{"id":7227,"date":"2008-06-25T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/06\/25\/baby-naming-issue-anna-with-an-l\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:58:16","slug":"baby-naming-issue-anna-with-an-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/06\/25\/baby-naming-issue-anna-with-an-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Anna with an L"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anna’s mom writes:<\/p>\n

Help! I need some advice\/help desperately. Although it’s rather a moot point as my baby is a teenager. When she was born I educated myself as much as possible on baby names. I wanted timeless, beautiful, classic, and most importantly, a name that could not be teased. I chose “Anna Caroline”.<\/p>\n

Beautiful, no? Problem is, our last name starts with an “L” and now she is signing all of her papers “Anna L.” HOW DID I MISS THIS???? As far as I know she has not been teased, and I am hoping that the rising popularity of names like Annalisa will help. It’s funny because as I search baby sites, middle names beginning with “L” such as Lee, Lynn, and Louise are often recommended for the name Anna. Do these people not know or care that their daughters will be called Anna L.? Or am I making a much bigger deal than I should out of this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
\nI’ve touched on the problem of “Annal-” names<\/a> (especially when the second N is knocked out, as in Analyn and Analise), but hadn’t thought of it with L-surnames. Hm. (*thinks*) Well, I think for me this falls into the category of things I would want to be forewarned about but wouldn’t necessarily consider dealbreakers. Other things in this category include initials that mean something but not something bad: EMT, LID, HI, IQ, etc.<\/p>\n

If your daughter is deliberately signing her name this way, and she’s made it to teenagerhood without anyone noticing the issue, I’d say it’s a relatively safe thing. But what about the rest of you? If your surname started with L, would you avoid the Anna-type names? If you have a non-L surname, and you used Anna for a first name, would you avoid L middle names?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anna’s mom writes: Help! I need some advice\/help desperately. Although it’s rather a moot point as my baby is a teenager. When she was born I educated myself as much as possible on baby names. I wanted timeless, beautiful, classic, and most importantly, a name that could not be teased. I chose “Anna Caroline”. Beautiful, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}