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I see a lot of uh-LEESE but I would adjust that slightly to ih-LEESE. Like when you say the words elide or elapse. The ih sound is a little more quick/clipped than the uh.

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Well, I actually lied when I said that 'Serbian Statistics has published'. Popular name info is nowhere to be found in their official website. I had to send them an e-mail, and they kindly and quickly replied with a Word document in English showing the top10s from 2016 onwards.

I converted the document to PDF, in case you'd like to have a look: Download Link

Oh, sure! One book is literally called Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman. It's YA fantasy about dragons in a medievalish atmosphere, but it's written very well, the worldbuilding is great, and Seraphina is a strong and interesting character.

The other is a middle-grade mystery series by Robert Beatty—my aunt read it aloud to her fourth-grade class, which was how I learned about it. While obviously geared for kids, it's a fun series and I enjoyed them. The first is called Serafina and the Black Cloak.

So...when I was a kid, there was a book titled Chrysanthemum. It was about a little girl named Chrysanthemum, and how she came to accept her name.

Anyway, it caused me to actually like the name. If you had it as a first name, I'd be a bit concerned (mostly because of how hard it would be for a little girl to write the name on a school worksheet). I think, since you have it as a middle name, it works. Benjamin Eliot is also nice.

Geimhreadh means 'Winter' in Irish, and it pretty much is GEEV-ruh.

Pronunciations here - https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Irish/geimhreadh/f6b570b409e87534c7b65485faa34173

I'd guess yours is one of the Oliver's. I do like Riker though.

Nieve is pronounced kinda like "n-yay-vay". Pretty much what you thought. Evie would totally work as a nickname. Nieves does have a little more like a soft b sound than a true v, but it's really just how they're pronounced in Spanish sometimes. I wouldn't get hung up on it.

The top 5 on my lists:

Girls: Margot Lorien, Guinevere Ellis, Odette Austen, Florence Arden, and Morrigan Felicity.

Boys: Clark Orion, Sebastian Linus, Elliot Brigan, Wyatt Bruin, and August Alberic.

Lots of my middles are from books/myths.

<strong>I keep track of all mine using Airtable</strong>. I have a few columns hidden for privacy, but you can see it here and use the same idea =)

Looks like Rosafia isn't a completely made up name after all. Rosafya didn't have any results, but Rosaphia did. Far less than Rosafia though.

Here's a bunch of examples of Quoc:

http://www.forvo.com/search/Quốc/

And the second syllable here has the same accent as is turning up for names containing Tram:

http://www.forvo.com/word/nam_trầm/#vi

So, my best guess is Wuck (rising accent) Dram (falling accent).

The Government of Alberta has a name app that shows you names and rankings from years past. I am on Andriod, but it is for iPhones, too!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.ab.gov.babynames

Knox is alright on it's own but I strongly dislike Titan.

Titan is very try hard in an obnoxious forced masculinity sort of way (like you really, really desperately want him to be this big macho frat boy stereotype who enjoys sports, monster truck ralley's and hunting for fun in a MAGA hat -- that's the sort of vibe it has).

It's more like you're naming an idea than an actual human being who will have to grow up with a name like that (which would be unfortunate if he ends up being a scrawny nerdy kid or short or a bit on the chubby side) and one day that's the name he will have to put on job applications.

It sounds more like a brand of condom than a human name, sort of like Magnum (edit: just googled it and it actually is used for condoms).

If you wanna take a look through my long list of girl names, feel free! It includes both my options for first and middle names in addition to names I would love but wouldn't use on a kid. So there are a lot of different kinds of names, most of them unusual!

http://listography.com/keesnames/singular_feminine_names/8796014258

1. The song is great, this is a pro not a con (plus this is an easy go-to song to sing to baby Rhiannon when she won't sleep)

2. There are plenty of songs about names

3. Only old people have heard of that song, stop dating yourself stepmom

4. Rhiannon the name long predates the song

I sort mine using Airtable. Here's a screenshot. I have my top names sorted by gender, then by ranking. I have hidden columns for my partner's ranking (when the time comes) and also columns for calculating how different or close we are on name ratings.

I have a column next to the first names for middles I like that go with the first name. Once I ever get to the point of naming a real person, I'd probably have a ranking system of middle names as related to the first name, too. There's also another column I didn't screenshot that says the date I created the row (as in the date I put the name on the list).

