Once the baby is born and you look into his or her face you will know.
Everyone has a mental picture of how a Ariel, Samantha, Barbara or Ashley in their head.
I personally would stay away from names that are too different as it might cause problems for the child always having their name mispronounced, misspelled. It gets old always having to explain ones name. After the 5000 time you begin to really hate it.
My friend named her son Seamus. And yes the girl at the Peds office called him SEA-MUS and my friend said "do you really think I would name my kid SEA-MUS? It is pronounced Shay-mus but spelled Seamus as is was in Ireland ages ago.
Now it's a great name but you better believe that kid is gonna be picked on so he better be tough. So why put a kid through that especially a girl?
They are worried about looks and fitting in and then an odd or unusual name and many kids just crumble. Some shine with unusual names but some don't.
I named my son Ian and he HATED it. People called him I-in instead of the correct way of saying it which is E-in. Now as a grown man he is ok with it but as a kid not so. Even the teachers said I-in. I was so sick and tried of explaining that E-in is the scottish form of John.
Ian Gillian Singer of Deep Purple
Ian Fleming The Writer
Ian is an popular in England as Michael and John are here which is great if you live there but the poor kid suffered.
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