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HelpThoughts on a nickname for my still-regretful name choice....
For those of you following my story-or anyone new...
Well I've tried to rewarm to the name my husband and I agreed on almost 2 months ago for my baby (Rosalie)-but I just don't like it much anymore- my feelings seem to range between "kind of pretty but not what I wanted/nms" to "yuck". It now either sounds cutesie or dowdy/boring, just another Rose name, and I just don't see it as a sophisticated name as it ends in EE. I've never liked Rose or Rosa or Rosie-Rosalie somehow seemed different to me, but well, I am finding it's not different enough. My 6 y.o. son runs it together and it sounds like Rosie, and I am still plagued by people calling her Rosa-LEE, yuck (IMO). I am sorry I ever offered it up as a possibility. I've asked my husband (begged, really) to reconsider Thalia, also not my first choice but the only other name on which we had semi-agreed that met some of my criteria (unusual, kind of pretty, not too long, ends in A) and now he feels it is too much of a mouthful and doesn't like it. I've also tried to sell a myriad of names ending in A, (30-40 names) and he's still saying absolutely no change of her name, she is who she is,and is unwilling to discuss it AT ALL w/o anger-since in his mind we had an agreement-only giving me the option of a nickname (which I've never done before) or calling her by her middle name of Violet, which I like but seems a little too trendy ATM and I also feel like the t at the end lends to such a hard stop.
Since I like for names to end in a, I came up with the nickname Zalia yesterday(it would be pronounced Zail'-ya, like Azalea) would that work? (It is a derivative of Rosalia in a way, which is a name I don't care for as much as Rosalie-strangely). The stress is on a different syllable from Rosalie so it seems like a bit of a stretch-but it combined what I liked about Thalia with what I have to work with...I could entertain Zalia like ZALL-ya or even ZalEEah (I like ZAILya best though, esp with Violet). Again we won't be changing anything about her name legally per his insistence.
Would love thoughts on this - if seems credible/doable or just silly, etc. Right now I am just calling her the baby, or littlest, everyone else is still calling her Rosalie. TIA!
Well I've tried to rewarm to the name my husband and I agreed on almost 2 months ago for my baby (Rosalie)-but I just don't like it much anymore- my feelings seem to range between "kind of pretty but not what I wanted/nms" to "yuck". It now either sounds cutesie or dowdy/boring, just another Rose name, and I just don't see it as a sophisticated name as it ends in EE. I've never liked Rose or Rosa or Rosie-Rosalie somehow seemed different to me, but well, I am finding it's not different enough. My 6 y.o. son runs it together and it sounds like Rosie, and I am still plagued by people calling her Rosa-LEE, yuck (IMO). I am sorry I ever offered it up as a possibility. I've asked my husband (begged, really) to reconsider Thalia, also not my first choice but the only other name on which we had semi-agreed that met some of my criteria (unusual, kind of pretty, not too long, ends in A) and now he feels it is too much of a mouthful and doesn't like it. I've also tried to sell a myriad of names ending in A, (30-40 names) and he's still saying absolutely no change of her name, she is who she is,and is unwilling to discuss it AT ALL w/o anger-since in his mind we had an agreement-only giving me the option of a nickname (which I've never done before) or calling her by her middle name of Violet, which I like but seems a little too trendy ATM and I also feel like the t at the end lends to such a hard stop.
Since I like for names to end in a, I came up with the nickname Zalia yesterday(it would be pronounced Zail'-ya, like Azalea) would that work? (It is a derivative of Rosalia in a way, which is a name I don't care for as much as Rosalie-strangely). The stress is on a different syllable from Rosalie so it seems like a bit of a stretch-but it combined what I liked about Thalia with what I have to work with...I could entertain Zalia like ZALL-ya or even ZalEEah (I like ZAILya best though, esp with Violet). Again we won't be changing anything about her name legally per his insistence.
Would love thoughts on this - if seems credible/doable or just silly, etc. Right now I am just calling her the baby, or littlest, everyone else is still calling her Rosalie. TIA!
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