Which name do you like best?

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

I would like Olivia the best, if spelled correctly. Alivia looks too cutesy and childish to me and doesn't translate well to adulthood.

mama0226 · August 2018

My daughter's name is Elena and we call her Lainey for a nickname

bdesterhouse · August 2018

Lurker, Alivia is an actual name and not Olivia misspelled. In Spanish it means relieve. I think any child with the name will be just fine in adulthood. There are more childish names out there.

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

Ok. I still dislike it. Perhaps I should've said "the more familiar way."

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

Also, nameberry says it's just a variation of Olivia, so where did you get your info @bdesterhouse?

eta: just because it's a random Spanish verb when conjugated one way doesn't mean it's a legit name.

kayjay44 · August 2018

^WSS. Everything I’ve seen says it’s a variation of Olivia.

bdesterhouse · August 2018

My friends named their daughter Alivia - it’s the first thing that popped up when I searched it’s meaning when we learned that they were naming her that.

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

Ok well maybe you're using Bing, because Google tells me it's either the el/ella/usted form of the Spanish verb "to relieve;" or a "unique" spelling of its origin name, Olivia.

BourbonBiscuits · August 2018

@bleucheeznwine

bdesterhouse · August 2018

It’s all in how you search.

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

Ok, all you proved was it's a Spanish word. You're still wrong. In English, it's a cutesy misspelling of Olivia. In Spanish, it means relieves, which, by the way, reminds me of someone peeing after a long car ride. I'm not sure why you came out of lurking here to refute my opinion on a name on a post that asked for name opinions, especially when it's clear you can't differentiate between something being a foreign verb vs. a cheapened version of a name with an actual origin.

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

And the search phrase for the correct information would've been "what does THE NAME Alivia mean." That way you wouldn't be hitching your star to wrong information.

kayjay44 · August 2018

Ok but that’s google translate

hannahbananas11 · August 2018

"To relieve" in German is "Entlasten". I like that name.

kayjay44 · August 2018

Does this also mean that urban dictionary definitions of names are legit?

hannahbananas11 · August 2018

@kayjay44

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

"To pee" in Spanish is "Orina." What a beautiful, elegant name. You know, because if something is a word in any language, it's also definitely a name.

kayjay44 · August 2018

bleucheeznwine said:

"To pee" in Spanish is "Orina." What a beautiful, elegant name. You know, because if something is a word in any language, it's also definitely a name.

“No orina en la piscina, Orina.”

megpants209 · August 2018

@kayjay44 and @hannahbananas11 I was a little afraid to google mine but now I fully support UD defining names.

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

This also reminds me of when people get tattoos of Chinese symbols and they think it means, like, "serenity," but it actually means "fartbox."

hannahbananas11 · August 2018

One thing to get off my chest before going to bed (and to keep this on-topic to appease the admin). OP, Tilly isn't a full name; it's a nickname for Matilda. Give your kid a real name, and have a cutesy name for a nickname instead. This child won't be a cute little kid forever. At some point, they'll want a career (and an adult-sounding name to go with it).

kayjay44 · August 2018

hannahbananas11 said:

One thing to get off my chest before going to bed (and to keep this on-topic to appease the admin). OP, Tilly isn't a full name; it's a nickname for Matilda. Give your kid a real name, and have a cutesy name for a nickname instead. This child won't be a cute little kid forever. At some point, they'll want a career (and an adult-sounding name to go with it).

Totally agree.

bleucheeznwine · August 2018

Agree, @hannahbananas11. Same goes for the name Lainey.

conchispita · August 2018

I think this thread is a perfect example of why you don’t go the strangers on the internet for validation on baby names

Just name your kid whatever the fuck you want

PurplePoppy424 · August 2018

All I keep thinking when I see this is how OP said in another post that her DH said she could name this baby “whatever she wanted as long as it wasn’t misspelled or sounded like a stripper name.” Piper is the only name on that list that doesn’t go against that. So either OP really wants to piss off her DH because the family name is that terrible or Piper is the only real name she even cares about.

BourbonBiscuits · August 2018

Truth @PurplePoppy424 and Piper reminds me of OITNB. So I’m not sure that’s a great thing.

kayjay44 · August 2018

BourbonBiscuits said:

Truth @PurplePoppy424 and Piper reminds me of OITNB. So I’m not sure that’s a great thing.

If it was Piper from the book, good thing. Piper from the show, bad bad thing.

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