I’m about 3 1\/2 weeks for my due date and we’ve pretty much nailed down a name, but I’m still apprehensive.<\/p>\n
The name is Grace Louise. I love it, I do. In my head I think of her as Gracie. I have stopped looking for other names. But I am still worried that every time I introduce myself and her I’ll feel a tinge of (for lack of a better word) embarrassment. “Hi, I’m Hope and this is my daughter Grace.” I’ll be waiting for people to comment or assume they think it’s silly.<\/p>\n
So, can you tell me if I’m being ridiculous? Or do you and the readers think it IS silly? Will I make us the butt of jokes? Will my teenage daughter roll her eyes that I named her something so similar to my own name? Help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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My guess is that people will definitely notice, and may very well comment on it—but that it is the sort of thing people in general LIKE. That is, my guess is that the feedback will be positive and sparkley-eyed with enjoyment, not negative and eye-rolly with scorn. The situation where you’re introducing yourselves at the same time (and only the two of you, with no other name to put between you) won’t come up very often, and on the occasions it does, you can minimize the effect by separating the introductions a bit: “Hi, I’m Hope Anderson! *shaking hands* Nice to meet you too! And this is Grace.”<\/p>\n
If you DO get any feedback that seems negative (from your future teenaged daughter or from anyone else), you can shrug and say, “I know, and that almost made us not choose it—but Grace was just our hands-down favorite name.”<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Hope writes:<\/p>\n Thank you so much for posting my question. I had not considered the name as a (sweet) link between myself and my daughter, and that was all I needed to hear to convince myself we were making the right choice. I so appreciate yours and the readers unbiased opinions. Grace Louise arrived October 21st (9 days late), and so far no one has commented to me on the virtue name connection.<\/p>\n Hope writes: I’m about 3 1\/2 weeks for my due date and we’ve pretty much nailed down a name, but I’m still apprehensive. The name is Grace Louise. I love it, I do. In my head I think of her as Gracie. I have stopped looking for other names. But I am still worried that […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-27w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154","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=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image.jpeg\")
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