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[medamina.livejournal.com]

I recently had a dream in which I had a daughter called Inca. At first I was really taken aback by it but it's grown on me. I'm not sure about using Inca as a stand alone name though (I feel like it'll invite jokes/be a bit strange?) and I was wondering whether anyone had thoughts about what Inca could be a nickname for? I've come up against a dead end in terms of think of anything!

NB: Am not anywhere near expecting an actual baby, just making provisional future plans :p

Lots of time to plan, but...

[blueorange94.livejournal.com]

Just found out yesterday I'm pregnant with #2. I know it's stupidly early to be thinking about this, but yeah, I'm thinking of names. I don't even know if it'll stick around long enough to get one (I did have a miscarriage before I had my son, who's now two-and-a-half), but even though my body's exhausted already my brain's in overdrive.

I know I posted about this some time ago but can't remember when, and we had such a hard time coming up with a boy's name that we liked so I'm reaching out to LJ for ideas. In the end we chose Henry Leonard for our son: Henry, because it's also Frenchifiable, and Leonard, the anglicized version of my grandfather's name, Léandre.

Here are our general criteria:

• first name bilingual (English/French), and maybe more traditional


• girl's middle name either Grace or Marion, after my husband's grandmothers


• boy's middle name undecided, maybe Melbourne, after one of my husband's grandfathers (the other one rhymes with our last name, so no)


• nothing gender ambiguous in French, e.g. Michel/Michelle, Dominic/Dominique


• Not David, Daniel, John, James, William, Xavier, or Catherine, Hannah, Elizabeth, or Mary Anything


• my husband's request: no R's, as he can't pronounce them properly in French

Oh, and based on how soon I started feeling sick (approximately three days after conception, LOL), my friend suspects it might be twins. Go nuts! :D