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Eeek! Little face doesn't match name we had picked out

39 replies

Barbafamiily · 25/10/2012 10:40

Uh oh! Gave birth three days ago and the name that we had thought of for our little boy, now that he is born, doesn't seem right any more, and am not convinced by any of our back ups either! We live in Spain, my husband is Spanish, I am English so we were looking for a name that sounded nice (if not the same) in both languages. We had thought of Oliver, which although is really common in the UK, is still quite different here, but is recognised and easily pronounced. But now we are just not seeing it as he looks much more of a Latin baby than English (husband has stamped out all my genes!)
The other names we had were Bruno, Dario, Hugo and Ruben which are all recognisable names here but am not 100% convinced by any of them.
He looks like a Jack or a Barnaby (he's a strapping little fellow!) but these names are too English for my DH. Neither is he keen on too Biblical sounding names. And I am not keen on the really common names here like Pablo or Javier because they don't feel special enough (am crazy in love!)
Any ideas / suggestions REALLY welcomed
Thanks!

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MrClaypole · 25/10/2012 16:06

Congratulations!

How about these?
Isaac
Gabriel
Ivan/Evan
Joel
Jacob
Thomas/Tomas
Sebastian
Lucas
Leo
Natanial (Nate for short?)
Oscar
Alex/Alexander
Elias
Benjamin
Emanuel
Felix

shinyblackgrape · 25/10/2012 16:04

rafa - I mean for shortened version. Sorry for typos!

shinyblackgrape · 25/10/2012 16:03

Raphael? My cousin is married to a Spanish Raphael - shortened to Raffa which I love!

I also really like Seve As shortened from Severiano. However, I understand in Spain that this might be a really uncool old man's name and akin to calling him Percy!

My nephew is Sebastian and I love how that is pronounced in Spain. Think might be spelled "sebastien" in Spain?

Congratulations!

botandhothered · 25/10/2012 15:49

Lluis?
Lucas?

almapudden · 25/10/2012 14:59

Otto?

Santiago (I love that name)?

Ignacio?

sununu · 25/10/2012 14:56

Congrats!
Rafael (nn Rafa in Spain or Raf in UK)

VenusRising · 25/10/2012 14:51

Oh Congratulations BTW!

VenusRising · 25/10/2012 14:51

I like Ruben.

FWIW my DD didn't look like our name for her either, so we changed it completely to something I thought of when I was about 6 months. My Dh and I are from different countries as well, so we chose a name from neither.

At about 18 months she called herself the name we use for her now anyway!

DialMforMummy · 25/10/2012 14:49

Arlo?

botandhothered · 25/10/2012 14:45

Oscar?

Snazzyspookyandscary · 25/10/2012 14:19

Joseph? or whatever the Spanish spelling would be? Can be Joe when in England.

Notnowcato · 25/10/2012 14:17

Def wait and see ... how long do they give you in Spain. No baby looks like his/her name. They just look like babies who need milk, cuddles and their precious heads kissing. It took us right up to the six week deadline to settle on our third child's name.

Also, my strapping, burly, vigorous newborn (our family nickname for him was Henry VIII!!) is now a sensitive, reflective, long-and-stringy 8 year old.

SummerRain · 25/10/2012 10:53

When ds2 was born I found it really hard to attache his name to him... He looked so much like his big brother I couldn't get my head around him having as different name! But within a few weeks ot started to fit him and now he couldn't be anything else.

Why don't you leave it a couple of weeks and see if the name starts to fit him as his personality develops?

eatyourveg · 25/10/2012 10:48

Giacomo (nn Jack) or Samuele (nn Sam) ?

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