I am 22 weeks pregnant with DC3 with my fiancé. I have 2 older DC's (DD 16 and DS3) from a previous relationship. My last DH was Irish and they have very Irish names. My soon to be DH is of Indian decent, though he doesn't really appear it (both parents are half white half indian), he wanted to pick an Indian sounding name for our DC.
We had Jasmine picked out for a girl and Sai for a boy. However, at 2 weeks ago we discovered DC was a girl and DF said he had gone off the name Jasmine as he has seen a lot of them about, and has decided he likes Lakshmana. Pronounced "lock" "shmar" "na". It's a traditional Indian boys name but he claims it can be used for a girl. I wasn't keen at first but it has grown on me. However I think it's a bit "extra" for DD2 to have growing up. I keep having visions of the suppy teacher at school not being able to pronounce it and friends asking about it. Also made worse with the fact that she'll probably appear very caucasian, what with me being white and DH being 7/8ths white. I'm worried people will judge us as "stealing" the name from another culture.
I've decided either I register her as Lakshmana and find a suitable nickname to use day to day OR name her Jasmine Lakshmana Lastname. I have been unable to find a nickname, so does anyone here have any ideas? Thank you.