Names

[sherball.livejournal.com]

What do you think of the names:

Carolina or Carolena

Both to be pronounced as ca-row-lee-nah

Nickname would be Cara

Trying to find a spanish/latin -ish sounding name that I like. Hubby was born in Spain, and I'd like to try and find something that isn't too overly ethnic. :)

Other names we liked were,

Elena
Natalia - Can't use this because his brother used that for his last kid. :)
Isabela
I also liked Gabriella, but he didn't.

Do you have any other suggestions???

Comments

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I love Hispanic (and Spanish) names!

I do like Carolina, but I also like

Isabel
Lenora
Nora
Luz Elena
Anai (con acento) (pronounced Ah-nah-ee)
Delia

[sherball.livejournal.com]

I love delia :) didn't realize that was a hispanic name.. :) I also like Lenora but I think it's almost too close to Eleanor - which is my moms name, and i don't really care for that.. I might be thinkign too hard about that one. ;)

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I think it is. I just came back from a mission trip and one of our interpreters was Delia. She was as Hispanic as they come. :) She said it "dell-ee-uh," with a little hint of "day" in the e, of course.

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

I don't have any other suggestions, but I like the Carolina spelling better. I know someone named Carolina who goes by Lena.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

I actually prefer that spelling as well.. but I was concerned that folks wouldn't say it correctly, and say it like the US states instead. bleh! :)

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

It's worth it to teach her to correct people though. I think that kind of thing is important. And she can say, "It's CarolEEna, like CarolEEna Herrera." Isn't Carolina Herrera pronounced that way?

I guess by the time she's old enough to know who that is, the designer won't be cool anymore...hehe. Oh well.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i like carolina. my name is caroline and a few of my friends call me carolina (pronounced like the states) and i like it. whenever i go to a spanish/latin event for work, i am always introduced as carolina (pronounced with the lee sound instead of lie sound). i absolutely love it.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

I really, really like Isabella and Elena. I love Gabriella too, but if your husband doesn't...

You might want to go with the spelling Carolena. It looks a little weird to me, but I think people would be more likely to pronounce it correctly, especially if you're in the US.

Maria is pretty too, and then you can combine it with other names. I think Maria Elena is lovely. Or Magdalena/Maddalena. My mom's name is Maria Maddalena. ^^

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

That's actually how we pronounce it, and it's Polish - my great-grandmother's name. I like it.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I like it spelled Carolena, then you are guaranteed people will pronounce it correctly, cause I personally would say Car-o-line-uh for Carolina. It's pretty and I love Cara for a nickname. Elena is great, too.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

These are all spanish girls names i really like :-) i've done my top 6 in bold... just because.

Allegra- joyous
Ana- gracious
Adalia- Noble
Catalina- pure (form of catherine)
Elisa- dedicated to god
Jacinta- beautiful
Juliana- form of Julia, youthful
Lola- strong woman
Luisa- famous female warrior
Mariana- bitter(mary)/gracious(ana)
Maribel- form of Isabel, which is a form of elizabeth!
Neva- covered with snow
Ofelia- helper (this is one of my favourite names ever, but i'd spell it Ophelia...ala Shakespeare i guess that's just not spanish though!)
Paloma- dove (i know a baby Paloma & they call her Lola for short, which i think is adorable)
Rosa- from the word rose.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I thought MARA was bitter. MARY is "beloved."

[bellisima87.livejournal.com]

Mara means bitter.. it's my cousin's name.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Oh, well... i don't know i guess i'm wrong. Did seem a little weird for the mother of christ!

[ferretiger.livejournal.com]

I love Caroline/a pronounced that way. It's the Danish way as well, and my favorite story when I was little was "Den Uartige Caroline" - Naughty Caroline. It was what I was going to name my son if he was a girl, the only name his dad and I could agree on since it could be both American, Danish, and Polish. We were going to spell it Caroline and pronounce it Cahr o lee na as well.

