Opinion please-Girl names (Michael mn)?
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Opinion please-Girl names (Michael mn)?
| Fri, 05-02-2008 - 4:37pm |
Hi All, I am pregnant with our 2nd and last (probably) child. Another girl! We are thrilled. Please give me your advice on which name below you like or totally hate.

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I like Addison Michael the best. I've never heard Addison on a boy and if it is a boys name---the girls have totally taken it over. You could always switch up the spelling to make it more girly if you wanted.
HTH!
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Yes, we've already established that Michal (this spelling) IS a Hebrew female name. It is NOT, however, the SAME name as Michael, which is a boys' name. They are pronounced differently.
I think where the pronunciation is getting confused is that Michal (this spelling) is ALSO an eastern European (don't remember which country/countries specifically) male version OF Michael, and I believe it may be pronounced the same, or similarly enough to come off as being identical.
(Please don't be offended by the caps on some words. Certain people on these boards seem to have a problem with actually reading my posts, and get confused about what I'm saying. I thought I should do it for emphasis and clarification).
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First, I LOVE Mia! If our last child had been a girl, we would have named her Mia. As it is, his name is Reece.
That said, I really find Reese and Addison to masculine to be a sister to Mia. I have a male jr. high student named Addison so it is all boy to me.
I like Eden the best with Mia.
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Michal is a female name (Sauls daughter, Davids wife in the OT).
Michal is my kal
Michael should be my kay ul (like Gabriel, Raphael, etc) but the common western european and american pronounciation is the feminine pronounciation of my kal/my kul
According to all I've seen (and some pastors/sem profs I've heard,) Michal is SUPPOSED to be mee-hal (with the Jewish pronunciation...that k sound drops out, like Chava from Fiddler on the Roof is supposed to be hah-vah, and chayyim is pronounced hi-yem and Channukah is hahn-ik-kuh) but it's kinda gotten mushed up with Michael (the Hebrew pronunciation, btw, would be mik-ay-el, rather than the familiar mike-uhl) for some of the other ministers I've heard. So it's not the correct pronunciation where it roots from, but it's what you hear about 60% of the time because of what it LOOKS like it should sound like.
It's not an uncommon thing with Biblical names...I've heard Haggai as both hag-yai or hag-ee-aye, Jael as yale and jay-el, and there are some place names that I swear I've never heard the same way twice. It's not the end of the world, but I find that different ministers just have different pronunciations.
If you really like Reese for a girls name but feel it is too masculine.
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