More questions on Birkienhajmer baby:Thea and more ideas

General Name Discussion
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Thank you everyone for your opinions. We were able to sit down last night and got rid of [name]Roxy[/name], [name]Kyra[/name],[name]Fern[/name] and [name]Asher[/name] for good thanks to your help. Also, much to our chagrin, [name]Wolf[/name] is out too. We don’t have the guts to use it as much as we love it.

I noticed the [name]Thea[/name] (THEE-uh vs [name]TAY[/name]-uh) debate and I wonder if I complicated things unintentionally. We’re not native English speakers and transliteration is not our forte.

THEE-uh is my attempt to immitate the sound of a name where ee sounds like [name]Lee[/name] or [name]Reed[/name]. The pronunciation we’re angling for is much like actress T”a [name]Leoni[/name]'s name. Where e is like the “e” in [name]Elijah[/name].

I picked this name because my grandmother’s name was [name]Dorotea[/name] and wanted to honor her by upgrading her name. [name]Do[/name] you think that it’s too much of a complication? Should we scratch it to avoid confusion? I was also thinking of shortening my mother’s name [name]Teresa[/name] into [name]Tess[/name] or [name]Tessa[/name] and use one of those intead of [name]Thea[/name].

And of course, we could not resist into adding another name for the girl’s list. We got rid of [name]Kyra[/name] but not my husband is thinking of using [name]Lyra[/name]. I think those are too many “i” and “y” sounds in a name.

WDYT?

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[name]Hi[/name]!

  1. I pronounce [name]Thea[/name] as THEE-ah, whereas [name]Tea[/name] (sorry, I cannot do accents) - as in [name]Tea[/name] [name]Leoni[/name] - is [name]TAY[/name]-ah. In the same vein, [name]Dorothea[/name] is DOOR-ah-THEE-ah, whereas [name]Dorotea[/name] is DOOR-oh-[name]TAY[/name]-ah, as I pronounce them. Using [name]Tea[/name], with an accent, would clear up pronunciation issues, I think!

  2. [name]Just[/name] to let you know, I absolutely adore [name]Tess[/name] Birkienhajmer for your little girl! [name]Tess[/name] feels more sturdy and elegant than [name]Tessa[/name] for me, mainly because I perceive [name]Tessa[/name] to be more popular (perhaps not quite trendy) than [name]Tess[/name], which I associate as a classic because of ‘[name]Tess[/name] of the D’Urbervilles.’ [name]Love[/name] the name!

  3. Well, as nice as [name]Lyra[/name] is, you might run into pronunciation issues and [name]Lyra[/name] Birkienhaijmer - the Y and AIJ parts - seems to have a lot of rhyme going on, you know?

Overall, I absolutely adore [name]Tess[/name] Birkienhaijmer! I’d love to be called [name]Tess[/name], personally!

[name]Lemon[/name] :slight_smile: