Name Help- A Tribute to Belladonna?

Girl Names
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Hello! :slight_smile: My friend is having a baby girl and she plans to name her [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f]. However she wants to honor her now deceased friend named Belladonna by giving [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] a middle name similar to Belladonna. She’d rather not use Belladonna itself due to the association with an adult entertainment star, though. I tried but all I could think of doing was just using [name_f]Bella[/name_f] or [name_f]Donna[/name_f] as a middle, but she doesn’t want to because [name_f]Bella[/name_f]'s too popular and her husband doesn’t like the sound of [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Donna[/name_f]. I can’t think of anything else. :frowning: Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you very much!
(also, very sorry if I posted this in the wrong place. I haven’t really posted on Nameberry aside from in the baby name games forum. Sorry if my English is bad too, I recently moved to [name_f]Canada[/name_f] from Germany and English isn’t my first language.)

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What about

[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Ella[/name_f]/ [name_f]Ellie[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Dawn[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]LaDawn[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_u]Bell[/name_u]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Della[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Oona[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] Denna
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Adele[/name_f]

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Since Belladonna means “beautiful woman,” maybe another name that means beautiful? There’s a good list here: Names That Mean Beautiful | Nameberry

Also, the poisonous plant connotation of Belladonna isn’t especially great, but maybe another floral or plant name? The only risk there is that any plant name paired with [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] is going to sound like a type of tea.

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Like the previous poster said, you could use something meaning beautiful.

I like:

[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Allene[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Belle[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Caroline[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Linette[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Rosalinde[/name_f]
[name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_u]Tegan[/name_u]

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Thank you for the help! She says she’s strongly considering either [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Belle[/name_f], [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] [name_f]Dawn[/name_f], or (as suggested by her husband) [name_f]Nirvana[/name_f] Bellarosa. She’s still looking for ideas, though. :slight_smile: