Are these too nick-namey?

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Registered: 01-06-2005
Are these too nick-namey?
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Sun, 06-26-2005 - 5:17pm

Still trying to look for ways to use family names. . .
I keep circling around to these (very different from Genevieve, Elise and Bennett, my front-runners).

Josie Leone (Accent over E, for lay-own)
Jolie Susana

Leone and Susana are from our mother's names. Do they sound too down-home and nick-namey? Too cutesy?

Honesty appreciated, as always! :-)

Steph

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Registered: 01-22-2005
Sun, 06-26-2005 - 6:11pm

My personal take on middle names is that they are used so infrequently, that it's OK to go a little odd, especially if there is family meaning. I tend to focus much more on the first name - last name combo, because that is what will be used most of the time.

I think Josie and Jolie both sound too nicknamey to be the child's name as a grown-up.

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Registered: 08-01-2003
Mon, 06-27-2005 - 12:50pm

I think Josie sounds too nick-namey

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Registered: 05-23-2004
Mon, 06-27-2005 - 2:51pm

I think the names are too "nick-namey", but you have more flexibility with girls than boys.


Personally, I do not like either name, but I only dislike Josie because I used to work with behaviorally disturbed kids, and there was one who was particularly nasty with that name. She ruined the name for me...


Jolie just reminds me on Angelina Jolie, so I don't think of it as a first name. She will constantly be correcting people "Jo-lie, not Julie" and spelling it for people.


We named our (now 14 yr old) daughter Kaitlin, and she is constantly spelling it for people. So it IS something to consider.


Good luck!


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Registered: 08-20-2001
Mon, 06-27-2005 - 3:06pm

Josie and Jolie definitely sound very nick-namey to me. I do know that Jolie is a bona fide name, though- I worked with someone that had that as a name. They are a little too nick-namey for my tastes, but I do love Susana. Lovely!

If I had to choose between Josie and Jolie I'd choose Jolie. Otherwise I'd use Josephine or even Josette as the given name and then Josie as the nn.

Best of luck!

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Registered: 10-17-2003
Mon, 06-27-2005 - 8:07pm

Lots of names start out as nicknames and become names in their own right, so the nick-namey thing doesn't bother me. I like both of your choices here.