I Need A Southern Middle Name!

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I Need A Southern Middle Name!
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Mon, 04-24-2006 - 6:53pm

I'm from California but my fiance is from the South (cowboy ridin' accent and all) and we are trying to come up with a southern yet modern middle name for our baby girl (we don't know 100% yet that it's a girl but for some reason everyone in my family and his family KNOW it's a girl. Don't ask why. :-P ).

We have both agreed on the first name to be Porsche (not sure if we want to change the spelling though).

Two middle names we've come up with are Maisie-Lynn and Jamie-Lynn.

I need some help coming up with some southern sounding yet modern enough middle name ideas! Could someone please send me some suggestions?

- Kim

EDD of Porsche ??? H. 12/03/2006

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Registered: 12-09-2005
Mon, 04-24-2006 - 8:04pm
I really love Scarlett, and it definetly screams Southern to me. It has a beautiful classic feel to it as well, I really love that name. Are you 100% decided on Porsche? To be honest, I think that is rather silly as a name... can you see someone over the age of three with that name? Maybe its cute on a little kid... but it sounds really horrible to me. Just thought I would give my opinion to warn you of what other people might think when they hear this name...

                             
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Registered: 03-07-2006
Mon, 04-24-2006 - 8:24pm

Hi Kim!

To be honest, I was surprised when you said your dd's name will be Porsche. I've definitely never heard it as name for a person before. I just immediately think of the car and mid life crises. However, it's certainly unusual and I doubt she'll have another Porsche in her class! I prefer Portia - just Porsche with ah at the end, but really makes all the difference in my opinion. I like the name Maisie and the name Jamie and the name Lynn, but I don't like the hyphenation. Here are a few other mn ideas that have a southern feel to me. I hope you see something you like!

Annabel
Lila
Lily
Georgia
Sierra
Scarlett
Calla
Grace
Sage
Laurel
Addison
Adeline
Isabella
Hadley
Annaliese
Annalee
Cassidy
Casey
Oakley

If you do decide to go with Porsche, I like Porsche Annaliese, Porsche Annabel, Porsche Annalee, and Porsche Cassidy. If you like Portia, I like Portia Grace, Portia Sage, Portia Lily, and Portia Laurel.

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Registered: 10-14-2005
Mon, 04-24-2006 - 8:53pm

Wow, I've never heard Porsche as a name. I MUCH prefer the classic Portia (which I think is beautiful).


Here are some southern names:


Ansley
Scarlett
Vivian/Vivien
Anabel
Georgia
Ledare


Ada
Alice
Charlotte
Cora
Daisy
Della
Dinah
Dixie
Emaline
Frances
Georgia
Harper
Jane
Josephine
Julia
Liza
Louise
Mae
Matilda
Maude
Margaret
Pearl
Ruby
Sadie
Shelby
Virginia




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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-24-2006 - 9:07pm

The name that always screams "southern girl" to me is Shelby. My DD has a Shelby in her class and I always thought that was an odd name for a New England gir. I met Shelby's mtoher last week and, guess what, she has a Southern drawl!

BTW - I think that Portia is much classier and beautiful version.

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Registered: 04-17-2006
Mon, 04-24-2006 - 10:01pm

Thank you guys so much you gave me lots of ideas for middle names. I really like the name Porsche but I'm not sure on the spelling yet. I do like the suggestions of Portia. There was actually a girl in my high school with the name Portia and I've seen it a few times on baby name sites. So, yes, we both like it.

I really liked the suggestions of Porsche Mae and Porsche Scarlett.

If you have any more ideas PLEASE let me know! But remember Porsche or Portia is the name. :-P

- Kim

EDD 12/03/2006

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Registered: 04-05-2006
Mon, 04-24-2006 - 11:21pm

South GA born girl here, never lived anywhere but the South.

While double names are somewhat common, what's truly Southern for girls is mother's maiden names/surnames/male names like- Amelia Ryan or Mary Wilson as double names or simply Gainer/Glover/Hagan/Brogan or something like Dylan Kate or Mary Wesley.

