https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:29:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game/page/2#post-766629 Tue, 07 May 2013 21:00:05 +0000 sera_87 766629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love Tatiana (although I associate it with Eastern European, not Spanish) and Katarina - (and no, they won't call her Katrina, they will call her Kat).<br /> Daniella, Arianna, Aria round out the top 5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game/page/2#post-766436 Tue, 07 May 2013 19:01:10 +0000 MaisyMay 766436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Amelia, Mila, Adeline, Adella? Apparently I am partial to A names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game/page/2#post-766428 Tue, 07 May 2013 18:53:09 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 766428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I should add Marcella which I think is way underused and of course I'm totally biased toward Cecilia ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game/page/2#post-766427 Tue, 07 May 2013 18:50:15 +0000 ModernDayJibarita 766427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a couple more you could add: Lorena, Isabelle, Carolina (sounds like Caroleena), Victoria, Laura, Claudia and Daniela </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game/page/2#post-639352 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:22:52 +0000 MrsLilybugg 639352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow thanks SO MUCH everyone for all of these beautiful suggestions!!! I compiled everyone's ideas in one list for easy future reference for others to use :) </p> <p>Ava<br /> Eva<br /> Mia<br /> Isabela<br /> Ariana<br /> Katarina<br /> Catarina (ladybug in spanish! We chose this!)<br /> Mariana<br /> Alana<br /> Bianca<br /> Tatiana<br /> Adelina<br /> Madelina<br /> Lily<br /> Mariana<br /> Nova<br /> Emanuella<br /> Lavinia.<br /> Adele/Adela.<br /> Alma<br /> Agata<br /> Elena<br /> Hilaria ( IH-LAH-REE-AH)<br /> Carina<br /> Liana<br /> Amalia (uh-MAHL-ee-uh)<br /> Liliana,<br /> Francesca,<br /> Magdalena<br /> Elena<br /> Maria<br /> Inez<br /> Nina<br /> Rosana<br /> Camila<br /> Natalia<br /> Constanza<br /> Valentina<br /> Camila<br /> Valeria<br /> Isabella<br /> Soraya<br /> Gabriela<br /> Ariela<br /> Marissa<br /> Milagros<br /> Marisol (translation: sea and sun!)<br /> Amador<br /> Valentina<br /> Luna<br /> Yolanda<br /> Gisele<br /> Sandra<br /> Yaneth<br /> Sofia<br /> Frida<br /> Laura<br /> Hilda<br /> Norma<br /> Dulce<br /> Alejandra<br /> Alma<br /> Paola<br /> Valeria<br /> Ana<br /> Nohemi </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game/page/2#post-638462 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:58:24 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 638462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wanted one that translated well from Spanish to English to Italian... And our first daughter's name works beautifully in all those languages. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637926 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:17:10 +0000 Boopers 637926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I scoured my MIL's FB page for some name ideas. </p> <p>Gabriela<br /> Yolanda<br /> Gisele<br /> Sandra<br /> Yaneth<br /> Sofia<br /> Frida<br /> Laura<br /> Hilda<br /> Norma<br /> Dulce<br /> Alejandra<br /> Alma<br /> Paola<br /> Valeria<br /> Ana </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637917 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:11:57 +0000 matador84 637917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like Gabriela (gabi), Milagros, Marisol, Amador, Valentina, and Luna </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637896 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:03:51 +0000 MrsStormy 637896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really like Alana, Elena and Mariana. I know a Katarina and never heard her name mispronounced either. This is super similar to your names but I have always liked Marissa, its much prettier in Spanish or Latin pronunciation though... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637853 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:48:12 +0000 MrsKoala 637853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really like all of your names! </p> <p>My favorites are Katarina and Mariana. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637823 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:39:38 +0000 Boopers 637823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are going through the same dilemma! No kids yet, but we've talked enough about names we like. We have a girl name picked out that goes with DH's Spanish last name, but we CANNOT pick a boy name at all!!! </p> <p>@MrsLilybugg: I have a friend named Katarina and sometimes gets Katrina. She just goes by Kat but on the occasion where people use her full name there are instances when it gets mixed up!</p> <p>Alana is also my sister's last name, but I would never think of it as a Spanish name, but maybe because we're white lol.</p> <p>@Mrs. Pen: Diego is my husband's name! It is also the only Spanish sounding boy name that we like, but we aren't a huge fan of "juniors" so we aren't sure. If we ever have a boy we may just say screw it and use the name anyway! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637808 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:34:29 +0000 travelgirl1 637808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: we have exactly the same issue. We chose Ariela, which sounds lovely with a Spanish accent : ) from your list I love Isabela and Mia. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637739 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:17:08 +0000 wheres_c 637739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oooh i love this thread. I will have to remember to come back if baby #2 is a girl. We had the same spanish/english requirements but we had a boy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637619 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:15:43 +0000 MediaNaranja 637619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: The first gift DH ever gave me was a Soraya cd :) LOVE her! He insists that if we have a daughter, that would be her name, can't believe I forgot that! It's a beautiful name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637613 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:10:34 +0000 Mrs. Pen 637613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: my sister had this same issue - her husband is from Peru! She needed something that worked in English/Spanish. Some of the names on their list, though somewhat bilingual, would have sounded so off being said by us Americans (Eduardo, Rodrigo, Mateo)... They went with Diego which we all LOVE!