I just want your opinion on a name

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I just want your opinion on a name
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Mon, 04-30-2007 - 11:14pm

:( I see that not that many people like the name Leila Elizabella :(.

I decided to see how people like this name because two reasons. 1.I love the name Isabella, and my son and father of the baby does not like that name. 2. My son likes the name Elizabeth, but I do not like it that much. Well, it is a good name, but I preffer the name Isabella, so I made Elizabella as a middle name, so that my son and I can have the names that we like in one name. What is it that people do not like about this name? It is that it does not go well with the name Leila as a first name? If anyone can give their opinion, please feel free to do so.

In addition to Leila Elizabella, there was Leila Nicole, and Leila Elizabeth (it took most of the votes)

Gina

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Registered: 11-16-2004
Wed, 05-02-2007 - 8:53pm

I see a lot of people not liking the name just because it 'sounds made up' and I have to ask.. Where do you think names like Elizabeth and Isabella came from to start with? Somewhere along the line a few hundred years back someone made it up. Man wasn't created with a 'set' of names already intact. What sounds made up now could well be a mainstream name a couple decades down the road.

To the OP, do what you like not what everyone else likes. If you and your family agree on Leila Elizabella then go with it. You don't have to explain your naming choices to anyone (including extended family) except for the child who will carry the name. If the little one doesn't like the name you give her then it would be easy enough to come up with a nickname that everyone likes or for her to legaly change her name when she comes of age.

Turdle

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Registered: 09-29-2005
Wed, 05-02-2007 - 11:03pm

If the OP merely wanted to "do what she likes" and not worry about how classy or classless, beautiful or ridiculous a name comes across, she wouldn't have posted a thread specifically asking just that. So it seems an odd position to take to try and downplay everyone else's valid opinions -- or the fact that it IS made up, unlike classic, traditional names you so flippantly used as examples -- based on your own feel-good laissez faire attitude. If she had simply said "this is my dd's name" no one would have said a word, but her whole purpose in posting WAS to find out what people disliked about "Elizabella."


And yes, it's true that most names gradually came into common usage over time, but they weren't generally randomly made-up on a whim. Elizabeth traces back to Elisheva, not random sounds spliced together because they sounded pretty, but because it is a based on the Hebrew language and literally translates to a phrase that was important to the Old Testament peoples who first began using it, much like pretty much every other Biblical name out there. The more common Elizabeth form -- and Isabella, for that matter -- are simply translations of that same centuries old name into other languages.


You honestly can't believe that haphazardly stringing sounds together at all compares. After all, I could "create" Willdrewius or Cathargretal and call them names, but it won't make it so. They'll still "sound made up" (and quite ridiculous to boot) to pretty much any and everyone who hears them. So yes, I think honest opinions are more helpful than a "do what you want and to heck with everyone else" line of thinking. If your honest opinion is that "Elizabella" is the most beautiful name in the world, by all means say so. Heck, use it for your own child! But you don't need to try and discount every other person's opinion to do so.


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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 12:54am

I just think it's not right to say it's a bad idea (as a couple here have posted) because it sounds made up. Yes, she was asking for opinions, so state that it sounds made up and leave it at that. A couple of the posts sounded degrading (to my eyes) because of it. Theres no need for that. I wasn't trying to discount every one else's opinion but stating my own. Part of my own is that there is no need to tell anyone that their ideas are bad just because you don't agree with them.

And they ARE made up. I never said anything about 'stringing random sounds together'. We get varients on names because someone decides they would like names (like say Elizabeth from Elisheva) to sound just a bit differently and over time they come into popularity. Give it a few (or a lot depending on the change) generations and it becomes a classic name. The name in question doesn't sound made up to me. To me it sounds old and uncommon. But then for all any of us know it could very well have been a common name at one point that simply went out of style and died out.

And I think it's a bit hypocritical to sound rather condescending in a post that is basically telling someone off for saying their own opinion, which is, if the OP likes the name she should use it.

Turdle

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Registered: 11-19-2005
Thu, 05-03-2007 - 3:11am
I really like the name Leila, but the issue at hand is that it's becoming an "it" name. Just like Ava, Ella, Madison were/are. If you aren't concerned with 8 other Leilas in your daughters grade, then go for it. Perhaps, switching the two? Elizabella Leila doesn't sound bad. HTH. Good Luck
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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 10:21am

If it were merely as simple as you saying "I like the name, don't think it sounds made-up and think you should use it," I wouldn't have bothered to reply to you. That would have been the sort of reaction the OP was looking for regarding the name (whether positive or negative).


Since you began your reply literally addressing those who disliked the fact that it was a made-up name, too L-heavy with the fn Leila


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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 12:23pm
I just want to give you my 2 cents. I am not pregnant but have 3 children ages 10, 11, and 20 and like to see what people are saying about baby names. I really like how you came up with the mn Elizabella. It is a name that will be a great story to tell the baby when she grows up, and mean a great deal to you and your son. I think it should be something meaningful to you. There are very few times anyone but you will even know what the mn name is. You will send it on birth announcements and thats the end of it until graduation time. The only time my children hear their mn is when they are in trouble and I call them by their first, middle, and last name. LOL Enjoy the new baby, they grow up so fast.

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