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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 1362 Views
Not great, to be honest. - 03/08/2010 11:17:25 PM 956 Views
I rather doubt you'll get many supportive reactions. - 03/08/2010 11:20:27 PM 1039 Views
That's kind of what I figured... - 03/08/2010 11:49:37 PM 979 Views
That's subtler, at least. - 04/08/2010 12:03:04 AM 986 Views
Nichelle is from - 04/08/2010 03:05:25 AM 913 Views
Another TV show connection - 04/08/2010 03:15:04 AM 944 Views
I'd suggest Magnum! instead. - 03/08/2010 11:25:04 PM 895 Views
How do you pronounce the !? - 03/08/2010 11:26:50 PM 966 Views
Presumably it has its IPA value: alveolar click. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:42:33 PM 390 Views
The band "!!!" is pronounced "chk chk chk" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:35:40 AM 403 Views
Snow for the middle name. - 03/08/2010 11:27:47 PM 962 Views
Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:28:56 PM 960 Views
Re: Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:59:46 PM 911 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 958 Views
Her nickname could be Beige. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:59:07 PM 409 Views
So she will be confused colorfully? *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:52:14 PM 417 Views
Yes. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:00:33 AM 393 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 389 Views
Not playing silly buggers... - 03/08/2010 11:53:45 PM 911 Views
except people will still know it - 04/08/2010 02:24:30 AM 999 Views
Yes you are. - 04/08/2010 08:19:09 AM 930 Views
Name your kids whatever you feel is right. - 03/08/2010 11:55:02 PM 1001 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 384 Views
Hopefully it's not to Mr. Blower. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:07:57 AM 395 Views
This is a valid point. *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:14:42 AM 391 Views
At leat I'm inspiring. - 04/08/2010 12:15:18 AM 886 Views
I don't see anything pretentious about it - 04/08/2010 12:29:14 AM 890 Views
this. *NM* - 04/08/2010 10:06:18 AM 390 Views
Can I ask why you want to do that? - 04/08/2010 12:29:51 AM 1040 Views
Watermelon Mallet Gallagher. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:32:04 AM 449 Views
That's awesome - 04/08/2010 12:34:10 AM 959 Views
It's true there are some awesome names that have fallen into disuse... - 04/08/2010 12:44:55 AM 1036 Views
Heh, - 04/08/2010 10:23:10 AM 814 Views
how about China? *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:47:07 AM 414 Views
Maybe Off or Egg? *NM* - 04/08/2010 03:11:55 AM 428 Views
In truth, it might be better than Betty ... - 04/08/2010 02:25:20 AM 1045 Views
The first thing I think of when I hear Viridian.... - 04/08/2010 04:42:23 AM 937 Views
I think of Better Off Ted - 04/08/2010 05:25:39 AM 884 Views
Short answer: No, you should not. - 04/08/2010 02:27:18 AM 1052 Views
Awesome! Have fun explaining the meaning of "snowballing" to a ten-year-old girl. - 04/08/2010 02:48:12 AM 945 Views
What is the meaning of snowballing? *NM* - 04/08/2010 04:13:32 PM 418 Views
type it into a search at urbandictionary.com *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:31:14 PM 447 Views
Meh - 04/08/2010 03:14:28 AM 1063 Views
that is so cute - 04/08/2010 04:01:20 AM 879 Views
hopefully you will mary someone smart enough to stop this madness *NM* - 04/08/2010 05:43:25 AM 375 Views
After reading other's responses. . . - 04/08/2010 06:41:33 AM 919 Views
Another friendly but determined vote for "No way" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:27:49 AM 458 Views
It isn't pretentious, that's for sure.... - 04/08/2010 01:47:19 PM 983 Views
Sounds like something I would do - 04/08/2010 02:27:09 PM 904 Views
.a serious one. - 04/08/2010 05:59:01 PM 971 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 951 Views
Using it as a pet name but not legal name is a great idea. - 04/08/2010 07:34:08 PM 904 Views
I am filled with these. *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:40:43 PM 405 Views
Just a thought.. - 10/08/2010 07:50:31 PM 826 Views

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