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F/U Thoughts on Combing These Names
One girl name DH and I both like is combing our grandmothers names, Mildred & Dona = Milona. Thoughts?
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i don't love it. i don't hate it.
are you and H really into trying to name your children after family? is that super important to you? i don't get the whole thing but i could understand why it would be important. my cousin is naming her child after something her dad likes, and our grandma...
maybe it's because i have such a common name i want my children to have their own names.. i'm not going to name my children after family. i did talk to H about naming our first son with my maiden name as the middle name for the boy. Fox.
I like it.
mil-ah-na.
It's not super important to name after fam, but I think it's a nice idea. We'll at least use a family name as a middle name.
i like it much better pronounced milana instead of milona.
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That's true. Malana is a real name, which I like. Maybe we should just do that...
from someone with a very common name: I like it. I think it's not crazy or really all that weird, it looks like it could be a name on it's own. I also really like the idea of having it come from family names. Although, I'll give my parents credit for giving me a really cool middle name, I just wish it was a name I could go by because ya, I really hate having a common name.
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What about Madrona?
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yeah, or it's how you take it. I mean, my sister grew up with an uncommon and very beautiful name (which is now very popular), sure it was misspelled all the time and there weren't any souvenir keychains (lol), but I don't think she'd trade it for a common/boring name.
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i feel ya amanda. my sister had the same situation as uw.. her name is mia. but she loves it and i with it was my name. lol.
ugh, it makes me so annoyed that my parents got creative with the second kid! lol
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this is all totally true, but let me tell you, as a kid (and sometimes now) I got really sad when my name wasn't on a piece of crap souvenir key chain.
And there are some days where I think "If one more person calls me Janet I'm going to kick someone in the shins."
This is what I'm going for. I was Jennifer Marie. Meaning there were 5 Jennifers in most classes in elem school, so it was Jennifer and Jenny and Jenn and Jenny A., Jenny B. Awful! Then my dad gets remarried & my step-sister is also Jennifer Marie. My kids are getting unique (but not crazy) names!
my dad almost married a sara... there would have been two sara mymaidenname's.. not cool.
my name was sara mymom'smiddlename mygma'smiddlename dad'slastname. i should have changed my name to sara mydad'slastname h'slastname. i'm an idiot.
My mom told me she didn't know any Stephanies when I was born. I remember having 3 in my 10th grad Spanish class.
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I don't know about you, but I'm kind of attached to having my mom's maiden name as my middle and keeping my maiden as a hyphen. Especially learning more about my family history I knew there was no way that I would ever drop any of my family names.
I even told H that when we get a dog and if it's a girl I'm naming her my maiden name.
i guess it would matter more to me if i was close to my mom or gma.
i'm not. to either. i once was to my gma but never my mom. she gave up when i was 11 and i don't remember life before then.. becasue it wasn't good. anyway, that's a story for another time.
i really wish i had my own name.
agreed. I hate that it's my name vs. your name. I wish I were spanish and had the name smooshing tradition.
H and I would have had a pretty rad last name if we had smooshed our two names together. I honestly asked if we could and he said he wasn't down with that.
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LOL
btw I love your name
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aww thanks
in kindergarten, i was jennifer lastinitial #2. and at work recently, i was jennifer.middleinitial.lastname2@work.com....
being a jennifer is ballz. i hate it. my married name is less common than my maiden name...so i got a little relief...but there are 3 jennifer maidenanames, in the seattle area, on facebook, roughly my age, and shares mutual friends with me. i get friend requests for these other freaks all the time
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but my h's sister is also a jennifer.....so as of right now, there are two jennifer mylastnames. seattle area, etc etc etc. it's irritating when our friends write on the wrong fbook wall.
yeah, my kids will have you-neek names. (not really, just not "common" names).
/rant over.
i liked the original name...molana (or something?) , but i liked the suggestion of mona better.
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Crystal. NO, that's not my friggin' name!! Crys-tal like the ghetto-popular champange. No, we're WASPS!! I friggin' HATE that unless I move to France, 99% of the populace I run into will not pronounce it correctly...even after I repeat it for them multiple times.
And yes, as a kid, I was always sad that I could NEVER get my name on a pencil or pen or souvenir anything.
Even the time my parents special ordered a cute tin red little mailbox with Valentine's candy in it, the company didn't paint my name on it correctly!
Back to OP, I think Mil-ah-na is a really pretty sound, but suggest you change the spelling to Milonna (but you will still have it mispronounced). If it's a middle name though, it's less critical for people to be able to easily spell/pronounce.
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