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So my husband and I are TTC and and I always have a short list of favorite names. i have boys name picked but like with my son's pregnancy I have the hardest time finding a girl's name I love. Recently I ran across Isabeau in book and I kind of love it. Nickname Beau (a mild Lost Girl reference maybe?). What do you guys think about Isabeau?

Also I met a woman named Arika yesterday. Her mother named her Erica but when she was 22 she legally changed the spelling because she was "too special" for a normal spelling.

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[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of it, and the look is okay, but when I actually think about it too much, the beau-is-masculine thing kind of bothers me. I feel like I shouldn't mind Beau as a nickname because I like masculine nicknames on girls in a number of cases (Jo/Joey for Josephine, Lou for Louise/Louisa, Billy/Billie for Wilhelmina, Georgie for Georgia, etc.), but I'm not sold on it. Maybe if it was spelt Bo, but then, it doesn't make much sense to change the spelling on the nickname when "beau" is so clearly in the name.

Did she really say she was "too special?" LOL.
I wanted to say uh-REE-kuh when I first read it.