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I don't like it, sorry. I love Gillian, and I like Juliana, but Jilliana looks like a clumsy mish-mash of the two.

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I think Jilliana looks more complete than Jiliana.

Jillian or Gillian is pretty and classy enough on it's own. The extra -a at the end makes it one of many -ana names, which kind of cheapens it's appeal in my opinion.

I love Jillian, but Jiliana just looks a bit silly to me. In the same respect, I really like Julianne, but Juliana just doesn't look right. Must be something about -ana's!

This message was edited 11/5/2007, 8:14 PM

I'm not a big fan of "-ana" names to begin with. I dislike made-up names even less.

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Sorry, but to me a "variant" has to be generally accepted and possess history. You can't just add an "a" on to the end of a name yourself and call it a "variant." At least in my book.

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Love Jillian, but not Jilliana / Jiliana.

I think it's awful. Jillian is such a utilitarian sort of name to me that any kind of fancifying it seems kind of like a joke. Like putting a hat on a donkey or something. There's just not much that I can see being done to Jillian to make it anything other than what it is. :-/

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For some frills on a J name, I'd look around for something less stodgy like Jelena, Jolana, Janina, Jacinta, Jocasta, Josefina, or whatever else (and I know that I may as well not even be suggesting some of them as J names given how the Js are pronounced, but I tried :-) ).

This message was edited 11/5/2007, 6:14 PM

It's ok, but not something I would use personally. I could see people mistaking it for Juliana constantly, which could get old for someone named Jilliana.

It's different. I would probably say it's too much. I've never like Liliana for the same reason. I would probably spell it Jilliana...just Jillian with an -a on the end.

This message was edited 11/5/2007, 5:27 PM

I don't like it. It feels forced and overly fancified, when Jillian is simple, effective, and just right. (I feel quite Goldilocks-esque right now.) I am quite fond of Jillian and the nickname Jill, though.

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I would spell it Jilliana- Jiliana looks very strange for some reason, like it should be pronounced somehow differently. (Of course, Jillianna/Jilianna wouldn't work because then it would be jill-ee-AN-a, not jill-ee-AHN-a.)