I wish I had picked less common names. It was just hard to find names that worked in multiple languages.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, Isabella is a classic name that will go the distance.

That means nothing to me. I don't care about a name being classic. Shouldn't have let her father pick. He was not qualified.

What qualifications does someone need to pick a name? Maybe you don't like the name, but it's a perfectly fine classic name.

Anonymous wrote:I hear you, OP. The Italian name thing for Americans has always felt dramatic to me. Why nit use the English version? Oh well. You did and that's that.

Are you saying Isabella is an Italian name? It really doesn’t read that way to me. It’s not as if it’s Chiara or Cosima or something.

I have two daughters and we went with two traditional, classic names. Still love the names and they will sound great in 20, 50, 100 years. We didn't have any good family names to hand down and I wanted to change that. Also, my girls are teens and actually LIKE their names, which I think is somewhat rare.

I was thinking about giving my kid 2 middle names, the same ones as my mom. I ended up not doing this and wish I had. Her existing name is still very her though

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, Isabella is a classic name that will go the distance.

That means nothing to me. I don't care about a name being classic. Shouldn't have let her father pick. He was not qualified.

That’s fine, but the point is that she has a name that is nice and will not cause any problems for her in the future.

Also, I don’t think I’d want to know that my mom doesn’t like my name.

My kids have classic names that wound up suiting them. Sometimes I think it would have been nice to give them names that are more strongly tied to our ethnicity.

I might change my son’s middle name to match the same middle name as his sister’s (it’s a long story but it’s my original birth last name) or at least not use the middle name my husband really wanted, as it’s a common dog’s name.

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Anonymous wrote:One middle name was a big miss. It’s too bad.

Same, middle name was a mistake. It's just a middle and NBD in the scheme of things, but if I could do it again it would be different. Oh well!

I would spell my DDs middle name differently. I named her for my grandmother and I changed the spelling to make it easier to pronounce correctly (still a “correct” spelling thing Eleanor/Elinor but I think “grandmas name is misspelled!” When I see it.

We moved abroad permanently when she was two and while I adore her name and think it suits her, I would have picked something that works better in our new country if I had a do-over.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, Isabella is a classic name that will go the distance.

That means nothing to me. I don't care about a name being classic. Shouldn't have let her father pick. He was not qualified.

My dh also favored the super girly names ( Isabella/Gabriella ) which was a surprise to me

Anonymous wrote:One middle name was a big miss. It’s too bad.

Same, middle name was a mistake. It's just a middle and NBD in the scheme of things, but if I could do it again it would be different. Oh well!

One middle name was a big miss. It’s too bad.

I hear you, OP. The Italian name thing for Americans has always felt dramatic to me. Why nit use the English version? Oh well. You did and that's that.

No- DC have very classic but not over used names.