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I like Eliza a lot, and think it's okay (but not ideal) as a full name.

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Peter on a girl is just WRONG. Wrong wrong wrong.

I adore Eliza

I love Eliza and think it works great on its own. Eliza is fabulously retro.
Peter Rose makes me think of Peter Rabbit. I wonder why the family just didn't name her Petra.

Eliza is nice, but I much prefer Elizabeth, nn Eliza. There are several reasons this could be.
1. I just like Elizabeth so much better. Eliza sounds harsher and coarser to me.
2. Eliza seems incomplete on its own.
3. I have an obsession with "complete" names. :) It could be the "trendy American intellectual compulsion" that Akis was talking about yesterday, or maybe mirfak's comment of "middle class American social insecurity," but either way, I like the the full name for the birth certificate. Example: I like Kate, but would never, ever, name a child that. It would have to be Katherine, nn Kate. The same with Rae. I love it as a mn (Gabriella Rae), but could never bring myself to use Rae without the Rachel. Not sure why, the concept of naming a kid a nn just scares me. :(

my youngest daughter is named Elizabeth although she's not old enought to pick her own nn I call her Eliza. I was considering using it on its own but I decided against it because she has the right to pick her own nn. that's what my parents did with me. anyway it is a lovily name

I love Eliza, and think that it could definately stand on its own. I prefer it over Elizabeth, actually. It is one of those names I find to be elegant and bold all at the same time.

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Peter on a girl is awful. Rose, though, is lovely. At least she has a nice, feminine mn to fall back on.

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Eliza is so pretty. I would totally name my daughter that.

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Peter Rose....whoh dude. At least she can go by Rose, which is pretty.

Pete Rose?

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That gambling fool, that's the first thing I think of when I see Peter Rose.

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Eliza can definitely stand on its own imo. I don't care for the name although I'm not sure why. I would expect myself to like it, but I don't. It's wonderful for someone else though.

Eliza is delightful. It's one of the few nns that I think can stand alone. It has a youthful, but not immature, energy to it. Very nostalgic and pretty.

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Peter on a girl? Wow, that's awful. I've heard of nuns named Sister Peter, but I can't get used to a girl named Peter. And the mn Rose doesn't help in the least.

This message was edited 5/2/2007, 1:30 PM