Help my favorite name rhymes with our last name

[crazymama]

I am 36 weeks and running out of time to name our DD!!! My favorite girl name Analise (pronouced: Anna - lease) rhymes with our last name which is pronouced Cease (not how it's spelt).

I have told a few close friends what I want to name the baby and I get mixed reviews. I get everywhere from "it's a beautiful name, I'd go with it" to "you can't do that your kid's going to hate you."

I'm so in love with the name and it was really hard for me to come up with a girl's name I loved.

What do you guys think? You guys helped me name DS, so I'm really really hoping you will pull thru for DD!!!

[angel22]

I know a Nancy Delancy. Her name makes me laugh but it seems so right for her! I LOVE the name Analise! (As long as it is prounounced AH-nah and not Aa-nah!) What about a similar name, like Anika or Analyn?

[angel22]

Yep, what Vic said, too! =D
Also, I forgot to mention, dont' worry about what other people think of your kids' names. Well, not too much, anyway. Someone always has something to say and you can't please everyone! My kids' names are NOT names you hear often and really took the old people in our lives a while to get to like but I wouldnt' have named them anything else just because of that. There are names that I can't STAND (and some here know which ones I'm talking about) but really, if YOU like the name, who cares what anyone else thinks? The only time I may change my mind on that is if the general concensus is "WTH?!?!?!?" but otherwise, go for it! =D

[lilmermaid]

I agree with the ladies above!

[laurac]

I knew a girl who marred a guy with the last name Whirly. Her first name was Shirley...why would you do that to yourself?
I love that name, too, but I can sure see her getting picked on for it.

[dara1012]

I would probably find a new favorite name. I think it is really important that names flow well together and would stay away from rhyming.

I really like the name Jack for a little boy but our last name is Ackerman and I felt that the same sound at the beginning of the last name as the first name was too much.

[momof3anddog]

Oh... I'm really like Analise for a name; But I get it about rhyming and feeling that it might turn into a negative for the kid. I love the name "Annika". Daughter is named that. But a website for names that allows parents to comment on their kids with the names and experiences with it, had several entries that said that people who don't know that name hear you to say "Hanukka" (Jewish Holiday) when you introduce your child to them. I thought that was the most stupid/funny thing I had ever heard and that nobody would do that as it seems kinda disrespectful to name your kid after a an important religious holiday when you are not a part of the religion or even if I was. I wouldn't name my kid "Christmas" -- maybe Noelle, but definintely not "Christmas." But what do you know, the first nurse who came into my room after she was taken to the hospital nursury after birth, said to me, When would you like me to bring down Hannukka?" And it's happened several times since when we introduce her to someone that has never heard the name before. Only people I can consistently count on knowing that name and how to spell it are old people who watch women's golf. Littler kids can't get it right either.

I'm liking -- Anna, Emelie/Emily (really popular right now), Amelie (German version of Emily I think) or Emelynn, or Emeline, Evelynn even.

[sarahisis]

What about dropping the s in the first name... to analee or analeah