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Whitney, Alexa, or Lexi???

53 replies

Mlk77 · 08/02/2019 01:10

Good evening!
Hubby and I are currently down to three choices: Whitney, Alexa, and Lexi. We adore all three of them, but just don't know which one should be it.
The problem is, she has an older brother named Alex, so we think that it would be really awkward if we have a Alex and a Alexa.
Also, we are not sure wether to name her Alexa and call her Lexi, or just Lexi(and if we name her Lexi we can kind of avoid the Alex and Alexa thing, but we just love love Alexa and don't want to ditch it).
And we use to really think about naming her Whitney Alexa, but feel bad for using such a adorable name as a middle name.
So what do you guys think?
Ps: we really don't want new names, but thanks.

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firawla · 08/02/2019 01:32

Alexa and Lexi are both very very similar to Alex so I’d say it would be more practical to go with Whitney to prevent people getting them mixed up... even things like their credit records getting mixed up as adults? My dh and all the males of his family have a very similar name and have had issues with things like this so I’d personally avoid names that are so close as that?

SleepWarrior · 08/02/2019 01:25

Love Alexa but not with Alex. I'd go Whitney Alexa, you can always call her Lexi still as its a nn based on her middle name.

Aprilshowersarecomingsoon · 08/02/2019 01:22

None.

Sorry.

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