Rory for a girl...

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Rory for a girl...
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Thu, 07-26-2007 - 11:52am

Hello again!


My DH is at the point where he won't even discuss baby names anymore (not necessarily a bad thing, since we end up arguing most of the time we do). I don't know what I'd do without this board!


Our first daughter is Cassidy Drew. We're having another girl, and our "list" (if you can call it that) includes two names: Jillian Kate - which I adore and DH used to love, but he's getting colder about it all the time, and Victoria Kate, called Rory most of the time - this name is a compromise (DH LOVES Rory and wanted to just use that, I insisted on a full name - neither of us liked Aurora and I couldn't sway DH on Georgia), but I'm not 100% in love with it.


My question is this: what is your first association when you hear the name Rory? Do you think girl? boy? unisex? And does Gilmore Girls come to mind right away? I really want to avoid a "pop culture" type name. I'm just trying to feel out the name and the kind of personality it has, KWIM?


Thank you!


ETA: Sorry, I should have posted this in the Girls section!


Also ETA: Does Victoria fit with Cassidy in style at all? It seems like a stretch to me...




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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:50am

"You make a good point about the show being done. I hadn't really considered that, but I guess Gilmore Girls would be completely before this baby's time. So the association would (hopefully) fade quickly. Definately something to consider..."

I was going to point that out too...

I watched Gilmore Girls very few times in my life - and it is not the first thing I think of when I hear the name. Your daughter and her friends will probably never see the show. My parents named me Jaime in 1980 and many of their friends thought "Bionic Woman" for the first time they heard it - but NONE of my friends ever had that association. Also even if your friends think Gilmore Girls first - once they know your Rory they will just think of her - does that make sense?(I am trying to work that rationale on dh because a name I love is one that would remind his friends of a rather permiscuous girl we went to college with:)

Anyway - I also personally think Rory and Cassidy fit better than Jillian does.

HTH - good luck!
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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 11:54am
I think of Rory as unisex, b/c I know both a male and female Rory. One (the female) was from middle school and the other I met recently (a 20-something male). So to me, it can be either. I guess b/c of the "roar" sound at the beginning, I'd find it masculine in sound, but then the "ee" sound at the end sounds a little more feminine or "cutesy", SO.... I love the name as a nn, but not too much as a given fn. I also agree with you, that Cassidy and Victoria do not really match in style, but if you like the name, use it! The names of your children don't have to "match" unless that's something that you are looking for! For me, I would want my children's names to "match" in some way, especially if one was going to sound like "the pretty one" and one was going to sound like "the cute one"- I'd rather both names be cute OR pretty, kwim? Then again, everyone has a different opinion of how a name sounds anyway, so I guess no hold barred! lol... good luck! :-)
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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:06pm

Thanks for the compliments on our names! I'm starting to warm up to Rory more (thanks largely to this thread) - of course DH is thrilled.


I think Delaney is an adorable mn with Cassidy, btw.


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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:08pm
Thanks for all the reassurance - I never thought about other shows and how they haven't affected names (for the most part - I'm sure there are exceptions).

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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:14pm

Thanks for the feedback

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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:17pm

Thanks for the response - it totally makes sense! And I've personally never met/heard of another female Rory (except for Gilmore Girls), so I like the idea that pretty quickly, everyone would just think of our little girl when they heard the name. I do love that's it's not popular, and I think if it was going to get really popular, it would have while Gilmore Girls was still going strong, right?


Good luck with your DH! I can't tell you how many names we had to rule out because DH had known someone with that name that he didn't like, but hopefully your DH is more flexible than mine!


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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:26pm

I'm with you on using Rory as a nn - DH really wanted to use it as a full name, but I figure we can't go wrong with giving her a more formal name, even if it doesn't get used a lot.


I'm still trying to work on Georgia as the full name, because I think it fits better with Cassidy, style wise. But DH thinks it's too much of a stretch to get Rory from it, and he thinks it's too similar to

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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 11:01pm
Hi, I have never seen Gilmore Girls...So I don't know about that. But I really wouldn't worry about a TV Show that has name you like. In 5 or 10 years is anyone going to remember that a girl named Rory was on that show? Anyways, I LOVE the name. I worked with a woman who name her daughter Rory a few years ago and that was the one and only time I really heard the name (other than Rory Kennedy). I love it as a "stand alone" name.
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Sat, 07-28-2007 - 12:01pm

Thanks for the feedback - DH will be "tickled pink" that he picked a name that's getting good reviews! As for using Rory as a stand alone name, I don't mind it, but I don't love it, either. Mind you, neither do I love Victoria. I've started to push Georgia harder with him, in the hopes that we can come to a happy middle of the road compromise.


If he refuses to budge on Georgia (I did a bit of prodding, and discovered he had a teacher named Mrs. George in high school that he didn't like, and that's what the name reminds him of), I might consider just Rory. If we named her Georgia, we would use her full name all the time, but I doubt we would if we went with Victoria. But don't tell DH I'm thinking this way, or he will flat out nix Georgia, just to get Rory by itself!


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Sat, 07-28-2007 - 7:19pm
i think jillian sounds better with cassidy