I'm not quite sure. I found the name on this list, where it says that "Kori" means "inside this" and "where you are": http://www.ciolek.com/wwwvlpages/zenpages/ZenNames1.html

It also appears in this book as the name of a Zen Buddhist temple: https://books.google.com/books?id=hfMkpD_Xr3sC&amp;pg=PA496&amp;lpg=PA496&amp;dq=kori+zen+buddhist&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=Z8otERGlG5&amp;sig=Vzy2hrCq0bgOPu5hs2ED8hxZeOU&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=_YyPVMvJGcGnyASKvIDgBA&amp;ved=0CDYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&...

This is a very odd coincidence! My husband and I just got a dog, and he wanted to name her Daisy, and I wanted to name her Maya. He left it up to me, and we ended up with Maya.

I researched the name Maya, and some sources say it means &quot;daisy&quot; in Spanish. If your husband likes Daisy because of family or sentimental reasons, maybe you could say that Maya would still be honoring that person?

And I have the number one name for dogs in the country (Molly), and I've loved it despite the many, "My dog has that name!" comments. So don't let that reason dissuade you! I've found people are predisposed to like me because of my name - dog names are often friendly names.

Do what you want! That said, it’s not super common. In general, it’s not that common for English names to be English words. Echo is the name of a character in a book (and the name of the book) that I loved as a teenager. https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Francesca-Lia-Block/dp/0064407446

It is a really emo/angsty/weird/dark book though and probably not one I would want as a namesake...

I feel like maybe similar-feeling names (but more common) could be any of these? I’m thinking (mostly) two syllable names that start with vowels...

Eva

Ella

Ellie

Elise / Alise

Emmy

Etta

Erica

Ellen

Ava

Alice

Iris

Ivy

Hahahahahahaha my only relevant search result was this - needless to say it’s now in my cart 😂

It's an app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.drivepixels.babyname&amp;hl=en

It's like tinder. You swipe right for names you like, left for those you don't. You can set it up with your partner and then it shows you when you match on a name. You can filter by origin, and a few other things though you can only choose one at a time (you can search boy, girl, or surprise with another filter).

I really like it, but I would like to see multiple filters able to be used at once, i.e. I want to see French and Italian names at the same time, or I want to exclude certain names. It also only gives you a match of it's exact, so "Aiden" and "Aidan" won't match even though they are practically the same. Another nice feature would be if you matched on a name to show similar spellings or names that others who also matched on that name liked. Another fault is that some of the "ethnic" names are not actually names in the respective country of origin, rather they are words (often misspelled) or they sound right to an English speaker but not to a native speaker.

There are a lot of other apps that exist. I'm not trying to discourage you but the market may not be as elusive as you think. You could also try asking people in r/BabyBumps for their input.

It's a humor Pinterest board- just go to Pinterest and type it in. There's a book too http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/w/how-to-quinoa-tiffany-beveridge/1117891303?ean=9780762454273&amp;st=PLA&amp;sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&amp;2sid=Google_&amp;sourceId=PLGoP439&amp;k_clickid=3x439 Check it out, it's hilarious

Yana and Eris.

I got as close to Eris as I could, but it'd be close to eer-iss here.

edit: actually, here's a closer writing of Eris. It is nearer to Air-iss.

I just posted an edit, not sure if you caught it! Here's a pronunciation of &quot;wiatr&quot; that I found.

And honestly, I don't know much about the Polish language. The "w" pronounced like "v" is pretty much the only thing I know! So the Polish names Ewa and Ewelina for example are equivalent to Eva and Evelina.

I have a Petronella and a Ruzena (pronounced like this) a few generations back on my side. I always liked the sound of Ruzena. Shame that it would be constantly mispronounced and misspelled.

My husband's grandfather's name was Semen. The pronunciation of the name is different, but still beyond unfortunate.

That's Ottilie with an American accent, sounding like "Udderly".

I'm from the UK so would say: OTT-i-lee.

There's a French pronuncation here plus two US English ones both of which are way better than the one you linked.

I'm also in Australia, and you basically have to figure out whether (a) you're surrounded by bogans and (b) whether you care that people pronounce it with an accent. I personally wouldn't care.

It's used as a name in some cultures, I think I've seen it on Indians. It may have a different etymology there.

I do remember a thing that went viral some years ago (not on Reddit - before Reddit was invented, even) of an American baby girl named "Aryan Justice" that was posted in a neo-nazi forum by her neo-nazi parents.

