble is that most people post these sort of threads to get opinions from a random cross-section of anonymous people.
Which means some people will like a name and some won't. The ones who don't will feel free to say so unlike, eg, friends and family, who may feel they have to be polite.

However, sometimes it's useful to know why someone doesn't like a name; for example, it could turn out to be a swear word in another language or something.

If it helps, it didn't make me think of halitosis when I first read it.

MikeUniformMike · 27/09/2019 10:28

Halitosis

ViaSacra · 27/09/2019 14:16

What about Talia? Same lovely sound, but it's a proper name that could take her into any walk of life, and doesn't sound like halitosis...

You can use the nickname Tali (it's a very popular girl's name in Israel, as Tal means "dew from heaven" in Israel).

ViaSacra · 27/09/2019 14:16

*that should say, it means "dew from heaven" in Hebrew...