Is Eliahna trendy and overused?

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Thoughts on the name Eliahna for a little girl? The shortening (Ellie) is somewhat basic and overused, but it wouldn't bother me that much because DH and I wouldn't have to call her Ellie. I'm just wondering if the full name (including every spelling variant) has also been overused. I know that it seems to have become very popular and trendy in the 2010s. Is it still?

Spelling a name a certain unexpected way will land your daughter with spelling her name out every time someone needs to write it. An utter pain, you are landing her with an issue for what? Zero gain it's still a generic common name.

Baby swim teacher here, only come across 1 girl with this name in 14 years, and certainly not spelt with an H!

Eli-Anna??

You may not call her Ellie but everyone else will. It looks like a bit of a letter salad to me.

How about Elle, or Elli, short for the old-fashioned Eleanor with the traditional spelling?

You asked. As a teacher, I have encountered many, many names. Including a student, I’m not making this up, who was named “Nausia” pronounced exactly as you’d imagine. I find “Eliahna” pretentious and difficult. Overused? Not where I am. Never heard of it. But I Googled it and it’s a thing. Is it pronounced “Eliana”? We named our daughter “Phoebe” a very traditional name that some people still struggled with. We thought they might. So, her middle name is Elizabeth after my two best friends. One who calls herself Beth and the other who is called Liz. Just in case Phoebe hated her name. She never has. It’s simply who she is.
BUT it’s your child, so you know best. But don’t be surprised if people mispronounce her name or spell it incorrectly.

It’s neither trendy, nor overused. There’s a reason for that!

Is it? Never heard anyone called this IRL. I would definitely drop the h as it will always be misspelt.

I’ve never met anyone with this name, my kids are primary school age and I’ve not encountered a child with this name

The spelling of it looks clunky, I can imagine the owner of this name will spend forever correcting others on how to pronounce it

Never heard of it.

You would constantly get people spelling it incorrectly, and Ellie is not 'basic.' Bit rude. Ellie is a lovely name. Better than Eliahna!

Never heard of any called such a name. The word basic is very rude about a normal name too

It’s the most beautiful name but definitely ditch the H. I know a few girls with this name. One is an Eli and the rest are always called by their full name

So why is it spelled differently? What purpose does the "h" serve? If it's just stylistic, it doesn't look good on the name written out or typed and only serves to cause confusion for no benefit. At least with other extraneous letters, like the "lle" endings commonly added to Isabel and Annabel, it can be argued that they make the name look prettier (though I would disagree).

What the OP said is hardly rude by MN standards. I’ve seen names be called chavvy, low class, and downmarket by the “you must only use classic names” mob. That form of blatant classism and harshness is almost always ignored, though.