To me it simply looks like a male name. See here for the controversy - turns out it was 2005. Quite honestly it seems pretty tame as a name now, considering many other names out there.

The first E is "supposed" to have an accent aigu, which makes it a long E (like in "me"): http://www.forvo.com/word/am%C3%A9lie/

However, we do find ourselves saying the first E short, so I concede that it would resemble the last 2 symbols of "Emily", (depending on your US location ;) ).

In regards to my comment about people thinking it was a form of Emily, I meant they actually pronounce it as "Emily", and thought we just tried to get fancy with the spelling, haha.

Yup. It really is a bit of a whammy. :/ I think it's a fine nn in many countries but never as a full name...

It also means various things in Spanish, but these don't seem to be too bad. http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pipa

(also means something in urdu, apparently. But I can't actually read /understand the explanation in most online urdu dictionaries so Idk...)

I considered Lillie at one point as a middle name because it was my great great grandmothers maiden name and I like the family history

http://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Lillie/6000000004537938143

People give surnames as middle names all the time so I wasn't concerned by the spelling.

I totally felt this way. I think if you feel strongly about it, you should do something about it – at least by starting a serious conversation about it with your husband.

We ended up blending our surnames to solve this problem. It worked great, satisfied both of us, and was received positively by our friends and family. Yours could be blended as Heikley, Heiley, Oaks, Heakley, O'Heiss...

There's a book that examines the different ways to deal with the surname problem. I haven't read it, but it looks good: https://www.amazon.com/Choose-Your-Babys-Last-Name-ebook/dp/B081779TXK

I found this one for my son: https://www.amazon.com/When-Miles-Got-Mad-Kurtzman-Counter/dp/0615699650

Now I have to give him a little brother named Max.

Marceline --> Marcellinus --> Marcellus ... All diminutive forms leading to Marcus, of Mars, the Roman god of war (Greek: Ares). So, she would be a warrior, and Marcy can also mean "ray of light", and Marcus means "hammer", so make of all that what you will.

I used this book, for anyone wondering.

unfortunately i've found this difficult myself in the past lol, i tried again just now with not much luck though i don't have a lot of time to devote to it... it might help to try looking for 'Ileana Cosanzeana,' which is the full name. if you can get your hands on this at your local library or get them to find it for you thru interlibrary loan, Petre Ispirescu's collections of Romanian fairy tales is a legit source and one of his books has been translated apparently: https://www.amazon.com/Romanian-Folk-Tales-English/dp/1535350172

If you are looking for a way to define your style, baby naming apps are a lot faster than lists. You compare two names at a times, decide which one you like best, and over time it can tell you your faves and style and some even make suggestions based off your answers. For example:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hp.babynames

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cg.android.babynames

Here's what I used. I'm going to try this one next. Fingers crossed. I'll report back.

You might enjoy this book. Their daughter is named Zoela in the book and Idalia in the tv series. https://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Memoir-Love-Sicily-Finding/dp/150118766X/ref=asc_df_150118766X/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=416697557455&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=2051466604428225669&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvd...

Does she know that 'gentry' is an actual word? The definition of gentry is "people of high social class, but especially in the past". It's not exactly a bad meaning, but it's quite an old-fashioned word and does have a kind of 'stuck-up' vibe to it, and putting a J at the front seems like it's trying to be yooneek. Also it has 'entry' in it. I'm not a fan of Jentry at all. What about Jensen?

Ruby.

Ally is one of the nicknames of my name, it doesn't work well as a standalone name for girls (and that spelling causes issues because people often read it like the word ally which is pronounced differently, rather than like Allie). It's nice as a nickname for an Al- name (Alice, Allison, Alana/Alanna, etc).

Ruby Alice would be a nice first/middle name pairing.

You need to get something Like This for some pictures. There's a lot of baby outfits with the words "just hatched" on them.

This is the last book I read on adoption called American Baby American Baby book link

Following blogs online from adoptees is a great way to learn as well. I follow a page on instagram called “foster the family blog” (in one word) and Jamie the foster and adoptive mom talks a lot about trauma and also highlights and promotes adoptee blogs and voices. I don’t enjoy the religious content but I ignore it in favor of the other good things on there.

