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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 1383 Views
Not great, to be honest. - 03/08/2010 11:17:25 PM 982 Views
I rather doubt you'll get many supportive reactions. - 03/08/2010 11:20:27 PM 1063 Views
That's kind of what I figured... - 03/08/2010 11:49:37 PM 1000 Views
That's subtler, at least. - 04/08/2010 12:03:04 AM 1010 Views
Nichelle is from - 04/08/2010 03:05:25 AM 931 Views
Another TV show connection - 04/08/2010 03:15:04 AM 966 Views
I'd suggest Magnum! instead. - 03/08/2010 11:25:04 PM 916 Views
How do you pronounce the !? - 03/08/2010 11:26:50 PM 988 Views
Presumably it has its IPA value: alveolar click. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:42:33 PM 402 Views
The band "!!!" is pronounced "chk chk chk" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:35:40 AM 418 Views
Snow for the middle name. - 03/08/2010 11:27:47 PM 986 Views
Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:28:56 PM 986 Views
Re: Hm. - 03/08/2010 11:59:46 PM 932 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 978 Views
Her nickname could be Beige. *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:59:07 PM 420 Views
So she will be confused colorfully? *NM* - 03/08/2010 11:52:14 PM 430 Views
Yes. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:00:33 AM 407 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 403 Views
Not playing silly buggers... - 03/08/2010 11:53:45 PM 930 Views
except people will still know it - 04/08/2010 02:24:30 AM 1018 Views
Yes you are. - 04/08/2010 08:19:09 AM 950 Views
Name your kids whatever you feel is right. - 03/08/2010 11:55:02 PM 1027 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 396 Views
Hopefully it's not to Mr. Blower. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:07:57 AM 407 Views
This is a valid point. *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:14:42 AM 404 Views
At leat I'm inspiring. - 04/08/2010 12:15:18 AM 903 Views
I don't see anything pretentious about it - 04/08/2010 12:29:14 AM 914 Views
this. *NM* - 04/08/2010 10:06:18 AM 402 Views
Can I ask why you want to do that? - 04/08/2010 12:29:51 AM 1066 Views
Watermelon Mallet Gallagher. *NM* - 04/08/2010 12:32:04 AM 460 Views
That's awesome - 04/08/2010 12:34:10 AM 980 Views
It's true there are some awesome names that have fallen into disuse... - 04/08/2010 12:44:55 AM 1061 Views
Heh, - 04/08/2010 10:23:10 AM 835 Views
how about China? *NM* - 04/08/2010 01:47:07 AM 424 Views
Maybe Off or Egg? *NM* - 04/08/2010 03:11:55 AM 440 Views
In truth, it might be better than Betty ... - 04/08/2010 02:25:20 AM 1065 Views
The first thing I think of when I hear Viridian.... - 04/08/2010 04:42:23 AM 957 Views
I think of Better Off Ted - 04/08/2010 05:25:39 AM 904 Views
Short answer: No, you should not. - 04/08/2010 02:27:18 AM 1073 Views
Awesome! Have fun explaining the meaning of "snowballing" to a ten-year-old girl. - 04/08/2010 02:48:12 AM 959 Views
What is the meaning of snowballing? *NM* - 04/08/2010 04:13:32 PM 431 Views
type it into a search at urbandictionary.com *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:31:14 PM 462 Views
Meh - 04/08/2010 03:14:28 AM 1083 Views
that is so cute - 04/08/2010 04:01:20 AM 902 Views
hopefully you will mary someone smart enough to stop this madness *NM* - 04/08/2010 05:43:25 AM 387 Views
After reading other's responses. . . - 04/08/2010 06:41:33 AM 938 Views
Another friendly but determined vote for "No way" *NM* - 04/08/2010 08:27:49 AM 471 Views
It isn't pretentious, that's for sure.... - 04/08/2010 01:47:19 PM 1008 Views
Sounds like something I would do - 04/08/2010 02:27:09 PM 923 Views
.a serious one. - 04/08/2010 05:59:01 PM 991 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 976 Views
Using it as a pet name but not legal name is a great idea. - 04/08/2010 07:34:08 PM 929 Views
I am filled with these. *NM* - 04/08/2010 07:40:43 PM 419 Views
Just a thought.. - 10/08/2010 07:50:31 PM 848 Views

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