So first off, i’m sorry about the long post… Okay so let me now state that both my DH and myself are hispanic, my husband likes more spanish names and I like both spanish and american and don’t mind mixing and matching… My list of names is longer than my husbands. My DH only likes 2 girl names and [name]ONE[/name] boy name.
His #1 choice for girl is [name]Lilyana[/name], which I like a lot too but I can’t get him to like any other name for a middle name. I’ve thought about [name]Lilyana[/name] [name]Isabel[/name], [name]Lilyana[/name] [name]Belle[/name] (nicknamed [name]Lily[/name] [name]Belle[/name]), and a few others he was just adamant about not liking. He doesn’t like any of these names and other names that I like or what he may like is already taken by family, between both of us we have large families.
His second choice for girl name is [name]Catalina[/name], but that’s his aunt’s name and I’m not sure how comfortable I am with that, it’s not like it’s one of his favorite aunts who have passed or any type of "in memory of’ kind of situation.
I’ve mentioned [name]Juliana[/name] to him and he gave a somewhat approving smile. BUT, I don’t like how it’s pronounced in Spanish (Hu-lee-ana), the spelling would need to be with a Y, like [name]Yuliana[/name], but then I’m afraid of how it will be pronounced in English.
Now for the boy names, we both like [name]Sebastian[/name], it’s his favorite and only choice if it was up to him BUT I know alot of people with the name including one of my little cousins. We like the name [name]Gian[/name] [name]Sebastian[/name], and in latin culture we tend to use both first and middle names including in schools… However, here, only the first name is used unless I hyphenate and [name]Gian[/name]-[name]Sebastian[/name] is a long name to hyphenate and i don’t want him to be known by only [name]Gian[/name] in school.
Another name that I like is Gianlucas, but my husband’s not a big fan. He also doesn’t like [name]Mateo[/name] and [name]Noah[/name], which were on my list. And so now because of his very tiny list of names, I can’t think of any other middle names. Any advice, suggestions, opinions???