Please help with name spelling. Thanks!

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Please help with name spelling. Thanks!
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Mon, 04-09-2007 - 9:45pm

Please help with name spelling. Thanks!



  • Findlay Sawyer
  • Findlay Bennett
  • Findlay Beckett
  • Findlay Graem
  • Finlay Sawyer
  • Finlay Bennett
  • Finlay Beckett
  • Finlay Graem
  • Sawyer Quinn
  • Another suggestion (Please elaborate)


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Registered: 04-29-2005
Wed, 04-11-2007 - 3:38pm

It's a gaelic name. I have been struggling with the spelling for sometime now as I do not want to give my child a hard to spell name. Findlay is the traditional spelling but I have been struggling on using that or taking out the D or doing it Finley or Finnley. You can't possibly know how much I've struggled with a name for my child. Look it up on any baby name site. It has good meaning. It's also becoming somewhat popular in the US for girls but it's a traditionally male name. Out of curiosity, what are some names you like and names that you feel wouldn't give the kid problems in school?


Here is a link to information on the name... It is very popular in England, Wales and Scotland but not yet in US and that's another reason I like it. I don't like overused names but also not way out there names.


http://www.thinkbabynames.com/search.php?s=finlay&g=1&t=1




Edited 4/11/2007 3:43 pm ET by bellaitaliababy

 

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Registered: 09-09-2004
Wed, 04-11-2007 - 4:02pm

I don't know. I think that's a really hard name to work with. I definetly like how it sounds. But the spelling- for a child who is going to grow up in the US, with kids his own age, is going to have constant problems. But what's in a name anyway?

You like Fin/Findlay, stick with the sound. Julia Roberts probably went with Phinneaous for just this reason. Phin is hard to spell, but relativly easy to pronounce.

Finley is the easiest spelling and pronounciation. Findlay I think will frequently be separated into "Find-lay- how do you proounce that?"

If Findlay is what you're attached to, or has meaning to you, go with it.

Otherwise:
Phinley
Phinlea
Finley
Finlea

Em

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Registered: 04-29-2005
Wed, 04-11-2007 - 4:10pm

Thanks auntem4... I appreciate your opinion.


Thanks everyone who has voted and helped. Sawyer Quinn I put in there because it was my fave for the longest but Dh doesn't care for it so unfortunately I can't use it. I am in love with Finlay (spelling TBD) too though. Just gotta get the right middle name!

 

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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 4:20pm

It's incredibly unusual, so don't say it's something common. IN FACT, running "Fndlay" through the Social Security's Admin website on baby names, Findlay isn't in the top 1000 for the last 100 years.

Uncommon names are neat, but I'll bet you he's going to hear over and over- "What's your name again?"

When I looked at "Findlay" I read " FIND-lay" which sounds ridiculous. I did not see it as "FINN-dley", not even after the original poster replied.

I would bet switching the "a" to an "e" would cut down on the find-lay pronunciations.

You know, we don't generally have alot of uncommon, or less common gaelic names in the US. Lindsay is easy to pronounce because is is pronounced exactly as it's spelled- LIND-say, not LIN-d-say. If Findlay is FIN-dlay that's entirely different. Sometimes you need to help a name along to make it workable. Findlay may be pronounced just fine in the UK or Rep. of Ireland but I wouldn't count on it from your child's 2nd grade teacher.

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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 6:55pm
I've never heard of someone pronouncing Lindsay as LIND-say, is this a regional thing? In Canada it's definitely pronounced LINd-zee, with an epenthetic 'd', like the 't' sound that is often heard in prince or pencil.

 


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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 7:27pm
I don't think my son's future name is ridiculous, no matter how it's spelled. I just wanted some opinions on what spelling was best. I was going to go with Finnley or Finley but there are a lot of girls being named this on my birth board and I thought maybe the original spelling would set him apart as more of the masuline form. As of now I am leaning towards Finley though. I also chose it because it's not common in USA. I want him to have a unique name that has a cute nickname but isn't so unique that it's made up. That's the main worry I had with changing the spelling.

 

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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 9:26pm
No, I"m sorry for the misnderstanding, the NAME isn't ridiculous, the pronunciation *I* PERSONALLY did was ridiculous. FIND LAY. FIND- LAY. Obviously not how it's pronounced. Say FIND..... LAY in your head and it sounds ridiculous too. LOL. Obviously NOT the child's name. Just a dumb misprononciation.
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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 9:29pm

I have no idea. When I say Lindsay, I definetly hear the "d".

Linsee- linDsee, LinDsey, linzee. I still hear the "d" in all.

"T" sound in prince or pencil? Now that I don't get at all!

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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 9:32pm
Thanks for the clarification. Have a good evening!

 

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Wed, 04-11-2007 - 9:35pm

Don't worry about running into other Findlay's, Finley's, etc. I ran every spelling i could think of through the Social Security's website and only 1 came up within the top 1000 baby names in the USA. You have a very unique, very cute and historical name there. What's the middle?

Finley came up as #981 for the year 2005. The first and only year it has made it. "Mary" in contrast was #1 from 1904-1944 or something, and "Emily" was #1 for 10 years.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/