Isabella

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

How closely associated is the name Isabella with the Twilight series? I've loved the name Isabella for several years now (before I ever heard of Twilight), and I've never really considered it to be that closely tied to Twilight, because Bella is very rarely called Isabella and because any future daughter of mine would be nicknamed Izzy, if anything. However, response in my last post indicated that the Isabella-Twilight association would be worse than the Hermione-Harry Potter connection.

So, wdyt? Does the name Isabella make you automatically think of Twilight? And, since I won't be having children for another ten years or so, will that association still exist?

Comments

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

does it matter? I still think of wuthering heights whenever I hear cathrine or isabella but it's a book. sometimes, characters have names that are the same names that other people have.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I care mostly because I loathe those books and I don't want to deal with people asking me over and over again if I named my daughter after Twilight. :/

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't associate too much with Twilight because it was popular in its own right before Twilight, whereas Harry Potter really made Hermione known. I just don't like the name.

[xsongsaboutrain.livejournal.com]

In ten years, no, I'd say almost definitely not. And honestly, I know Twilight is pretty popular, but I don't think it's nearly as popular as Harry Potter. I think that association would have been much worse, and probably around for a lot longer. I don't think of Twilight at all when I hear the name. It's really not an uncommon name at all (like, how often do you meet a Hermione?) so just because a child is named that I wouldn't automatically think she was named after a character in a book. It's almost like assuming that every Anne is of Green Gables.

[sereneignorance.livejournal.com]

I would've never thought of Twilight when I hear Isabella, honestly. Maybe that's because I don't really like Twilight and thought that Bella's name is just Bella?

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

I'm quite the Twilight fangirl (see icon) but I don't associate the name Isabella solely with Twilight by any means. She goes by Bella, anyway; the association with Bella is much more so than Isabella. Isabella is a very popular name, popular enough to rise above the Twilight thing, I'd say. And it's too pretty and awesome a name for you to take a pass on because of Twilight. I say go for it, especially if we're talking ten years from now!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Isabella is like the second most popular name in the United States, and Stephenie Meyer named her character Isabella because of the trend, she didn't start it. So no, I'd say that it's not too closely linked.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the trendiness would bother me way more.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I think she named the character because that is what she would name a daughter - and it just happened to be really popular too.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I meant that she wanted to name a hypothetical daughter 'Isabella' in the mid-2000s when the name was already really popular, so she was just following the existing trend. Some people seem to think that Stephenie Meyer MADE Isabella popular.

[eeangel44.livejournal.com]

UH NOT AT ALL. Isabella is a name that has been around for a long time and popular for a long time. I would not associate Isabella with Bella from Twilight. Now people who name their kid JUST Bella around now,yes many people would. But I also would not get hung up on what other people think of the name I like for my child. Or that some silly book "ruins" names. Unless the name is a serial killer, don't worry.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I associate it first with trendiness in general, then Twilight. The Twilight association will probably still be there in ten years. If you don't want the Twilight association, you should use Isabelle/Isabel instead.

[idrinkacidrain.livejournal.com]

The eldest of the popularity surge of Isabellas/Isabelles are in their late teens so you'll both have children at the same time and therefore it will be a "mum" name and dated from the widespread popularity now.

Twilight was after the popularity of Isabella so it isn't exclusively associated with it. The name Hermione became popular from the books, though. Different situation.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

I don't associate it with Twilight at all. I think you'd have to be a real fan to make the connection as the heroine is always called Bella. And if you're not having kids for another decade I doubt it'll still be this popular by then. (the film/book, not the name. I have no idea how popular the name will be in ten years lol)

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

I don't think about Twilight when I hear Isabella at all. Izzy on the other hand, reminds me of the "Mates, dates and ..." series by Cathy Hopkins. ^ ^

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

I don't necessarily think of twilight when I hear Isabella, but some of the other names, like Jasper for example, makes me just think "twilight fan".

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

I think Isabella was already popular by the time Twilight came around, but I think it [Twilight] definitely contributed to the names' recent rise- from what I've seen, a lot of teen mothers whom are Twilight fans? Daughters named Isabella. =/

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

Twilight is popular, but I don't think it has the same staying power as Harry Potter. Ten years down the line, I think most people will have forgotten the characters' names.

Even if you were to use it /now/, it'd probably be mostly teen girls making the assumption; the general population wouldn't think anything of it.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I don't think of Twilight when I hear the name Isabella, but I've not read the books nor have I seen the movie.

More importantly, Isabella was a popular name before the series. Hermoine, on the other hand, was very little known before Harry Potter.

[mudinherblood.livejournal.com]

Well I love the Twilight series, and when I think of Isabella, Twilight doesn't come to mind at all. The only thing that comes to mind is the like 2176571265 other girls with that name. :(

[quitmyscene.livejournal.com]

On its own? No, not at all.

Paired with Hermione? Definitely.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

This.

[corielcries.livejournal.com]

No. If you were to name her Bella I would think more Twilight then Isabella. Plus, if you are going to use it in ten years I think it would be much less obvious as well.

[beekeeperswife.livejournal.com]

Even as a die hard Twilight fan, I don't associate Isabella with Twilight.

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

I've never read Twilight or seen the movie but I do have that association just from hearing my sisters go on and on about it.

I used to want to name a daughter Isabella after my great-grandmother, but since it hit the top 10 on the Social Security baby names list five years ago I've had to cross it off my list. I wouldn't be surprised if it knocked Emma out of first place within the next couple of years. :/