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Ad¨¦la¨©de (Adelaide)
Jos¨¦phine (Josephine)
Catherine
Th¨¦r¨¨se (Therese)

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These are beautiful! But, Ad¨¦la¨©de may not be easy to grow up with. Others are fine.

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My computer is cruddy w/ symbols. Sorry!

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Andrew

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"To a brave man, good luck and bad luck are like his right and left arms. He uses both."
St. Catherine of Siena

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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This message was edited 1/3/2006, 1:25 PM

I live in a French-speaking area where most of those names are common however, Therese is a name one usually finds on an older (50-60) woman. Also Marie-Louise. Catherine is always in favour. And Roger, always a favourite.

I love Adélaïde and Thérèse

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Therese and Josephine are not uncommon in Sweden but usually without the diacritics.

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I think Marie-Louise is a lovely name too, but it is not popular in the baby generation now.

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Aidelaide is beatiful too but I don't know of anyone with this name.
Thomas is a classic but there are too many dads with this name in Sweden. And Roger (or Rutger) is a granddad's name.

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Catherine is pretty, I especially like the French spelling and pronounciation.

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"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, Garden Party

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"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)

Unless you live in France, I would ditch the accent marks.

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Ad¨¦la¨©de -LOVE this!
Jos¨¦phine -Love this too
Roger -Always loathed it
Catherine -Love said the English way, but don't like the French way (kat-REEN) at all.
Marie-Louise -Hate Louise, but I like Marie.
Th¨¦r¨¨se -Always hated it.
Thomas -Wonderful name!

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I can't picture Roger on a child, but the rest I have no age issues with at all.

I like them all except for Roger and I think they'd fit a child as well as an adult. I especially like Marie-Louise on a little girly and Thomas would be so handsome on a wee boy. :)

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Accents omited because when I copy/pasted the names from the original post, my post changed them to random punctuation.

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I like Therese, Adelaide, and Josephine, but since you're in the US (as am I), I think it would be annoying to the children. They would always be correcting people on the French prn or adding the accent marks. Overall, I think they're nice and will age well, but I think their English counterparts would work better in non-French speaking countries.

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This message was edited 1/2/2006, 11:47 AM

I love Adelaide but I don't know how it's pronounced in French, Joephine either.

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Roger is rather high hat, posh, I don't really like it.
Catherine is beautiful, a classic!
Marie-Louise is rather pretty.
Therese hasn't ever been a favorite with me.
Thomas is alright but rather common as a first name (with nn Tom & Tommy) I've begun to use it as a middle name though (Ian Thomas).

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Hi there
I have always thought that Josephine is a very elegant, special name with a lot of personality.nOriginal and timeless.I wouldn´t use a nickname and to me it suits any age.Not too keen on any of your other choices to be honest.
At the moment in France I think that Lucas is number 1 for a boy and I really like Christian.

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Good luck choosing!
L

Yes to all of them - any of them would fit a child born now, throughout life. Joséphine would probably be shortened when she was addressed familiarly, especially as a child, because I think it's a little bit hard for children to say those whispery consonants [seph] together, but it'd still "fit."

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I like all those names, myself, except I'm not very enthusiastic about Catherine. It was overused for the peers I grew up with.

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eta By the way, I like a lot of your name list - Edith, Frederick, Jane, Roger, Ruth, Maxine. I don't see most of those very often.

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- chazda

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This message was edited 1/2/2006, 9:56 AM