Message: "Ashlianna" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Ashlianna

by Billina (RDNZL)

9/27/2018, 2:39 PM

Name if my barista, this morning. What do you think?

I think it's stupid.

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

#Ashlianna

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- noel (glaucous)

9/30/2018, 11:15 AM

Doesn't seem especially stupid to me. I read it about the same as Marianna, except Mary is obviously more classic than Ashley.

It also reminds me of Liliana, Luciana, Brianna, Joanna, Pollyanna, etc.

I'd rather be Ashlianna than Ashley, which I think is ugly.

This message was edited 9/30/2018, 11:25 AM

- Septapus (Buneary)

9/29/2018, 5:08 AM

Ashley already sounds feminine enough. Adding -anna to it makes it overdone.

- autumn23

9/28/2018, 3:25 PM

I like it. It's pretty. I'm not gonna lie, I co-opted it for my long list of potential character names.

- Dracotorix

9/28/2018, 9:07 AM

It looks awkward... it sounds a little awkward too, but I think there's probably a less awkward way to spell it. Ashleana?

I'd probably prefer a less tongue-twistery variant, like Ashana / Ashanna / Ashlana / Ashiana

- Ninor (Frozten)

9/28/2018, 5:03 AM

Don't like it, but I've heard worse.

- Fictionfan861 (guest)

9/27/2018, 6:07 PM

Way over the top

- RoxStar

9/27/2018, 5:52 PM

super grande stupido

To use the coffee slang, probably incorrectly.
Doing that to Ashley is like putting a big bunch of fake flowers on a beautiful evening gown. Unnecessary, tacky, and leaves a hole from the pin.

- kayisforkeen

9/27/2018, 5:00 PM

It's really awful.

- erb816

9/27/2018, 4:31 PM

Very surprised Ashlianna wasn't a baby. If I saw that name in print, I'd assume it was a baby girl whose mother was my age, who liked Ashley of our generation but wanted to make it "modern" and "unique."

I'd imagine she probably had to spell her name out for people a lot, and was constantly called Ashley anyway. As for my own preferences, I don't like any Ash- name, because I don't like names that make me think of ashes. (Not to mention I know way, way too many Ashleys.)

- Janan (jeziana) +5

9/27/2018, 3:05 PM

Mashup names have existed for a long time (Anneliese, Marlena, Annabeth, Annelie) and adding Anna onto the end of a name may not be my style, but it's not stupid.

I think Ashlianna is actually quite pretty. I know more male Ashley's than female Ashley's, so to me it makes some sense. It may be too frilly though, but frilly names are in style right now. Ashlianna isn't going to be too out of place next to all the Isabella's and Ariana's training to be barista's in the next couple of years.

- Martha (CarolineCarolina) +3

9/27/2018, 5:44 PM

Sorry, but I think it's stupid also. I can't say what I would have said when the names you mentioned were mashed together, but Ashlianna, to me, is stupid, much like Renesme.

- Billina (RDNZL) +2

9/27/2018, 9:01 PM

I also get Renesmee vibes from this particular name. That's a good way to describe it.

I keep thinking if it were Ashley-Anna, as a double first name, it would be the name of a girl going to boarding school in the deep south in the 80's.

- Dracotorix +1

9/28/2018, 9:40 AM

For some reason I assumed it was pronounced Ashley-ana, but if it's Ashley-anna then it would definitely make more sense as a double name.

- Billina (RDNZL)

9/28/2018, 9:44 AM

I'm reading it both ways.

- sambchop

9/27/2018, 4:43 PM

This

I can't say I like Ashlianna, but it does fit a bunch of trends, so it makes sense.

- mirfak

9/27/2018, 3:03 PM

Kind of a modern Jerilyn or Shirlene.
I like it maybe a tiny bit better than Ashley, though that's not saying much.
I wouldn't claim that it's not at all stupid, but I think it's not stupider than Saint or January or Kohen.

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