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Opinions on Valeria !!!
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FTM and due in November, so we don’t even know the gender yet, but my husband and I love the name Valeria for a girl. We have a few other girl names that we’ve agreed upon, but Valeria is our favorite. We don’t have any boy baby names yet, or middle names. We think that Valeria is a beautiful, timeless name, it’s uncommon but not unheard of (which is what we wanted), and it works with both English and Spanish (his family is mostly Spanish-speaking). We like that it has easy nicknames as well. We had agreed that we loved this name before I was even pregnant.
Usually when we’ve been announcing to people that I’m pregnant, one of their first questions is if we have any names picked out, and we’ve told a few people that we like Valeria for a girl. Their reactions have been pretty lackluster. They usually respond “…Valeria? Oh okay, that’s nice. Do you have any other names?”
This has been a little discouraging. We still love the name, and will most likely use it if we’re having a girl, but I just wanted to see what other people think about it!! The only downside that I know of is that it rhymes with Malaria, but I don’t think this is a big problem, and it’s hard to find a name that we like that doesn’t have some teasing potential!!!
Sorry for the super long post- tl;dr : My husband and I love the name Valeria, but our families/friends have been less than excited, so lmk what you think of the name!!
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