Help with baby name please?

[luisa778]

Hi, my baby is almost five weeks old and still no name. I have an appointment to register her in the morning.
Could I have opinions on the two names me and dh are stuck between please?
Dalia (this is a kurdish name, baby is half kurdish and I thought it was unusual and so sweet sounding)
Anaya an-eye-ah
Thanks for any help

How would you pronounce Dalia?

Dalia is lovely.

Dalia

I love Dalia, really pretty and unusual but not weird

Dalia is lovely

Dah lia not day lia like the flower.

either of those will raise queries as to how to pronounce them.
maybe dalia will be easier for people to learn and remember.
sounds like the flower, dahlia. is it pronounced the same?
i think the other one would be very difficult for english-speaking people to get their heads around.
good luck.

Thanks for your help everyone. Dalia is the one I am more leaning towards but it is difficult as I like both but both are very different.

most people will spell it like the flower.
but i think that's less annoying / tiresome than having to explain how to say it.

I like both.

I'd probably go with Dahlia myself but that's because I'm terrible for shortening names & Dahlia isn't easy to shorten!

Anaya is the one I think people would pronounce correctly at first. It seemed obvious to me.

Dalia I would have said like the flower. But the correct way is nice. And people only need to be told once if they say it wrongly.

Both are nice names. Maybe Dalia is the one I like best..

I would say both like you want them pronounced! Both beautiful names

Dalia is lovely

Dalia.

I'd pronounce it Dah-lia too and think it's a strong but pretty name.

Dahlia is gorgeous

Dalia is very pretty.

Dalia is a lovely name.

I know of a little Anaya, hers is pronounced an-ei-ah though. Both names are beautiful, but I like Anaya slightly more.

Dalia is pretty, elegant and not overused - but still nicely "fits in" with all the other -ia ending names that are popular at the moment.

As much as I like the floral name Dahlia; Dalia is lovely name in it's own right (from a different root) and I think many people would use the pronuncation you want - "Dah - lee -ah" seems more instinctively phonetic and internationally used.

Anaya is okay but feels a bit trendy to me - it's rapidly increased in popularity over the last 10 years in the UK (and doesn't seem as widely used in other countries as Dalia).

Both are lovely names. I very slightly prefer Dalia.
Congrats on your new baby 💐

Dalia is lovely, and it sounds like it's your favourite too.

Another one saying Dalia is lovely. And congratulations.

I like Dalia - although I would have said it as Day-lia because of the single l. Would Dallia work?

Of the two, Dalia, but if I saw it for the first time I'd probably say Dale-ya.

Dahlia might be a better spelling but because dahlias are pronounced dale-yas you will still get that issue.

Delia might be an alternative. No pronunciation or spelling issues, and a very pretty name.

Anaya is beautiful!

Dalia reminds me of the black Dahlia murder if I'm being honest.