Who wants to talk about baby names? (again)

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I think the religious order Trappist correct me if im wrong always do the middle name Mary or Marie in honor of a mother of God
 
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(Actually, I know what it is. He has a frequent customer with the name and she’s high-maintenance.
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Associations like that are difficult to overcome. Can you change the spelling, maybe so there is an ethnic connection? I heard a mom telling a story about her daughter and since I only heard it, I don’t know how they spelled it but it sounded like Alize (ah-LEEZ) and was a variation of Elizabeth or the French version of Alice (depending on the source I found :roll_eyes:); so, Annalize? Or something like that.
 
Sierra Boggess? Not feeling it. But that does remind me of Christine, which is another good middle name that goes great with Annalise.
 
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What’s Mr. Allegra’s problem? (Actually, I know what it is. He has a frequent customer with the name and she’s high-maintenance.
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Do you think it’s possible this reluctance might dissipate over time? I know when my wife and I discussed baby names, there were some she suggested that initially made me give a kneejerk “No” response. But then as I sat with the name for a while, it would sort of grow on me.
 
Actually, the customer does spell it differently. Annelies. But I’m not keen on that spelling because it breaks into “Anne lies.” That was Anne Frank’s real given name though!
 
Chira luce is a blessed she died from cancer I really love her story I think she is in the blessed process. Pray for her canonization please please pray for her. God bless you

 
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I mean, anything is possible with intervention of the Holy Spirit. Maybe I should have put this in the prayer intention forum?
 
Christina The astonishing have you ever heard of her

 
Nah. I associate that with Disney’s most irresponsible princess.
 
I knew someone who spelled it Annalice which is pretty until you see “Anna lice” and then I couldn’t unsee it.
 
Yeah, I think that spelling would make people scratch their heads. (hee hee)
 
Oh-- one thing we did with our first was that we shortlisted our two favorite names, and then we waited until he was born. And then I let DH pick which name he thought he looked like. (I got used to the first name, but didn’t care for his middle name. But it was important to DH, so, you know how it goes.)

In the meantime, we didn’t share our shortlist of names with anyone, because we didn’t want anyone to get used to being on Team A and Team B. So we used a nickname to talk about him in utero, and went with an off-the-wall decoy name whenever we spoke about him to friends or family, and then told everyone the real name after we figured it out ourselves.

DS1 was decoy-named Wenceslado Jorge for a few months. DS2 was Scrappy Doo, courtesy of my coworkers. 😛

So, to make a long story short-- it’s okay to wait until they’re born to decide which name matches how they look, but one person has to go into it willing to be agreeable to the other one’s opinion. 😉
 
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So we used a nickname to talk about him in utero, and went with an off-the-wall decoy name whenever we spoke about him to friends or family, and then told everyone the real name after we figured it out ourselves.
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Some friends did the same and “Hal”, short for Haldor (Icelandic ancestor) stuck. He was Hal until college. 😄 He’s a published writer and uses his given name and it makes me a little sad.
 
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Seems logical, but I don’t necessarily think that how a baby comes through the birth canal is always the most accurate representation of how he’s going to look forever. Here’s a picture of the ones we’ve already made, just for reference. There’s pretty good chance the next one will look something like these. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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We called my youngest brother “Flipper” for years the same reason.
 
My husband had absolutely vetoed Sophia with my oldest when the twins were both girls and we were stumped. So it is possible. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I like the sound of Maria Grace myself though!
 
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