Quick ?-- Your opinion, please

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Sat, 04-28-2007 - 12:51am

Ok, so DH and I have finally agreed on names for our baby due in October:


For a boy: Michael Alexander... we will call him Alex


For a girl: Sera Magdalen... she will be

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Sat, 04-28-2007 - 1:53am

My dh's name is Louis Scott R. and he goes by Scott. I never understood why if they were going to call him by Scott why they didn't use it as his first name, but that is just me. We do run into "issues" with it. Sometimes doctors call in medications for Louis and we forget and try to pick them up from the pharmacy using Scott. Or people will reverse the names on important papers and we'll have to have the paperwork redone. Most of these things are minor. But I do think that using a nickname from a middle name would be a little more confusing. And I am curious as to why the middle names aren't the first names if you like them enough to use a nickname from them.


I think the main thing that your names could result in would be confusion, but they are nice names anyways :) I especially like Sera Magdelen, and prefer Sera over Maggie.


Good luck and I hope this is the kind of info you were looking for :)


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Sat, 04-28-2007 - 11:07am

For a boy: Michael Alexander... we will call him Alex


For a girl: Sera Magdalen... she will be


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Sat, 04-28-2007 - 11:18am

I have gone by my middle name all my life and it is a hassle. I hate having all legal forms filled out with one name - and casual forms with another. If I go to a doctor, the library or anywhere else where ID is required, I have to explain over and over which is my first name and which is the name I go by.

Oh, and airline travel - with the stricter security - has become a hassle too. I have to make sure my tickets are booked in my first name to match my drivers license. Someone at work once made the mistake of booking my tickets with my middle name and I almost didn't get on the plane because my ID didn't match my ticket.

As a kid, I always dreaded the first day of school, because I'd hear my first name called out and I'd have to stand up and correct the teacher. Lots of kids snickered, and I hated having that attention drawn to me.

Personally, I would switch the names. They still sound great and it will make it so much easier for your child.

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Sat, 04-28-2007 - 11:24am

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Ooh! I nearly forgot about that. My in-laws just came out for a visit (by train, not plane), and we encountered that exact problem. My dh was ordering the tickets for them and had to go back and change them from the name my FIL goes by (his mn) to his fn, since that's what is listed on his license. :)


Not a huge problem, perhaps, but you do have to adjust to "this is the name/nn I use informally, but this is the given fn I use for any and all paperwork, official documents, travel, etc."


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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 6:40pm

Unless you have an

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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 6:48pm

I love the names you have picked out. I think both the boys name and girls name sound very classical. I just wonder why, if you would call them by the middle name, that you wouldn't just use that name as the first name anyway? Will it cause confusion.....I think so. In school it would be confusing at first. In my experience, although my name is Theresa, my family called me Terrie. So in k-3rd grades, all my teachers easily called me Terrie. But once I got to 4th grade, the teacher said that no more nicknames, and since then, I was called Theresa. I didn't like it at all at first, but then it grew on me. (You can still tell those who have known me the longest because most of them still call me Terrie!)

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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 10:37pm

Thank you all so much for your replies. I really appreciate your honesty. Let me explain the reasons behind the name choices (some of you have asked).


First of all, I have a DS, Gabriel James (we call him Gabe or Gabriel). He was named after the angel Gabriel which is a pretty unique story itself: Before DH & I even knew I was pregnant,

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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 11:03pm

Just had to briefly comment ... now that you've mentioned the angel connection with all the names you've chosen, I like Serafina/Seraphina in full even more for you!!!


The Serafina in my dd's class goes by Seri, rather than Sera, in school (because there's another Sarah), so that would be one option to get the angel meaning AND honor Sara without also calling your dd "Sara" (Sera). You could also use Fina or even Sadie or Sally (from Sarah) as nns even furthur removed. Or you could use Serafina as a mn.


I really do love that option for you. ;)


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