A Little Help

[flufflenecharka.livejournal.com]

My older brother and his wife are having a baby girl soon, in about three months or so. They decided Duica for the first name, but the middle name has been harder for them. They just can't come up with anything, and neither can our parents, so I thought I'd ask around for suggestions here. Maybe someone here has an idea?

Duica is, in this case, pronounced Do-ik-ah, and the last name is Gray. If anyone has ideas, feel free to run them by me. I feel kinda bad that I'm the names nut in my family and I have no suggestions whatsoever to help out my own family. DX

Thanks in advance.

Comments

[silveroonmyst.livejournal.com]

with such an unsual first name, at least to me, ive never heard it before, i would go for something very short, such as Ann for the middle name.

[flufflenecharka.livejournal.com]

Ann isn't an option, though, since that's their first born daughter's middle name, so that'd be repeating themselves. The short thing is a good idea, though. Thanks. *goes off to look at short names*

[julia-michelle.livejournal.com]

Wait... the "c" results in two hard "k" sounds?

Is it doo-ick-ah?

Either way, no advice on a middle name, I'm stuck on the first ;)

[silveroonmyst.livejournal.com]

Claire? It think it flows nicely.
Lynn might work too.

[silveroonmyst.livejournal.com]

Thats how i sounded it out.

[flufflenecharka.livejournal.com]

Duica is Serbian, so there's two pronounciation's - Do-ay-ka, and Doo-ick-ah. I was just trying to be clear which pronounciation my brother went with, my bad. XD

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

is the first syllable "do" as in solfege or "do" as in the verb? (long "o" sound or "oo"?)

[flufflenecharka.livejournal.com]

In the one pronounciation my brother went with, it's doo. In the other one (which they haven't ruled out as an option), it's do like solfege.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

okay. thanks for clearing that up. i wasn't sure. that's an interesting name... :)

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Nothing that ends in ah...

Blythe
Leann
Blaise
Beth
Elizabeth
Josephine
Hazel
Elise
Suzanne
Rosalin
Eloise
Claire
Caroline
Daphne

[flufflenecharka.livejournal.com]

Serbian names get very confusing very fast. In their alphabet, it all makes sense, but names get double pronounciations otherwise pretty fast. (I just thank god my parents didn't name me anything exotic/hard to say.)

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

Going along with the short, simple middle name idea ... what about Jane?

Some other ideas:

Grace
Jean
Joan
Belle
Rose

[farting-nora.livejournal.com]

Something short and simple, you mentioned Ann was out, so how about Jane?

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

Elaine
Rose
Jane
Marie

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

What are their names and what's the other one's first name? To get an idea of what they're looking for...