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Girl: Charli/Charleigh... you like it?
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My husband and I have narrowed our name choices to Olivia, Lily, or Charli/Charleigh. (Not sure about the spelling yet)
He likes Olivia the best, I like Lily the best, and we both love Charli. Since we both equally love the name Charli, I think we are going to use that name. I just hate that whenever we tell people about that option, they act like it's weird and they are shocked that that's what we chose for a girl's name. I like it because it's less common than Olivia and Lily. I have loved both of those names for the longest time, but now they are soooo popular. Kinda like Jennifer/Jessica names in the 80's...
Is Charli really that unusual of a name? What do you think of it?
Her middle name would be Rose. Charli Rose. 
Also, I think the spelling of "Charli" is very cutesy, so we might spell it "Charleigh" to make it seem more like an actual first name than a nickname. Make sense?
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Re: Girl: Charli/Charleigh... you like it?
Oh, and another option is naming her Charlotte and calling her Charli...
Personally, I hate it. It's weird, nicknamey and masculine. Now,if you were saying it was a nickname for Charlotte, then I'd shrug and let it go (although still hating Charli as a nn). Charlotte Rose is better IMO, but if you're really hung up on Charli as a full name, Olivia and Lily are a thousand times better.
BTW, Charlie Rose is a broadcast journalist and a well known commentator/personality, so nix that name IMO really fast! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose It kind of sounds like you're a huge Charlie Rose fan and then thought it would be cute on either a boy or a girl?! Weird...
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That's the best option... Charlotte is a pretty name. Still not a fan of Charli on a girl, but I can deal.
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Nope. Don't like it one bit.
Unless you name her Charlotte (a proper not-made-up name) and call her Charlie for short.
I don't like Charli on a girl unless its a nickname for Charlotte, which I like. I know its super popular, but I also LOVE Olivia. It's one of my favorite girl names, but I tend to like more popular names like Olivia and Ava. To me, Lilly is cute on a little girl, but I don't think it ages well unless you name her Lillian (nn Lilly).
My votes are for Charlotte Rose or Olivia Rose. Good luck deciding!
However, if you love Lily but are hesitant to use it because of its popularity, how about Lillian or Liliana and using the nn Lily?
ETA: Btw, that was an option for me because I love Lily as a nickname, but H said no to both Lillian and Liliana. We are going with another popular name anyway that happens to be a family name and one we both have loved long before it was ever in the top 100...or top 10 for that matter. So choose whatever you like best, but as others mentioned, I do suggest using a full name and leaving "cutesy" shortened names as a nickname
This!
If my LO was a girl, we were going to call her Charlotte, NN Charlie.Full and respectable first name, cutesy nick name.
But I took your post/spellings as you wanted to name your little girl Shar-lee. not Charlie, like Sheen. I might be wrong. Anyways, if Shar-lee is what you were going for, I knew one girl named that in college, and she spelled her name Charlee, for what its worth.
I'm not a fan of either of those, but I prefer a proper name...even if you'll use a nickname. Our daughter is named Charlotte so I obviously love that name. We call her Charlie sometimes (not as much as I thought we would though). Our youngest is Lillian (we call her Lily). GL!
Agreed. I do love and agree with pp suggestions for Charlotte. Beautiful classic name that will serve her well when she is an adult. And you can use the nick name you love.
I think Charlie is a cute nickname for a girl, not so much for a lawyer or a doctor when she get's older. How about Charlene or Charlotte, then you can call her Charlie.
And changing the spelling does not feminize the name.
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Please do this! Your daughter will thank you one day. Charlotte is beautiful!!
Gotta go w/the others- Charlotte w/the NN Charli,
I too thought of Charlie Rose the tv personality when you mentioned the middle name.
I vote for going with Charlotte and using Charlie as a nn (although I would probably use Lottie as a first choice). Charli/Charleigh as a given name is pretty bad.
my friend's little girl is
Charlize Anna and she goes by Charli...it fits her so well
so basically what i'm getting at is i'm probably in the minority, but i love Charli!
Please do this. Then she has the option as an adult to use a full name.
exactly
That is so cute!! Much less common than Charlotte too
i like olivia the best.
lily is ok.
dislike charleigh/charli
Agreed. Plus, Charleigh is pronounced Char-lay...not Char-lee.
If you like the name Charlie, then name her Charlie. Spell it correctly and try not to yooneekify it.
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Olivia is too popular... but a pretty name.
Do not name her Charli... please name her Charlotte and call her Charli.It gives her the option to be normal when she is older.
As you see I love Charlotte. We had the intention of calling her Charlie but we call her Char now.
What about Naming her
Charlotte Leigh or Charlotte Lilly and than calling her Charli
I thought she may be a huge Charlie Rose fan too!
I'm a big (HUGE) proponent of formal names. For me, Charli/Charleigh doesn't even equal a complete, finished name. It sounds like a nickname. That problem is made worse, I think, by the obvious cross-gender qualities of Charlie. Since few people are familiar with Charlie as a girls' name, it seems all the more incomplete.
My recommendation is definitely to go with something else--either something formal that can be shortened to Charlie or another name entirely. One downside to Charlotte/nickname Charlie is the rapidly rising popularity of Charlotte. By the time the new SSA lists come out in May, I think you'll find that Charlotte is just as popular as Lily and Olivia. If that's going to bother you, you have a bit of a problem.
Finally, I have to take issue with the spellings you've proposed. Charleigh and Charli are both ridiculous. Trendy spellings do not make a masculine name feminine and there's a certain merit behind the belief that if you're going to give your baby girl a boys' name, you should at least have the temerity to spell it properly and own that decision. Charlie and Charley are both legitimate spelling variations for what is, traditionally, a boys' name. They both look and sounds vaguely feminine, so there really is no need to alter the spelling in an effort to make it "girly."
Yeah, that's because it is not a girl's name.
And Charlie Rose is a tv show host. I wouldn't name my daughter the same name unless I couldn't avoid it because we are using family names. If you really want to keep this name you should at least familiarize yourself with his PBS show, because it will come up.
I guess I am in the minority, but I love Charlie for a girl. I love boy names as girl's nicknames (Like Joey, for Josephine). I do think that it should be a nickname for a more feminine name, in case she doesn't care for it when she gets older. DH and I have also considered Charlie, but we like Charlize and Charlotte as our way to get the nickname.
As far as Charlie Rose...No way! Unless you are a huge fan (even still), it's just a big NO.
sorry, i don't like it. i feel like the whole charlie-on-a-girl thing already happened a few years ago and it didn't really catch on. even if you spelled it charlie, it's a nickname and your daughter might not want to go by that. i think it's always important for a person to have at least 2 options.
here's a list of full girl names that include "char" if you're interested.
good luck!
This. Please name her Charlotte and call her Charlie. Love that.
Noooooo! Don't do it! "Charleigh" is an abomination. And everybody acts like "Charli" is weird because, well, it is. Get used to people's reactions, or pick a different name.
I do think that spelling it Charlie would be far preferable, and is actually kind of cute.