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[kati-d.livejournal.com]

I love names and am constantly bugging my fiance about future kids names. We both fell in love with the name Cole for a boy however its a hard name to make a fit with a middle name. I threw out Coleton which he hated.. then I suggested Nicholas which I like and he sorta likes.. today he suggested making cole the middle name and calling him that..

so hes the options....

Nicholas Patrick "cole"
Nicholas Edward "cole"

or...

Philip Cole "cole" - Philip is my fiances name a name ive always loved but crossed off bc well its my future husbands name and I dont like the whole junior thing..

Do you think its silly to name a kid with one name but call him his middle name?
and do the combos sound ok?

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I dont think its silly to name a kid a name and then call them by their middle name, but I think its silly to call a kid a name that isnt in their name at all. It's one thing to call someone a nickname like Skip or Shorty, it's another to call them a totally different actual name because you like it. You like Cole, you should use it somehow. I think it would be silly to name him Nicholas Patrick or Nicholas Edward and call him Cole. It almost irritates me.

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

But if you say Nicholas out loud, it has Cole in it... perhaps not spelled that way, but prn. that way. Therefore I would consider it a valid NN.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean. I never say it like that, though.

I say it nick-uh-liss

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

It's probably because I'm used to more European pronunciations considering most people I've known with the name had parents who spoke English as their second language. I usually end up with more of a 'Nee-co-luss' prn, lol.

[ellycopter.livejournal.com]

i know a guy named david jack who goes by "jack", no one even knows that jack's not his first name. not even people at his school. it's a little odd.