I know how you feel!! [name_m]An[/name_m] F1 driver I follow has a black cat, and I’m 99% sure the cat’s original name was [name_f]Isis[/name_f], but I recently saw that the cat is now [name_f]Iris[/name_f] 
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Going through my citations before handing in my thesis and growing increasingly annoyed that apparently everyone under the sun is named [name_m]David[/name_m]. Why does it have to be so common 
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lmao, they’re all either called [name_m]John[/name_m] or [name_m]David[/name_m] in my experience
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[name_f]My[/name_f] cat is named [name_f]Perdita[/name_f] after the Winter’s Tale character and everyone from my dad to the vet says it per-DEE-ta but, speaking with my Shakespearean academic hat on, it’s actually pronounced PER-di-tuh…which is why I liked it as a cat name…PURR-dita 
[name_f][/name_f] we call her [name_f]Perdie[/name_f] most of the time, or just ‘Purr’ but nobody can get [name_f]Perdita[/name_f] right!
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(that and it means ‘lost’ and she was a rescue)
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A small ‘pet peeve’/point of curiosity of mine is siblings not having the same amount of middle names? I’m always very intrigued by it, it seems so asymmetrical to me!
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(yes, this is because Pss. Beatrice’s second daughter has 2 middles whilst her first daughter doesn’t)
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This has annoyed me so much 
[name_f][/name_f] lopsided middles, giving them both [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] (understandable I guess) but only one an extra middle? Don’t love 
[name_f][/name_f] I do however think [name_f]Athena[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] is gorgeous!
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[name_f]My[/name_f] children have a different amount of middle names. [name_f]My[/name_f] oldest four have one middle name, our two youngest have two. There’s no real reason or clear explanation, I’m afraid… Two always just seemed a little much. Until I was pregnant with our daughter, my fifth child. We started out wanting to use one middle, an honor name, but then for some reason her name just didn’t feel complete with only first and middle, so we added a second middle name. Initially I justified it to myself by thinking it was fine because she was the only girl. At that point we weren’t sure if we wanted another child. Then when I was pregnant with our youngest the plan was to use one middle if it was another boy, and two if it was a girl. We had another boy, but used two middles anyway [name_f][/name_f] Again because his name just didn’t feel complete otherwise.
And honestly, it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
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The pain of knowing you would need to have at least six children to use all your very most favorite names…but realistically you are probably going to have one to two 
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I have 6 children and still haven’t used most of my favourite names, so…
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it’s so funny how things like that happen! some babies really take on more names than others 
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Hate that [name_f]Lolita[/name_f] has such strong connections because if you take those away, I’d love to actually use it! I think it’d be one of my favorite names.
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[name_f]Louisa[/name_f] is literally my all time favorite girl name, but it really bothers me when people automatically pronounce it “lu-eez-uh” when there is no z. I’ve always pronounced it “lu-iece-uh” with a short sharp S sound like niece or piece. It’s not Louiza, it’s [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] like [name_m]Isa[/name_m]!
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Huge agreed!! [name_f]Love[/name_f] lou-WEESE-uh (rhyming with lease), not lou-WHEEZE-uh (rhyming with sneeze) !!
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Is that a legitimate pronunciation of [name_f]Louisa[/name_f]? I’ve never encountered it! But I love [name_f]Luisa[/name_f] pronounced that way!
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imho
[name_f][/name_f][name_f]Louisa[/name_f] = lou-eez-uh
[name_f][/name_f][name_f]Luisa[/name_f] = lou-ees-uh
the ease/wheaze part makes [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] seem more cozy and [name_f]Luisa[/name_f] more sleek and professional
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@tallemaja[name_f][/name_f] Yes! The first time I heard the name it was pronounced this way, on a girl I really looked up to who made me love the name! I was surprised to find that not many people pronounce it this way.
[name_f][/name_f]@lateaugust[name_f][/name_f] Unfortunately I am not a fan of the [name_f]Luisa[/name_f] spelling 
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[name_f]My[/name_f] kids so far each have one middle, but if we have another girl we have two middles planned. I want to use my mom’s middle name as a daughter’s middle (we’ve used honor middles for our sons, but no one in the fam has used a name for my mom yet.) But we don’t like the flow and shortness of the first/middle combo, so my husband agreed to add a second, longer middle that we like but he wouldn’t agree to as a first name. (And he’s not normally a fan of two middles. I’d do it more often just to get to use more names I like 
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[name_f][/name_f]It’s asymmetrical, but because two of the names are short it actually matches the length of our other kids’ longer names better with two middles. Makes sense in my mind 
[name_f][/name_f]One of my friends has seven kids, and three of them have one middle while four have two. It just depended on that baby’s name story. Name length and flow plus honors they wanted to use.
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i want so badly to have a daughter named phoebe someday. she feels like mine but i fear i can never escape being a phoebe bridgers fan😭 i adore phoebe and her music, so so deeply. but i don’t think i want everyone to think i names my daughter after her
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just realized I can’t have a son with the middle name [name_m]Apollo[/name_m] and also have an Apolline…
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[name_f]Genuine[/name_f] question, what would be so awful about people thinking you named your daughter after her?
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