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HelpRe: Name advice - baby girl
in reply to a message by geocorps
I think Natasha is a great name and I knew a girl from India with that name and it didn’t seem odd. Not sure where you are, but I believe Ashley as a girl name is ranked 154th in the USA as of 2020, and unranked in England and Wales since 2019.
Some other suggestions:
Sasha
Aster
Anastasia
Asha
Tasha
Ashni
Some of these are definitely more of a stretch than other, but I hope it still helped. :)
Some other suggestions:
Sasha
Aster
Anastasia
Asha
Tasha
Ashni
Some of these are definitely more of a stretch than other, but I hope it still helped. :)
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Thanks! I should've specified that we are in the USA, so that does affect some things. Yeah, I guess Ashley isn't as high as it used to be, but there are also a lot of alternate spellings that make it feel more common (Ashlee, Ashleigh, etc). Or maybe we just know a lot of Ashleys haha
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Is there a reason you want a variant and not just Asha? Is that grandmother still alive and lives nearby and you don't want to cause confusion about whether you're talking about the grandma or the baby, or do you want a longer name? Or does it have a connotations I don't know about? (I just think Asha is perfect already, but it's not popular where I live so maybe it's actually dated and I just don't know :P)
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Yes, we actually have a lot of reasons, probably too many haha. My primary concern is pronunciation. The name is supposed to be pronounced AH-shah, and I fully expect a bunch of people saying ASH-ah (like the tree), which would annoy me to no end. It's a slight concern of my husband's as well. He mostly doesn't want to do a direct naming because she's still alive, and he feels weird about it, which is fair.
We also both want longer names so there's more options for nicknames.(We both have short names and no nicknames :/ )
We also both want longer names so there's more options for nicknames.(We both have short names and no nicknames :/ )
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You probably know a lot of adult Ashleys - which makes parents less likely to want to use it on a child, it seems overly familiar.
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Yes, that's true actually haha. They're mostly from work or school. Guess it was really popular in the 80s/90s. I think my husband just plain doesn't like the name, so it's not really a strong contender anyway.
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