Dilemmas

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1. Kid 1 has two middle names. Should all future kids as well?

2. I love the name Brenna, but decided it was too close to an ex's name. Now I love Brinna, but would you spell it with the y? (Brinna vs Brynna)

3. Couple on 16 and Pregnant last night. Moms name is Brooke, dads name is Cody. They added their names together and named their son Brody. WDYT? I like Brody, I just dont like Brooke+Cody=Brody. ya know?

Comments

[happysaid.livejournal.com]

I don't think the should *have* to, no.
Idk, I think I like the look of Brinna a little better.
I love Brody, but the mashing names thing makes me cringe. Maybe they can have another and name it Cooke.

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

hahah I also came up with Cooke, but intended it as a joke XD

[happysaid.livejournal.com]

lol After I posted that I had the sad thought that it might be his middle name. Brody Cooke D:

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

XD That almost sounds like "bloody cook"!! hopefully not referred to his mother, who'd be the "oven" for the "bun".

..okay, that was quixotic even for me.

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

1. No, for there is redemption from past mistakes!! (j/k, kinda ;P)
2. Brinna is kind of strange. It doesn't look like a real name. I guess Brynna makes it better?
3. I think Brody makes quite some sense, from Brooke and Cody. It's not like Cooke was going to be a better option ;P

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

1) No. They don't all have to have the same number of middle names.

2) I like Brynna better. Possibly because I know of a couple Brynn's.

3) Brody is alright, however Brooke+Cody=Brody is too cutesy. What happens if they have another one?

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly it doesn't bother me that much. It would have turned out much worse if the parents' names were, say, MacKenzie and Jay.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, forgot to answer your other questions!

This is just my opinion, but I think if you give one child 2 middle names, it's only fair to continue the trend. I knew a family of sisters wherein the oldest had no middle name at all, but her 3 siblings did have middle names. It always seemed odd and imbalanced to me...so that's where my train of thought is coming from.

As for Brinna vs. Brynna, I actually like it better with a Y. I think Brinna looks too much like a surname (and reminds me of Lisa Rinna).

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

All my kids have two middle names. I have two middle names. My husband thinks it's stupid...well, he used the word "retarded" and that annoys me. How often are middle names really used? Plus, the way I see it, I get to use more names I love by "doubling" their names. But, saying that a child HAS to have two because their sibling has two is silly, that's like saying, your first child's name starts with an A so the next needs to start with a B...or A, both silly, each name is individual.

Brenna is nice. Brinna, Brynna is stupid. Looks like you wanted to be cr8tiv3.

The name is cute so I can't complain much, but it's very vain of the parents. Just because the child is half you doesn't mean it has to have half your name, as well.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I pronounce those other names differently when I think about it.

Bree-Na
Brin-Ah
Bry-Na

Spelling it differently and you'd have to deal with correcting people who say her name wrong, followed by her spending her life correcting people in pronouciation AND spelling.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__sail_awayx/]

I did plan on pronounciation changing with spelling. I had originally just added the I to Brenna and then realized well thats close to Brynn, do I like that better? And thats where I'm at.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

1. I would do it just for balance, but that's me. As long as any future kids have at least one middle name, I think it would be fine. Now, having one kid with two and one kid with none would be weird.

2. Brenna is a fine name. Brinna and Brynna seem kind of made up? Brinna looks the best to me, but I like Brynn even better. To me, Brenna and Brinna/Brynna are said almost exactly the same. It seems like if Brenna is too close to another name so would be Brinna/Brynna.

3. Brody reminds me of grody so I've never liked it, but at least their names make something, you know? I mean, they didn't completely make something up like Kedy or Broco. Or for an example with different names, Jane and Michael equalling Michane or something. Still, I'm not really a fan of combining names for first names. Maybe for a middle, maybe.

