Would you say something if...............

[Anonymous]

I would, I would say "That''s really neat! You are giving them names that have the same meaning! Cool!"

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Isabelle and Elizabeth seems a little obscure to me. They both sound like "different" names, even if they essentially same name, different language variants. Sort of like naming your kids Andreas and Andrew, I guess, but with more variation than that, even.

[Anonymous]

No, unless I'd actually been asked for my opinion. Even then, I probably wouldn't say anything critical.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't say anything, but I often chortle a little (privately) about fellow parents' naming choices that strike me as odd. Not such a big deal, really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you say something to someone if they had one daughter named Isabelle and were planning to name the second one Elizabeth?

What if they had a son named Eric and and planned on naming their new daughter Erica?

I must be dumb, I don't get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you say something to someone if they had one daughter named Isabelle and were planning to name the second one Elizabeth?

What if they had a son named Eric and and planned on naming their new daughter Erica?

I must be dumb, I don't get it.

Isabelle and Elizabeth are derivations of each other... get it?

Isa/Eliza

Belle/Beth


Just like Charles is Carlos in Spanish, William is Guillaume in French, Mary is Maria in Spanish, Joanne is Johanna in German, etc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would, I would say "That''s really neat! You are giving them names that have the same meaning! Cool!"

That sounds like how a MIL criticizes.

[Anonymous]

It's just that they are a variation on the same name.

Isabella is the Spanish version of Elizabeth. It would be like nameing one son Juan and another one John. Or, three boys -- Jack, Sean and Ian.

Or your daughters, Maria, Mary, and Maire.

If you look them up in a name book, they are all on the same page. Same name.

no biggie, it's just that most people wouldn't name one girl Mary and the other Maria. So maybe the Isabella/Elizabeth people don't actually know that the names are versions of the same name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would, I would say "That''s really neat! You are giving them names that have the same meaning! Cool!"

That sounds like how a MIL criticizes.

Yeah, I guess. A really enthusiastic, cook MIL. Because I think it is neat! As long as it is what the parents intended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would, I would say "That''s really neat! You are giving them names that have the same meaning! Cool!"

That sounds like how a MIL criticizes.

Yeah, I guess. A really enthusiastic, cook MIL. Because I think it is neat! As long as it is what the parents intended.

Oh, but what if they don't realize Isabelle and Elizabeth are the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would, I would say "That''s really neat! You are giving them names that have the same meaning! Cool!"

That sounds like how a MIL criticizes.

Yeah, I guess. A really enthusiastic, cook MIL. Because I think it is neat! As long as it is what the parents intended.

Oh, but what if they don't realize Isabelle and Elizabeth are the same?

Then so be it. MYOB, and probably some nosy parker will tell them anyway.

[Anonymous]

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Did you really ask this question, out loud?....

Who cares what a person names their own child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course I wouldn't. Names are very personal. Heck, I knew a family with a Rose, a Lily, and a Violet. The parents called them their beautiful garden.

I think of the Real Housewives has a Ruby and Jade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I wasn't thinking of saying anything but someone else did.

I knew a set of twins named Gerald and Geraldine. Gerry and Gerri.

That's just so wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would, I would say "That''s really neat! You are giving them names that have the same meaning! Cool!"

That sounds like how a MIL criticizes.

Yeah, I guess. A really enthusiastic, cook MIL. Because I think it is neat! As long as it is what the parents intended.

That is what is known as a backhanded compliment. The criticism is implied, and if needed the person doing it can deny that it's criticism at all. But it nonetheless is a backhanded compliment.