Honest thoughts: Elowynn Lusie

bumpuser10199668

Okay, I've always been against all those "out there" names and crazy spellings, but hear my out.  This is our first baby, but my MILs 6th grandchild. She's always wanted someone to name their child after her (Lynn). Then we've got my mom, who would love us to name the baby after her (Elaine). We also have 4 grandmothers between the 2 of us, who we have lost but cherished deeply (Louise, Lula, Susie, and Winnie).  Soooo....I started trying to make it work. 

Here is what I've finally come up with:

Elowynn (just a different spelling of Elowen) = Elaine, Lynn, Winnie

Lusie (alternate spelling of Lucy) = Lula, Louise, Susie

Last name will be Hughes. Elowynn Lusie Hughes or Lusie Elowynn Hughes

What are your thoughts?

Jags8

I'm sorry, I know you're trying to honor your family, but its a bit much. Maybe just give her the mn of Elowynn, and give her a non-younique fn?

VTGal

That's really bad. No one will ever get the "honoring" of a family member when it's such a modge podge. You will have more kids, no? Save some names for later

==N==

Eesh, that's a lot of people to try and name after.

I think Lusie looks like it should be pronounced Lussy. Elowen is nice, while nms, but Elowynn is in for a lifetime of correcting people.

I like family names but honestly if someone were to name their baby after me, I wouldn't want it to be me and 5 other people. I'd love to be able to say my granddaughters mn is my name. Not the second syllable of my granddaughters mn is the first syllable of my name.

A couple other suggestions you might be able to use:
Willa (Winnie, Lula)
Eloise (Elaine, Louise)

bumpuser10199668

This is why I love this forum. I knew it was bad in my heart, but I needed some honest feedback, ha! Thanks ladies!

VTGal

Is there a way that you could use a last name in order to cover more people?

bumpuser10199668

We're working with Brent, Norman, and Henderson as last names. I really love Elowen and Lucy, as they are, and honestly I don't like Lynn names in general, but she's REALLLLLLY pushing for it.  I know that shouldn't matter, but I do think the hubby would like to honor her....But the way our mothers are, honoring one without the other would be chaotic....hence the mod podge above...

katekat8721

I think you're trying to please too many people with this!

SidraJedi

When folks see your daughter's name they won't see all of the family yhat you honored, they will just see a youneek spelling.

However, Elowen Lucy will always know that you chose her name based on the fact that it attempts to honor several beloved family members.

queenbone

You can't honor every body with one baby, nor should anyone pressure you to feel like you should.

I have no opinion on the spelling Elowynn since I'm not very familiar with this name, but Lusie=Lucy is ridic.

SuperMom17

Honorable attempt but all of those just ridiculously terrible. Like really, really terribly terrible.

WestIsleFlower

May I suggest Eloise Lynn? I feel like this encompasses most if not all of the names w/o being too out there.

TripMomma

What about Elena? 

I like Lucy...no cr8tive spellings though.

julesgilead

Again, the spellings are just...awful.
Elowen Lucy is quite nice. if you really want to get Lynn in there, a double MN and Elowen Lucy Lynn or maybe Elodie Lucy Lynn for less of a sing-song sound.

If you don't want to name the baby after your MIL, she has no right to insist on it, and you need to let her know what's she's asking isn't gonna go down. (Actually, you might not want to if she's the type to make a huge confrontation out of it. Depending on your MIL, you might just want to name the baby and she can learn to live with it.)

nittanyllama

You've got a lot of good feedback. I also vote no no no. Please stick with real names and spellings! There is not way to honor that many people without it looking silly.

susieandmarty

Please don't do this to your child. Pick one or two to honor - max and then use real names

I doubt people will feel overly honored to be included in a random combo of letters formed into a name

kleigh926

I agree with all the PP's about the spelling. I also want to say again that you should never name your child to honor someone because they are insisting on it. Name your baby what YOU want and that person will have to get over it. To me, pushing someone to name a baby after you seems incredibly selfish and takes away any amount of "specialness." If the parents only named the baby after you because you wouldn't let it go, that kind of negates the feeling of truly being honored, doesn't it? (The "you" here is obviously not referring to you personally, OP.)

I do like Elowen Lucy.

LtlAngL

I'm not a fan of naming babies after live relatives. I think it's a bad omen. You should do what feels right to you...didn't you and your DH have one of those cutesy conversations when you guys were dating that went..."I'd love a daughter named Sara and a son named Mark (or whatever)...I'm pretty sure it wasn't...."we should just let our mothers name our kids." They had their chance, now you have yours. I think you should stick with honoring grandmothers (and not more than 2!) My suggestion is Susannah Louise.

rockopera

Is it really an "honor" if you are pressured into naming your child after mom or MIL? Isn't it actually just letting someone else pick your child's name?

Pick a name YOU want for this person you are bringing into the world. Don't try to make it everything to everyone.

LindsayLoehner

It's lovely that you're trying to honor your family members but please, no. Ellowynn is just too you-nique, too much. I don't care for the name Lucy, in general, but it's tolerable if spelled as such, not Lusie.

diamondduck13

If you want to honor family members, If I were in OP's situation I'd probably go with the grandparent level - seems safer from hurt feelings than picking one of the mothers angling for their names to be used. And I'd go with just one, for the MN, so the FN which you'll call your daughter will feel like "yours."

Otherwise, if it were me and I caved to using Lynn, Id always reset feeling I'd let myself give into the pressure. I guess unless I would have used Lynn regardless.

Generally speaking, stepping away from OP's particular situation, if a parent name is used, for a MN or FN, I like the idea of a mom using her mom's name for her first born daughter. I like the idea of continuing the matriarchal line like that

luluwoo

You seem like a bit of a people pleaser.  I think you should pick a name because you absolutely love it.  I do understand wanting some history and to honor the family.  However, I think unless you use someone's actual name it doesn't achieve that.  I do think Elowen and Lucy are both fantastic names (maybe not together).  But ultimately if you love, love, love them and want to spell them your own way you should do it.  You have no one that you need to please here but yourself and DH.  Since you are asking for opinions, I'd probably go with something like Elowen Rose or Elowen Claire.  But it's really about what feels good to you.  Good luck!

Coconuthead

Elowen Lucy or Elowen Lucille are lovely. Elowynn Lusie looks unpleasant IMO.

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Joy2611 said:

Elowen Lucy is just wonderful.

This.

Irishcurls

I know this horse has been beaten, but I just want to touch on OPs update on the mother's being upset if only one gets honored. While I get where they're coming from, sort of, 1) they don't actually get a say and 2) MIL needs to go back behind the line she crossed "really pushing" for it. Just because the parents of the previous 5 grandkids didn't honor her, doesn't mean you have to get saddled with it if it's not something you want. 

On a sidenote, Elowen is new to me and I like!!

pipeTsquared

Elowen is nice

(to further the spelling thing as cornish is related to welsh spelling it with a 'y' would make the whole name male)