Isabella?

Hello

My wife is due to have our first baby any day now:) (overdue by 4 days).

We do not know if it is a boy or a girl but we are still undecided on a girls name. Back in November we were absolutely set on the name Isabella but during the last six months all we have heard is people saying things like "you couldn't possibly call a girl Isabella now, because of Twilight every girl in the hospital will be called Isabella".

Please can anybody help us to know if there really are that many babies being named Isabella? We have spoken to people who are due to have or have had a baby over the last six months but we haven't heard the name Isabella being used in this admittedly small circle.

We do have back up names but will we always wish we had gone with the name we love? Thanks in advance for any help with this.

DTB (Dad To Be) :D

I say go with what you love!! If you love the name then use it!
There are 2 names I like and won't get to use so DD2 got to use the name I LOVED and i'm so happy she did.
All the best with the birth. xxx

Oh Meh, I LOVE Isabella. And I don't associate it with Twilight. It's such an old-fashioned name, so elegant. I associate it with Spanish princesses and queens.

Google "popular names" and there's a site that comes up, you can actually see the popularity of a name over the centuries.

Well not EVERYBODY watches those movies lol
Soooo I wouldn't have known if you didn't just say it! If you love the name......do it!

Isabella was something like the eighth most popular girls' name in 2009 :) My son was going to be Isabelle if he was a girl, and we may still use that name for our first girl :) Actually, we had the same concern re: Twilight, hence why it was definitely going to be Isabelle and not Isabella :)

Really, if you like it then use it. In 10 years no-one will really remember Twilight and they'll be onto the next big thing

Thanks very much for the feedback. It's very hard to choose a name isn't it! We really do love the name and now that the baby is getting closer we are becoming set on it again.

The other girls name we like is Lucia (Lu Chee A). Does anybody have an opinion on this name? I have a feeling it may be down to those two.

Thanks again for your help. We have been keeping the names to ourselves so it is refreshing to hear other opinions :)

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Thanks very much for the feedback. It's very hard to choose a name isn't it! We really do love the name and now that the baby is getting closer we are becoming set on it again.

The other girls name we like is Lucia (Lu Chee A). Does anybody have an opinion on this name? I have a feeling it may be down to those two.

Thanks again for your help. We have been keeping the names to ourselves so it is refreshing to hear other opinions :)

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LOVE LOVE LOVE Lucia!!! I wanted that for my Lucy.....I didn't win lol
I would def go with that another reason why..........Isabella/Isabell is EVERYWHERE. As its beautiful;)

I am about to name our third daughter(she is 6 weeks old!) and I googled popular names. Isabella was number one in Australia for 2009. Not because of that show, names just have runs, I know quite a few, but spread out in ages not a cluster of newborns named Isabella.
If you love it, and it suits her, do not let anyone turn you off it. When I had my second daughter we named her Coco we got given so much flack off friends and family, AND then Courtney Cox had a baby named Coco about a month later, so people thought we were copying the stars, even though our baby was born before!!! The naming game is personal, between you, your wife and your yet to be born baby. Go with your heart, and what people think will be yesterday's news before you know it.
Blessings for your birth!

Personally Isabella is too popular for my tastes, but it is a gorgeous name. I wouldn't worry about the Twilight connection at all- passing fad.

I love Lucia. But I think you'll find many people will pronounce it Lu-cee-a at first or ask her to spell it when they hear it. Our son's name is the same so I'm not suggesting you don't use it- just a heads up ;)

my youngest is Bellah and not named because of twilight named well before i heard of twilight! I wanted Isabella but DH didnt want her getting called Izzy so we settled on Bellah. I believe you should go with a name you love not because of what movie it is or isnt in, from what i have experienced you are always going to get questions/comments on the babies name regardless of what you pick.
Good luck and best wishes for the birth of your baby

We were going to call my DD Isabella, but decided there were too many Isabella's around so we changed it to Arabella ;)

My DD was nearly an Izabela, but DH wasn't too keen, so we chose a different name. I think Isabella (or any other spelling of it) is a beautiful name and only a very small percentage of the population will associate it with Twilight. Whatever name you pick, someone will always think you chose it for a reason that you didn't. (e.g. my DD is Diana and so many people think she is named after the Princess - she isn't). So if you love it, go for it. Otherwise, you could try a variation on the meaning. Isabel is the Spanish version of Elizabeth, so you could try one of its variations, e.g. Lisa.

Good luck.

I reckon go with what you love. Isabella, although popular, is a lovely name. And you're the one who's going to have to say it approximately a million times in your life. I also LOVE Lucia. Good luck deciding!

Isabella is actually the Spanish version of "Elizabeth"...the name of one of the most powerful and innovative women of her time, Queen Isabella of Spain...a pretty awesome woman to be named after in my book ;)

I know a lot of Isabella's now though in my mothers group and our surname has "bell" in it, so no good for me to use lol

Good luck - and I bet you will know her name the second you look into her gorgeous eyes :)

isabella is a beautiful name and i would never associate it with twilight. if you love it, use it!

I love both. Personally if you love the name Isabella name your DD that. Popularity of names changes so much. I wonder what the meaning of Lucia is? BTW do you have an Italian background?

I agree that if you love Isabella, go with it. Twilight will be a distant memory for most people in a few years.... and besides, in Twilight the character goes by Bella - her name is not often mentioned as Isabella.

Hi All

Thank you for your responses to the thread. My wife gave birth on Thursday the 3rd of June and we did have a Girl so it was time well spent reading your replies :)

Somebody mentioned earlier in this thread that we would know her name the second that we looked in to her eyes and we definitely did. We named her Lucia Charlotte and we are absolutely delighted with the choice :D

Thank you all for your help. We decided to keep the name choices to ourselves so it really helped having a forum to air the names with other people. We do still love the name Isabella but the decision to go with Lucia was made for us when we saw her for the first time.

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I love both. Personally if you love the name Isabella name your DD that. Popularity of names changes so much. I wonder what the meaning of Lucia is? BTW do you have an Italian background?

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Hi RhiChiChi

We are not Italian so we chose the name because we love it. She is named after my sister Lucy and my wife's sister Charlotte. (Lucia Charlotte)

However my wife does have Italian in her family. Her great grandmother on her fathers side was called Angelina Lucenti and she was from the Bay of Naples.

We had never heard of the song Santa Lucia until some family members mentioned it when we named her, when i listened to the song and researched it is a traditional Italian song about the waterfront district called Santa Lucia in the Bay of Naples! Maybe it was meant to be :)

Oh yes and Lucia means 'Light' and she was born in Sydney during Sydney's Festival of Light

So happy for you and your wife SB!!
Enjoy your new little bundle, and such a beautiful name.

Welcome earthside Lucia :)

Top Australian baby names 2009 good thing you went with Lucia, seems Isabella was the most popular Australian girl's name of 2009, and 5th most popular in SA in 2009 :) With good reason though, its a pretty name. But you'd scream out "Isabella!" in a supermarket and a flock of little girls would come running at you!

We're still trying to choose a name for ours, due in a few weeks so I feel your pain. We're strictly choosing non-popular names - if we think of something and it is in the top 50, it gets culled. At the moment I live in a small town so there aren't many duplicate names within an individual class, but I swear EVERY name in the top 20 both male and female is in the Kindergym class, and again in my daughter's class at school.

CONGRATULATIONS on the arrival of Lucia! I just read all your posts & it seems that the name is perfect for your little one. You never know, Isabella might be the name of your next one ;P