Ways to honor Anette?

My mom’s name is Anette. She is the most supportive mom you could think of and she is going to be in the room when my daughter is born.

My partner has suggested we should honor her by naming the baby Anette. He suggested it it her and she just smiled really wide :slight_smile:

While I think the name is pretty and unusual on someone born in the 20s I feel like it might be a bit too much to share a first name with grandma.

I do like the idea of a name ending in -ette. Not very common in kids names where we live but not in any way too out there.

What is your favorite -nette name? Any other ways I could honor my mom? Middle names is already decided so doing it that way is not really an option.

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Lucette
Loretta
Etta

Also, maybe an An- name? like Anne/Anna, Annabel, Antigone, etc

maybe some similar sounds like colette or cosette? or even grace, which is what annette means?

Why don’t you hyphenate it?

Grace-Anette
Freya-Anette
Joy-Anette

You get the idea. So you could use one of your favourite names first and then hyphenate it with [name_f]Annette[/name_f] or you could go [name_f]Annette[/name_f] first and hyphenate it with one of your favourite girls names. That way your honouring your mum without making it feel old!

how about…

[name_f]Antoinette[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliette[/name_f]
[name_f]Violette[/name_f]
Monette
[name_f]Georgette[/name_f]
[name_f]Cosette[/name_f]
[name_f]Colette[/name_f]
[name_f]Nicolette[/name_f]
[name_f]Suzette[/name_f]
[name_f]Yvette[/name_f]
[name_f]Odette[/name_f]
[name_f]Lynette[/name_f]

names that end in a similar ending:

[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]
[name_f]Harriet[/name_f]
[name_f]Violet[/name_f]
[name_f]Scarlett[/name_f]

an- names:

[name_f]Ana[/name_f]
[name_f]Anna[/name_f]
[name_f]Annabelle[/name_f]
[name_f]Anaya[/name_f]
[name_f]Annaliese[/name_f]
[name_f]Analia[/name_f]
[name_f]Anastasia[/name_f]
[name_u]Andrea[/name_u]
[name_f]Angela[/name_f]
[name_f]Angelique[/name_f]
[name_f]Angelica[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]
[name_f]Anais[/name_f]
[name_f]Anya[/name_f]
[name_f]Anouk[/name_f]
[name_f]Anoushka[/name_f]
[name_u]Antonia[/name_u]
[name_f]Antonella[/name_f]
[name_f]Anika[/name_f]

best of luck on choosing a name :slightly_smiling_face:

[name_f]Cosette[/name_f], [name_f]Colette[/name_f], and [name_f]Juliette[/name_f] are some of my favorite names that end in -ette.
You could also name your daughter after your mother’s birth month or birth stone, her favorite flower, or anything else that reminds you of her. If none of those work, try to find a name with a similar meaning. If you’re still not finding anything you love, come up with a list of your 3 favorite names and let your mom choose her name.

I’m a big fan of honor names in general, but I’d personally opt for using [name_f]Anette[/name_f] as a middle name. PPs have made great suggestions for other “ette” and “Anne” names!

Not sure what your naming style is, but here are a few ideas of [name_f]Anette[/name_f] combos (I’m going to include a random, wide list just to cover different potential styles :wink:):

[name_u]Ruby[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_f]Hazel[/name_f] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_f]Grace[/name_f] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_u]Marlowe[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_u]Harper[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_u]Riley[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgia[/name_f] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_f]Margot[/name_f] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_u]Avery[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_u]Laurel[/name_u] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f] [name_f]Anette[/name_f]

[name_f]Etta[/name_f] maybe?

Another idea could be to split the name, so you could have [name_f]Annie[/name_f] [name_f]Rosette[/name_f] just as an example. There are loads of names that could have the nickname [name_u]Anne[/name_u] or [name_f]Annie[/name_f] and a middle name ending in -ette would make for a very sweet, but not too obvious, honour.

Thank you for the suggestions!

I do like [name_f]Violette[/name_f], Monette, [name_f]Juliette[/name_f] and [name_f]Antoinette[/name_f].

I’m very much into history my so [name_f]Antoinette[/name_f] would be very cool but might a bit too much. Not sure.

[name_f]Etta[/name_f] is cute and litterly means number one :slight_smile:

I like the idea of a name with the same meaning even if [name_f]Grace[/name_f] doesnt work very well in Swedish.

The idea of letting her chose a name from a list might be the way to go!

Not at all!

What do you think of [name_f]Nettie[/name_f]? :slight_smile:

Very sweet as a nickname but I dont lile nickname-type names as given names very much

I like [name_f]Suzette[/name_f] or Loretta!! [name_f]Yvette[/name_f] is also gorgeous classic and underused! :slightly_smiling_face: Otherwise [name_f]Juliette[/name_f] is nice.

[name_f]My[/name_f] favourite way to honour [name_f]Annette[/name_f] would be simple [name_u]Anne[/name_u], [name_f]Anya[/name_f] or [name_f]Etta[/name_f]. Something like [name_f]Anya[/name_f] [name_f]Sophie[/name_f], [name_f]Etta[/name_f] [name_f]Sylvie[/name_f]. Another lovely alternative would be [name_f]Annabelle[/name_f]. Overall [name_f]Etta[/name_f] or [name_f]Yvette[/name_f] would be perfect imo :two_hearts:

[name_f]Bette[/name_f]
[name_f]Bridgette[/name_f]
[name_f]Cosette[/name_f]
[name_f]Danette[/name_f]
[name_f]Fleurette[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgette[/name_f]
[name_f]Ivette[/name_f]
[name_f]Lisette[/name_f]
[name_f]Mariette[/name_f]
[name_f]Odette[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosette[/name_f]
[name_f]Violette[/name_f]
[name_f]Viviette[/name_f]

A name that starts similarly may work as well:
[name_f]Anais[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromache[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]
[name_f]Anika[/name_f]
[name_u]Antonia[/name_u]
Ann(e)/Anna
[name_f]Annabel[/name_f]
[name_f]Anneliese[/name_f]

A name that has Ann(e/a) at the end:
[name_f]Emiliana[/name_f]
[name_f]Johanna[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliana[/name_f] / [name_u]Julianne[/name_u]
[name_f]Lisanne[/name_f]
[name_f]Luciana[/name_f]
[name_f]Mariana[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvianne[/name_f] / [name_f]Sylviana[/name_f]
[name_f]Tiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Viviana[/name_f]

You could also do what someone above mentioned and use an An(n)- name for a FN, and a -ette MN:
[name_f]Anneliese[/name_f] [name_f]Odette[/name_f]
[name_u]Anne[/name_u] [name_f]Violette[/name_f]
[name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Rosette[/name_f]

[name_f]Anette[/name_f] and variants mean “grace”, so a FN or MN that shares a meaning could work:
[name_f]Amara[/name_f]
[name_f]Charisma[/name_f]
[name_f]Grace[/name_f]
[name_f]Hanna[/name_f] (h)

[name_f]Amara[/name_f] is kinda nice. [name_f]Amaris[/name_f] is on our list already

There is a lot of options to consider :slight_smile:

[name_f]Etta[/name_f] is kinda growing on me actually