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Post by snowmoon on Jan 17, 2021 16:30:14 GMT -6
I love Nova and Juniper! Nova seems like it’s gaining a lot of traction around here. I know of 4 under the age of 10 and one 40 something.
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Post by DGM on Jan 17, 2021 18:52:19 GMT -6
One of my nurses is named Nikohl. I'm going to WK this one only bc I worked with a Nicolle from the Czech Republic. She changed the spelling from something similar to your nurse's spelling when she became a US citizen. I don't remember why she did the two l's though. |
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Post by jnu76 on Jan 17, 2021 20:26:57 GMT -6
My husband and I are both teachers. We’ve never taught in the same district, so we’ve never had the same students. When we were picking names for the kids, our list of names we liked were very different, but our blackball list of names that had been ruined by students were almost identical.
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Post by Dramaphile on Jan 18, 2021 8:15:58 GMT -6
My sister texted me a picture from a teacher resource that included a child named Siege
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 18, 2021 9:10:11 GMT -6
L's preschool class has:
Charlotte
Evelyn
Roan (pronounced Rowan, which I would never have guessed)
Christian
Kristen
Alison
I actually came into this thread because I have crazy name regret about L and I like reading about names. I let my husband push too hard for his choice and I often think about legally changing the name. But he's 4.5yo so I think that ship has sailed lol. His given name is Leonard. We call him Lenny, but some of my family have taken to calling him Leo. His French family members all pronounce it Lay-oh-nar. His teacher calls him Leonard. I've considered changing it to Lennon because then he could keep Lenny, but yeah, that's probably not going to happen.
On a positive note, our new baby's name is Camille and I love it.
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Post by charlotte on Jan 18, 2021 10:20:17 GMT -6
Hi mintyblueair! I have missed you around here and wondered about your new babe. I have your DS’s name in my family so I have an affection for it. Love your DD’s name! |
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Post by rugger on Jan 18, 2021 10:31:07 GMT -6
While Leonard isn't my style, I actually really like the Leo nickname.
I also have name regrets sometimes with R (Raegan), especially because we spelled it differently than the more common "Rea..." spelling, so people always misspell her name. But she's 8.5 now, so there's no going back. Sorry, kid 🤷
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 18, 2021 10:57:20 GMT -6
Hi mintyblueair ! I have missed you around here and wondered about your new babe. I have your DS’s name in my family so I have an affection for it. Love your DD’s name! Thanks! I took a year-long break but I started lurking again a few weeks ago and then I thought, what the hay, may as well start posting lol. Baby was born in September! |
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 18, 2021 11:07:42 GMT -6
While Leonard isn't my style, I actually really like the Leo nickname. I also have name regrets sometimes with R (Raegan), especially because we spelled it differently than the more common "Rea..." spelling, so people always misspell her name. But she's 8.5 now, so there's no going back. Sorry, kid 🤷 I like Leo, too, but for some reason it never caught on with me when he was born and now it feels too late, even though he knows his Uncle and Auntie call him that. Oh well! I love my other DD's name (Naomi), too, so I guess 2 out of 3 is OK lol. I like the name Raegan! And at least with that spelling there is no confusion about the pronunciation. Maybe it's a Canadian thing but I've heard Reagan/Regan pronounced Ree-gan. |
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Post by mc13 on Jan 18, 2021 11:10:54 GMT -6
While Leonard isn't my style, I actually really like the Leo nickname. I also have name regrets sometimes with R (Raegan), especially because we spelled it differently than the more common "Rea..." spelling, so people always misspell her name. But she's 8.5 now, so there's no going back. Sorry, kid 🤷 My brothers son is Leo, just Leo and not short for anything. I love it. |
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Post by rugger on Jan 18, 2021 11:36:18 GMT -6
While Leonard isn't my style, I actually really like the Leo nickname. I also have name regrets sometimes with R (Raegan), especially because we spelled it differently than the more common "Rea..." spelling, so people always misspell her name. But she's 8.5 now, so there's no going back. Sorry, kid 🤷 I like Leo, too, but for some reason it never caught on with me when he was born and now it feels too late, even though he knows his Uncle and Auntie call him that. Oh well! I love my other DD's name (Naomi), too, so I guess 2 out of 3 is OK lol. I like the name Raegan! And at least with that spelling there is no confusion about the pronunciation. Maybe it's a Canadian thing but I've heard Reagan/Regan pronounced Ree-gan. Must be a Canadian thing 😄 Even the Reagan spelling is pronounced "Ray-gan" (same as a former President's last name). I thought for sure we would just call her Rae (hence why we spelled it that way) but she prefers her full name, haha! |
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Post by ovenrack on Jan 18, 2021 12:38:30 GMT -6
While Leonard isn't my style, I actually really like the Leo nickname. I also have name regrets sometimes with R (Raegan), especially because we spelled it differently than the more common "Rea..." spelling, so people always misspell her name. But she's 8.5 now, so there's no going back. Sorry, kid 🤷 I like Leo, too, but for some reason it never caught on with me when he was born and now it feels too late, even though he knows his Uncle and Auntie call him that. Oh well! I love my other DD's name (Naomi), too, so I guess 2 out of 3 is OK lol. I like the name Raegan! And at least with that spelling there is no confusion about the pronunciation. Maybe it's a Canadian thing but I've heard Reagan/Regan pronounced Ree-gan. T was born Matilda, called Tilly from birth, but now she's called Tilda, Tilly, and Matilda, so I vote that you can call him whatever! |
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Post by snowmoon on Jan 18, 2021 12:43:08 GMT -6
Hi mintyblueair! Glad to see you back. Congrats on your new baby! I love Leo as a stand-alone or a nickname. The only Leonard I’ve ever known went by Leo. |
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 18, 2021 14:15:31 GMT -6
Thanks for the input guys! I'm sending in his Kindergarten registration form soon so I've been wondering if I should put Lenny or Leo in the "goes by..." section. I don't want to confuse him. I asked him and he said to put Lenny but I feel like this might be the way to make Leo a thing...
