I have five names that I am really, really liking as a first name. Of my five, which do you like best/best with the middle name [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]? [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] has a lot of meaning to me and I really do not want to change it to [name_f]Dorothea[/name_f] or any other variation (I also do not feel comfortable using it as a first name)
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]
[name_f]Audrey[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]
[name_f]Nora[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] ([name_f]Nora[/name_f] also honors my great-grandmother, [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] but [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] is too much for me)
[name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]
Thank you all again!
Also, for those who have been on my other posts, my husband should be calling later this evening and hopefully he’ll like one of them!
If you put this as a poll that people can vote on you tend to get more feedback. ([name_m]Just[/name_m] something I have noticed). From all that you have said I really think [name_f]Alice[/name_f] is a good choice for you. Simple, elegant, easy to spell and pronounce in [name_m]French[/name_m] and English and it sounds the best with [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]. Although like I said in a previous post if you are honouring a person with a name the flow shouldn’t be as important as the names themselves.
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] - Although I don’t feel any real flow in the name, [name_f]Alice[/name_f] is such a wonderful name is many, many ways, so it has my complete support. Plus I like how [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] spices a royal name with vintage.
[name_f]Nora[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] - I am going to come right out and say I really don’t like the name [name_f]Nora[/name_f], but I still give it second place because I think the two names balance each other out in a lovely way.
[name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] - I love how this combination has such a warming vintage sound to it (at least is does for me).
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] - The only reason I gave this combination fourth place is because I don’t like the repeated ie sound at the end. Maybe you could consider [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f].
[name_f]Audrey[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] - Like I mentioned before with [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] I don’t like the repeated ie sound at the end. That’s all.
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] is the [name_m]French[/name_m] variant of [name_f]Sophia[/name_f]; since [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] is not [name_m]French[/name_m], I can’t use it.
I agree about the issues of [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]/[name_f]Audrey[/name_f]'s “ee” ending. [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] can easily be said in [name_m]French[/name_m]. I’m fluent and it’s really not hard to add the a. Is [name_f]Nora[/name_f] [name_m]French[/name_m]? [name_f]Iris[/name_f] isn’t [name_m]French[/name_m] I don’t think.
[name_f]Nora[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] sounds clunky to me, I’ve never loved [name_f]Iris[/name_f], so that leaves me with [name_f]Alice[/name_f].
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] is nice with the old age charm.
It doesn’t have to be only easy to say in [name_m]French[/name_m]; there is a whole long, long story behind all of it (which is what my first post was about). As for [name_f]Iris[/name_f] and [name_f]Nora[/name_f], I am not sure if they are actually [name_m]French[/name_m] or not, they were given to me as suggestions and I haven’t done much research on them
I like [name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] the best. [name_m]Both[/name_m] of them have a unique, whimsical, feminine feel, and [name_f]Iris[/name_f]’ modernness balances out the vintage quirkiness of [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f].
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] and [name_f]Audrey[/name_f], while nice names (I even suggested [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]), don’t fit with [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] because of the repeated “ee” sound. I know you said you were unwilling to change the form of the names (i.e., [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] to [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] or [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] to [name_f]Dorothea[/name_f]), but I think a second middle name could solve this problem. [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_u]Eden[/name_u] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] is lovely, for example, or [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f].
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] is nice as well, but together the flow is a bit off. I adore the name [name_f]Alice[/name_f], though. [name_f]Nora[/name_f] flows extremely well with [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f], but I dislike the name. I also don’t find it particularly francophone.
As for the name [name_f]Iris[/name_f], as a [name_m]French[/name_m] speaker, I can attest that iris is the same word for the flower in [name_m]French[/name_m], however it’s pronounced “EE-rees”.
[name_f]My[/name_f] husband says he likes [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] (but doesn’t want two middle names) and [name_f]Alice[/name_f]! He likes [name_f]Iris[/name_f] but is worried that the pronunciations would cause problems, which I do agree with!
I don’t think [name_f]Iris[/name_f] will cause pronunciation problems at all, unless you’re surrounded by people who solely speak [name_m]French[/name_m], in which case you might get the [name_m]French[/name_m] pronunciation. As for the US, most of [name_f]Canada[/name_f], and the UK, I’ve heard it all pronounced the same way. It’s a fairly common flower, and won’t have the issues as, say, [name_f]Amaryllis[/name_f] or [name_f]Chrysanthemum[/name_f] will.
I prefer [name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] I think… [name_m]Don[/name_m]'t like the double “-ie/y” endings for first and middles and [name_f]Nora[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] has repeating “or” sounds that I don’t care for
After following your first post, my favorite for you is [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]. It’s cute, charming, feminine without being frilly, and, most important, it is thoroughly [name_m]French[/name_m].
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f], while having a repeating sound, is fine. Honoring someone you love is far more important than ~flow~. Realistically, how often do you really say the first and middle names together? Not often.