Other blogs to consider on instagram : @therapyreedemed

@karpoozy

@thebraverladies

@familyandcoffee

@hunte_brenna

@adoptionadvocacypodcast

I tagged adoptive families, adoptees and birth mom who was reunited with her kids. It’s very important to listen to all these voices and hear all the perspectives even if we don’t agree with them. If you feel a pushback to some controversial posts from adoptees, keep following and keep reading and you’ll be a better adoptive mother for it.

Good luck to you and your family

There's nothing objectively wrong with the name Aesop. I think it's cool, and Ace is too. The phrase that struck me in your post is "white hot shame." I would recommend checking out some of Brené Brown's books on this topic, which might help you release yourself from shame.

https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Was-Just-but-isnt/dp/1592403352

https://smallpdf.com/result#r=7fb40c0afa48049cd0d389c0f8e3287f&amp;t=converter2

this should be the link to a family tree I made to make this less confusing sorry if it doesn't work!

Eira is such a beautiful Welsh name - would Eirlys (snowdrop) also be an option?

Other girls' names off top of my head: Heulwen, Ffion, Rhiannon, Carys/Cerys, Nerys, Bronwen, Branwen, Elinor, Lowri, Catrin, Seren, Eirwen, Myfanwy, Angharad, Ceridwen.

Can also suggest this book if you really want to dig into more Welsh names!

My mom's name is Theresa but she's gone by her initials since grade school. To family her nickname is Risa or Tiggy. I think Tess/Tessa is a lovely nickname and a great nod to your mom.

Also, here's a book I had as a kid about a girl named Tessa.

Verity was recently used in a book that's been popular in my reading groups for months. Not a bad name but either people are going to associate it with the book, and/or you're going to see a small rise in popularity with other people using the name

My daughter's name is Liesl and we love love love it (short for Elisabeth). We are currently living in Germany and the name "Liesel/Liesl" here is a little outdated, mostly from my grandmother's generation, but everyone knows the name and doesn't question it.

Also wanted to mention this series of books:

https://www.amazon.com/Lieselotte/dp/B086PT97BX

There's famous children's series in Germany about a cow names Lieselotte lol

I love both the names Phoenix and Soren! Are you keeping Phoenix as an middle name or using something else? Just curious. Also there is a cute baby blanket that has the Phoenix bird on it on amazon that could be personalized. Just a suggestion to keep around as a cute little reminder of the name you chosen. Congrats on your baby son!

I love Agatha, and I love the idea of your daughters bearing the names of great artists!

Has he read any Christie? Perhaps he could be seduced by her wit & craft into loving her name.

Here's a great article about Agatha's brief disappearance and the international hubbub she caused. The cheek!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/books/agatha-christie-vanished-11-days-1926.html

There's also a recent alternative history film that takes place during those still mysterious 11 days. It's currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

https://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Truth-Murder-Ruth-Bradley/dp/B08225S9GP

Good luck! I sincerely hope you get your little Agatha.

It reminds me of —
* one of the characters in »Swallows and Amazons« by Arthur Ransome, in fact Mavis (though not called so) – this series is especially popular here in Middle Europe, &nbsp;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swallows_and_Amazons_characters * the wife of Sir Rex Hunt, the governor of the Falklands during the invasion in 1982.
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/sir-rex-hunt-governor-of-the-falkland-islands-jun-1983-101244a

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While I don't know the Polish language, I'm pretty sure that "w" in Polish is pronounced like a "v" in English. So imagine the name is "Viatar". So it wouldn't sound sound wyatt or wee-at, it would be vyatt or vee-at. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about the Polish w sound, but this was always my understanding.

EDIT: Here’s a pronunciation of wiatr that I found online: https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Polish/wiatr/422976851d0f15cbf1cf602edd02d2c3

I think of this book. Maple's little sister Willow is born partway through, and then there are more books about the two of them.

The name isn't my taste (no pun intended), but it's not awful or anything. Might get confused with Mabel a lot.

I initially liked Soraya (and I said it the way you do)...but it's a bit too close to the skin condition Psoriasis (which is pronounced the same way but with a "sis" on the end).

I do like Emery and I don't think it's too big of a deal if you say it differently. Especially since he's from Iran. It wouldn't bother me.

I REALLY like Casimir.

wiki says it means “he who proclaims peace” but ancestry.com fwiw—not sure if the community considers that any sort of standard (lol maybe it’s like nameberry….) said “destroyer of peace.” Either way, that is an epic name that sounds beautiful.

