Please help my name my new baby girl!!

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Please help my name my new baby girl!!
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Mon, 08-13-2007 - 7:55am

Hi everyone! I'm a long time PP member, and I'm 22 weeks pregnant with my third (and last) child!! I'm having such a hard time naming this one - not because I can't come up with a good name, but because my dh just doesn't like the one name I LOVE for our new little girl!!! I have completely fallen in love with the name Rayna Madison for her, but for some reason, my dh just doesn't like Rayna!!! I'm so bummed because I love it, and it just seems to fit her! It feels right, kwim?? But he just won't come around! So I've been really down about it, because every other name he suggests, I just don't like, and he thinks I'm just being difficult!!! Ugh!!

Anyway - I just came up with a name I hadn't seen before (we like unusual names that you don't see coming and going), and I wanted to see what you guys thought about it. What do you think of the name Rilyn for a girl??? I love the Y in a girls' name - my dd's name is Taryn, and I just love that. So I thought Rilyn (as opposed to Rylan which seemed a bit more masculine) looked pretty for a girl's name. (fyi - my son's name is Ethan - so I thought Ethan, Taryn and Rilyn sounded nice together) I was thinking of Rylie, but it seems so overused these days - I see them all over. (When we named my son Ethan back in 1998, it wasn't all that popular - now it's one of the hottest baby names around!! There aren't alot of 9 year olds with the name where I live in NY, but there are a TON of new babies with that name! LOL)

Anyway - what do you think of Rilyn? I was thinking maybe Rilyn Marisa, or Rilyn Malorie or Rilyn Mikayla (I'm Jewish, and I like to use the initials of relatives who have passed away to name children after. The R is for my Great Grandmother Ray, and the M is for my dh's Grandmother Mitzi)

Thanks for the input - I'm really going nuts with this!!!

-Barri (Mommy to 9 yr old Ethan Spencer, 5 yr old Taryn Samantha & Rilyn Marisa? due 12/16)

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Registered: 12-01-2003
Fri, 09-14-2007 - 8:42am

Thanks everyone!!!

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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 09-14-2007 - 1:40pm
I like Rayna much better than Rilyn - keep working on the hubby
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Registered: 12-01-2003
Fri, 09-14-2007 - 10:20pm

I did it!!

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