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Post by mapleme on Jan 18, 2021 14:30:36 GMT -6
Thanks for the input guys! I'm sending in his Kindergarten registration form soon so I've been wondering if I should put Lenny or Leo in the "goes by..." section. I don't want to confuse him. I asked him and he said to put Lenny but I feel like this might be the way to make Leo a thing... I think that you should just start throwing Leo around here and there and see what happens. |
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 18, 2021 14:54:07 GMT -6
Thanks for the input guys! I'm sending in his Kindergarten registration form soon so I've been wondering if I should put Lenny or Leo in the "goes by..." section. I don't want to confuse him. I asked him and he said to put Lenny but I feel like this might be the way to make Leo a thing... I think that you should just start throwing Leo around here and there and see what happens. Yeah, I actually have been trying to use it a bit over the past couple of weeks. He was pretty resistant at first but I think I'll persist in using it here and there and see if it starts to feel more natural eventually. |
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Post by charlotte on Jan 18, 2021 15:23:18 GMT -6
I totally planned to use a nickname almost exclusively for DS2 and I only use it like 5% of the time. 🤦🏻♀️
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Post by mc13 on Jan 30, 2021 9:26:01 GMT -6
R started lacrosse a few weeks ago and there’s another kindergarten girl named Donna. I kinda love it.
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Post by mc13 on Jan 30, 2021 9:27:11 GMT -6
R started lacrosse a few weeks ago and there’s another kindergarten girl named Donna. I kinda love it. There’s also a Kenley, Harley, and Pemberley. 😬 |
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Post by charlotte on Jan 30, 2021 9:59:33 GMT -6
Raised eyebrows @ Pemberley
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Post by Dramaphile on Feb 5, 2021 13:18:22 GMT -6
A college friend named her son Pemb.roke after the dorm she and her wife lived in at our alma mater. The reasoning is sweet, but not a fan of the name
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Post by rugger on Feb 5, 2021 14:32:38 GMT -6
A college friend named her son Pemb.roke after the dorm she and her wife lived in at our alma mater. The reasoning is sweet, but not a fan of the name Do they also love corgis?  |
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Post by charlotte on Feb 6, 2021 17:56:52 GMT -6
Maisyn (g)
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Post by mc13 on Feb 6, 2021 18:18:39 GMT -6
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Post by tj on Feb 6, 2021 18:20:58 GMT -6
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Post by Speedy on Feb 6, 2021 21:24:32 GMT -6
We went for a drive yesterday to get some subs, and while DH was waiting on them I was sitting listening to the radio and they were talking about horrible names and "these poor people have to live with these names".
The few that stood out were D'Tron (pronounced D-comma-tron), KVIIIlyn (Kaitlyn), and Jakas (Jak-A-es)
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Post by DGM on Feb 7, 2021 1:45:49 GMT -6
We went for a drive yesterday to get some subs, and while DH was waiting on them I was sitting listening to the radio and they were talking about horrible names and "these poor people have to live with these names". The few that stood out were D'Tron (pronounced D-comma-tron), KVIIIlyn (Kaitlyn), and Jakas (Jak-A-es) Woof to those first two. The 3rd sounds like it could be foreign but those first two are just woof. |
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Post by Dramaphile on Feb 9, 2021 21:54:32 GMT -6
Just saw on a photo someone posted in a sewing FB group: newborn baby girl named Maple Od.ette
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Post by rugger on Feb 9, 2021 22:24:31 GMT -6
Just saw on a photo someone posted in a sewing FB group: newborn baby girl named Maple Od.ette Ooh, the middle name is cool! |
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Post by grumpycakes on Feb 10, 2021 6:36:42 GMT -6
Oh my gosh, Maple sounds like a totally normal first name to me now because of mapleme. 😂 |
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