Vita?

[LaDiDaDi]

Just read this name today and I really liked it but I wondered what others would think of it; what is a girl called Vita like?

I would think of Vita Sackville-West and assume that the parents were literary and middle class.

Vita Sackville West is the only one I know of - famous for the gardens at Sissinghurst, poetry and being the gay lover of Virginia Woolf and Violet Trefusis.

i know a fabulous vita, it's a great name.

Well, it was in that context that I read the name and thought "Aha, could this be a name for possible dd2?"

What if you had given dd1 name that could be perceived as a little, ahem , dull? Is Vita too unusual to go with a more run of the mill name?

dull? is she called Deirdre?

Deidre and Vita, I like it!

How dull?

Laura

If you read the Wikipedia entry I linked to, you'll see that Vita is a diminuitive of Victoria, her christened name. Doesn't mean you can't use it as a name in its own right though!

margarine?

ooh, look! two witches!

Sounds ok to me. I don't particularly like Vita, but the two together are fine IMO. They will be individual children, so I don't think it matters that one is a more traditional name and the other a little 'different'.
Strangely, I had this convo in real life last week with someone I don't know other than at a toddler group. She has a Dd with a 'modern' name and wanted to give a second Dd a more traditional name, but her Dh felt that the trad name would be overshadowed by the more modern. Their Ds has a trad biblical name...

I immediately thought of Vita S-W. I like it.
Also Violet is lovely.

oh no gigglewitch, I now have that ad tune for "ohhh, ohhh, Vitalite" in my head!! Curses!

you too can suffer!

Really like it. Think it goes with Laura too.

Laura is not at all dull. Vita, too close to Rita for me.

She will always be called "Ry" at school.

I was about to say it's the name of a Burlesque dancer then realised it's Vita not Dita.

Ryvita here too. The only Vita I can think of is Sackville West too. I don't think it goes with Laura either sorry.