ok here is my dilemma....nathan...yeh he's a dilemma. anyway the poll is about girls name, not because we know the baby is a girl (we're only 60%-75% sure girl) but because i have no complaints about the boys name we have picked out.

anyway answer the questions honestly, but please....if you don't want to be honest, at least side with me ;)

I liked the names you picked there good and not very common which is also good. When are you expecting?

I think Kimber Lee is a beautiful name, as i said before Leah is a curse to put on a child ;) I refused to name my kids after any member of my family, due to the reason of hating the names I had to choose from, lol, so if you want an honest oppinion, allow him to name her Kimber Leah, but you get to spell it ;) so spell it your way, the only child My husband had any thing to do with naming, was Destiny, and i chose her midde name

Now!!!!

I'm sorry then Donut. You must be in terrible pain! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

yes...someone got Donut back :D [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Rev, please let us know what you decide, i know I had planned on naming my last child Austin Seth for a boy, and Destiny Ann for a girl, but after I woke up, I looked at her, and changed it, so remember that you are not stuck with a name until you see how your baby looks with the name ;)

Double names usually get shortened to just the first one in use, and I prefer the first choice when spoken with just the first name.

Hi Ruby. Have you've tried calling out the names to your unborn baby yet? Maybe he/she can help you out. Talk to them and see what happens. Just a thought. [img]smile.gif[/img]

thanx for the responces everyone. i guess i wouldn't be so mad at the spelling if nathan would want to pronounce it "lee-ah" but hey i can only hope this sways his opinions

congrats on your almost baby Rev...i hope you have a nice time with nathan/kimber lee

Yes, congratulations on the baby [img]smile.gif[/img] . I like the name Kimber Leah better, and I liked it better pronounced as 'LEE.' However, if you are going to have it as Kimber Leah, and pronounce it as lee, why not name her Kimberly? Kids often call a girl named Kimberly as 'Kim' for short. Kimberly also seems easier to recognize its pronounciation to me. Just my opinion though ;)

<font color = “limegreen” > Rather than argue over the spelling / saying which can not be good, how about another name all together?

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BTW Kimberly is popular down here [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] </font>

Spelling "Kimberly" as "Kimber Lee" or "Kimber Leigh" looks and/or sounds like a bad pun. Almost like a play on words. Why not just spell it "Kimberly"?

Regards,
Michael

I was thinking the exact same thing. It would be like calling you Mike Uhl or something [img]tongue.gif[/img]

because her first name would be kimber. most ppl would see her name as kimber l. morgan. lee/leigh/leah would be a middle name. she would hear it as often as she gets in trouble, just like the rest of the kids. most of the time they are justice or justi, but in trouble she is justice dawn, and erilyn becomes erilyn may. perhaps i skipped looking at a few places where those answering are from, but here, in the states it is common to give a first and middle name.

for example i am christi michelle, and my husband is nathan william. i would not mind the spelling of leah, if nathan wanted to pronounce it "lee-ah" but he refuses. he also refuses to remember that i allowed him to change the planned spelling for erilyn may's name. she was going to be erilyn mae. so in fact he owes me the ability to spell "lee" the way i wish. but as i said he refuses to recall that i had a different spelling planned. even tho if i could get to my hard drive i could easily prove it, but then again if i could get to my hard drive i could easily prove a lot [img]tongue.gif[/img]

anyway that is why she would not be kimberly. kimberly is a whole first name by itself.

where as if y'all's would vote for ember anne then maybe i wouldn't have to worry y'all's with the intricacies of child naming.


EDIT:boy for a bunch of ppl form the states (one from australia) y'all really don't seem to get the two name thing...weird.

[ 11-08-2003, 06:32 AM: Message edited by: RevRuby ]

RevRuby:

I get the two name thing fine. It's just that a first name of "Kimber" is very awkward. I don't know where you're from, but here in the States, everyone would think Kimber is short for Kimberly. And here in the States, I think a majority of people only go by their first names, although there are many exceptions. But having such a name as Kimber Leigh (for example) would cause the kid/person all kinds of problems - when you'd go to spell it after hearing it, they'd automatically write "Kimberly".

Just my thoughts!

Regards,
Michael

I agree, you'd probably scar the poor kid for life...
Sorry for being blunt, but if you want my honest opinion, it's the kind of name that makes people wonder why parents could be so cruel - as it *does* sound like a terrible pun.
And out of curiosity, is "Kimber" on its own ever even used as an official first name in the US, apart from an abbreviation of Kimberly? I know it's a common surname, but so is Smith; and I can't see how anyone would use that as a first name either.

No, I've never heard Kimber used as an actual, legal first name for anyone!

