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[amstorrs.livejournal.com]

I was at my daughter's play group the other day when a new family joined.  There was the cutest little girl, 16 months old, and her name was Della (big sister, Riley, was 3).  The more I think about it, the more I absolutely love this name.  What does everyone else think?

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[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of Perry Mason - this is not necessarily a bad thing :D I'm not sure about it, I think it's growing on me the more I look at it.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Kinda like it... cute nn for Adelle.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

She will constantly get, "Bella?"

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

And, "Ella? Stella?"

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I just automatically thought of Della Reese. So...not really a bad image, but not really an image I want for my kid, either. I don't know, I don't think I like it much at all. It doesn't sound like a name to me, or something.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

I love it lots more than the currently popular Ella, which just seems like an incomplete name to me. Thumbs up from me!

[frost.livejournal.com]

I...don't like it. Sounds incomplete or something.
Ella isn't much better, but I prefer it.

[hwar.livejournal.com]

I think it's really pretty and a fresh alternative to Bella, Ella, and Stella.

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

I love it as a nickname to Adele or Delphine and the like.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

thats exactly what i thought too

[todaydream.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. Makes me think of the Dutch word 'del' and that's... not a good connection, since it would probably be translated as bitch or slut. :P

[sparklesnort.livejournal.com]

Della Lena Spence was my great grandmother's name. We really loved it, but it doesn't fit with our last name, so we named our now-3-month-old Dahlia Genevieve Spence Ourlastname instead.

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Della is my grandmother's name. I was going to be called Adelaide in a roundabout-namesake kind of way. :-p I think it's a really sweet name.

[julia-michelle.livejournal.com]

I have a cousin or great aunt or something named Della. To me it's a bubbly, outgoing boisterous name :)