Here are some double names of babies and toddlers I know-

Lauren Tate, Sarah Kate (3), Sarah Beth (6), Sara Catherine, Mary Wilson, Mary Walker, Mary Wesley, Mary Stevens, Mary Lane, Mary Catherine, Mary Kate, Anna Grace, Anna Kate (2), Anna Lynn, Anna Clare, Anna Lane, Lola Grace, Lola Catherine, Leah Grace, Laura Lee, Laura Jane, Katie Beth, Jenny Grace, Virginia Lee, Mary Frances, Sally Anna, Mary Anna, Elizabeth Lee, Hannah Lynn, Liza Rae

Other girls' births I know of-

Maggie Grace, Mackenzie Grace, Mackenzie Lynn, Madalynn Kate, Miriam Grace, Emily Grace, Lauren Tate, Leah Marie, Larsen Rae, Georgia Jade, Gracen Kate, Hudson Elizabeth, Shaina Brandice, Dallas Elizabeth, Ava Susanne, Abrianna Rose, Mary Elizabeth, Manna Caroline, Charlotte Susan, Karson Lane, Chloe Angela, Chloe LeAnn

By the way, Portia is beautiful!!!

Enjoy the quest for the right name! Ginger

Ginger

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Registered: 12-08-2004
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 2:39pm

As a Southerner, I'm shocked that out of all the great Southern names out there, the ones you chose to represent our geographical region are Maisie-Lynn and Jamie-Lynn. What about good, solid, beautiful names like Rosalie, Margaret, Eleanor, Ruth, Cordelia, Eliza, Amelia, Caroline, Mae, and so forth? I think you can do better than the cutesy, juvenile names that you've picked out. Many of the names I listed above are a bit old-fashioned, but there are numerous other Southern names that sound both modern and educated. Neither of the names you mentioned strike me as particularly "modern;" rather, I think they're a little 1980s.

That said, we Southerners do love our double names, so you may have stumbled upon a good idea. What about Anna-Kate, Mary-Margaret, Emma-Grace, or Anna-Caroline? I know little Southern girls with all these names, and I think they are much more Southern than the names you mentioned. If you're stuck on the cutesy names, at least use Sadie or Mae. Maisie by itself is fine, but I don't think of it as Southern, and I hate it with Lynn.

I was born and have lived all my life in the South, and never have I heard of a single Maisie-Lynn or Jamie-Lynn (unless you count Britney Spears's younger but equally annoying sister).

Oh, and about your daughter's first name: please do her the service of spelling it Portia, so that it has a Shakespearean connotation rather than looking like you named her after a car.

Congrats, and let us know what you decide! Do you have anything picked out for a boy, or are you just hoping that your family is right?!

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Registered: 12-09-2005
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 4:21pm
I REALLY love the idea of Portia for you. A PP mentioned that its just one sound added to the end, but it makes all the different. Where Porsche seems trashy to me, Portia seems beautiful and classic. I like Portia Scarlett :)

                             
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Registered: 02-03-2006
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 4:35pm

i'm a northenr midwest yankee girl, with half my family as southern rebels, from Missouri, Kentucky, Louisiana, to Texas. all the southerners i know, had same names we did up here (Stephanie, Jennifer, Melissa, Shannon, Michelle, Mike, John, etc). so i guess you'd like the stereo-type names.

however, in the south, some 'old-fashioned' names are not old-fashioned at all, such as...

for boys...

'old-fashioned but common in the south'

Edgar
Edwin
Wendall
Charleston
Winston
Clark
Clyde
Jed

more stero-type, and have heard/known

Haven
Billy Bob
Bobby Jack
Jethro
David Lee
Buck
Bubba

for girls...

'old-fashioned'

Evangeline
Cordelia
Amelia
Schuyler

'stereotype'

Shelby
Savannah
Carolina
Rhonda Sue
Ellie Mae
Chelsea
Emma Lu
Sissy

sorry not much help, but those i've known have had the standard american names... only a few had the 'old fashioned but common' and even fewer the stereotype names.




Edited 4/25/2006 4:38 pm ET by flutterdance
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Registered: 04-18-2005
Tue, 04-25-2006 - 5:00pm

I have also lived in the South all my life. If you want a more stereotypical Southern name, you can't go wrong with one ending in -lene, i.e., Starlene, Ilene, Carlene, Estelene, Ethelyne, etc. A PP also mentioned using the mother's/grandmothers's maiden name or similar as a middle name, which is very Southern and is what at least 2 of my 6 nieces and one sister have! The double name thing wouldn't work really well as a middle name - you have to call them Mary Jane or Ruth Ann to get the right effect.

Anyway, here are the names of some of the Southern ladies I have known:

Mary
Nancy
Sara
Louise
Sadie
Grace
Nena
Lida
Amanda
Nell
Ellen
Carolyn
Ruth
Emma
Helen
Dorothy (nn Dot)
Martha

Hope some of these work or trigger an idea!

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