Do these names go well together?

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Do these names go well together?
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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 9:19am
Our 3 year old DD's name is Daina (Day-na) Marie. The girls name we have picked out for this baby is Kadie (MN to be announced).
Do Kadie and Daina sound good together for siblings?
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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 9:56am
I like them together..but would personally use Kadynce/Kadence with Kadie as a nickname..cause while adorable for a baby/child/teen...Kadie isn't so good for a grown woman..especially if she gets into a more male dominated professional career path...
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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 10:53am
Kadence is actually how we ended up with Kadie. I asked my husband if he liked Kadence and he said not really and to plead my case I said "well we could call her Kadie". And he liked THAT but not Kadence.
I figured if when she got older she thought it was too cutsie she could shorten it to Kay. That's a little more grown up. What do you think?
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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 11:11am
I think Kadie and Daina go great together but i do think you should go with kadence.

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Lola Grace 03/19/98

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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 12:21pm

I like the name Daina, like your spelling much better than Dana also. I think Kadie sounds too much like a nickname. It's also no different than the name Katie just because there's a D in there, so in that light it seems more common, traditional than Daina.

I can see where you are trying to go - sort of rhymey, two syllable. here are some others in that thread that I think would match up well with Daina

Amber, Aubrey, Brenna (short e) or Brena (long e), Chelsea, Courtney, Erin, Elyse, Gina, Heidi, Halle, Jacey, Kelsey, Kyndle, Kara, Kerri, Molly, Maura or Moira, Piper, Reegan or Raegan, Teegan or Taegan, Torri, Tasha, Whitney.

good luck.

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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 1:42pm

Oooo... I like Halle. That was actually the girls name I wanted before I got pregnant. But since being pregnant I've been trying to throw as many names out there as possible so I can find the perfect one.

The name we had planned was: Halle Rae-Anne

So we would have Daina Marie and Halle Rae-Anne.

WDYT of that one?

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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 4:49pm

I'm sorry, I dont' think the names go too well together. Daina has a well-known pronunciation yet unique spelling...and I just think it seems very FEMININE. Kadie seems CUTESY to me. Not that it's a bad thing, and not that Kadie doesn't sound feminine, b/c it does...just not to the extent that Daina does. See, girl names that end in "a" seem very feminine to me, whereas a female name that doesn't end in "a" can seem like a "female name" yet not "feminine". I just make a distinction when there's an "a" at the end, lol, I don't know why.


Names that end in the "-ee" sound seem cutesy (cutes-ee) to me. More like a "playground" name than an "executive" name...I just think that it's a name that's a little harder to take into adulthood, that's all, so I definitely like the previous poster's suggestion of having something else as the full name and then using Kadie as a nn.

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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 5:50pm
Um, Katie Couric is wildly successful, and named Katie (if I am reading how to say the name correctly).
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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 6:26pm

Yes! They sound fine.

~ Liz ~

p.s. I *love* the name you've chosen. Kadie/Cady are nice alternatives to the much more common Katie. Good choice!