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Can I ask why you want to do that? Nate Send a noteboard - 04/08/2010 12:29:51 AM
Is it for your theoretical daughter? Or is it for yourself?

Do you think she would like having the fairy tale name? Or do you simply think it would be neat to have a daughter with a fairy tale name?

I know she doesn't exist yet, but in the end you should consider her theoretical future perspective above any others, including your own. After all, naming a person is not the same as naming a pet or a video game character ... in those cases the thing being named doesn't care what its own name is, so you can feel cool about making a cool name for it, but a person does care, and has to be called that name, and has to carry that name everywhere they go and in everything they do.

That said, if you're set on the idea, I do suggest making Snow a middle name. I don't really have a problem with unique first names, but this is a different matter, setting up the first name to match with the last that purposefully and flashily is asking for trouble -- the seven dwarves jokes she'd get would only be the start of it. Some kids will grow up to embrace a purposeful name like that (as some grow to embrace unique names), but not every kid will, and you shouldn't name a child based on an assumption about how they are going to grow up.
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After Joel's post about names below, I have a question...a serious one. - 03/08/2010 11:12:32 PM 1132 Views
Not great, to be honest. - 03/08/2010 11:17:25 PM 700 Views
I rather doubt you'll get many supportive reactions. - 03/08/2010 11:20:27 PM 835 Views
That's kind of what I figured... - 03/08/2010 11:49:37 PM 721 Views
That's subtler, at least. - 04/08/2010 12:03:04 AM 769 Views
Nichelle is from - 04/08/2010 03:05:25 AM 676 Views
Another TV show connection - 04/08/2010 03:15:04 AM 729 Views
I'd suggest Magnum! instead. - 03/08/2010 11:25:04 PM 666 Views
How do you pronounce the !? - 03/08/2010 11:26:50 PM 733 Views
Presumably it has its IPA value: alveolar click. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:42:33 PM 288 Views
The band "!!!" is pronounced "chk chk chk" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:35:40 AM 309 Views
Snow for the middle name. - 03/08/2010 11:27:47 PM 726 Views
Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:28:56 PM 733 Views
Re: Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:59:46 PM 688 Views
You'd have to make it a double-barrelled first name, otherwise it'd just be "Yellow White". - 03/08/2010 11:30:01 PM 724 Views
Her nickname could be Beige. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:59:07 PM 304 Views
So she will be confused colorfully? *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:52:14 PM 321 Views
Yes. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:00:33 AM 297 Views
Sorry to be a spoilsport, but playing silly buggers with your children's lives is just not cool. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:30:54 PM 266 Views
Not playing silly buggers... - 03/08/2010 11:53:45 PM 691 Views
except people will still know it - 04/08/2010 02:24:30 AM 763 Views
Yes you are. - 04/08/2010 08:19:09 AM 711 Views
Name your kids whatever you feel is right. - 03/08/2010 11:55:02 PM 788 Views
I think it's cute but probably a bad idea, she might get married young just to change it *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:04:40 AM 277 Views
Hopefully it's not to Mr. Blower. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:07:57 AM 294 Views
This is a valid point. *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:14:42 AM 286 Views
At leat I'm inspiring. - 04/08/2010 12:15:18 AM 688 Views
I don't see anything pretentious about it - 04/08/2010 12:29:14 AM 675 Views
this. *NM* - 04/08/2010 10:06:18 AM 292 Views
Can I ask why you want to do that? - 04/08/2010 12:29:51 AM 813 Views
Watermelon Mallet Gallagher. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:32:04 AM 324 Views
That's awesome - 04/08/2010 12:34:10 AM 694 Views
It's true there are some awesome names that have fallen into disuse... - 04/08/2010 12:44:55 AM 790 Views
Heh, - 04/08/2010 10:23:10 AM 614 Views
how about China? *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:47:07 AM 324 Views
Maybe Off or Egg? *NM* - 04/08/2010 03:11:55 AM 300 Views
In truth, it might be better than Betty ... - 04/08/2010 02:25:20 AM 828 Views
The first thing I think of when I hear Viridian.... - 04/08/2010 04:42:23 AM 717 Views
I think of Better Off Ted - 04/08/2010 05:25:39 AM 652 Views
Short answer: No, you should not. - 04/08/2010 02:27:18 AM 800 Views
Awesome! Have fun explaining the meaning of "snowballing" to a ten-year-old girl. - 04/08/2010 02:48:12 AM 708 Views
What is the meaning of snowballing? *NM* - 04/08/2010 04:13:32 PM 321 Views
type it into a search at urbandictionary.com *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:31:14 PM 347 Views
Meh - 04/08/2010 03:14:28 AM 830 Views
that is so cute - 04/08/2010 04:01:20 AM 662 Views
hopefully you will mary someone smart enough to stop this madness *NM* - 04/08/2010 05:43:25 AM 274 Views
After reading other's responses. . . - 04/08/2010 06:41:33 AM 708 Views
Another friendly but determined vote for "No way" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:27:49 AM 328 Views
It isn't pretentious, that's for sure.... - 04/08/2010 01:47:19 PM 772 Views
Sounds like something I would do - 04/08/2010 02:27:09 PM 687 Views
.a serious one. - 04/08/2010 05:59:01 PM 744 Views
I don't think this is a terribly good idea, for many of the reasons posted - but I have a suggestion - 04/08/2010 06:03:44 PM 722 Views
Using it as a pet name but not legal name is a great idea. - 04/08/2010 07:34:08 PM 692 Views
I am filled with these. *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:40:43 PM 303 Views
Just a thought.. - 10/08/2010 07:50:31 PM 607 Views

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