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Old 03-16-2006, 07:49 PM
Lexie Lexie is offline
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Should we pick an Ethnic name?

I know it seems a bit late to ask this question, but we are hoping to finalize our baby's adoption this month and I have been thinking about the name we chose. We followed the same naming convention from dh's family that we followed with our first son. The baby has a Gaelic first name and the middle names are the names of his great-grandfather and grand-father ( we alternated between dh's family and mine). Both middle names are French (like dh). Now, the baby's bmom is 1/2 Mexican and I was wondering if when the baby grows up he would prefer to have a least one hispanic name. One of the baby's middle names has both a French and Spanish version, so it would be easy to change it to the Spanish spelling and it would still honor the baby's great grand-father.

Funny, now that I think about it, his name is currently very "ethinic" just not reflecting his heritage.

Do you think we should change it? On one hand he would have a name that has a tie to his heritage. On the other hand maybe he would prefer to be exactly the same as our older (bio) son.

Sort of along the same lines, I plan on both kids attending French school so they can communicate with their family in France and feel at home in France. I want to treat the boys the same so I thought both boys should also take Spainish as a third language.

Any advice on the name??

Last edited by Lexie : 03-16-2006 at 08:21 PM.
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