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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 1223 Views
Not great, to be honest. - 03/08/2010 11:17:25 PM 806 Views
I rather doubt you'll get many supportive reactions. - 03/08/2010 11:20:27 PM 917 Views
That's kind of what I figured... - 03/08/2010 11:49:37 PM 829 Views
That's subtler, at least. - 04/08/2010 12:03:04 AM 855 Views
Nichelle is from - 04/08/2010 03:05:25 AM 766 Views
Another TV show connection - 04/08/2010 03:15:04 AM 815 Views
I'd suggest Magnum! instead. - 03/08/2010 11:25:04 PM 756 Views
How do you pronounce the !? - 03/08/2010 11:26:50 PM 825 Views
Presumably it has its IPA value: alveolar click. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:42:33 PM 326 Views
The band "!!!" is pronounced "chk chk chk" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:35:40 AM 343 Views
Snow for the middle name. - 03/08/2010 11:27:47 PM 819 Views
Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:28:56 PM 821 Views
Re: Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:59:46 PM 774 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 812 Views
Her nickname could be Beige. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:59:07 PM 346 Views
So she will be confused colorfully? *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:52:14 PM 359 Views
Yes. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:00:33 AM 333 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 304 Views
Not playing silly buggers... - 03/08/2010 11:53:45 PM 778 Views
except people will still know it - 04/08/2010 02:24:30 AM 859 Views
Yes you are. - 04/08/2010 08:19:09 AM 794 Views
Name your kids whatever you feel is right. - 03/08/2010 11:55:02 PM 872 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 319 Views
Hopefully it's not to Mr. Blower. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:07:57 AM 332 Views
This is a valid point. *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:14:42 AM 325 Views
At leat I'm inspiring. - 04/08/2010 12:15:18 AM 750 Views
I don't see anything pretentious about it - 04/08/2010 12:29:14 AM 771 Views
this. *NM* - 04/08/2010 10:06:18 AM 327 Views
Can I ask why you want to do that? - 04/08/2010 12:29:51 AM 906 Views
Watermelon Mallet Gallagher. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:32:04 AM 362 Views
That's awesome - 04/08/2010 12:34:10 AM 793 Views
It's true there are some awesome names that have fallen into disuse... - 04/08/2010 12:44:55 AM 889 Views
Heh, - 04/08/2010 10:23:10 AM 696 Views
how about China? *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:47:07 AM 359 Views
Maybe Off or Egg? *NM* - 04/08/2010 03:11:55 AM 338 Views
In truth, it might be better than Betty ... - 04/08/2010 02:25:20 AM 917 Views
The first thing I think of when I hear Viridian.... - 04/08/2010 04:42:23 AM 810 Views
I think of Better Off Ted - 04/08/2010 05:25:39 AM 748 Views
Short answer: No, you should not. - 04/08/2010 02:27:18 AM 887 Views
Awesome! Have fun explaining the meaning of "snowballing" to a ten-year-old girl. - 04/08/2010 02:48:12 AM 808 Views
What is the meaning of snowballing? *NM* - 04/08/2010 04:13:32 PM 361 Views
type it into a search at urbandictionary.com *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:31:14 PM 386 Views
Meh - 04/08/2010 03:14:28 AM 927 Views
that is so cute - 04/08/2010 04:01:20 AM 751 Views
hopefully you will mary someone smart enough to stop this madness *NM* - 04/08/2010 05:43:25 AM 312 Views
After reading other's responses. . . - 04/08/2010 06:41:33 AM 791 Views
Another friendly but determined vote for "No way" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:27:49 AM 366 Views
It isn't pretentious, that's for sure.... - 04/08/2010 01:47:19 PM 861 Views
Sounds like something I would do - 04/08/2010 02:27:09 PM 773 Views
.a serious one. - 04/08/2010 05:59:01 PM 833 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 809 Views
Using it as a pet name but not legal name is a great idea. - 04/08/2010 07:34:08 PM 778 Views
I am filled with these. *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:40:43 PM 343 Views
Just a thought.. - 10/08/2010 07:50:31 PM 705 Views

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