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I posted this on Baby Names but wanted to get some thoughts here as well... 

I have been wanting to post this question for a while but knowing how brutally honest this board is it has taken me a while.  I think I am ready to hear your thoughts because we are stuck!

DH and I are stuck between two versions of our girls name: 

Lucy Anna - or - Lucianna (or Lucyanna) Kay

Thanks for your thoughts and advice!

 

Afterthoughts: she will be called Lucy no matter the outcome... Lucy and Anna are grandmothers names, Kay is my mom's MN... Our last name is one syllable 

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  • ElskerElsker

    Lucy is a sweet name. The only girl I ever knew named Lucy was a Valedictorian, and was the kindest person I ever met!

    I have an offbeat taste in names, so I like Lucianna, but I think if I saw it on paper and had never heard it I might pronounce it like the name Lucian...so it would sound like Loo-she-anna.

    I doubt my mispronounciation would be common, especially if she just goes by Lucy.

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  • bug81bug81
    Since you are going to call her Lucy anyway I would name her Lucy Anna.  I believe in calling a child what you name it. I know that I am one of only a few that do that but when I named my DS Charles I dared anyone to call him Chuck or Charlie.  If I wanted a Charlie I would have named him Charlie.  Sorry for the rant, I get off on tangents easily these days.
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  • EnamiEnami member

    I like Lucianna, I think it's different and sounds a little exotic.

    The PP said she likes naming kids what you will actually be calling them, and my FI tends to be the same way. I go by Sam, and it used to drive him crazy (I've gone by Sam since I was a kid, long before he met me). He's the only person that routinely calls me Samantha, but he will sometimes use my shortened name because he thinks both fit me pretty well (I call him E at times, because there are no nicknames for Enoch). He wants to name our baby Evie if it's a girl, but I don't think using a nickname as a formal name looks good in a professional way, so we decided to name baby Evelyn and just call her Evie because Evelyn Cleo looks and sounds better than Evie Cleo. It's also our way of distinguishing baby from grandma (who has always been Evelyn, never Evie). But Lucy is a formal name in it's own right, so I think whichever way you go will be fine.

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  • KrisMommaKrisMomma
    They are both lovely names, but I really like Lucianna. It is a little different and gives her the option of a longer, more elegant name as an adult if she wants it.
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  • mooninlvmooninlv

    i like lucy, but not with anna. and i like lucianna, but the spelling/pronunciation seems odd to me. i liike it better lu-shi-ana

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  • fraglettefraglette
    imageElsker:

    I have an offbeat taste in names, so I like Lucianna, but I think if I saw it on paper and had never heard it I might pronounce it like the name Lucian...so it would sound like Loo-she-anna.

    I doubt my mispronounciation would be common, especially if she just goes by Lucy.

    It's probably more common than you think.  I would pronounce it Loo-che-anna

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