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[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Thanks to all the responses about how long your lists are!

Here are my narrowed down combos to the ones I like the most. Aurelia and Corbin were added to my list after these were thought up so I'm not sure what I'll do what them. I just think Aurelia is so pretty. And it was my favorite of the storylines from Love Actually.

I'm a ways off from having children so these aren't set in stone. I'm not really looking for opinions, but you can give them if you wish. Mainly I just wanted to share and ask you guys to point out anything horribly wrong with the combos I might have missed- like bad things for the last name to be/start with, bad NNs, etc. Thanks!

(in alphabetical order by first name, not by preference)

Felicity Drew
Juliet Kennedy
Madeleine Josephine
Makayla Josephine
Reagan Olivia
Scarlett Anastasia

Dimitri Jai (Dmitri possibly but the Dm combo still bothers me a bit)
Jacoby Keagan
Preston Tobias

Comments

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I hate Michaela. WAY to close to Michael plus I don't understand how Michaela translates to the right pronunciation.

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

I'm by no means a fan of Makayla and the like, but I do have to agree with you.. to me Michaela looks like 'My-kul-uh'.. literally Michael with an extra 'uh' sound added to the end.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

exactly :)

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

Not really a fan of the name choices.. not my style I suppose.

If I had to chose a name from each gender:

Scarlett Anastasia &
Preston Tobias

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I understand it's not everyone's style. Thanks for being respectful though :)

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I like these names individually: Felicity, Juliet, Josephine, Tobias
Most of the names are completely fine combos but just not both names I specifically like. However, Madeleine Josephine feels repetitive. I know the "eine" on Madeleine and the "ine" on Josephine are not pronounced the same way. But they just seem too similar as endings of both names, especially since both names are three syllables with a stress on the first syllable. It just feels a bit clumsy.

If I had to pick it would be Juliet Kennedy or Felicity Drew... and Dmitri Jai.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Madeleine Josephine is my least favorite of these so considering I highly doubt I will have 6 children, much less all girls, it probably won't be used lol.

Thanks :)

[pap3r-heart.livejournal.com]

Micaela Josephine looks better to me.

I know someone with that spelling of Micaela so it makes the most sense to spell it that way to me.

Other than that I love all of your girl names.

Your boy names just aren't my style

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I like that better than Michaela for sure but I still prefer my spelling.

I wonder what is it that makes people pick different boy and girl names. Like why we have similiar tastes in girl names but not boy names.

Hmm...just something to ponder I suppose :)

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

Reagan Olivia is beautiful :)!

I like "Dmitri" only because of "So you think you can dance" haha!

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Reagan Olivia is my favorite :)

I don't watch that show but ok lol :)

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

And no offense. I'm rather picky about them too so I understand.

[ghost-dance.livejournal.com]

please for the love of all things holy, spell it Michaela.

i'd also stay away from Drew and Kennedy.

and whats Jai? is that even a name?

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I'm not spelling it Michaela (see above comments for why).

Jai is a name. It's the culture guy on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

Felicity Drew - I love Felicity (I have Felicity Jane on my list), but I don't like Drew at all.
Juliet Kennedy - Same as above.. I love Juliet but I don't like Kennedy.
Madeleine Josephine - Madeleine is really nice, just way too popular for me.
Makayla Josephine - I hate Makayla. It's soooo little girl-ish. Try to picture a 30 year old woman named Makayla.. no.
Reagan Olivia - Love Olivia, hate Reagan.
Scarlett Anastasia - Pretty.

Dimitri Jai - I don't like Dimitri at all.
Jacoby Keagan - I like Jacob Keagan..
Preston Tobias - My favorite of your boy names.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I figure if she doesn't like Makayla as an adult, she can go by some version of her middle name.

Preston Tobias is my favorite boy name too.

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Josephine is a really nice name and would be a good fall-back name if she didn't like Makayla as an adult.

[holly-megan.livejournal.com]

I love Kennedy, Joesphine, Reagan, Olivia, and Keagan. I prefer Jacob to Jacoby, but it's your baby, not mine, haha.

What about Kennedy Oliva?

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Kennedy Olivia has definite possibilities. I'll add it to my longer list of combos. Thanks!

[itcouldbelove.livejournal.com]

How is Aurelia pronounced? I can't remember from Love Actually; it's been awhile since I've seen it.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I'm bad with pronunciations but I think it's something like ah-rail-ya if that makes any sense

[arbus.livejournal.com]

oh my.

makayla looks like the redheaded stepchild of that grouping. it just doesnt belong on a list with such regal names as reagan, scarlet, madeline, and juliet.

ps: jacoby? really?