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starrynight9503
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38 weeks, need a name!
starrynight9503
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Juggling between a few options for our girl. We like Lenin (pronounced like John "Lennon") but also like the way Lay-nin sounds and can't seem to find it as a baby name or how we would spell it! How would you spell/pronounce it?
38 weeks, need a name! 107 votes
Avery Louise
28%
30 votes
Avery Elizabeth
58%
63 votes
Lenin Louise
2%
3 votes
Lenin Elizabeth
8%
9 votes
Lenin Avery
1%
2 votes
Re: 38 weeks, need a name!
TTC since September 2012
If not, do not name your child Lenin, because, like pp said...communism.
I really dislike Avery on a girl, but anything is better than Lenin.
You say you like the pronunciation "Laynin", have you considered something like "Layna" instead? It's still NMS but it does come off more as a name than Lenin or Laynin. You could also spell it Laina or even Lena (though you'd experience confusion with that one).
What about Leia? Or Elena?
Love Elizabeth as the MN, though
ETA: Louise is bad. I don't care that it's technically a girl name so it's getting more love than Avery, it is not a nice name. Please consider your young, beautiful daughter spending her youth with a crochety old lady name...I sure wouldn't have been happy about that.
Lenin is horrible for a girl!!
Sorry I don't like any names you have listed.
Agree with above use Louise or Elizabeth. Classis names
Regardless, Avery is a boy name and Lenin is bad bad baaaaad.
Lenin, by the way, was a communist. A famous one. You really want to name a little girl that?
TTC #1 - Nov '14
DS born 10/18
TTC #1 - Nov '14
DS born 10/18
Lenin is terrible and Avery is a boys name. I'm sorry that you're bummed you're not having a boy, but you can't just slap a boys name on her and pretend.
DD1 born 5/24/10.
Missed M/C at 14 wks Feb 2012.
DD2 born 5/14/13.
Missed M/C at 9 wks July 2015.
Yes, yes. Elizabeth Louise is a wonderful name!
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You'll be happy to know that Lennon and Lenin are off the table now thank you to all of you who pointed out the communist connection. Big oops.
MNs are pretty much non-negotiable as Louise and Elizabeth are family names (hence the old-lady type) and are by far the best options we have to work with (others are names like Mabel and Delia...eiw)
Avery is a name we have both loved for many years... sadly, it has gotten more popular than we'd hoped. We try not to be trendy, hence Lennon, but again that's off the table. I personally know more fm Averys than male and it is listed as unisex in every dictionary I've seen. If we were having a boy, it'd still be at the top of our list.