Opinion please-Girl names (Michael mn)?

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Opinion please-Girl names (Michael mn)?
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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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Mon, 05-05-2008 - 5:05pm

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.


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Mon, 05-05-2008 - 10:05pm

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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Tue, 05-06-2008 - 4:57am
After posting I saw that others had made reference to the Michal of the Bible. I went to Bible College and I'm pretty sure that my professors pronounced it Michael ... I'm not talking about others who would confuse it with a European name.

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Registered: 03-22-2007
Tue, 05-06-2008 - 8:36am
If you use Michael as a middle name, you might consider the spelling - Michal.
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Tue, 05-06-2008 - 8:48am

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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Tue, 05-06-2008 - 9:53am
I love all the names on your list, and I think they all work with Mia (also very beautiful name).

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Tue, 05-06-2008 - 11:20am

Michal is a female name (Sauls daughter, Davids wife in the OT).

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Tue, 05-06-2008 - 11:23am

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


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Tue, 05-06-2008 - 6:23pm

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.


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Wed, 05-07-2008 - 1:01pm

If you really like Reese for a girls name but feel it is too masculine.

           

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