Help! Suitable baby name?

[cassie91]

Hi all. I am going to name my baby 'Cassandra Madara' - we will call her either Cassie or Maddie for short, just as my parents would call me Cassie for short! :)

However, my parents and all my peers think it is a strange name for my girl. I don't know what to do, I would hate for my baby to be bullied for having a weird name or something!! Is it a suitable name?

It's only odd if both you and your daughter are called Cassie. Otherwise it's a lovely name. I'm assuming the middle name is just that and you wouldn't use both names all the time?

Yeah it's weird to call her the same name as you. I know there are generally men who call their sons after themselves for generations as tradition but it's less common for women and either way, I'm not keen on it. Children need their own identity and it'll just be plain confusing at home. What's your thought process behind that?

Separate point, Cassandra and Madara are a bit samey together! Is Madara a family name, I've never heard it. I don't dislike it though.

It is a Latvian name!
I think you have a valid point too.. perhaps to switch the name around then? With Cassandra being a middle name? It means a lot to my family, the name Cassandra, if that makes sense. :)

It is entirely suitable.

I don't think it's a problem with your daughter having the same name as you. In some periods and in some cultures this is quite normal. And in the recent past it has been quite usual in the UK for boys to have the same name as their father - and grandfather.

I like Cassandra and short form Cassie and can't see any reason why a child would be 'bullied' for such a regular and lovely name. I also think it's lovely that you are using a name that means a lot to your family. There is nothing wrong with Madara either, and it's good to use a name from your background. I do prefer Cassandra as the first name though.

Yes! Switch them round. Madara Cassandra is lovely. Having a family name as a middle name is very common and nice. Madara is pretty and unusual.

I have the same as my mum (albeit with a spelling variation) and was also named after my grandmother (who had a 3rd spelling of the same name). It's never been weird as we use different shortenings of it so there's no confusion.

I think it's a bit strange that some people think it would be ok for a boy to be named after his father but not a girl for her mother.

Love the name Cassandra. Considered it for my dc *who turned out to be boys).

Lots of possible nicknames - Cass, Cassie, Sandra, Sandy Etc.

Also, unusual, but not so unusual that people can’t spell it.

Madara - never heard of before, so she would probably spend her life spelling it out, so okay for middle name.

@seeingdots didn't say I thought it was ok for boys and not girls, I said it's more commonplace for boys. And that I don't really like it for either because it's nice to have own identity.

Family names as middle names I think are fab.

I like Madara.

I like Dara or Mara but Madara 🤷‍♀️🙈

It is like madra

Cassandra Madara
Or
Madara Cassandra
BOTH ARE NICE