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Thoughts on the name Beca

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Chloejean · 19/01/2019 01:25

Hey y’all, my sister-in-law is having a baby so I’m gonna be an auntie!! And we’re trying to think of names and we both kind of like the name Beca (not short for Rebecca, just Beca) and of you like it could you give us some middle names!! Thanks❤️❤️

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IPromiseIWontBeNaughty · 19/01/2019 08:11

I have an odd name. Please don’t do it. Beyond selfish.

TheShiteRunner · 19/01/2019 08:13

Isn't it funny that MN thinks that any name they haven't come across before is "spelled wrong" or "looks stupid". It's such an Anglocentric and patronising attitude. It's a perfectly spelled, relatively popular name- just not in English.

JumpOrBePushed · 19/01/2019 08:14

I’d spell it as Becca personally.

Can’t help with middle names though, as my preference there is for meaningful middle names (e.g. names that have some personal significance to the parents) rather than middle names that just sound nice.

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Romanov · 19/01/2019 08:16

But does anybody have a middle name for Beca (yes pronounced Becca)

Today 05:34Chloejean

And how do you guys get the pronounciations beaker and Baker from beca lol that’s konda random

If the pronunciation is obvious, why are you telling us?

SnuggyBuggy · 19/01/2019 08:18

To be the OP has clearly said that what something quirky rather than Beca being a nice name from where they are from.

FabulouslyGlamorousFerret · 19/01/2019 08:22

@TheShiteRunner

Fair point, and the OP's opening 'Y'all' may indicate she is not from the UK.

Therefore I apologise and take back the suggestion of 'Beca-Squeaka'

LoniceraJaponica · 19/01/2019 08:28

I don't understand why anyone gives their child a name that is a nickname on the birth certificate. Using the full name gives the child more options when they are older.
Unless the name is specific to another culture it just makes the parents look illiterate.

The OP's posting style is odd. A teenager perhaps? Although my DD wouldn't post like this.

3out · 19/01/2019 08:33

‘But does anybody have a middle name for Beca (yes pronounced Becca)

Today 05:34Chloejean

And how do you guys get the pronounciations beaker and Baker from beca lol that’s konda random

If the pronunciation is obvious, why are you telling us?’

I’m guessing the OP isn’t English? To an English person, ‘ah’ seems to sound like ‘er’ (interchangeably perhaps?) I’m Scottish and can’t understand how Beca would sound like beaker. If I read Beca I would guess it was said Be-cah, which sounds very different to beaker. If OP is American (only guessing, because of the y’all) then Be-ca wouldn’t sound anything like beaker either.

But getting back to the OP, I’d spell it Becca (even though autocorrect tries to change it to Beca 😂)

RoseMartha · 19/01/2019 08:36

Only as a nickname for Rebecca. Although prefer Becky.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 19/01/2019 08:41

Tons of Becca’s Here in Wales
Know a few myself and several in school with my kids

ElliePhillips · 19/01/2019 08:42

Awful. I hate nicknames as full legal names and Beca is just a misspelling of Becca. It might seem 'fun' to you but a real life child has to live with this name forever. Grow up and pick sensibly. You sound about twelve years old.

museumum · 19/01/2019 08:44

I think the nickname thing is fine. I’ve known Beths with no longer name and a drew who isn’t andrew and katies not Catherine.

However. Becca needs two cs.

CountFosco · 19/01/2019 08:48

I would read Beca as Becca not beaker but I'm Scottish so have a rhotic accent (as I'm guessing the OP does).

Why can't people call their children ordinary names which will not cause offence, such as Sarah and Rachel, David and Jeremy?

Or what about Jonathan?

KeepingTheWormsQuiet · 19/01/2019 08:49

If you're going to give a child a nickname, please spell it properly. The double c is what makes it pronounced Becca. Your sister will just look like someone who can't spell.

purpleelk · 19/01/2019 08:50

I don’t think it’s outrageous at all in the ol’ US where yoonique spellings are now common as muck.

BendydickCuminsnatch · 19/01/2019 08:52

I’m assuming you’re American OP? (‘Y’all’, your turn of phrase etc). This site is predominantly used by Brits. So where you’d really pronounce the ‘er’ at the end of ‘beaker’, we’d pronounce it more softly like an ‘a’ sound - ‘beak-uh’. Just like Becker is Beca would be pronounced the same here whereas in the US Becker is really like BeckERRRR. Not explaining myself well but that might not be helpful for you if you are in fact American! We’ll not be on the same page!

ThanksItHasPockets · 19/01/2019 08:57

I would read Beca as Becca not beaker but I'm Scottish so have a rhotic accent (as I'm guessing the OP does).

That’s completely irrelevant when the name doesn’t include the letter ‘r’!

Foonababoonalagoona · 19/01/2019 08:58

I have a nice name but spelt wrong. It's from my father's origin and they had no English spelling of it.... But my name has been mis pronounced all my life. It's so irritating and I get kind of fed up explaining ,so alot of the time I give up and just wince when it's said wrong. So for the sake of an extra consonant I think your SIL would be doing her DD a massive favour.

ApolloandDaphne · 19/01/2019 09:04

The OPs turn of phrase sounds exactly like that of my niece who is Scottish.

LinoleumBlownapart · 19/01/2019 09:06

Beca is half a shekel. So how about Beca Shekel?

The second C in Becca changes the sound of the E and makes it Becca. With only one C separating the two vowels, the first vowel sound is different and the second is silent, like how "like" is not pronounced "lick" and countless other examples. Most English speakers subconsciously apply that rule to new words. So Beca will have lifetime of correcting people.

3out · 19/01/2019 09:15

There’s a lady at our local supermarket who is called Soibhan. I really want to know if that’s how her parents spell it, or if the badge maker spelled it wrong.

I know this is completely irrelevant regarding Beca, but it irrationally irritates me 😂

3out · 19/01/2019 09:27

‘I would read Beca as Becca not beaker but I'm Scottish so have a rhotic accent (as I'm guessing the OP does).

That’s completely irrelevant when the name doesn’t include the letter ‘r’!’

I suspect that’s entirely the Count’s point - there is no ‘r’.

BertrandRussell · 19/01/2019 09:31

How does having a rhotic accent affect the pronunciation of an e between two single consonants?

MyVisionsComeFromSoup · 19/01/2019 09:33

I'd say Beca as Bee-kah, as you need a double c to make the e sound ee. Although I'd probably assume you had got the spelling wrong tbh.

However, don't doubt the inability of the general public to mispronounce names you'd think were perfectly obvious, one of my DC has a name where what I thought would be an obvious ah sound, frequently gets an ay sound, which drives me bonkers (I think it's an American English vs British English vs Scottish pronunciation thing).

ThanksItHasPockets · 19/01/2019 09:39

How does having a rhotic accent affect the pronunciation of an e between two single consonants?

It doesn’t, Bertrand. Rhotic speakers who can’t imagine a non-rhotic voice saying ‘beaker’ just need to turn the phonetic rendering in ‘beeka’. Rhotic accents have no effect on the vowel sound.

The rhotic / non-rhotic thing comes up on every pronunciation thread and it is tiresome, but at least it is often relevant. It isn’t here.