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I love Maisy and Daisy too! Daisy is the name of my grandfather's twin sister so it has a nice family connection but also a little *too* much of a connection for me to want to use it. But Daisy factors in (along with other family connections) to my desire to use a flower middle name :)
Quite a lot. Liebling Butter is Liebling's "naughty name". (Liebling Precious Swoozle, his full given name, is his "happy name".) Although DH ruled out girl's names that ended with the "buh" sound, or sounded like Butter, because it didn't flow too well. Confused me as girls get the opportunity to change their name fairly early on in life if they choose (to change their name or to marry).:
I worked with a lady named Gale and when she married her husbands last name was Daley :)
So naturally we all called her Galey Daley! :)
My mum wanted to call me just Emma, but someone said to her "what if she gets married to a man with the last name like Roy or Royd, then her name will be Emma Royd which sounds like hemorrhoids" so she got scared and named me Emmalee!
So I wouldn't worry about girls given names matching their last names because they will have their married name for far longer than there maiden name! :)
Stick with your first instinct-Ramona.
I think this is true... I went through this same thing with naming our DS2. He ended up with the first instinct name anyway!:
DD1's best friend is called Jemima, so I love it. DH's revolting cousin has a Greta so I did hate it, but then I me a beautiful local mum with a Greta so I like it again. I know what you're saying about Ramona though! It's been a loooong time. One thing to consider is that it can be used as a Latino insult, as it sort of means "tree trunk thighs" Back when I was considering it, a friend worded me up. Might not be an issue for you, but it was for me.
I looooove Henrietta. The third girl that I'm not having would be Harriet.
Still confused!
Thanks for the input. So, I can either offend the African-Americans or the Latinos? Great! I tried googling Ramona as a Latino insult though and couldn't find any references but there is a lot of stuff about Jemima as an African-American insult.
I actually prefer Harriet over Henrietta but I got on a henny-penny nickname tangent :D
Those of us who are old enough will remember a very popular book called Ramona the Pest. I can't hear Ramona without thinking PEST! Just be aware that other people may have the same mental association to that name.
ETA and someone - eventually - will go there with "Moaner"
Naww! Ramona would be her namesake! They were the first chapter books I read as a child and she was my hero. I better recall Ramona the Brave and Ramona Forever :D
We were on a road trip recently and I planned our day and detour to visit a park that has a Ramona statue in the area where the booked are based. Just about cried watching my children hug that Ramona. I'm obsessed :heartbeat:
Naw - that's great!
My Dh is Chilean, so Sth American/Latino and he has never heard Ramona used as a derogatory term! Two of his cousins are named Ramona with nick names being Moni ( pronounced Moh-nee) :) I think with any names, people will always have associations, but if you love it, then that's all that matters ;)
I honestly think that Ramona is the one.
I think it may well be. Now to make sure I'm sure on the boys name too...
Go Ramona! I think it's the right one <3
Oh and I dont know about you but i found finding a third same gender name really tough lol
We actually decided on the third boy's name before conception (though I still keep umming and ahhing!). For some reason coming back to revisit girl's names seems harder this time!