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[volga82.livejournal.com]

Ladies, what do you think oF "Beatrice" as a middle name? Too old-fashioned?
first name will be Sofia...

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[volga82.livejournal.com]

Sofia is set in stone :)

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I love Sofia (although I prefer it as Sophia), but I'm not a fan of Beatrice ... too many associations with Dante, for me, and with Sofia as a first name that just reinforces those associations even more.

[volga82.livejournal.com]

what do you mean by "Sofia reinforces those associations"?

sorry, i am not very much familiar with Dante, but i found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Portinari
:)

My mom is insisting on "Beatrice" because of the name's meaning.. i like it too, but not so sure.

Other middle name options are Victoria, Emilia, or Alexandra.
ps. We are Slavic, thus the preoccupation with names ending with "a" or "ia" :)

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

It's more personal associations than ones anyone else would make hehe, but it's enough that I couldn't use those two names together. In a class I took a couple years ago, one of the texts we had to read was Dante's Divine Comedy, but a lot of the other texts that year were philosophy-related, and a lot of them talked about wisdom (sofia).

Victoria and Alexandra are two of my favourite names ever ... I think Sofia Alexandra sounds a bit better than Sofia Victoria, but they're both gorgeous.

[omfg----hxc.livejournal.com]

Love it!

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I think of Beatrice as having the potential to do what Evelyn did, which is make a comeback out of my grama's generation.

[volga82.livejournal.com]

i agree with you on this..

when my mother gave me my name, it was a extremely rare in my country, no one understood her. Well, it has made "top 5 most popular names list" in the last 5 years...

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I love Beatrice, a lot. I agree that it might get pretty popular. I think Sophia Beatrice sounds lovely! (I have to add that I like Beatrix better than Beatrice. :)

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of Beatrice. To me, it's too old fashioned indeed. I like Sofia though. And Sofia Beatrice sounds good!

[hadschpotential.livejournal.com]

I love Sofia, though I prefer Sophia, but anyway...

I think Beatrice is okay, but I don't like it with Sofia, because "-fia Bea-", doesn't flow well to me.

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

Obviously I like it ( prefer Beatrix though) but I don't think it really flows with Sofia(which I like as well)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I love both names, so you're knocking on an open door with me :P
I actually like Beatrice Sophia a bit better, but either way it's a great name!
I love revived old-fashioned names!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_x_blackroses_x/]

Both are nice names but I'm not so sure they go well together.
I also much prefer Beatrix to Beatrice, but that's just me.

[tokudama.livejournal.com]

I think Beatrice Sofia is easier to say than Sofia Beatrice, but they are both lovely names regardless.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

I love it.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i think sofia beatrice is wonderful.

[misocrunchy.livejournal.com]

I would prefer "Beatrice Sofia". I'm really liking Beatrice lately.