Twin Girls

[uberta.livejournal.com]

Opinions on Jubilee and Eulalia/Eulalie, please. Also, any suggestions for middle names would be great.

As an edit, I would like opinions on the following name combinations:

Jubilee Gaia
Eulalia Simone

Comments

[danne-gerous.livejournal.com]

Jubilee makes me think of X-Men, which is not necessarily a bad thing...

I'm kinda struggling with how to pronounce Eulalia/Eulalie... any help?

J & E

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Ay-oo-la-lee-uh with the first syllable like "hay" or "hey" is how I've heard it.

Those names are a serious mouthful. I would refrain from middle names in this case.

What nicknames are you thinking about?

Re: J & E

[danne-gerous.livejournal.com]

Thanks ;)
I agree on the middle names thing... these two would be hard to pair with anything else.
As for nicknames... Jubes sounds like pubes, so maybe Billy or just Lee? Eulalia... I'm stumped!

[uberta.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Jube or Bilee for Jubilee, and Eulie or Lalie for Eulalia.

[danne-gerous.livejournal.com]

Eulie or Lalie would def work for nicknames, especially since Eulalia is such a tongue-twister... I literally spent five minutes trying to sound out the pronunciation you provided ;)

Re: J & E

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Lee and Lally is too much. Lally is the nn I've heard for Eulalia-- which by the way I had to practice about 15 times before I could say it and even now, I'm going syllable by syllable to pronounce it in my head, not even out loud.

Jubilee? Don't know.

I'm interested in where these names are coming from. There's got to be some information we're missing here.

[uberta.livejournal.com]

When we suspected pregnancy, my husband and I agreed upon Jubilation or Jubilee should said pregnancy be confirmed... which it obviously was. It's a celebration of my conceiving and having a birth child. Also, I grew up unwanted, so it seems to me that the name is a great way to welcome a child into the world.

My family and I have a complicated relationship, but I definitely wanted to use a family name. Benita is the name of my adopted daughter, named for her uncle. Eulalia is an old family name meaning "well-spoken." My family has so many problems that can be traced to poor communication, and I -- by coincidence or otherwise -- had an unexplained speech impediment in my younger years. Being well-spoken is an honor in my book.

Eulalia

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

I respect that and appreciate your story, but I must say that there is great irony in having a name-- which is harder to pronounce than almost any I have ever come across-- mean "well spoken". You are going to find that very few English speakers will be able to say it, even the well-intentioned.

And do you really want a name with such a dignified meaning to be shortened to Lally or Ulie? Seems counter-intuitive.

Congratulations on your little one's anticipated arrival.

Re: Eulalia

[uberta.livejournal.com]

I like the irony. Well spoken people can pronounce the name, and there is nothing wrong with nicknames and especially not for children.

Thank you.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

Agree with you on Jubilee. And Eulalia is a bit too nineteenth century-like for me.

[uberta.livejournal.com]

The namesake relative of Eulalia in question was born in the nineteenth century, so I'm not surprised.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Anyway, I forgot to add my suggestions of middle names.

Jubilee... Anna. Marcia. Carla. Faye.

As for Eulalia... well, it's a rather long name, so I'd go for a shorter middle name, such as Jane. I know it's kind of a filler name, but sounds nice. Simone comes to mind, too.

[uberta.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling I'd get that, but it's a coincidence and you're right about it not necessarily being a bad thing.

Eulalia is an old family name, and I always heard it pronounced as "u-la-lee-a" or "u-lah-lya", depending on the dialect of the person speaking.

[danne-gerous.livejournal.com]

I like Eulalia because the spelling seems really... romantic? Maybe I'm dumb, idk... but trying to pronounce it is giving me some problems lol... I think I need to hear it irl.

[hoochiehoops.livejournal.com]

Jubilation Lee

[uberta.livejournal.com]

Nah. A nephew is Torr Lee and a niece is Emma Lee. Their father is Adam Lee. Emma Lee is fine, but Torr Lee is just bizarre.

[hoochiehoops.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a suggestion, lol. It's jubilees from x-men real name.

[uberta.livejournal.com]

Ha, I should have thought of that.