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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
enigma wrote:
JohnZhang wrote in ups.com: What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as your given name. I don't think Nick, Steve, and Bob/Rob are so bad if that is what he likes as a name. As someone else mentioned - the person can use Steven as an adult nickname just as easily as the Steven can go by Steve. I would agree with you if he had suggested a Nicky, Stevey, or Bobby though. Those names wear out at about age 4 but the ones he had listed can and do last a life time. My mother's name was Rosa. Her nickname was Georgia. She even had Georgia on her driver's license. Very few people outside her family knew her legal name. It didn't seem to cause her any trouble what so ever. My cousin (who is my age) is Beth, not Elizabeth. Her mother regrets that decision but Beth herself never has AFAIK. I hang out on another group where a mom felt like she named her girls wrong and so she had them legally changed to something totally different when they were 6mos old - just up and changed them, lol. I may be biased though because I have a Luke, not a Lucas. -- Nikki Mama to 4 boys |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
Rudy wrote in
news:NqadnZLIzub_4fTbnZ2dnUVZ_qupnZ2d@prairiewave. com: I may be biased though because I have a Luke, not a Lucas. Luke has been a name in it's own right for centuries though. at least i've never heard of a New Testament Bible Book of Lucas lee |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
"enigma" wrote in message . .. Luke has been a name in it's own right for centuries though. at least i've never heard of a New Testament Bible Book of Lucas According to one web site: Luke has 11 variant forms: Loukas, Luc, Lucas, Lucian, Lucien, Lucio, Lucius, Luck, Lucky, Lukacs and Lukas. [from: http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Luke] So, perhaps Luke and Lucas are derived from a common predecessor, or simply developed similarly in different cultures/languages. -Aula, not a language expert! |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
On Jun 8, 9:24 pm, "Aula" wrote:
"enigma" wrote in message . .. Luke has been a name in it's own right for centuries though. at least i've never heard of a New Testament Bible Book of Lucas According to one web site: Luke has 11 variant forms: Loukas, Luc, Lucas, Lucian, Lucien, Lucio, Lucius, Luck, Lucky, Lukacs and Lukas. [from:http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Luke] So, perhaps Luke and Lucas are derived from a common predecessor, or simply developed similarly in different cultures/languages. -Aula, not a language expert! Yes, Luke and Lucas derive from the same origin, which is Greek. See also: http://www.babynamesgarden.com/name_boy.aspx?id=4070 |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
and while an adult *can* legally choose to change their name many don't want to offend their parents by doing so. or (in my case anyway) the parents think the given name is perfectly good & refuse to use the changed name. i just dropped my first name, which i loathe, & use my middle name, which is nice, short & androgynous since neither of my parents use *their* first names, i claim to be standing on family tradition lee I find even when I want to use my Full first name most people want to shorten it anyway and in a way I don't shorten it. My name is Victoria which my mom shortened to Tori. If I introduce myself as Victoria people ask me if I go by Vicki.. Not that I ever got the logic of that. It is like when I was pregnant with Xavier and people asked me if I would call him Bill or Will because his middle name is William. Tori |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
Tori M wrote:
and while an adult *can* legally choose to change their name many don't want to offend their parents by doing so. or (in my case anyway) the parents think the given name is perfectly good & refuse to use the changed name. i just dropped my first name, which i loathe, & use my middle name, which is nice, short & androgynous since neither of my parents use *their* first names, i claim to be standing on family tradition lee I find even when I want to use my Full first name most people want to shorten it anyway and in a way I don't shorten it. My name is Victoria which my mom shortened to Tori. If I introduce myself as Victoria people ask me if I go by Vicki.. Not that I ever got the logic of that. It is like when I was pregnant with Xavier and people asked me if I would call him Bill or Will because his middle name is William. When I named one of my dds Elizabeth, I knew I did not want her called Liz or Lizzy (which I loathe), so from the beginning we called her Beth, which I like. She has a cousin named Elizabeth who was called by her middle name - cousin did not like her middle name and is now called Liz or Lizzy. I actually know a lady who named her child with a middle name that she liked better than the first name so that (she said) when she was in middle school and using purple or green ink and making little circles to dot her 'i's and deciding to go by her middle name, she would be called by the name her mother preferred from the beginning. I do not know how this worked out. The child's first name was Tracy. My mom saddled me with a double name (Rosalie Ann) which was kind of difficult because it was so long that people wanted to shorten it. I do not like Rosy, Rosanne, or Rosalyn (although that isn't so bad), so I shortened it to Lee when I was in hs and college, and after I was married I dropped the second name. |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
My mom saddled me with a double name (Rosalie Ann) which was kind of difficult because it was so long that people wanted to shorten it. I do not like Rosy, Rosanne, or Rosalyn (although that isn't so bad), so I shortened it to Lee when I was in hs and college, and after I was married I dropped the second name. If we have another girl she would be Annabeth Marie after her 3 grandmothers, Ann is my moms middle name, Beth is my MIL middle name and Marie is my step-mothers middle name. She would be called Anna for short. I must admit I do like Rosalie Ann.. though i don't know that I would use both together. My step mom tends to call Bonnie by her full name, Bonnie Rae. Xavier does not have an obvious nick name but if you ask him what his name is he will tell you Baby Brother. I almost gave him 2 middle names but I decided against it while filling out his birth cert. I use the 2nd middle name all the time though when he is acting up. Tori |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
Tori M wrote in
et: Xavier does not have an obvious nick name but if you ask him what his name is he will tell you Baby Brother. I almost gave him 2 middle names but I decided against it while filling out his birth cert. I use the 2nd middle name all the time though when he is acting up. my younger brother added a second middle name for himself when he started school (age 5). he suddenly became Daniel James Alexander. he says it sounded better that way. lee lost the first name as soon as i could |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
Rosalie B. wrote:
When I named one of my dds Elizabeth, I knew I did not want her called Liz or Lizzy (which I loathe), so from the beginning we called her Beth, which I like. Ah - pre-emptive nicknaming! Yes, I did that. When DH told me he wanted to use the name James for a son, the first thing I said was "Well, he'll have to be a Jamie because I don't like Jimmy." For some reason it never occurred to me that he could just be James. Now, he's well and truly Jamie. ;-) All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com "That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be" - P. C. Hodgell |
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