Luca

[TheMightyToosh]

For a boy - opinions please! Thanks!

No don't do it, unless you are Italian. It's a gorgeous name if you are Italian and very pretentious if you aren't!

Agree with bonsoir.

Not pretentious where we are - v.inner city London. I know two. One boy and one girl. Seems quite normal.

Agree with Bonsoir and Smee in that it's kind of wannabee posh, and ends up being quite quite the opposite.

I love it, I think it's a name you can use without being Italien.

It's in the top 100 so quite mainstream now. I'd put it in the group of names like Amelie and Leo.

What Bucharest said, ime...

I think of Luca as a girls name, as it reminds me of the Suzanne Vega song "My name is Luca" about a woman. I have heard it used on boys quite a bit recently. I think it may be slightly faddy, in the vein of Milo, Ivo and all those other boys names ending in a vowel. I think Luke is more classic.

Ummm... 'My name is Luka' by Suzanne Vega is about an abused boy...

(love Luca btw)

Heard a fab row once in a shop that sells Christening gowns. The row was parents, who had apparently forgotten how they spelt Luca on the birth certificate. They weren't the brightest pair.

It put me off the name for good.

I prefer Lucian.

Ineedsomesleep, that's classic!

Luca is ok, I much prefer it to Lucas.

I love it

Luca is lovely - friend's ds is called this, but I'd expect a Luca to have some Italian link, I think.

I do love it, but did not choose it for the reasons offered by Bonsoir and Bucharest (via smee)

I also liked Carlo for a while, but could not possibly justify it.

The song Luka wasn't about a women it was about an abused little boy!

Not to my taste, but that's mainly because my friend's dog is called Luca. I think on another thread someone said that a name that suits both Dog and baby is a posh one.

Yep I think fine if he has Italian link. Not really sure if he hasn't.

Bit chavvy and low end if used with no Italian connection. Beautiful name if you have some connection.

Even in Italy, it is regarded as quite a 'common' name...

I don't like it at all.

I find Luca feminine sounding (probably because it ends in -a) and a little 'common' if I'm honest.

Carlo or Carlos is fantastic, on the other hand, especially if you have Italian roots.

I would love it but not being Italian it is a no go for me.

Plus it is the name of my friends dog.