> Mavrikos was the my original family name. I wish I could find the origin

This is just a guess based on some googling (maybe someone fluent in Greek can confirm or correct it) but:

The -kos suffix (-κός/-kós) means "in the manner of/pertaining to" .

Removing the suffix, I looked up Mavri- and apparently in Greek mavro means black or dark (mavri being the plural form). It can be used to describe people who are black or dark skinned (not in a derogatory way though).

So maybe it was just a descriptive surname (in the same way the Scottish name Dougal means "black/dark stranger").

Also, side note: if the reclaiming your heritage thing is important, it's worth looking up Greek naming customs, because they don't seem do the middle name thing the way people in the US do.

I started this list of color names that I made up, or merged from different sources! I will definitely add some of the ones mentioned here https://codepen.io/meodai/full/VMpNdQ/

http://www.forvo.com/ would help with the pronunciations.

I keep meaning to read The House of the Spirits, it's been in my TBR for years. I've heard nothing but good things about it -- do you like it?

It's a lovely bunch of character names, there's only a couple I don't like.

That's actually why I wouldn't use it: too many different versions of how to pronounce it, and everyone saying they're right. This may or may not be accurate, though the person who recorded it is supposed to at least be Scottish: http://www.forvo.com/word/ealasaid/

My French accent is laughably bad, but I think:

lee-EV-^ruh

(which that French r- thing that I just cannot do).

There are samples here:
http://www.forvo.com/word/lièvre/ http://www.howdoyousaythatword.com/word/lievre/

Are you looking for a regular name, or a variant of Super Bladder Girl type name?

Camila is the word for camel in Romanian, and Deve or Deva are Albanian and Croatian.

But you could go with something like Waterskin or Decanter or something if you are going more superhero-y. Maybe like The Flask or something. Make it a play on The Flash.

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/bottle

Try the baby name together app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BabyName.start

Let's you each rate names (either yes or no) and then you can compare your lists. Force him to give you some names he actually likes.

Taika does exist as a name in Japanese. It isn't particularly common (possibly because the homonyms aren't exactly pretty, especially not "retrogression"), but it's recorded and there is at least one known person with the name, a haiku author, Kitajima Taika.

https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder/msg/3ezi7is9sw3j2oox - here is how I would pronounce Alexander / Alex when I'm speaking German... just in case you were curious!

I'm just going to list songs I can think of with a girl's name in the title:

Caroline- Neil Diamond "Sweet Caroline"

Prudence- The Beatles "Dear Prudence"

Delta- Joe Cocker "Delta Lady"

Elise- The Cure "A Letter to Elise" (which works with both your husband's criteria, the middle name and it's on your list!)

Actually I'm just going to leave this list here

Like this?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/rosemary

Because the ‘UK pronunciation’ sounds like ROSE-merry to me. Is that the same pronunciation you hear? The American one sound like Rose-Mary.

It's a solid no for me. 99% of the people he encounters in life won't know it's a family name. This thesaurus entry says it all: https://www.powerthesaurus.org/romeo Unless he loves being the centre of attention and deflecting name jokes, it'll be a burdensome name to live with. Especially if he ends up being shy or romantically inept.

I like the name in itself and the family connection is nice, but to me this is an obvious case of "save it for the middle".

كاينان the name in Arabic. The pronunciation is here (the first two, then it does Canaan and other spellings): https://context.reverso.net/translation/arabic-english/كاينان

كاينان is the name in Arabic. The pronunciation is here (the first two, then it does Canaan and other spellings): https://context.reverso.net/translation/arabic-english/كاينان

http://listography.com/seraphinairis/names/female_mermaid___water_inspired_

I haven't done a lot of research for boys but off the top of my head I like River, Caspian, Marinus, Oceanus, Ocean, Kai, & Morgan.

I’m sorry for your loss. This book has a couple hundred Catholic names to honor Mary/Maria for a boy’s name.

I like it, but I read it as "ovaltine" (like the drink) at first.

I also like the name Olive, it's on my list. I just can't seem to find a middle name that really fits, all seem to fit better with Olivia - which is really overused where I live. We settled on Octavia for a hypothetical third child instead of Olive.

This reminds me of a beautiful children’s book my daughter has, Alma and How She Got Her Name, about a little girl who struggles with having a long name until her dad explains how special it is.

