Ariella or Aria

[Emma244]

Trying to decide between Ariella & Aria for our baby. MN will be Primrose.

Leaning slightly more towards Ariella at the moment. Wondering whether anyone thinks Aria could work as a nickname for Ariella?

Thank you in advance!!

Areola

Ariella - sounds like a washing powder and people will be forever asking how to spell it while thinking how pretentious.

Isn’t that part of the nipple?

I fear she would be nicknamed areola I.e. the skin around the nipple. Assuming this post is real.

Ariella sounds made up, to be honest.

There's an ariella in dds class at school and an aria a few classes above. Ariella seems to be the nicest to my ear from the local accents, plus I feel like it wouldn't get mispronounced as it's kinda said how it's spelt whereas aria I think could have a couple of pronunciations.

Yes, but its what immediately came to my mind too!

There’s an Ariella and an Aria in Dads class. Ariella gets called Ari. No one struggles with pronunciation of Aria. I’d go with Aria out of the two but there are quite a few around. I think Ariella is some sort of intimate medication in the USA so would avoid for that reason

Both are awful. Ariella will get bullied/ called areola.

aria if you really want to, but people will say did your mum mean to call you Ariana and forget the N

primrose is also a naff middle name

Aria is lovely.

Ariella is a pretty name but the similarity to Areola puts me off.

My son is called Arie. It’s from his NL heritage and I’ve never had anything but compliments on his name.

Mariella Primrose would be even lovelier!

Ariella - more unusual.

Arielle would be my fave.
Aria and Ariella are both nice.

Others ..
Arietta
Anna
Adele

Aurelia is much nicer than Ariella. But of the two Aria wins.

Both are problematic to my ears!

The first for the reasons outlined by everyone above.

The second - you’d better hope she doesn’t grow up loving opera, because if she does her name might read as rather gauche and silly in her milieu.

Aria is much nicer

Ariella Primrose sounds like a winx character. Definitely Aria

Ariella is too frilly. Aria is too nothingy.

Oh dear it’s not looking great for Ariella! Glad I asked now as the majority are immediately thinking of nipples or washing powder 🤣

Other middle name options are Willow or Violet :)

Aria is lovely. Ariella is honestly so awful.

Your middle names, Primrose, Violet and Willow are lovely. I just hate Ariella. So twee and frilly. Also sounds like areola.

Neither are for me, but Ariella is really very bad. So I’d pick Aria.

Whilst we’re here, how do you actually pronounce Aria? I see it written down on here a lot but have never met one in real life. Is it like area? Or are-E-ah?

Aria Primrose is fab. Not Violet (violent) or the ubiquitous Willow (yawn...)

Ariella truly awful, Aria is nice but very very common now isn't it?
How about Annie? Aurelie?