What are your thoughts on the girl name Eliana?

[jasminnie]

Let me know your opinions

Very pretty

How are you pronouncing it?

Pronounced Ellie-Anna? A bit fussy but I quite like it

Too fussy

My daughter’s name so my opinion is biased, but she gets compliments on it really regularly.

Ellie-ah-nah

Pretty and elegant, if a bit frilly, but realistically the likelihood that she’d just get Ellie/Elle as soon as she’s at school seems fairly high.

I know an Eliana, very nice name. Easy to spell and pronounce

I quite like it but thought it was pronounced Ellie-Anna

For me it merges into a whole bunch of names so I wouldn’t find it distinguishable enough - Eliana, Alana, Elianna, Alanna, Elina, Elena, Alina, Aliana, Alaina. But it’s pretty in itself.

Isn’t it pronounced like Ariana but with Eli at the front?

I like it. Know one.

Lovely name. She might become Ellie, but she also has other nice nn options (e.g. Lana).

I know several. For some reason this is a name kids are pedantic about so when one Eliana tried to tell me it's pronounced between Elana and Eyana not Ell-ee-ah-na she was contradicted by the queen bees.

Its lovely.

I think it’s lovely, I went to school with an Eliana.

I do like a lot of El names, Eliza, Eloise, Elora etc, but I find this one quite harsh. The hard 'ar' sound spoils it for me. I imagine she'll just end up as Ellie anyway, which seems to defeat the object of picking a long fussy name.

Fussy/Frilly, not a fan.

My first thought was whether it was pronounced Ellie-Anna or Ellie-Ahna so you may find you get both pronunciations.

I know one. They say Ellie Ah na

it’s one of the many Ellie/ Elle / Evie type names that seem extremely popular.

not my cup of tea

I think it’s really nice. I’d pronounce it like this too, but you’ll definitely get a variety of pronunciations so just be warned!

Hmm perhaps a north/south thing pronunciation wise. When I was at school in East Anglia, for example, people called Yvonne (of which their were several) were pronounced Eeevon by locals and the one Elaine Eeelane

Nice - but keep it as it is with no twee nicknames

Bit of a mouthful for me.

Bit silly and fussy sounding to me (personal opinion though, it's of course your choice), I guess many of her friends will end up just calling her Ellie anyway after a bit.