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Disagreements
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My mom and my mother in law both think that I am crazy because I want to name our daughter Michael Juliet. This is the only thing they agree on. My DH and I love the name because it has a special place in both of our hearts. We also agreed on a feminine mmiddle name so if she does hate it she can go by that. I have Googled this name for a girl and I am not alone. I think it is a very cute girl name, but I am not one of the crazies who give their daughter a boy middle name with it. WDYT??
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It's your baby and this is America, so you can name it any fool thing you want. USA! USA!
That said, I'm on your mom and MIL's side on this one. Juliet Michael or Michaela Juliet would be better.
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I agree with this!
Agreed. Even Michelle Juliet sounds better, but I really like plunderb's suggestion of Michaela Juliet. One little letter make a big difference. Michael is and always will be a boy's name, IMO.
Yup.
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That said though, if you truly love it and it's special to you, stick with it.
My middle name is Michael-Marie and I love it as a middle name, I don't like it as a first name.
Juliet Michael sounds beautiful.
Not a fan. I'd either go with Michaela Juliet or switch it up to Juliet Michael. If she likes Michael as much as you do, she can go by her middle name.
On a related note, I once knew a woman named George... indirectly. I never met her. I had written to her for business purposes and she called me to complain that we had addressed her as "Mr." Sorry lady: your name is George. You can't really complain when people assume you're a dude if they've never met you and know nothing about you. My name is "Jamie" which is thoroughly unisex, and I don't get mad when I'm referred to as "Mr."
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Wow. A woman named George got mad that you didn't know she was a woman ::eyeroll::
I work with three men - Sandy (Sanford) Val (Vladmir) and Jan (John in German, pronounced Yan) Each of them get mail to Ms. or Mrs.
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Yup.
I have to agree with your mom and MIL. Michaela Juliet would be my suggestion. Michael is a boy name, through and through.
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Stupid to get mad over that, it is an understandable mistake. DH's friend is named Lindsay and he gets called Mrs. a lot but he just laughs about it, no big deal.
Yeah, she was a charmer. You'd think she'd be used to it by now, right? Nope. Bitter and weird. I hope your men with feminine names are understanding. (BTW: sounds like you have a fabulously international office!)
Gotta agree with the majority here - it's really a very masculine name - you don't want to consider Micaela or anything similar? I once knew a Michael Anne and went by both names. I LOVE feminine names so I may be biased in that way.
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Terrible choice for a girl. You'd be setting her up for a lifetime of correcting people.
That George story was ridiculous! I have a borderline unisex name and get called Mr. and Sir all the time. I just laugh it off.
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LoL, yeah they don't care, it's kinda funny. We are fabulously international!! We have a Jacinta (Portuguese) Fatma (Middle Eastern) and a Jordania (Brazilian) too. There's a lot of diversity here.
Dude, there is NOTHING feminine about Michael.
What about Michal? It's a Hebrew girls' name. I've heard it pronounced mih-KAWL and like Michael (which I don't like, and doubt is "correct"). At the very least, you'd be using a girls' name. And I think most people know on sight that it's a girls' name, which can't be said of Michael.
I've never heard those pronunciations for Michal! Strange: where do you live? Maybe it's regional?
I love this name. I've always heard Mee-hall or the more traditional (and accurate) Mee-CHall. Not a "ch" like in "cheese" but a "ch" like in the traditional pronunciation of Chanukkah. (Most English speakers aren't too fond of that sound.)
Oh please don't. I love Michael (obviously) and Juliet, just flip em around.
This. I don't even like the more manly "unisex" names people are using for girls- like Sawyer or Elliott. Michael is all boy. I don't like it at all.
I strongly dislike boy names on girls. I also agree that this is a super masculine name, and wouldn't reccomend using it on a girl. IMO, you should save it for a future son. And, I did know one woman named Michael, so you're right, you aren't alone.
All that said, it's your baby and your mom and MIL get no say in this decision.
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This exactly. My first thought was that it's hideous. And nothing about Michael says unisex.
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Your family is right. Your poor baby.
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This was my thought as well. I wouldn't pronounce Michal as Michael though.
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So do I.
Riiiight...you're just one of the crazies who wants to give her daughter an extremely masculine name so she gets tortured for the rest of her life. Seriously, it's not any more crazy to name her Michael Johnathan. Naming a girl Michael is just crazy, period. I almost think this is a joke.
Michael just doesn't compute as a girl name. I'll admit I'm not a fan of unisex names in general, but there are names that cross-over, like Taylor or Jordan or whatever (or more historically, Ashley, Shannon, Meredith, Evelyn, etc.). But Michael is no normal boy name. It has been a top 10 boys name since World War II. It has been in the top 3 boys names since 1953 and was the #1 boys name every single year (except one) from 1954 through 1998. Over the past 100 years, 4,230,343 male Michaels have been born--- more babies have been named Michael than any single girl name.
If we start naming girls Michael, we might as well give up altogether on the idea of having girls and boys names. It's not being spunky and nontraditional-- it's making a mockery of the deepest of naming traditions.