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Anjali

Ruby Victoria View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:23 AM Post #1
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Have been in love with this name for years, and am trying to convince my Indian-born husband to use this if our next baby is a girl. (Not preg yet) It is Hindi in origin, correctly pronounced AHN-jah-ly. I know it will be mispronounced but I can accept that. Also what middle name? Our last name is one syllable starting with 'R'

Gudrun View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:28 AM Post #2
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I know an Anjali and really like it. They just pronounce it like Angelie. Quite cool actually.

la di dah View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:31 AM Post #3
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It's pronounced pretty much as it looks. Looks and sounds feminine, too, so as long as you will be patient with the mispronouncers or the not-even-trying-ers, I would go for it. A- names and -lee/ley names are pretty varied and well-loved right now, I don't even think it sticks out much. I'd prefer it to Atley and Ashli and so on. I will say some people might turn it into an Angela-like form, an-JELL-ee or Angel-ee, but that's not like a rude word or something. This post has been edited by la di dah: 14/11/2012, 11:36 AM

Ruby Victoria View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:31 AM Post #4
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While I love the real pronunciation, I also think "Angelie" is pretty too. Now just have to convince DH!

Gudrun View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:42 AM Post #5
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Anjali Nadine This post has been edited by Gudrun: 14/11/2012, 11:42 AM

Bek+3 View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:52 AM Post #6
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To be honest I'm not a fan. But it's just a bit frilly for my tastes. That said, I have a friend that named her son Ajani which I quite like. It's African and means 'He fights for what is his'. Apparently it's a unisex name though according to: http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/m...g_of_Ajani.html I like Ajani even for a girl more than Anjali.

Ianthe View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 03:47 PM Post #7
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It's pretty. I really like it.

kerilyntaryn View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:37 PM Post #8
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depends what sort of middle name you are after, is there any special family names Ruby Rose Indira Samara Malia Victoria Priya Chandra Dashana Darshana Chetana Esha Gita Kasi Kiran Leila Lins Kavita Kala Pearl Elina Elisha Jasmine Malika Tamara Tamika Mala Maya Mohana Nalini Nila Nisha Nikita Preeta Roshan Roshni Sarala Sarika Sarita Sashi Sarina Trishna Usha Vasanti

Magnus View Member Profile	14/11/2012, 11:48 PM Post #9
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I love it. I think with an Australian pronunciation, it will end up more like ann-ja-lie (as I've heard it pronounced like that in Australia) but that still sounds nice to me. A lot of names will have slight differences in pronunciation between countries, but I don't think it's a huge issue.

peebs View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 01:10 AM Post #10
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I think it's lovely.

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