Delilah? Honest opinions please!

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What does anyone think of the name Delilah? Probably shortened to Lila. I decided I loved it after hearing the song 'hey there Delilah' when I was pregnant with DD - but by then I was already set on the name Polly for her.

Now I'm pregnant with no.2 and Delilah is the only girls name I am stuck on - only other one is Isabel, but that's just way too popular.

I love DD's name - Polly - as it's not particularly common, I've never met another Polly, but it's not contrived or weird either, and everyone knows how to spell it. Trying to find one just as nice but not too common is really hard!

Do you think she would get teased cos of the Tom Jones song, or will that all be forgotten by the next generation?!

One of my favourite names, love it.

My dn is Delilah, shortened to Lila.

My brother meets a lot of faces. It's the biblical reference and I can sort of see why. I don't love it but I wouldn't worry about Tom Jones. Many names are associated with popular songs and after about 20 years, you perfect an only slightly irritated smile and nod tactic as the 38475773th person chirps a Beach Boys song at you, desperately proud of their originality.

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I like it.

She probably will get a fair bit of "my my my, why why why"ing, but no more so than Michelles have to put up with, or - currently - Rubys.

Will hardly scar her for life.

Anyway, I know a Karma, which you'd have thought unusual enough to be safe, and she gets Karma Chameleon and Karma Police sung at her constantly. Very few of us get away without a song with our name in it.

I don't even know what the biblical reference is! (and me having been a catholic schoolgirl too...) I had better look it up!

Samson and Delilah?

Biblical whore? She betrayed Samson to the Philistines and all for money. She was a bit fick too.

She's been sung about, written about, portrayed on screen, referenced in popular culture etc.

I wouldn't use it and my brother says probably about 3/4 of people mention the bible story when they hear her name.

I wouldn't call my child Cain or Judas etc for the same reasons.

But dn is not her and her name suits her because it is her name. And she's Lila mostly.

I love it!
I quite like the idea of reclaiming all those disapproved-of Biblical women. Salome would be another good one.

i love it, in fact i wanted to call dd1 it (who is now nearly 18), but had to compromise and settle for it as her middle name

I loath it (sorry), and now I've got a Tom Jones earworm in my head!

i don't mind it

i much prefer Daliah

Why? Why? Why?

She will get it all the time.

Awful and people will sing that song to her forever more.
I've had 25 years of having to listen to people singing the song with my name in it and it isn't funny.

Sorry but I have a pathological hatred of TJ and that song, and can't get past it I'm afraid...
And I think Lila sounds a bit too much like Lilo for my liking, sorry again...

I really like it.

BadGardener - agree about reclaiming 'bad women' names from the bible.

Jezebel is nice too. And Lilith.

my daughter is called Delilah, My grandma is in her eighties and refuses to say her name because she doesn't like it . Everyone else loves it, I work with lots of young people and my partner is a teacher, they all seem to love the name and never reference the Tom Jones song, they dont know that song! No one in my 8 month old daughters school class will even know who TJ is. If you choose a unique name its never going to be popular with everybody, If you wanted that you would call your child Jane or Sarah

I like Delilah - ds goes to nursery with one.
I do not like Lila as a nn though.

I think it's really pretty but DH refused to consider it because of the Biblical connection (we are not religious).

I quite like it and I do like the NN.
And I think it goes nicely with Polly.

I like Lila but LOVE Isabel! Or Isabella which is one of my fav girls names, Polly is lovely I met the cuteeeest ikle twin girls recently called Polly & Daisy

I love the hey there delilah but you WILL enevitably get the 'older' members of your family asking 'whyy whyyy whyyyy???' and thinking they are highly amusing!!!! . I do like lila but would go for a lengthened version so she has a choice later on....

Go on, call her Delilah, because I can't call a future dd that because of dh (TJ reasons).
When I was pregnant with dd I swam loads and Hey there, Delilah seemed to come on the radio in the car every time I drove there, so I tried and tried to persuade him.

I think it's very pretty, and Lila a lovely nickname. Polly and Lila sound very cute together too.

why not just lila?

if she's going to be Lila then why not just Lila - goes nicely with Poppy

and for what its worth, Isabel may be popular but there is a reason for that, its a classic, beautiful name and DD1 is Isabella and one of only 2 we know (the second one being years younger) its only popular in certain places so I wouldn't rule it out making an effort trying to be different to everyone else