Honoring loved ones

Girl Names
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I’m TTC (could be pg right now… Have to wait a couple days to know!)

I’m having a hard time with girls names. I have 4 people I want to honor but I’m not sure what to do. [name]Do[/name] I save some names in case of future babies? [name]Do[/name] I try to smoosh all the names into one? I’m not sure about double middle names, is it pretentious or cute? Is it better to use a fn I love or one that honors someone?

Name suggestions? People I want to honor…

[name]Julie[/name] [name]Ann[/name] ([name]MIL[/name]) thought about using [name]Juliet[/name] or [name]Julia[/name] or [name]Julianne[/name]
[name]Lisa[/name] [name]Karen[/name] (my mom and me) thought about using [name]Elise[/name] or [name]Elisabeth[/name]
[name]Anne[/name] (best friend who died last year)
[name]Ruth[/name] (grandmother, will be passing on a ruby ring to my first daughter)

Names we love…
[name]Rosemary[/name] ([name]Rosie[/name])
[name]Eve[/name]
[name]Alice[/name]
[name]Nora[/name]

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I really love [name]Eve[/name] and [name]Alice[/name] from your list! They’re both very sweet and timeless. Maybe you could do [name]Alice[/name] [name]Juliana[/name] [name]Rue[/name]/[name]Eve[/name] [name]Juliana[/name] [name]Kate[/name], something like that? [name]Juliana[/name] for [name]Julie[/name] [name]Ann[/name] and [name]Anne[/name], [name]Rue[/name] for [name]Ruth[/name], [name]Kate[/name] for [name]Karen[/name]? Or even [name]Alice[/name] [name]Juliana[/name] [name]Ruth[/name]/[name]Alice[/name] [name]Juliana[/name] [name]Ruby[/name].

I’m a big fan of two MNs, personally, and I plan to give all my children two MNs, but it’s really up to the person. It doesn’t sound like it’s too much of a hassle, and I would do it for very sentimental reasons. If you wanted to honor them all in one, you could do something like [name]Juliana[/name] [name]Ruby[/name] [name]Kate[/name] and honor all three in one fell swoop, but if you plan on having more children, I would save at least one (maybe even two) for the second baby. I really love the idea of [name]Eve[/name] [name]Juliana[/name] or [name]Alice[/name] [name]Juliana[/name] if you only want to do one MN (or even [name]Juliana[/name] [name]Ruby[/name]/[name]Juliana[/name] [name]Rue[/name]/[name]Juliana[/name] [name]Ruth[/name]/[name]Juliana[/name] [name]Kate[/name], if you really want to go down the honoring route).

Good luck!

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I think it would be nice to save some names in case you have more girls down the road. That all of your girls will have that family tie in their names. I’m pretty neutral on double middle names. I don’t do them, but sometimes they sound good and other times they don’t. So, I think that’s just a matter of what will sound the best to you and your husband. We use names of loved ones as middle names for our kids, and then we pick names we love for the first names. You have a really nice list of names that you love, so I would suggest using a name you love as a first name and then choosing one or two names to honor your family members for middle names.

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I think you should save some names for future babies. [name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Anne[/name] would be lovely.

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I’m not a fan of honoring so I would say go with one you love, I’m also not a fan of double middles since it seems pointless… but that’s my opinion. I would save names for future children if you plan on having more.

You could use [name]Ruby[/name] for [name]Ruth[/name], might be cute since she’s giving your daughter a ruby ring and then get two people:
[name]Ruby[/name] [name]Anne[/name], [name]Ruby[/name] [name]Juliet[/name], [name]Ruby[/name] [name]Elise[/name], [name]Ruby[/name] [name]Elisabeth[/name], [name]Alice[/name] [name]Ruby[/name], [name]Nora[/name] [name]Ruby[/name]…

If you use [name]Anne[/name]/[name]Ann[/name]/[name]Anna[/name], it seems like you can get two people that way too since that would be your [name]MIL[/name] and BF:
[name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Anne[/name], [name]Nora[/name] [name]Anne[/name], [name]Anna[/name] [name]Eve[/name], [name]Anna[/name] [name]Rose[/name]…

You can combine [name]Ruth[/name] and [name]Anne[/name] to get [name]Ruthanne[/name]:
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Ruthanne[/name], [name]Alice[/name] [name]Ruthanne[/name], [name]Nora[/name] [name]Ruthanne[/name]…

