(My mother-in-law is in town this week, but the babies don’t wait and the questions are coming in faster than I can answer them, so I’ll post some for anyone interested to work on.)<\/p>\n
Isla writes:<\/p>\n
I\u2019m due 10\/6, and we still haven\u2019t found a name for our newest addition.<\/p>\n
My husband and I have two kids already. Our oldest is his son from his previous marriage (but I\u2019ve legally adopted him) and his full name is Geovanni Domenico \u2013 though he is always, always Geo. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard anyone call him Geovanni in the seven years I\u2019ve known him. Our younger son is Owen Phinneas.<\/p>\n
We are now expecting our first girl. I really want her name to fit in with Geo and Owen\u2019s, but I feel like their names are too different and we\u2019re having a hard time finding an in between point. Geo\u2019s name was picked by my husband\u2019s late wife, who was 100% Italian \u2013 my husband and I are not Italian whatsoever, but I don\u2019t want Geo to feel left out if we give our little girl a name that sounds great with Owen\u2019s name, but not with his.<\/p>\n
Names at the top of our list right now (but not necessarily a fix to the problem I mentioned) include Eloise, Beatrice, Clare, Eliza, Danika, Rosalie (with \u2018lie\u2019 pronounced \u2018lie,\u2019 like not telling the truth), Safia, and Violet.<\/p>\n
We also like names like Flannery, Hadley, Bliss, and Willow that don\u2019t go with either of our sons names at all!<\/p>\n
One last thing \u2013 for the past week or so I\u2019ve been really loving the nickname Leni. I love the sound of it, and I like how it sounds with Geo and Owen. This may be our top contendor, along with Eloise and Flannery. But the only full names we can come up with for it are Helene and Elena, and we don\u2019t like either. So if you could help me with some other possible full names for Leni, that would be great.<\/p>\n
And any other names that you think might go well with our sons.. I don\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve found the perfect name yet (although I think we\u2019re close) so maybe it will be one of your suggestions!<\/p>\n
And finally, for middle names, we\u2019re not looking to honor anyone, really, so whatever sounds good, because we don\u2019t have any ideas in terms of that. But probably not any of the names I mentioned earlier, because we may want to use them for a future daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, Leni is so cute. I wonder about using a name like Marilena (which I am, perhaps incorrectly, pronouncing mare-ih-LAY-nah) and then using Leni as a nickname? Or Adelaina (add-eh-LAY-nah), which gives you not only Leni but Addy? Maddalena, which gives you not only Leni but Maddie?<\/p>\n
Name update<\/span> 10-17-2009! Isla writes:<\/p>\n
Hi Swistle, thanks so much for all your readers suggestions. Our daughter was born on October 7th and her name is Rosalena Violet, called Leni, obviously (pronounced “Len-nee”). We’re really happy with the name .. we feel it fits in well with Geo and Owen – it has that long “o” which some of the comments pointed out, and it was a nice alternative to Rosalie. Thanks to mayberry for suggesting it to us!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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