Names that work in Engish and Spanish

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Registered: 10-31-2007
Names that work in Engish and Spanish
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Wed, 11-07-2007 - 5:48pm

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Registered: 03-01-2005
Wed, 11-07-2007 - 5:59pm

Even though I live in Canada, I am more concerned that my children's names are easy to pronounce in English and Spanish than English and any other language. Why? It's the language they're most likely to run into in N America, and I'd like people to not struggle with their names!
So: I have Max (which EVERYONE in EVERY LANGUAGE can say easily!) and Solomon. For our third, we're leaning heavily toward Clara.
I don't know if that helps!




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Registered: 11-03-2007
Wed, 11-07-2007 - 8:13pm

Ariel


Ariana


Calista


Claudia


Eliana


Gabriela


Isabel


Kira


Lara


Liliana


Luciana


Malia


Maya


Mia


Milena


Natalia


Renata


Sabina


Serena


Stella


Talia


Tess


Boys:


David


Dominic


Eben


Ezra


Enzo


Landon


Marco


Nico


Noah


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Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 5:09am

Some that I like for girls:


Cora
Carmen
Isabel (extremely popular though)
Rosalia
Sofia
Marisa
Maribel
Annabel


For boys:


Sebastien
Mario
Daniel
Emilio
Henry (Enrique)
Ruben
Leo
Gabriel


HTH

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Registered: 07-07-2006
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 4:00pm

We had a similar debate at our house when I was pregnant - I'm 100% English-speaking American, and my husband and his entire family are from Argentina.


We ended up naming our son Sebastian ... after DH's great-uncle in Argentina, but the name also works well in English.


But other names we considered included - which are ALL family names, most from DH's family:
- Thomas
- Mariana
- Anna
- Sara
- Felicia

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Registered: 11-06-2007
Mon, 11-19-2007 - 3:35pm

Wow!!

Anna