You can combine [name]Ruth[/name] and [name]Julie[/name] to get [name]Ruthie[/name]:
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Ruthie[/name], [name]Nora[/name] [name]Ruthie[/name], [name]Alice[/name] [name]Ruthie[/name]…

Also, [name]Julianne[/name] combines your [name]MIL[/name] and you BF, so you could use that too:
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Julianne[/name], [name]Nora[/name] [name]Julianne[/name], [name]Alice[/name] [name]Julianne[/name], [name]Rose[/name] [name]Julianne[/name]

Some other combos for what you have:
[name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Juliet[/name]
[name]Nora[/name] [name]Ruth[/name]
[name]Alice[/name] [name]Elisabeth[/name]
[name]Alice[/name] [name]Juliet[/name]
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Elisabeth[/name]

[name]Hope[/name] that helps!

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My suggestion is to pick two special people to honor, and not worry about smooshing them all into one name, it might prevent you from picking the name you like best!
(not the biggest fan of the multiple middles, but if they’re simple and meaningful i think it’s nice)

[name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Ruby[/name]
[name]Alice[/name] [name]Anne[/name]
[name]Anna[/name] [name]Ruby[/name]
[name]Nora[/name] [name]Julianne[/name]
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Lisette[/name]
[name]Rosalie[/name] [name]Anne[/name]
[name]Nora[/name] [name]Ruby[/name] [name]Anne[/name]

[name]Hope[/name] this helps a little!

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[name]Love[/name] both [name]Nora[/name] [name]Elisabeth[/name] and [name]Alice[/name] [name]Juliet[/name]. What about [name]Annalise[/name]? It combines both [name]Lisa[/name] and [name]Ann[/name]. [name]Annalise[/name] [name]Ruth[/name] is very lovely.

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I agree with saving some names for future children, but [name]Julianne[/name] honors [name]Julie[/name] [name]Ann[/name] and [name]Anne[/name]. [name]Annelise[/name] honors [name]Anne[/name] and [name]Lisa[/name] [name]Karen[/name]. I don’t know of any way to combine in [name]Ruth[/name], but you could use [name]Ruby[/name] as a first name, if you like that. Of your favorite names, my favorite is [name]Rosemary[/name] but [name]Alice[/name] is also very sweet.

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I’m doing the me thing right now…

Since you like [name]Alice[/name], and you want to honor [name]Lisa[/name], then you could use [name]Alicia[/name]/[name]Alisia[/name].

[name]Just[/name] a suggestion.

~[name]Jasmine[/name]

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Thanks for all the suggestions! I think we’ve decided on just one middle name and saving some names for the future. I’m still not sure who to name the baby after. I’m leaning towards [name]Ruth[/name] because of our tradition of passing down her ring. I would love to include [name]Annie[/name]'s name but since her fn is the same as my mil I’m worried about my mom being hurt if the baby is named after [name]Julie[/name] and not her. DH is also an only child where I have lots of brothers and sisters to pass on family names.

[name]Love[/name] the suggestion of [name]Anneliese[/name]… We were thinking of that! [name]Love[/name] the suggestion of [name]Ruby[/name] but it’s my sister’s cat’s name.

Wdyto…

[name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Ruth[/name]
[name]Roseanna[/name] [name]Elise[/name]
[name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Julianne[/name]
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Anneliese[/name]
[name]Eve[/name] [name]Julianne[/name]
[name]Alice[/name] [name]Anneliese[/name]
[name]Alice[/name] [name]Ruthanne[/name]
[name]Elisabeth[/name] [name]Julianne[/name] (nn [name]Betsy[/name]… Too similar to [name]Lisa[/name]?)
[name]Marianne[/name] [name]Elise[/name]

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[name]Eve[/name], [name]Alice[/name], [name]Elisabeth[/name], [name]Juliet[/name], and [name]Julianne[/name] are all absolutely beautiful names. [name]Rosemary[/name] is darling, too. You can’t go wrong with any od them.

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Out of your new list, I like [name]Alice[/name] [name]Ruthanne[/name], [name]Alice[/name] [name]Anneliese[/name] (two of my favorite names!), and [name]Eve[/name] [name]Anneliese[/name] (again, a combo of two of my favorite names). I’d also suggest [name]Elisa[/name] as another option.

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[name]Ruby[/name] [name]Elise[/name] is beautiful
Or
[name]Ruth[/name] [name]Elise[/name]
[name]Juliet[/name] [name]Ruthann/name
[name]Ruby[/name] / [name]Ruth[/name] [name]Julisa[/name] ( combine names)
Juelise [name]Ruth[/name]