I made an Android app to help with the name-winnowing process: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.drda.ben.ranker.baby.

Yes!!! I fell in love with my daughter’s name in my favorite book The History of Love, and found out after her birth about a wonderful children’s book called Alma and How She Got Her Name!

> Maybe I can DIY it....

You almost certainly could. Get (or maybe you have) a plain round ornament and some craft paint like they used to use on boy's toy models that you built and painted yourself, and a very thin artist's brush. The paint comes in tiny glass bottles. This is the stuff.

I like it! I just finished this book and thought the whole time about how much I liked the name: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Life-Addie-LaRue-ebook/dp/B084357H23

It’s a best seller so I wonder if we’ll see an uptick in the name!

I have a book called Gary Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names. In the first appendix, there's a whole page of what they call "spoof names" like this. Too many to list, of course, but I think my favorite listed is Tamara Knight.

Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Gary-Gygaxs-Gygaxian-Fantasy-Worlds/dp/1931275564

strangely, they seem to have evolved completely different associations/images for my age group/where i’m from (39yo/US), which i imagined is similar to u/TheSecretIcicle, judging by the content of their comment ! “Marta” evokes a witty little brown-haired girl in a dress with a bow, which we all garnered from Sound of Music i’m sure, and “Martha” evokes a dowdy, matronly older woman, and also a sweet, dorky hippo (helped along by this book series i’m sure). i now totally hear how they sound almost exactly like in many languages, but their associations here are SO different that it’s impossible to imagine them as anything other than completely different names!!

That's awesome! I hope the process goes smoothly for you. I had some bumps due to the quarantine, but nothing bad.

I got a necklace similar to this engraved:

https://www.amazon.com/MeMoShe-Personalized-Vertical-Necklace-Engraved/dp/B07HYXKHJS/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_sspa?dchild=1&amp;keywords=engraved+necklace&amp;qid=1598736318&amp;sprefix=engraved+nechlace&amp;sr=8-2-spons&amp;psc=1&amp;spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhb...

Something like this. It is something the dog can bite on / pull etc. and doesn‘t get shredded/destroyed while doing so.

Known as a pull toy on the international market.

In germany we use the word belt for it, that‘s an error on my side.

I edited the post to make it more clear :)

I don’t have any advice on the name but wanted to recommend this book to help your LO understand. I think it does a great job of explaining how grandparents or loved ones can pass away but they are still a part of our lives

https://www.amazon.com/Upstairs-Downstairs-Picture-Puffin-Books/dp/0698118367

My kid loves her Mortimer the Moose toy that we call Morty!

There's a store in Hawaii called Sedona that smells so strongly of incense that the name alone makes me want to sneeze or the book by Iichi Lee <em>The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart</em>.

Swayze. Patrick Swayze (or Christy Mack's adorable pittie Pitrick lol). Not wholly unusable but after Ghost came out, Swayze kinda became a synonym for ghosting someone/disappearing.

Leondra is cute.

I can't hear the name without thinking of Stellaluna, so Luna was my first thought.

Stella Hope

Stella Blair

Stella Grace

Stella Danielle

Stella Brynn

Stella Diane

Stella Joanne

Stella Josephine

Stella Brianne

Stella Marianne

Stella Julianne

Stella Cheyenne

Stella Renee

I would tell your husband to wait 4 weeks before deciding on Phaedrus. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance had a big impact on me, but after the mental dust settles he might find Phaedrus to not be his first choice.

The first thing that came to mind for me was the children's book Amos and Boris. It was one of my favourites growing up.

One of my friend's was named after her parents' cat, because it was the only name they could agree on. She thought it was a cute story, even in her grumpy teens. Winter is lovely though, and more uncommon (506th) than Willow (96th).

I agree with others who've said to choose a name that isn't a regular noun for the middle name. Especially if the last name is Green/Walker/King/Hall/Hill or any of those other top-thirty noun names. Though if it actually is Winter Smith, she might like this book :)

I love it. There's this amazing Amazonian/Wisconsin doctor woman with that name, Linnea Smith. Her book La Doctora is a great read. Definitely someone worth honoring in a name!

Another alternate spelling is Shahrazad (see this edition of the arabian nights, my favourite translation), which is much closer to your name than Scheherazade. If you didn't want to change your name drastically that extra 'a' in there might be enough to make things easier on you? Or you could shorten your name to Shara?