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Girls' names meaning "dawn" - Aubeline?

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:07

Looking for a girl's name that means dawn.

I actually quite like Dawn.

Don't want to use Aurora, just not for me.

I do like Ayelet, "dawn hind/gazelle" in Hebrew.

Stumbled across Aubeline, which allegedly means dawn in French but is potentially way too much like aubergine.

Help!

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GinSoakedMu1berryLush · 08/12/2012 21:10

Alba is spanish for dawn and is used as a name there.

la madrugada also means dawn though! hmmm.

Aubeline is abit ........ strange.

Aurora is terrible. Sorry. Really awful.

Alba

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EqualsX · 08/12/2012 21:11

Aurelia

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Yika · 08/12/2012 21:12

Aubergine - well that's actually quite pretty - you could start a trend!! :D

I seem to recall that Roxane/Roxana means Dawn.

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:12

No, I don't like Aurora either! I was trying to be polite about it.

Aubeline is a bit strange, isn't it.

I don't like Alba either, sorry. It's a good thought and I know many like it but to me it is "albumen".....

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:13

Oh I'm difficult. Aurelia sounds terrible with our surname. And Roxanne is a great Police song, but I couldn't use it....

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Welovecouscous · 08/12/2012 21:15

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:19

I like the light theme, and had thought Lucienne. But will it just end up Lucy? Which is a perfectly nice name, but lacks the wow factor I'm looking for.

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:22

DH has dismissed both Stella and Estrella on the grounds of beer. And he hates Estella and Estelle.

Clara - I've read Heidi to DD1 too many times.

Seren - nice but not for me. Tis a bit plain sounding for my taste, although I understand why it is well liked.

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MrsMerryMeeple · 08/12/2012 21:22
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seeker · 08/12/2012 21:23

Names don't need to have the "wow" factor. The baby will have that in spades!

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MrsMerryMeeple · 08/12/2012 21:23
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expatinscotland · 08/12/2012 21:25

What's wrong with 'Dawn'?

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GinSoakedMu1berryLush · 08/12/2012 21:31

yeah, Dawn would be brave.

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:32

Thanks for the links Mrs.

Seeker, I know. I know wow factor sounds stupid.

And I do like Dawn, I really do. I think it is graceful and elegant. But I have a slight funny feeling about using it as my mother's cousin was called Dawn and she died of leukemia as a teenager. This was long before I was born ; DM was only about 20 at the time. I just don't know whether it might be strange/upsetting for both DM and DGM to hear the name used again. I don't know. I don't really want to ask. I don't know why.

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GinSoakedMu1berryLush · 08/12/2012 21:32

but what i meant was why not dawn.
Only ever known one dawn and she was lovely

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:34

Hmmm Sheherezade: kill at dawn (according to one of those links). Nice.....

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FunnyBird · 08/12/2012 21:34

I think the Welsh for Dawn is Gwawr. Lovely name. I know one, and she is lovely too. But you probably have to be a bit welsh to use it.

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GinSoakedMu1berryLush · 08/12/2012 21:35

so true about the wow factor seeker. although i love my daughter,she's actually very sensible, practical, average height, quite good at everything, brilliant at nothing but bad at nothing, still though; very confident, argumentitive, such a good negotiatior, she loves company and sees the humour in everything. She comes up to me and gives me a hug when I'm stressed. I'm not sure a 'wow' name would have suited her as much as her actual name suits her.

I do remember being pregnant though!!!

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BackInMetropolis · 08/12/2012 21:36

Am I over thinking the family history with Dawn?

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GinSoakedMu1berryLush · 08/12/2012 21:36

Gwawr! You'd have to be welsh yes!

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GinSoakedMu1berryLush · 08/12/2012 21:37

I think Dawn as a middle name and the name you love as the first name!
Because Dawn is quite simple it would be a perfect middle name really.

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FrancesFarmer · 08/12/2012 21:39

You may be over-thinking it, BackInMetropolis.

My dd has the same name as her great-great grandmother and people have said they like hearing it again.

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