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It's popular, but I still like it. It's on the trendy side, but I find it less trendy than something like Cadence, Jaden, Kamryn, Karsyn, etc. It's close to familiar names like Anna, Hannah, Susannah, and Samantha, but it's distinct enough from them that it doesn't seem too much like them.

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I definitely prefer Savannah.

I like it, it's a pretty name.
I've never been to the city in Georgia, so that image doesn't come to mind for me.

It's one of the few trendy names I actually like quite a bit. I probably wouldn't use it, but I do think it's pretty. I don't think it's too close to Anna or Hanna because they give me completely different vibes. I would spell it Savannah because Savanna looks incomplete to me.

I think it's unfailingly tacky and trite. I do, however, love Savannah, Georgia.

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It's very faux southern belle. It really is one of my least favorite names.

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To me it isn't really comparable to Anna and Hannah, but even so I prefer Anna a million times over, and Hannah too, even though I think it's boring.

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I still like Savannah a lot as a nature name (and a place name; Savannah's architecture is lovely!). Both Savannah and Prairie are similar nature-theme names I'd consider. I think it's destined to be a little more dated than Anna or Hannah, but it's not in Isabella levels of trendiness where it's forever going to be stuck in the 2000s and 2010s. It's a pretty name with a pretty image behind it. I prefer Susannah and Samantha to Savannah, and I would think of those as sound-alikes before I'd think of Anna and Hannah. Savannah is better than Savanna to me, which just looks incomplete.

I like it alright. I am not that into it, I think because of the city, and also slightly for the reason I don't care for Vanessa: the "van" part makes me think of "vanity." It's a nice name, though.

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I think I like Savanna better than Savannah because to me, it evokes the image of an actual savanna, more than of a city in Georgia.

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It does have a middle-class or ruralish or Republican sort of image, what some people would call downmarket or even trashy - similar to names like Jasmine and Alyssa and Amber, not as much as Destiny and Sierra but a little bit. I don't know exactly why I have associated it vaguely this way - I guess because of its overall style. ?? It does not cause me to like it any less, and I would not be really surprised to find a Savannah among the children of liberal professionals, either. w/e. Just saying.

This message was edited 5/27/2012, 12:41 PM

Not a fan. It's a bit tacky, and makes me think of the city, or of the African savanna.

I like the sound of Savannah, but it does seem somewhat lowbrow to me.

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I know someone who named her daughter Savannah in the '70s, well before it became more popular. At the time I thought she had pulled the name out of a hat.

I always liked it. I prfer Savannah, Savanna looks incomplete.

I like it. It's pretty and soft. I guess I don't think that it's close to Anna or Hannah, since I like Savannah and am neutral on Anna and dislike Hannah. I wouldn't use it because of the city of Savannah GA. I've been to the city and I like the city (though the heat and humidity are awful in the summer) but using Savannah would seem to me to be declaring my Southern allegiance or something and I'm not Southern. Even though I know many non-Southerners must use the name, that's still what it would feel like to me. But I like it on someone else's child.

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According to the statistics, it's popular, though I've never known one or anybody who named their child Savannah, but still, if one wants to avoid a popular name, you have to trust the statistics.

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I prefer Savannah. I always like the H at the end of a name when it's an option, just makes the name look prettier and more feminine.

I can't help but see this name as trashy. I know not every bearer is a trashy person of course, but the image the name conjures in my head is that of a gross girl who uses what very little sex appeal she has to get what she wants. I really don't like it at all, and I much prefer Hannah, even if it's insanely popular.

This message was edited 5/27/2012, 8:09 AM