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

[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.