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HelpRe: Still suffering from name regret-thoughts/advice appreciated (LONG)
in reply to a message by anxiolytics
I changed my daughters name to Violet when she was 7 months old. I was young (22), clueless, and allowed her fruit loop of a father to name her Azlynd. Horrific!! I got so many negative faces, comments, it was awful. Luckily I had a home birth, and had not gotten around to doing her birth certificate so didn't have to legally change it. She's now 6 years old and it's as if it never happened. A few people had trouble switching over and small talk about it got old and annoying quick! After 6 months or so all of that died down.
I really like Rosalie. Yes some will pronounce it with a lee. If that can happen with Caroline, and many many other names like mine (Kayla, people often call me Kyla), then many names aren't safe. Plus, Saoirse will always be mispronounced. Name regret is common. I named my first son Sage when I was 19. It fits him well and I do like it, but it's really not my taste now. That was 10 years ago. People change and their naming styles changes. My sibset will never go together perfectly. My kids are widely spaced.
I don't think Katrina is ethnic. I adore Indira. I met an adult Calypso and it was nice on her. It didn't seem to far out there. LOVE Gloria!! I always get visions of morning glorys. I'm having a girl in August and have considered it though my mom's next door neighbors baby is Gloria. Long story. I do not like Isis, Cleopatra, India, Sapphira - too epic and over the top. I like Thalia a lot. How about Dahlia? Both are on my list. I think Dahlia flows better. I like Persephone, I almost want to add it to my list, but do not like how it sounds Stephanie. Serafina is on my list. I love it. My dd's 5'th grade buddy is Serafina and I think it goes nicely.
Your list reminds me of my own, so here it is. Have at it. And just for the record. Io Rose-a-lie!
Adalaide
Adalise
Alicia
Annaliese
Amelia
Ariella
Athena
Birgitta
Celia (See-lee-ah)
Cecilia
Bir
Clementine
Dahlia
Daphne
Davina
Delphina
Elizabeth
Elizabetta
Elise
Eloisa
Eloise
Emma
Estella
Eve
Feline (Fay-leen)
Felina (Fay-lee-na)
Fiona
Florence
Freya
Gloria
Greta
Gwendolen
Imogen
Isla (eye-la)
Isabeau
Isadora
Josephine
Liesl (lee-zl)
Lilah
Lilia
Lillian
Lucia
Lucianna
Madalena (lay-na)
Madelina (lee-na)
Madalene (lain)
Maeva (Ma-ava - French)
Mirabel
Noa
Octavia
Odessa
Penelope
Rosalie (Rose-a-lie)
Roxana
Roxanne
Serafina / Seraphina
Sofia / Sophia
Stella
Thalia ( thayl-lee-ah, tha-lye-ah)
Viviana
Vivienne
Wilhelmina
Zelda
Zipporah
I really like Rosalie. Yes some will pronounce it with a lee. If that can happen with Caroline, and many many other names like mine (Kayla, people often call me Kyla), then many names aren't safe. Plus, Saoirse will always be mispronounced. Name regret is common. I named my first son Sage when I was 19. It fits him well and I do like it, but it's really not my taste now. That was 10 years ago. People change and their naming styles changes. My sibset will never go together perfectly. My kids are widely spaced.
I don't think Katrina is ethnic. I adore Indira. I met an adult Calypso and it was nice on her. It didn't seem to far out there. LOVE Gloria!! I always get visions of morning glorys. I'm having a girl in August and have considered it though my mom's next door neighbors baby is Gloria. Long story. I do not like Isis, Cleopatra, India, Sapphira - too epic and over the top. I like Thalia a lot. How about Dahlia? Both are on my list. I think Dahlia flows better. I like Persephone, I almost want to add it to my list, but do not like how it sounds Stephanie. Serafina is on my list. I love it. My dd's 5'th grade buddy is Serafina and I think it goes nicely.
Your list reminds me of my own, so here it is. Have at it. And just for the record. Io Rose-a-lie!
Adalaide
Adalise
Alicia
Annaliese
Amelia
Ariella
Athena
Birgitta
Celia (See-lee-ah)
Cecilia
Bir
Clementine
Dahlia
Daphne
Davina
Delphina
Elizabeth
Elizabetta
Elise
Eloisa
Eloise
Emma
Estella
Eve
Feline (Fay-leen)
Felina (Fay-lee-na)
Fiona
Florence
Freya
Gloria
Greta
Gwendolen
Imogen
Isla (eye-la)
Isabeau
Isadora
Josephine
Liesl (lee-zl)
Lilah
Lilia
Lillian
Lucia
Lucianna
Madalena (lay-na)
Madelina (lee-na)
Madalene (lain)
Maeva (Ma-ava - French)
Mirabel
Noa
Octavia
Odessa
Penelope
Rosalie (Rose-a-lie)
Roxana
Roxanne
Serafina / Seraphina
Sofia / Sophia
Stella
Thalia ( thayl-lee-ah, tha-lye-ah)
Viviana
Vivienne
Wilhelmina
Zelda
Zipporah
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I like a lot of your names. i like your story too, and am lad you had success changing a name. (I too had two homebirths, though this time I did not as I had hemorrhaged with my last birth)so we selected the name before we left. I also liked Zelda, DH wasn't too keen. i have always liked Gloria-he finds it tacky.
Consistency with the other names is not something that bugs me either, as long as the names aren't the same. I.e. my family's names do not have to match wither other, they are all individuals. On the other hand, a name that is way too out there might make a child uncomfortable.
I don't find Katrina ethnic either, fwiw, I think that my DH's opinion on this is weird. But he gets a say.
Not fussed about pronunciation issues too much as long as it is correctable, I think my issue with this one is that it seems so hard too correct people, that it is "ROS'-a-lie" they'd just say, "that's what I said, 'Rosa-LEE'' Guess at that point I just have to say, oh well.
Consistency with the other names is not something that bugs me either, as long as the names aren't the same. I.e. my family's names do not have to match wither other, they are all individuals. On the other hand, a name that is way too out there might make a child uncomfortable.
I don't find Katrina ethnic either, fwiw, I think that my DH's opinion on this is weird. But he gets a say.
Not fussed about pronunciation issues too much as long as it is correctable, I think my issue with this one is that it seems so hard too correct people, that it is "ROS'-a-lie" they'd just say, "that's what I said, 'Rosa-LEE'' Guess at that point I just have to say, oh well.
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Bir should be Birgetta.
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