Please help us choose a name

Oooh, three syllable sir name...

I'll try it with Johanson...

Elena Gabrielle Johanson (pretty!)

Arabella Sassypants Johanson ( )

Juliana Grace Johanson (Okay)

Arabella Grace Johanson (Total star quality name! This one's my favorite!)

Okay, now you need to change everyones last name to Johanson.

Hey, Lady J, welcome to our Elena Gabrielle camp...


And, furthermore, I don't get the giant problem with three three syllable names. Pretty to me.

And, Gabrielle is four syllables in my book, so there is some balance from front to back, heh.

Well, not a giant problem. (I did say definitely, didn't I?) My own taste is more towards balance/ contrast, if something's flowery and ornate have something else that's grounded and simple.

Aurelia in three sylables, accent on first?

OH-re-lee? AW-rel-yah?

I'd have said Aw-REL-ee-ah... but then, I'd have a hard time not calling her Relly...

RellyJellyBellyMine, Oh Mine! (sings)

OK, I exaggerated, for effect. A problematic situation re syllable numbers, for some of us.

yes yes yes

Matchy matchy sibling names always sound a bit, hmmm, wrong to my ear. I have friends where several generations of the women on one side have names beginning with C, the men on the other side are all D's.

The boys are Denzil, Darren, Denver and Daniel.
I'm always tempted to call one of them Durwood.

Aurelia with 3 syllables? I've always pronounced it with 4. hmmmmm

Maya Grace Johanson.

hmmmmmm

I think Arabella Grace has the best flow. Chloe and Maya just stick in my teeth.

Memories of the Lear fellow, with a daughter named Chanda or Shanda - but I think her and other daughters' names were posted as 'urban legends'. I heard that one early though, thinking, late sixties, when I was working at a particular clinical lab in Beverly Hills of all places (don't get me started).

This is, indeed, the way to pronounce it. (Think Marcus Aurelius.)

I voted for Juliana Grace because my grandmother was named Julia. But all six of the names sound like winners to me.

Any new name choices, Drewdad?

Definitely my preference is Arabella Grace. It is lovely ("Star-Quality"!) and also fits well with the other sib's name. I 'specially love the sib's name because Orilla, what I know of as a variant of Aurelia, is a family name: Samantha Orilla Russell was my g-grandmother.