I also think Rebecca and Caroline sound good together as sisters, though I know you've said you call her Madison instead.

Other Spanish names, all women I work with:
Blanca
Alicia or Aliciana
Dolores (Lola, Lolita as nicknames)
Edith (pronounced slightly differently, not quite as ugly as it looks, but not sure how to phoenetically spell it)
Iliana
Marlena (Marlie as nickname)
Rosa, Rosita, Rosalie


Good luck!

[sherball.livejournal.com]

I forgot about Alicia - I love that name!
I've never seen/heard Iliana before - I kinda like it!

Marlena - After being a Days of Our Lives watcher in my younger years, I could never use this name! hahaha Tho I do think Marlie is a cute NN :)

The rest of the names are so older woman sounding. I guess that probably comes from knowing grownups with those names, automatically makes me think of older women when I hear the names. :)

[ferretiger.livejournal.com]

Oh man, when the song "Three Marlenas" came out, everytime she heard it, my sister would do her 'Marlena face' (you kinda squint your eyes and do a dopey smile) while going "Ohh, John Black, I lurrrve you".

Good times.

And Iliana was a sweet girl, so I love that name now :)

The rest actually did belong to middle age women.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

oh and kudos to you for remembering that Madison's name is really Rebecca! heheh :)

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Madison is really Rebecca? is this another -middle-name-but-first-name-kinda-names lol. explain!!

[sherball.livejournal.com]

:)

She's really Rebecca Madison. She's named after her daddy. Same initials, same number of letters in thier names.. I love the name rebecca but I really don't care for the nicknames that go along with it! I think Madison is a great name too, and I love the nn of Maddie. Sooo in order to keep the initals correct, we just use her middle name! :) The plus side of this.. is that if she's horrified by Madison when she gets older because there's just too many of them, or whatever, she's still

[sherball.livejournal.com]

grrr. hit enter too soon.. she's still got a nice name to fall back on! :)

My name's Rosalie!

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Rosalie isn't Hispanic, it's French bleh =/ words in ie always sound weird in Spanish.

But Rosalia and Rosali are Hispanic.

Re: My name's Rosalie!

[ferretiger.livejournal.com]

I meant it more as a nickname for Rosa. I work with a Rosa who also goes by Rosita and Rosalie.

[bellisima87.livejournal.com]

I like Carolina better but I guess, people would pronounce it like "South Carolina" without the South, of course.

My suggestions are:
Catalina
Ana Cristina
Magdalena
Marcella
Teodora
Teresa
Simona
Selena
Nina
Noemi

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Ooooh Selena! Love that one.

[scintillated.livejournal.com]

Adriana
Eliana
Eva
Josefina
Liliana
Renata
Sofia

[imaginationfig.livejournal.com]

I love Carolina (I'm also a Caroline). I think it looks better with an I, and my guess is that she would have to correct people both with pronunciation and with spelling if it were spelled with an E. I would pronounce Carolena "Ca-ro-leh-na" and I definitely wouldn't think to spell "ca-ro-lee-na" with an E.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I like all five but Elena. I prefer it as Carolina, too, but you'd probably have a bunch of people pronouncing it like the states that way. I like Isabela as Isabella, too, but I suppose spelling it that way wouldn't get the desired pronunciation in Spanish.

Other Spanish names I like:

Blanca
Carmen
Eva
Lola
Mercedes
Raquel

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Raquel seconded

[sherball.livejournal.com]

if you use the name.. how woudl you pronounce it? :)

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

im a spanish neerd and thus have a lot of spanish names on my list... here's afew...
Adriana
Amalia
Cecilia
Cristina/Cristiana
Elisa
Eloisa
Emilia
Graciela
Jazmin (accent on the 'i'- said Hahss-meen)
Leticia
Lilia
Lucia (with an accent on the 'i')
Luisa
Marcela
Mercedes
Mireya
Raquel
Raeka (Rye-kah)
Sofia
Solana