Regards,
Michael

Yes I have to agree. As someone with a relatively common name which a lot of people misspell, I know how annoying it to have to keep correctly people or seeing your name misspelled, so it would be much worse for Kimber Leigh. With a name you've basically made up yourself, you're setting your child up to have her name misspelled and misunderstood. Now of course, having to correct people on your name isn't the biggest problem ever, but a name that you love may come to be one she hates because all her little friends Kate and Sarah and Lucy never have to worry about people misspelling or making fun of their names.

It kind of sounds a bit weird together as well, IMHO. Kimberly is a name I've heard frequently, so when I say Kimber Leigh, with a pause in the middle just sounds a bit awkward, like I'm stumbling over Kimberly rather than saying a 'different' name [img]smile.gif[/img]

Bad example :D - Sarah *is* my name and people often spell it without an 'h' on the end. But when I tried saying "Sarah with an h", lots of people actually managed to put that down as "Sahra" or similar nonsense, LOL!
But I get your point and I agree with it ;)

I also get the double names deal, but that'd mean that the name the girl would be called by would be Kimber - well, I think that's pretty ugly.
Of course, it doesn't matter in any way what *I* think of the name as long as you (the parents) like it, I know that! [img]smile.gif[/img] But since you asked for opinions, I don't really like Kimber and FWIW, I also think you're right it's silly to pronounce Leah as "lee". The Lee/Leigh ending as such is quite OK, reminds me of E.A. Poe's poem Annabel Lee - lovely poem, lovely name. [img]smile.gif[/img] But Ember (or Amber, which I prefer) sounds nicer than Kimber, IMHO, and Anne is OK too, hough I much prefer Anna. Just my 2c, hope you'll manage to find a name you both like! Maybe it's worth considering to go for a completely different third name, if you cannot agree on names 1 and 2. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 11-08-2003, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

<font color = “limegreen” > Sorry if this is not what you want to hear RevRuby but I agree with Melusine. Is this the best start for the child, to argue about her name? [img]graemlins/baby.gif[/img] </font>

well i for one have a unique spelling for my name. do you have any idea how many ppl don't know there is a corpus christi tx? which is my only reference to tell ppl how to spell my name. it is a source of pride for me, i love having a unique spelling to my name! i love complaining to ppl about how they spell it!

i like kimber and i like the name kimber leigh, or kimber leah (lee-ah) i like hte uniqueness. heck erilyn is a name i got from a book, and justice is usually a boys name (justis) beyond the fact lots of strangers asking her name thought i was nuts for dressing "justin" (which is how they chose to hear it) in pink.

anyway i just really like ember anne so much better, but nathan really feels he has every right to name this child as he wishes since i named erilyn and justice. i just wish he would spell it leigh, or lee or actually pronounce leah correctly.

and i have never hear kimber as a nick name. i know lots of kim's and kimmy's tho.

btw we are in pennsylvania.

Bad example :D - Sarah *is* my name and people often spell it without an 'h' on the end. But when I tried saying "Sarah with an h", lots of people actually managed to put that down as "Sahra" or similar nonsense, LOL!
But I get your point and I agree with it ;)
</font>[/QUOTE]LOL - you're right ;) . Actually I had trouble thinking of names that *no one* would get wrong - must just be a lot of dumb people around :D . You wouldn't think Melanie would be such a difficult name to spell, but apparently it is :rolleyes: . I would pronounce Sara like Tara though, not like Sarah ;) .

At least Kimber (if there were no Leigh) is a reasonably straightforward spelling. I really dislike the current trend of taking a common name and giving it a new spelling - like Emma-Emmah, Rebecca-Rebekkah, Jessica-Jessykah, Taylor-Tailah (I have actually seen all of these :eek: ). Poor kiddies! As if anyone hearing their name would be 'ah yes, that would be Penelope with a double L and Y...' :D

I like Ember Anne much better anyway - it's a far prettier and feminine name.

Well, I know a Sara and a Tara, and they both pronounce their names the same way... rhyming with Sarah. No "Sah-rah" here [img]smile.gif[/img]

Kimber as a first name does make me think of Timber, who hasn't put in his voice into this IIRC... smart man. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Ultimately, you and Nathan have to decide, and she has to live with it. Just remember... some years down the road, she'll be picking out your nursing home [img]smile.gif[/img]

I actually don't care for either of the offered names, but voted to help anyway!

Yep - in Dutch, Sara and Sarah are pronounced identically too. Don't know what the difference is supposed to be in English, but I always thought it was the same name, really, just spelled differently.
As for Tara, that rhymes with Sarah here as well, since my best friend wanted to name her cat after me, but not by the exact same name since she thought I wouldn't like that. So now it's called Tara. :D

Anyway, I'd really give the third name option a chance, RevRuby and Morgeruat - maybe there is one that you won't disagree on at all. [img]smile.gif[/img]

ty gammit!

i don't think i can convince nathan into a third different name. i tried my best with researching names i really likes and gave him ahuge list of them, but he has been so determined. perhaps he will change his mind when he sees her.

i know quite a few ppl who refuse to even think of names til they see the baby.