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Well I'm 37 weeks pregnant and DH hasn't even looked trough a baby name book! There is one girls name, however, that I love, love, love and DH does too. I've always liked this name so I know that it's not just a passing thing. Problem is although we both love it we are afraid that it is just too much of a mouthful with our last name and just sounds a bit too weird.
So what do you think?
Sacha Sharkey
Too much of a mouthful?
TIA
Carrie
Not at all I like it! Is it pronounced 'Sasha'?
I'm not really a fan of first name and last name having the same initial - but thats just me.
If you guys love it - go for it! :D
yep, pronouned Sasha - I haven't even really considered different spellings as thought that we wouldn't be able to use it. Thanks for your reply...wonder what others will say...
I said it out loud a few times... it sounds like Sash-sha-sha Key! Maybe she would be a ballroom dancer!!:lol:
It is quite a mouthful, but if you like it, go for it!:)
mmm, for me I think it is a bit much. But I don't like first and last names starting with the same letter either.
Sorry!
I love the name Sasha though!
I love the name Sacha! - but it was a bit of a mouthful for me...hehehe...i had to think when i said it out loud :redface:
If you like it hun you go for it!!!
TBH I never say my kids last name. I always say their 1st and middle names!!! So what would be the middle name?
haha and do what ever you like as I have my kids have MASSIVE long names
Annabelle Marie Yates-Brierley
Lucy Jeanne Yates-Brierley
Im never saying all 4 of their names, even when Im mad hahaha
Sasha is a name Ill always like but never be able to use :rolleyes:
I'm a Sacha and when I married my last name turned into one starting with Sh and ending in y.
It was a little strange at first, but to be honest, it's like everything - when you hear it all the time you just get used to it.
If you love the name (and why wouldn't you? ;) ) go for it. Or if it just doesn't sit right with you, what about a hyphenated first name - Sacha-Lee etc.?
I love the name Sacha but with your last name it is a bit of a tounge twister? However it's not that often that people really say the 1st and last name together so it doesn't really matter if you love it :D There are some names that we just can't use because they make other names when put with our last name so some times even though you love a name you just can't use it.
I like it.... if you want to hear a mouthful, my little bubba is Arabella Ballangarry, even though it's a mouthful it flows I think.
I like it :) and if you do go for it :)
IMHO I think it is a bit of a tongue twister for me. But it is totally up to you guys. I tend to think what the name will sound like in different instances. I like names to sound right with the surname because I think if they were to become a high profile person that is how they're known.
Could you use it as a middle name?
I quite like. I said it out loud a few times & it wasn't at all difficult. I say use it!
So at the moment I think we have 6 for and 6 against. Obviously it is just a personal thing......argg, so hard.
So Sacha i my fav but other names on my list are:
Heidi
Kassidy
Priscilla (Cilla for short)
Chloe
Hailey
As you see I like ie, ey ending names!
After all this I bet I end up having a boy!
I like Hailey & Kassidy from your extended list. I think Cassie as a nickname is gorgeous.
Good luck!
I love Sacha, it sounds so graceful! It is a bit of a mouthful with your surname (damn hubbies and their last names! I have this issue a bit too!) but try and imagine that it is being announced at school assembly for winning a big award, or when she is grown up an they are announcing her winning an olympic medal (or the nobel peace prize, whatever way she goes!) and see if you feel happy about it that way.
Like a pp said, you aren't going to use it that way much so she will just be Sasha to you..
Good luck deciding!
oh i'm so sorry to admit yeh to me it sounds to be a mouth full, bit like she sells sea shells by the sea shore IYKWIM ... although i do love Sacha too :heartbeat: ... Seems Sharkey is a hardish name to team a name with (my previous surname was the same).
***** I like Pricilla on your list there :D
I love Sacha Sharkey!
Somehow I think Sacha Michelle Sharkey would be just lovely!
(FWIW - My son's initials are PJP)
I like it with Lee in the middle like a previous poster suggested... I was thinking it already as a middle name but I actually really like the hyphenation idea... Sacha-Lee Sharkey :)
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Yep...A bit much by itself, but with the hypenated middle name it is lovely :)
Love Heidi on your list too.
GL
I actually thought "Sacha-Lee" before I scrolled down and saw someone else had said it :) Looks like that's a popular choice!
As a teacher we use both names a lot!! I kept saying it and it is a mouthful, I agree with who ever posted about she sells sea shells, its abit like that for me sorry.
I love it! Sacha Sharkey sounds FANTASTIC. I want that name. I want it to be my name. It is that great. Please, please, please ignore the nay-sayers and call your daughter that. I cannot get over how great the name is. I'm not being funny, I am sat here in awe of the greatness.
I can't criticise same initials for first and last name given that I did that to my DS, although we didn't aim for that at the time. It makes him sound like a superhero's alter ego... just need the "mild-mannered" part to slip in between the "Superhero's" and "alter ego" now.
I find it a mouthful to say, it kept coming out shasha sharkey. Maybe it because it's 5.50am and it's too early to talk (or think).
i found it a bit difficult to say but i think it would sound god with a hyphonated name like Lee/Grace or something like that.
of your other names i like Kassidy best and goes nice with Kyla & Gabriel!
so do u have a boys name picked JIC??
and yay for reaching FT again!!
honestly i think it's a bit of a mouthful.
i like Chloe Sharkey
Thanks for all the replies, you're great!
Lady Zaidie- Are you sure you're not having a go???
Nickers- Thanks! Funny how you get to full term and all you want is the bub to come out! Yep we have a boys name, well I have a name, DH isn't wrapt with it but unless he actually looks in the name book and comes up with something better, i'm sticking with it.
I'm still undecided about it - To me, the more i say Sacha Sharkey, the more it sounds okay to me. A bit unsure about a hyphenated name, i'll run it by DH, probably because we have never had hyphenated names in our family before.
i thought of this thread last night when i was watching tv and an ad came on with Georgia May Jagger on it. i thought Georgia Jagger would be a mouthful but the May bit really breaks it up and it sounds lovely...so....what about Sacsha May Sharkey??
well i guess you didnt need to worry about it sounding a mouthfull as a little BOY has arrived!!
congratulations Carrie, looking forward to hearing your son's name!
Thanks Nic, i'll go post a birth announcement!
Im waiting.........
What about Sasha-Rose Sharkey?
Cute name but i think too much.. S ss s s s's's
Oooooo what name did you choose?
His name is Jude. He's just gorgeous!