Baby Name List

[ste_noni]

It's been bugging me that we don't have a baby name figured out yet, so this is my attempt to be organized and at least list the names we have considered.

1. Lindsey
2. Daphne
3. Margaret
4. Abigail
5. Madeline
6. Lily
7. Emily
8. Elizabeth

It's also been suggested to me that given our last name (pronounced Iz-a-gary), a first name ending in an -a (like adriana) will sound better than a first name ending in an -y (like amy or mary)

I'm putting this here mainly to have a place to get it written down, but comments or suggestions are welcome.

Comments

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I like them all, except maybe Lindsey (though my step-neice is named that, and a nice girl she is, too.) I love baby names. If you post this at b.org, you can get LOTS of (fun) commentary. After Casper was born, we didn't name her for a few hours, and the name didn't hit the board until the next day, and there was endless suggestion-making, some quite amusing.

You know this site, right? http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Why Lindsey-with-an-e?

Ooh, I like Madeline. And you're right that having it end in a -y sound may be bad, but then again...hey, Stephanie.

Madeline and Elizabeth are good. Elizabeth would be amusing, cause you could call her Liz, and then all kinds of hijinks would ensue.

[fufaraw]

Oooh, I like Lily Margaret Iz-a-gary. Trips off the tongue. Anna/Ana might make a good middle name: Daphne Ana Iz-a-gary, Lindsay Anna Iz-a-gary. And of course, my personal favorite girls' name ever, Anne Elizabeth Iz-a-gary. With our last name (Three syllables, the middle one emphasized), it would have been Elizabeth Anne beDOObop. I'm assuming the Iz syllable and the ga in gary are emphasized? That makes a difference in how the syllables scan.

All very pretty names. Not cute, but women's names, to grow into.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

I've been pronouncing your last name all wrong in my head! I think I agree with the name-ending-in-y suggestion, now that I see it right.

[cindywrites.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love them all. I really like Abagail.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Imagine - Lizzy Izaguirre ;)

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Really, only spanish-speaking people get it right with no help. Before marriage, my last name was Smith. It's been interesting to go from the most boring (but easy to say) name ever to a really complicated one.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Ha! I didn't even think of that one.

Also:

I am the Valentine Fairy! You have been valentined!

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Good idea - I think I will post the list to b.org at some point soon.

[cindywrites.livejournal.com]

Ack! I mean Abigail. I know how to spell it, too. That was a typo.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

I knew what you meant. I hate not being able to edit here - all my spellings mistakes saved.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to make it *too* Spanish, though -- Iz-a-GEE-ray -- rather than anglicizing the last two syllables enough. Which is what I get for too many years of liberal arts education, I guess. D'oh!

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

We use the really Spanish pronunciation when speaking Spanish, but it's too hard for most English speakers. They just look at you confused, what with the rolling r and all. When I met Joe, he introduced himself as an Iz-a-gary, so that's how I say it. However, his brother, who lives in NJ, says Iz-a-gwary, which always makes us laugh because it is so NJ-sounding. It just goes to show that there are many "right" ways to pronounce it.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Oh man.

You were a Stephanie Smith? I'm good friends with a Stephanie Smith. (In fact, she's the girl I mention in my latest entry.)

[jenlp.livejournal.com]

Lovely names. I've always particularly loved the name Daphne, because it was the name of a woman my parents used to socialize with when I was young, and she was just so stylish, and beautiful, and interesting, and... I wanted to grow up to be just like her. What?? There's still time!

Yay! Baby names!

[susanw.livejournal.com]

I think Lily Madeline would be a beautiful name.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

This all makes me realize that I don't know anything of Joe's background aside from his last name, which (as I've admitted above) reads as very Hispanic to me (although it needn't, any more than my name is necessarily Dutch) -- is he Latino, and do you speak Spanish with each other? Are you looking for names that are easily translated between languages?

I'm curious strictly as a language geek, and not because I have much of any substance to say, mind you....

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Izaguirre is a fairly common name in Spanish speaking countries, particularly South America. Joe was born here, but his parents are both from Honduras and he has lots of relatives there. We've been back there twice together.

Although from Honduras, Joe's family has been there for maybe 3 generations and before that the family was from the Basque region of Spain. I don't think Joe looks very "latino" - he is much more likely to be assumed to be Italian.

I speak Spanish and he speaks Spanish, but we rarely speak Spanish together. This mainly because I get easily embarrassed and Joe is completely fluent. We occasionally speak Portugese together (we both learned when we lived in Brazil) but mainly we use it as a way of communicating when we don't want other people to understand (or, today, my Valentine's message was in Portugese).

We've talked about Joe speaking to our daughter in Spanish so she learns it from an early age. We want her to be comfortable with the language so she feels comfortable with that side of her family. My main concern is that it might feel onerous to Joe to be switching back and forth, but for him it is much less work than it is for me.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Yep - nice and simple.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could see how ending in a y could sound a little over the top with your last name!! God knows, there are WAY too many people out there who've looked at my name and thought my parents were evil and named me "Shannon Glennon". Say that three times fast.

And he (and you) should TOTALLY speak Spanish to her. It's such an advantage to speak multiple languages, and have heritage, and be able to talk to relatives...