[tatredbutrfly.livejournal.com]

Ok so about the number of names thing. My sister has two middle names, my brother and I have one middle name. It's no big deal.
2. I think the joining of the names is ok because it allows the parents to name the child after themselves and still allows the child to have! Their own name unlike being a junior. We have a few combinations of names in our family. Lynnel which combines the names lynne and Nelson. Then there is sulyn which combines Suzanne and lynne. The name Marissa was tossed about, but never used combines Maria and Melissa.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

1. Personally, I like consistency, but it isn't a must if you can't find names that flow well.
2. I would go with Brinna over Brynna, but it's not really my style either way.
3. I think that if they can add their names and make a legit name that they like, that's cool. The only thing I can think of is that if I (Melissa) dated a guy named Kevin or Alvin or something we could get Melvin, but ew.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

1. Probably. I'm a believer in keeping to a pattern once you've established it, so none of the kids feel weird or left out. However, one isn't necessarily a pattern, so if there was a particular reason for #1 to have two middles and that reason doesn't really apply to the other children, I don't think it would be a huge deal to drop it. (If you use it on two kids, though, be sure to keep it going for any others!)

2. I would personally use the Y because I think it's prettier and because it's the more familiar spelling-- I've never seen Brinna before, and I don't have a problem with it (other than it slightly reminds me of brine) but I do prefer Brynna.

3. Parent combo names can be truly hideous, but I think it's awesome when it actually works out. Brody is a perfectly fine name, so in this case I think the parent combo makes an awesome story!

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about the middle names thing. My brother has 2 and I have one, and it's never been an issue.

I think I prefer Brenna to Brinna/Brynna, but I prefer the latter with a Y. Not really my style in general though tbh.

Brody isn't awful as a name, but the fact that its a combo of the parents' names makes it a bit...eh, I don't know. Cutesy I guess. Could be worse though.

[coffeecup37.livejournal.com]

1. Personally I would give them all 2, but I don't think it seems weird for one to have more than one. Although, my mother has no mn but her 3 sibs do and she's always felt a wee bit left out, so yeah. :p

2. If you want it pronounced where 'Brin' rhymes with 'in', I'd go with Brinna. I think Brynna could be mistaken more for sounding like Brine-a.

3. Yeah, Brody is ok, and at least the combination of their names made an actual name! They could have named him Crooke or Brookody or who knows what else! I guess Rudy could work. The 'roo' sound from Brooke and 'dee' sound from Cody. It would be less obvious, for sure.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

1. It might depend on why Kid 1 had 2, but ultimately I'm not sure it really matters. I have only 1, but my brother has 2 (although I am older, if that makes a difference). He has two because one is my Dad's name and one is my grandfather's name. My middle name works brilliantly on its own because it's meaningful to both sides of the family.

2. To be honest, I was going to say it didn't look like a real name, but I looked it up and see that it is. I think I like Brynna better ... it does look like a lot of those trendy "randomly insert y to replace any vowel" names, but it looks "right" in this case.

3. I don't love that either, but at least it's a real name! I'm personally not a fan of Brody on a boy ... the only person I've ever known with this name is a girl so I have trouble seeing it on a guy.

[jadedsurprises.livejournal.com]

I work with someone whose name is Stacey and her husband's name is Jeremy and they named their son Jace. It's not my favorite because it seems more nicknamey to me than anything else, but I did like the name Brody.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

1. I don't really think it matters. Most people probably won't ever realize that only one of them has two middle names. I have a nephew with two middle names, but both of his (half-)siblings only have one middle name. I've never even thought about it until just now, and I don't think his mom ever thought about it either.

2. Behind the name doesn't recognize either, so I don't think it much matters, but I would go with "Brinna." It just looks less childish to me than "Brynna" for some reason, and I pronounce them the said way.

3. Adding your names together to get your kid's name is so very... Twilight... That said, again, I don't think it really matters, because most people won't know, and Brody is actually a legitimate, if uncommon, Irish name. It beats Renesmee by a mile.