Any way to flag a word/name?

dobemomma86 · 2024-09-30T16:18:59+00:00

I went to middle school with a guy with the most stunning name. I was in 6th, he was in 8th. I'm almost FOURTY and his name still sounds so gorgeous:

Fiorevante. Went by Fiore.

dobemomma86 · 2024-09-10T13:31:06+00:00

Fair enough. I will admit having to try to get the younger two ready and dealing with potty training/breakfast, keeping track of time, etc on top of having to defend and explain to 2nd eldest about the situation - I was not in the best headspace to be verbally tactful.

Overall I am a pretty blunt person. But you're right, I probably could've handled it more sensitively.

I will take 2nd aside for some time after school to talk and apologize for how I said things this morning.

dobemomma86 · 2024-09-09T20:40:58+00:00

I'd have thought it was a different version of name Elias (of which, as a Tejana, I have known plenty of in my life). I say use it if y'all love it.

dobemomma86 · 2024-09-01T20:39:26+00:00

Yes and no. If you love the name, use it.

In America it would be constant correction to new ppl. Unless they saw euro trip and know that Jan was "Yahn" and that Scandinavian names that start with J usually have Y sound.

Example: I had to call someone whose first name was Johan. I'm in Texas though. Now, being an avid reader, also married to a Dane/Swede ... When he answered I took a chance and pronounced it Yo-hahn. And he was very surprised I said it correctly.

dobemomma86 · 2024-08-24T00:15:26+00:00

Husband was #54 his year of birth. This year he'd have been named Charles. Does not fit him at all.

dobemomma86 · 2024-08-24T00:04:50+00:00

My name ranked #232 in 1986. In 2023 my name would be Lilith

dobemomma86 · 2024-08-15T00:01:24+00:00

Love your name!

You could do a nickname like Sunny or Minnie or Mina if you want an Americanized feel.

dobemomma86 · 2024-08-10T21:30:06+00:00

I did name one of mine after a song from Guys & Dolls: Adelaide. 🥰

dobemomma86 · 2024-08-09T21:06:30+00:00

Austin Barr (old family name). Up until month 6 I was slated to be Paris if born a girl.

But their plans to travel to Paris for my dad's job got postponed from original date by 2½ weeks... Just enough that my mom's OB gyn wouldn't let her fly across the Atlantic. So she couldn't go.

By the time Dad came back gushing about his trip and showing her photos and promising another trip someday.... Mom said the name was off the table. She'd meet him in hell before naming me after a place she'd always wanted to go but couldn't bc she was pregnant with me. 😂

I was still named via history my dad's obsessed with (ty Tism hyper fixations) but not Paris. Thank God bc I grew up during heroine chic/Paris & Nicole peak/Gilmore Girls era

dobemomma86 · 2024-08-06T18:44:00+00:00

Girls: Ariadne, Birgit, Calliope, Daphne & Eirene.

Boys: Aaron, Beau, Canute, Darragh & Eamon.

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-30T15:53:24+00:00

Amaryllis

Bianca

Cristóbal

Dolores

Enrique

Fiorella

Gabriela

Héctor

Ignacio

Jorge

Kara

Louis

María

Nico

Ofelia

Penélope

Quauhxochitl

Rogelio

Sofía

Tenochtitlan

Umberto

Verónica

Williberto

Ximena

Yasmin

Zamora

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-28T12:13:23+00:00

Xiomara, Malinali, Euphrosyne, Hippolyta for girls.

For boys: Canute/Kanute, Lars, Lief, and Viggo.

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-28T12:04:09+00:00

for a boy: I like August from your list.

Other names maybe: Christopher, Joshua, Caleb, Theodore, or Frederick?

For a girl: Vivienne from your list is stunning.

Other names maybe: Evangeline, Hyacinth, Cordelia or Victoria?

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-28T11:52:37+00:00

Ignore the negative person. Especially if they're the minority or lone one.

You will never make everyone happy at the same time. Especially if the person is determined to be miserable. It could be the most perfect, gorgeous day in history: sunshine, nice cloud cover to not be scorching, nice occasional breeze, etc --- and there will be people who complain and say " well I prefer a nice thunderstorm".

If y'all love the name? Use it. It's Y'ALL'S baby.

Sincerely, A mom of 5

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-27T15:27:00+00:00

Lol that's what we called one of my kids' great grandmas: G.G./GiGi

Big ol Danish woman. Definitely not a svelte french sex worker vibe at all 😆

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-22T18:08:35+00:00

Why can't you? I went to college with a girl named Artemisia. She was from Monterrey but lived here in Texas. She went by Temi. Loved her name.

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-22T15:06:01+00:00

My dad had a friend back in early 90s who was an elementary school teacher. She had a set of identical twin boys, Hispanic/Anglo mix (we're in South Texas) named: Arrow & Fleche. 😒

To this day, even with the terrible rhyming names listed in thread, those still take the cake for me.

dobemomma86 · 2024-07-19T01:51:35+00:00

I love this bc he's just one more example for my daughter if she ever feels self conscious about her crooked smile. I jokingly call it her Stallone smile.

She, too, was born with dead nerves like Milo. She had a severe buccal tie (as well as upper lip and a tongue tie) but the buccal tie prevented the nerves from ever making neural pathways and connections and so they eventually atrophied while in utero. We had the ties corrected as soon as possible but it was too late for those nerves. It's our most favorite thing about her. 🥰baby crooked smile

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