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post 14/01/2013, 06:58 AM
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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.
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post 14/01/2013, 07:15 AM
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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 sad.gif.
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post 14/01/2013, 07:21 AM
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I love it!
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I love it!
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post 14/01/2013, 07:47 AM
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I'm not fussed on it

Fern is ok, but Fernanda sounds like Abba

another similar is Fernande
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post 14/01/2013, 07:58 AM
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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.
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post 14/01/2013, 08:06 AM
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I dont mind Fern but not at all keen on Fernanda.
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post 14/01/2013, 08:11 AM
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I think Fern is gorgeous.
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post 14/01/2013, 08:17 AM
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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
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post 14/01/2013, 10:06 AM
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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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