<br /> She is pg again... we're not sure if it's a girl/boy yet.</p> <p>One of the names I suggested for her if she has a girl is Soraya. I think it's GORGEOUS. There is actually a Hispanic musician named Soraya - her music is pretty too :)</p> <p>Gabriela wasn't on your list either and that's a common but pretty bilingual name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637610 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:05:54 +0000 MrsLilybugg 637610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Omg you guys we call our baby LADYBUG and like @sloaneandpuffy said, catarina means ladybug in Spanish!!!!! I just saw this on a name engine online on the train and HAD to rush to HB lol!!!! Ill read/ reply to everyone from a real computer, phone too small lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637575 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:42:03 +0000 mamimami 637575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One name we loved but did not use is Constanza. It's more Italian but I also love Domenica.</p> <p>Adelina is super cute!</p> <p>I like Catalina rather than Katerina. Catarina in Spanish is a ladybug. </p> <p>I LOVE Emmanuella, but the more typical version, Manuela, is slang for a sex act :(</p> <p>Natalia, Valentina, Camila, Valeria and Isabella are all very popular in my neck of the woods right now among female Mexican babies! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637550 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:24:20 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 637550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: Interesting that your married surname is Lithunian because Katarina reminds me more of Eastern European rather than a Latin name. </p> <p>Oh yeah you can't go wrong with Alana or Elena, which are very similar to my lovely middle name Allena :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637549 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:24:00 +0000 NerdBee 637549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The names on your list are all so pretty.</p> <p>If you need more names to consider, I've always liked the name Natalia. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637545 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:20:52 +0000 MediaNaranja 637545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have the same name requirements (sounds good in English &amp; Spanish) as you! From those you listed, my favorites is Eva. I would also suggest Liliana, Francesca, Magdalena (still trying to convince my husband on that one for our hypothetical future daughter), Elena (my cousin's baby is Elena Grace, such a pretty name!), Maria (classic, but sounds more "exotic" than Mary), Inez, Nina, Rosana, Camila..... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637537 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:18:26 +0000 loveisstrange 637537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: My husband is Italian, so we were looking at Italian baby names. They are pretty close to Spanish ones. I had a friend in HS who was Mexican and her middle name was Amalia (uh-MAHL-ee-uh), which I always thought was GORGEOUS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637530 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:14:20 +0000 kjpugs 637530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I couldn't find Hilaria on babynames but they had Ilaria... I know Alec's wife spells it with the H though... I mean I think? haha!<br /> <a href="http://www.babynames.com/name/ILARIA" rel="nofollow">http://www.babynames.com/name/ILARIA</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637528 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:13:29 +0000 oliviaoblivia 637528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: thanks! I should have also said that I love the names on your list.<br /> My sister's name is Carina which I love.<br /> My middle is Liana. Both are similar to your list. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637524 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:12:07 +0000 Foodnerd81 637524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: Well-- I can't say she has never been. But I've know her for 6+ years and I've never heard anyone mispronounce her name in that time :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637519 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:10:01 +0000 kjpugs 637519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: I saw some special on a princess in a (I think Spanish?) foreign country as a kid and I wanted that to be my name and just obsessed over it. Then when Alec baldwin got married I just fell in love with it all over again. It would not work with our last name at all but it's worth checking out on name sites! It just sounds so melodic to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637518 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:09:23 +0000 MrsLilybugg 637518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Katarina is my DH's top favorite! That's really good to know that your friend has never been called "Katrina"! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637513 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:07:40 +0000 MrsLilybugg 637513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@KJfromNJ: wow Hilaria is nice, especially the way you pronounce it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637512 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:07:13 +0000 MrsLilybugg 637512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I was thinking too that her nickname could be Cat which we love love looove. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637511 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:06:59 +0000 Foodnerd81 637511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLilybugg: I really like all these names! To the Katarina, I know one (spelled Katerina) and I have never heard anyone call her Katrina, not once. She goes by Kate sometimes, but never heard Katrina. I mean, people will mispronounce anything but I wouldn't think it would be a common problem. </p> <p>I think with that spelling of Isabela people would misspell it with two Ls a lot.</p> <p>I think Mariana, Katarina, and Alana are my favorites. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-bilingual-name-game#post-637510 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:06:25 +0000 MrsLilybugg 637510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: Oooh Elena is nice too! It reminds me of Vampire Diaries but I like that silly show anyway lol. </p>