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HelpRebekah and Levi...
Lately I've been entertaining the idea the names Levi and Rebekah would make a great pairing in a sibset. In my mind they compliment each other very nicely. I'm just hoping one day Rebekah/Rebecca dies down in popularity enough for me to use it. It appears that it's already on it's downfall though. I'm not sure why I like it. I just think it's elegant, yet down-to-earth, and pretty and traditional in an understated way. Maybe it's just a phase, but I don't know, it keeps springing up in my mind. Maybe because I imagine Rebekah as a pretty light-skinned girl with medium brown hair, like me. The popularity may stop me from ever using it, but I like the idea of freshening it up with unusual combos. I find that I love it paired with Aikaterine (I don't pronounce the E on the end), but I feel like I need an L name to soften up all the vowels for some reason.
1 This is what I've come up with (I struggle with 2 mn combos a bit). What do you think of each and which do you prefer?
Rebekah Lucretia Aikaterine
Rebekah Lux Aikaterine
Rebekah Letha Aikaterine
Rebekah Lucinde Aikaterine
Rebekah Luned Aikaterine (like this name best, but is the flow too off?)
2 Also what's you favorite nn for Rebekah?
Becky, Reba, Bex, Becca, or never shorten it (which I've seen before)? Any other nn suggestions?
3 Do you think this name will drastically drop in popularity over the next couple years making it usable and less forgettable?
4 And WDYTO Levi Orion? Any other mn suggestions?
5 Lastly WDYTO Levi and Rebekah as a sibset?
1 This is what I've come up with (I struggle with 2 mn combos a bit). What do you think of each and which do you prefer?
Rebekah Lucretia Aikaterine
Rebekah Lux Aikaterine
Rebekah Letha Aikaterine
Rebekah Lucinde Aikaterine
Rebekah Luned Aikaterine (like this name best, but is the flow too off?)
2 Also what's you favorite nn for Rebekah?
Becky, Reba, Bex, Becca, or never shorten it (which I've seen before)? Any other nn suggestions?
3 Do you think this name will drastically drop in popularity over the next couple years making it usable and less forgettable?
4 And WDYTO Levi Orion? Any other mn suggestions?
5 Lastly WDYTO Levi and Rebekah as a sibset?
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Rebekah Lux Aikaterine is my favorite of your choices, but they all sound more exciting than my own middle name. Mine is Rebecca Ellen. My great-great-great grandfather was a Levi, a name I also also like. I think Orion works nicely with Levi. I might be inclined to choose a Biblical name to pair with it, but I still like Orion.
The popularity of my name has really dropped a lot since I was born, and I think it will probably keep dropping for a few decades. I doubt it will ever go below 200-300, and it will most likely come back up eventually. The spelling Rebekah will probably always make it lower on the popularity scales, but it's still the same name. I've heard people refer to it as the "Biblical spelling," but really it is the translated spelling of the original Hebrew that the text of Genesis was written in, and the Hebrew name is Rivka. the "kah" version is just an older English translation of the Hebrew name, and the "cca" version is more recent (still many hundreds of years old). How you spell it is just a personal preference as a parent. I only felt the urge to have it spelled with the kah ending once when I was about 8 or 9, and I soon figured out that it didn't make me any more unique since it still sounded the same. I went straight back to cca because that is the name my parents gave me, and I was used to it.
Nns... I hate Becky. I have a few friends who call me Becca, and only one person has ever called me Reba. It didn't feel right. Generally, no one calls me by any nicknames, I'm just Rebecca, and I prefer it that way.
The popularity of my name has really dropped a lot since I was born, and I think it will probably keep dropping for a few decades. I doubt it will ever go below 200-300, and it will most likely come back up eventually. The spelling Rebekah will probably always make it lower on the popularity scales, but it's still the same name. I've heard people refer to it as the "Biblical spelling," but really it is the translated spelling of the original Hebrew that the text of Genesis was written in, and the Hebrew name is Rivka. the "kah" version is just an older English translation of the Hebrew name, and the "cca" version is more recent (still many hundreds of years old). How you spell it is just a personal preference as a parent. I only felt the urge to have it spelled with the kah ending once when I was about 8 or 9, and I soon figured out that it didn't make me any more unique since it still sounded the same. I went straight back to cca because that is the name my parents gave me, and I was used to it.
Nns... I hate Becky. I have a few friends who call me Becca, and only one person has ever called me Reba. It didn't feel right. Generally, no one calls me by any nicknames, I'm just Rebecca, and I prefer it that way.
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Rebekah Lucretia Aikaterine - this sounds best, but because of the -cret- part, it doesn't really soften the combo
Rebekah Letha Aikaterine - I like the sound of this as well
I think Bex or Reba are best for Rebekah, Becky is by far the worst, Becca doesn't sound nice to me.
I don't understand why it's so popular in the first place, I would always predict its popularity dropping, but it just never seems to happen.
Levi Orion is awesome! other MN suggestions:
Levi Octavian
Levi Herodion
Levi Alistair
Levi Percival
Levi Donovan
I like Levi, but not Rebekah. I don't think they're bad as a sibset, but they don't fit extremely well together either.
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Thank you. I was just worried about Lucretia, because I thought it might be too much of a mouthfull. I'm sort of leaning towards the nn Reba or none at all. Levi Octavian's pretty cool. It'd be epecially awsome if the kid was born in August or October, or I could just use October...August is lovely too, but probably out because I have a close guy friend with this last name. But yeah, Octavian's cool. Alistair is nice with it too. Thanks.
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