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Doesn't anybody like this girls name?

31 replies

A1980 · 30/05/2010 23:39

Alexandra

I have never seen anyone discuss it as a potential name here.

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jabberwocky · 04/06/2010 02:55

I have a good friend who named her little girl Alexandra. And they haven't shortened it afaik. I think it's a lovely name.

expatinscotland · 04/06/2010 01:25

it's not what i'd chose, as all bearing that name whom i have know have been on the bitchy side, but if you fancy it . . .

halfawake · 04/06/2010 01:23

Really like it.

I think Sasha is the nicest nickname Alex is also good but am not very keen on Lexi.

sandfairy · 31/05/2010 22:37

Lovely - Also just like Alexa/Lexa/Lexi(e) but probably best as nn's of Alexandra.

dizzydixies · 31/05/2010 21:57

DD2 is Alexandra known as Lexie love it and all the shortenings but that one suited her most

RustyBear · 31/05/2010 20:02

It's DD's middle name - it might have been her first name if my sister hadn't already had an Alexander & I didn't want to confuse DS. Though five months later, SIL had a boy & called him Alexander, so that was wasted effort.

The only thing that put me off a bit though was that DH liked Sandra as a nn, which I hated.

RunawayWife · 31/05/2010 19:38

Very nice

saslou · 31/05/2010 19:27

It's a beautiful name.

orienteerer · 31/05/2010 19:17

Yes, it's fine.

SacharissaCripslock · 31/05/2010 19:15

I love it. I have an Alexander but if he'd been a girl...

mathanxiety · 31/05/2010 19:12

Lovely name; I like Alix too.

DontCallMeBaby · 31/05/2010 19:07

I would have petitioned strongly for DD to have been Alexandra shortened to Alex if my cousin hadn't already had such a child. Plus DH would never have been keen - his middle name is Alexander and it was deemed amusing to call him Alexandra for a term or so when he was a teenager.

TinaSparkles · 31/05/2010 19:05

I think it's a great name. As in Alexandra the great - boom boom!!

No, seriously I love it. DH likes the name Lexie but I would insist on the full Alexandra if indeed that did fall into the short list if we do ever have another DD.

I like long names such as Elizabeth and Katherine. Think they are much more sophisticated and suited to older people and can be shortened to a nick name while they are young.

MrsvWoolf · 31/05/2010 19:00

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lifeas3plus1 · 31/05/2010 18:55

I have a cousin Alexandra whi is ermmm.... 13ish now.

Lovely name. She gets called Alexie.

Bonsoir · 31/05/2010 17:43

It's a lovely name, but terribly classic.

BuzzingNoise · 31/05/2010 17:41

I don't mind it at all.

WhyMeWhyNot · 31/05/2010 17:27

It's my daughter's middle name and I used it in memory of my fathers middle name of Alexander.

Dd loves it and in fact adds it often to her own first name turning it double barrelled.

Lovethesea · 31/05/2010 17:21

It's my middle name which I like a lot. Am glad my parents didn't use it for a first name in the end though as I would've shortened it to Alex and my mum would've wanted me to be Alexa or something more girly .... but I was far more a tomboy!

withorwithoutyou · 31/05/2010 14:01

Oops, just read rest of thread.

Sorry op, didn't realise it was your name

withorwithoutyou · 31/05/2010 14:00

(not that it is an extra letter, just a different ending, but you know what I mean!)

withorwithoutyou · 31/05/2010 14:00

I don't really like it but then I don't really like boys-names-with-an-extra-letter-to-make-them-girls-names as a rule of thumb.

swanandduck · 31/05/2010 13:54

I think it's lovely.

Ronaldinhio · 31/05/2010 09:44

I love it

SambuccaKelly · 31/05/2010 09:43

Lovely name.