Robyn writes:<\/p>\n
Up until a month or so ago we’d had the perfect girl’s name picked out for our baby (we don’t actually know if we are having a girl yet but we’ve already had four girls so the smart money is on a girl!). We’d picked the name Sophia Anne and loved it. Sophia has family significance and goes well with our other daughters’ names however recently a little friend at school also named Sophia has been bullying my daughter and that name does not have good associations for her so we need to change it. Please help!<\/p>\n
Our living daughters are Rebecca Elizabeth and Emily Karen. We also lost two baby girls named Stephanie and Anna. Our surname starts with a K sounds, so K and C names are a little too alliterative. We want to keep Anne as the middle name (after a dearly loved aunt who didn’t have children of her own). We like names that the child won’t be constantly asked how to spell and that are pretty\/feminine sounding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I wonder if you’d like the name Fiona. It has a similar rhythm and it has the same “oh” and “fee” and “ah” sounds as the name Sophia. It’s pretty, it’s feminine, it’s good with the sibling names and it works with the middle name Anne.<\/p>\n
Here are a few others to consider:<\/p>\n
Angela Anne; Rebecca, Emily, and Angela
Audrey Anne; Rebecca, Emily, and Audrey
Julia Anne; Rebecca, Emily, and Julia
Laura Anne; Rebecca, Emily, and Laura<\/p>\nI realize I have a lot of A-ending names with the A-starting middle name, and that not everyone will like that. I like the sound of it, and because you chose Sophia Anne I’m guessing you do too. Let’s put a poll to the right to see what everyone else thinks. [Poll closed; see below.]<\/p>\n
Poll results<\/span> (268 votes total):
Fiona: 95 votes, roughly 35%
Angela: 8 votes, roughly 3%
Audrey: 74 votes, roughly 28%
Julia: 68 votes, roughly 25%
Laura: 23 votes, roughly 9%<\/p>\nName update<\/span> 05-15-2009! Robyn writes:<\/p>\n
I’m sorry its taken me so long to update. To be honest I’m a little embarrassed and feel bad because after all that deliberation we’ve named our baby girl (born April 9th) ….. Sophia! The little girl named Sophia who was being a bully to my older daughter has moved interstate and simultaneously there was another little girl named Sophie that Bec became friends with and she told me one day how much she liked the name Sophia! WELL, I just about fell over and after a quick chat to Paul we were back to having Sophia as the favourite name. Before that we had a few contenders….our favourite of your ideas was Julia. Somewhat bizarrely we had a change on the middle name though. Paul really liked the name Grace and I thought that sounded good with Sophia but as I said before we were keen to honour our Aunt (who was actually named Judith Anne but “Judith” isn’t very pretty which is why we were going wtih Anne). Anyway the compromise was that Sophie (we’re using Sophie or Sophia) has two middle names: Grace Judith. I figure the Judith isn’t so bad when she has two pretty names to balance it and using Aunty Judy’s actual name is better than her middle name. I’m so sorry to have wasted your time but really appreciated your input and the input of the people who commented\/voted – thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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