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WDYT of this name?

Bellefin View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 06:58 AM Post #1
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Well the ink is barely dry on DD2s birth certificate but I'm always thinking about sibling combos. So I'm loving Fern at the moment if I were to have a 3rd DD, so I looked it up and it can be a stand alone name meaning the plant, or it can be short for Fernanda. This is something I never considered before but then I saw the meaning 'ready traveller'. I'm a keen backpacker, still travelling and planning lots of trips for when my kids are a bit older, so I got very excited about the meaning of Fernanda, hoping to raise a few little backpackers! I would pretty much just have Fernanda on the birth certificate and introduce just as Fern. WDYT of Fernanda? It's Portuguese/Spanish.

fifi-trixibelle View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 07:15 AM Post #2
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I think of that Abba song 'Fernando' but I'm not keen on Fernanda or Fern as a first name. I must have missed what you named you baby .

beansidhe View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 07:21 AM Post #3
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I love it!

beansidhe View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 07:21 AM Post #4
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I love it!

kerilyntaryn View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 07:47 AM Post #5
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I'm not fussed on it Fern is ok, but Fernanda sounds like Abba another similar is Fernande

starboard View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 07:58 AM Post #6
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Love love love Fern. It was on the list if DS had been a girl. Not keen on Fernanda though, as pp said reminds me of Abba's Fernando.

4kidlets View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 08:06 AM Post #7
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I dont mind Fern but not at all keen on Fernanda.

tres-chic View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 08:11 AM Post #8
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I think Fern is gorgeous.

kerilyntaryn View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 08:17 AM Post #9
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others that mean travel Beatrice/Beatrix Hermione Isra Nausicaa Saira Barnabas Faramond Ferdinand Jacenty Jason Palmer Timothy Pippin Tarrant/Trent Pegrine Somerled

Bellefin View Member Profile	14/01/2013, 10:06 AM Post #10
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Fifi - she is called Serafina (mn - Romeo's love). As for ABBA, that's what I think of too but I love ABBA and that song so it's not a bad association for me.

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