Should a baby's name "fit" with your own
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Should a baby's name "fit" with your own
| Tue, 01-24-2006 - 5:17pm |
How important is it that your child's name "fit" with you and your partner's? For example, my husband and I have traditional names - straight out of the Bible. However, I am in love with the name Lorelei Giselle. It is definitely much more unique than our own names, however, that is one of the reasons I adore it. Should I be concerned with the fact that it doesn't "go" with our own names? Using that logic, though, won't each generation be forced to stay within these same parameters, ultimately leading to conservative/traditional names on down the line?
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated on this subject...

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no, your children's names don't need to "fit" with yours
a lot of people try to make their children's names be the same style, and I guess I sort of agree with that to a point, although there is certainly nothing wrong with children in a family's names being of different styles if you just happen to like the certain names at the time
but staying with the style of the parents is unecessary - it's a different era
and yes, using that logic - there'd have never been different styles - the whole country would be stuck on names that were used in the old days
it's interesting to see all the different styles that are used today - and who uses them and how they tend to be used within families
go with what you like (I really like Gisele)
good luck
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