Do you like the name: Shea Catherine?
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Do you like the name: Shea Catherine?
| Wed, 02-22-2006 - 9:42am |
Do you like the name: Shea Catherine?
- Soap Opera name
- Nicely Irish
- Trendy in a bad way
- Unique in a good way
- love it
- hate it
You will be able to change your vote.

i've always loved this name. one of my life long best friends is named Katherine Shea.
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Edited 2/22/2006 1:14 pm ET by unc_annie
Sorry, I forget sometimes that not everyone posts here incessantly and knows all the acronyms.
nn = nickname
mn = middle name
So, like I said, I almost always prefer one-syllable names to be either middle names or nicknames for a longer name. That tends to be solely because I think names flow better with the longer name first. So personally, I'd name my daughter Catherine Shea even if I intended to call her Shea. (The names I have picked out for girls are Caroline Harper and Eleanor Blythe, but I plan to call my girls Harper and Blythe.)
The other option is to use Shea as a nick name. There are tons of great Irish names where you could use Shea as a nn. Personally I love Siobhan, Sinead
I like the sound of it, but remember that no one will hear her full name on the playground. Just Shea. Which is, as previously posted, a boys name. While this wouldn't usually concern me, the fact that in your poll, there isn't an option for "that's a boys name!" makes me wonder if you've taken this into consideration.
Shayna? (Yiddish, I know... I'm not sure if you're going for Irish so I thought I'd suggest it anyway.)
Sive (Way Irish. Even moreso if you go all in and spell it Sadhbh.)
Sheila (Ditto... and you could call her Shea if you wanted, I guess.)
Unless, of course, you're perfectly happy giving your girl a boys name. In that case, proceed as you were. It's a little overdramatic for my taste (because it's like naming a girl Jack)--I voted soap opera--but it sounds nice.
Shea, (we would spell it Shae) is one of the few names that DH and I agree on. We met a GIRL at our old coffee shop with this name and we both really liked it. Yes, it's a boy's name also, but what isn't these days.
I heard someone tell me the other day that they met a "Kevyn" on the playground and how she was the cutest little girl!
I think Shea Catherine (though I like it Katherine) sounds pretty.
I think one of our options for our daughter would be Shae Corinne. ;)