Girl Name-Due less than a Week-Help!!

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Registered: 09-15-2005
Girl Name-Due less than a Week-Help!!
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Sat, 10-01-2005 - 9:56am

Our baby is due in a couple of days, and we still don't have a name picked out. Here is the dilemma. We have a 1 syllable last name that is very difficult to pronouce. Looks like "E-OFF" but pronounced with a silent e long o not the typical short o that you would think...like "off". (I know it is confusing). Anyway, we obviously have to spell the last name everywhere we go and I don't want a child to go through spelling the first and last name everytime like I have to do. So... my husband's name is Brooks and mine has the LEE sound in in so what do you think about

Brookley? -- is that too unusual or too difficult to spell??Or do you think it makes much difference with our last name?

We also like

Kendall
and
Taylor
I know some people don't like these due to the gender neutrality issue--but I am not concerned about that... Just whether you think Brookley, Kendall or Taylor suits us best. Thanks for your input!! :)

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Registered: 08-21-2002
Sat, 10-01-2005 - 10:13am

I like Taylor the best its simple and there is no mistaking the spelling.


Jenn

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Jennifer W (uclp)
mom to
Ashley (6-18-03 - ucl &ar, food allergies, Sensory Processing Disorder)

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Registered: 09-01-2005
Sat, 10-01-2005 - 10:34am
I like Taylor the best as well.
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Registered: 03-22-2005
Sat, 10-01-2005 - 11:04am

I like Kendall best. Taylor is a good name too, I just personally know 4 different Taylors and each of them are little terrors. I try not to let things like that influence what name we choose, but you just can't help it sometimes, you know?
What is really important is for you to choose what YOU like best. If you really like Brookley, then who cares what any of us thinks, just do what you like best!
Good luck with your new baby girl!

Michelle

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Registered: 05-09-2004
Sat, 10-01-2005 - 12:11pm

So it's pronounced like Oaf?


I like Taylor the best for you; Brookley is too complicated not to mention I've never heard it before. Kendall is a name I love but these days people are spelling it so many different ways. There's really only one way I've seen to spell Taylor.

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Registered: 09-29-2005
Sat, 10-01-2005 - 12:46pm

I love all your names! ! !
Brookley is different, but not hard to pronounce. Kendall and Taylor are both beautiful names.

Good Luck

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Registered: 11-03-2004
Sat, 10-01-2005 - 2:09pm
I love Brooklyn but not really Brookley. How about Leah Brooke? Or another "lee" sounding name with Brooke as a middle name. I have to agree that I like Taylor better then Kendall.