Kaia or Willa?

[Freya2456]

Willa has entered our short list of girl names ( due in 1 week with a surprise !)

Kaia Summer

Willa Summer

Kaia Autumn

Willa Autumn

I think I like Summer better for the middle name but baby will be born in autumn on our side of the world, i obviously also like Autumn and maybe it’s more meaningful to use that but I’m not sure?

Willa Autumn is lovely. Other suggestions as you don’t seem sure?

Maia Autumn
Cleo Autumn
Lucy Autumn
Ava Autumn

Willa is a great name! Fab little book series for kids too. (How special would it be to see your name on a book cover?!)

Willa Autumn is lovely.

Kaia sounds like someone choking to death.

Of the options, Willa Summer.

Neither first name works with Autumn imo as the an ending/beginning causes it to elide.

Kaia Summer

Kaia Summer sounds like you wanted the feminine version of Keir Starmer

Not keen on either. Kaia sounds like a German Shepherd or a Siberian Husky.

Kaia Summer is pretty.

I'm not a fan of Willa.

@ZepherinDrouhinWilhelmina

Oddly Kaya (I presume its pronounced the same as Kaia) is the name of my Staffy!

Sorry I think Willa followed by a middle name that is a common noun is awful. Willa Autumn holiday be something we do this year? Willa Summer dress look best with these sandals?

I love the name Willa, Autumn is a more appropriate middle name but I don’t think they combine together well in sound or meaning. More importantly how do the first names sit with your surname and how do the initials sit together?

I don’t understand why people from other countries use Mumsnet which is a British site, and then get shitty with people who post “British” answers.

So yeah - Willa is awful. Don’t know what the equivalent is on “the opposite side of the world” but don’t do it to your kid.

Not keen on either. Kaia sounds nice but seems a bit celebrity-inspired. I don't like Willa at all. Willow is quite nice though.

Autumn or Summer as a middle name? I don't really like seasonal names, but Autumn is the better of the two.

Kaia Willow would make a nice name.

Kaia and Willa are both lovely imo.

I'd use Summer as a middle name as the A at the end of both names doesn't flow very well with the Au of Autumn.

I'd choose Kaia if your vibe is modern/ boho/ hippie and Willa if you're more literary/ bluestocking/ pioneer style.

(I don't get 'Kardashian' from Kaia.)

How silly - you could say the same about the very popular name Isabella.

Isabella....?

Necessity on a bicycle?

Willa?? Won’t everyone say…

What’s your name?
Willa.
Willa what???

Willa Cather was an American novelist whose life and career spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was the author of Death Comes to the Archbishop, My Antonia, O Pioneers, The Song of the Lark, and a great many others. She's most famous for her depictions of pioneer life on the prairies. She was something of a literary trailblazer and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Willa Summer? Willa Summer holiday be necessary this year? Willa Summer dress be appropriate for the party? Willa Summer school be running this year?

Sounds odd.

I know quite a few Willas and nobody ever says anything like that to them.

It's quite possible that people in other parts of the world are not as rude as the Brits seem to be.

Equally, when an OP states clearly that she lives on the other side of the world, why do British people post the silly and highly geographically specific associations they have with a name and predict the child will encounter the same stupidity and rudeness tens of thousands of miles away?

Seems really obtuse to me.

@mathanxiety , how dare you use silly, stupid and rude to describe the perfectly valid opinions of others. Take a long hard look at yourself.

Kaia is very pretty and much stronger and nicer than Wila which is a bit meh and almost not finished.

Kaia Autumn 🍂 😍