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[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Lucia(Loo-sha) Johanna.

I'm stuck on Lucia, but I'm finding it hard to find a good middle name, and since i discovered that my mother was named after her grandmother,and then named em after mine, I've sortof thought about continuing the tradition, but my mother's name is Joanne, which I'm not fond of, so I thought of Johanna...

thoughts?

Comments

[bobblebot.livejournal.com]

syllable wise I actually think that Loo-see-ah Johanna flows better.

with Loo-sha I like Lucia Isadora (my current fav middle name)

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

I guess so. I'm sticking with the pronunciation because it's after someone, and that's the way they say it...LOL, I'm not having kids any time soon so it's not a big deal.

Isadora is pretty though, thanks!

[jenufa.livejournal.com]

I always thought the name was pronounced as Loo-chee-ah. :/ Is this how it's pronounced in another language? Just curious.

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

Loo-chee-ah is the Italian way of pronouncing it. Loo-sha is the English variant.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know where Loo-sha comes from.
It's Loo-CHEE-ah in italian and Loo-SEE-ah in spanish, so I can't figure out where else they have like that.

Sorry, I can't say I like either name :/

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

well I know the actual pronunciation is Loo-chee-a, but I've heard Loo-sha and I prefer that.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

My point is: where did you hear it? :P
Asking truly out of wonder

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

there's an incredible violinist named Lucia Micarelli (she's half korean/half italian) and she pronounces her name Loo-sha, she said in an interview that her parents thought Loo-chee-ah was a bit too angular for a kid or something, so Loo-sha she became.

[bobblebot.livejournal.com]

well, Lucius is Loo-shus, isn't it? so, I guess all 3 are valid.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

it is, in English. So I am wondering if that's how it started. Also, Lucius being an emperor has been around for a while (in textbooks), but I wasn't aware that Lucia had reached the anglophone world :P

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

The island of St. Lucia is pronounced as Saint Loosha. At least my boss, who was born and raised there, says it like that... Wiki is giving me "Saint Loo-shyuh" as the official (translated from IPA) English pronunciation.

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

I'm totally hypothesizing here, but it probably came from weird middle English pronunciation, where -ci was pronounced as a "sh" sound.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

I love Lucia, and Johanna is better than Joanne, but not much.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

oops, just read your pron-I prefer Lucia pron. Loo-see-ah, but that's just me.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Well,ironically enough the grandmother my mother was named after's name was Johanna, so in some ways the name would go in cycles...

but that's good advice, thanks!

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

oh gosh no, I didn't take it that way. That's definitely something to be aware of, so thanks!

Yeah,I'm not having kids anytime soon, but it;'s not thrilling me too much so I'm looking at other possible middle names. :)

[illy-borgia.livejournal.com]

I like the name but pronounced Loo-SEE-ah I am not fond of other pronounciations... my best friend is named Lucia Mariana, but she hates her middle name lol

[seksimaggie.livejournal.com]

Lucia Joanne sounds waaay better than Lucia Johanna to me. If you really don't like Joanne, what about just Anne? Lucia Anne sounds okay.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

here's where my mother comes back into it, LOL. She wanted to name me after herself but didn't like Jennifer Joanne, so she took the -anne and added Rose...So I'm Rose-Anne...and i'm not huge on naming a kid after myself, so I doubt I;d use Anne, and it's a cousins middle name...so I think though Anne sounds nice, it has too many "named after" possibilities.

but thanks anyway!

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

I've only heard it pronounced Loo-see-ah and Loo-chee-ah, both of which I think sound better than Loo-sha, especially with the middle name Johanna.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i think lucia joanne sounds quite nice, actually. its very nice with johanna too, just a bit more of a mouthful.

i think lucia is very pretty, and while i would pronounce it loo-see-ah on first glance, i appreciate the alternate pronunciation to honor someone.

excellent choice all around, imo.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i just wanted to say that the more i pronounce this name in my head, the more i am really falling in love with it. plus, i love the idea of the nickname lulu or louie.

its a nice variant on lucy too, a name i really like.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

yeah, saying it a lot got me in love with it, and now I just can;t imagine not using it, LOL.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I actually do like the name Lucia and pronounced that way. I went to school with a Lucia (Loo-sha), so that is just how I've always how I've said it.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

LOL, you can guess where the name came from, sortof lame of me I suppose, but it's stuck...I must use it.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Lucia Jo is one to ponder, thanks!

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of Lucia, especially pronounced that way, but I love Johanna/Joanna.

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

I'd pronounce it Loo-see-ah... And I don't like the double a's. I don't like your pronounciation and I like Johanna more than Joanne but would probably go with Joanna for the spelling.