Baby Names
Roxanne or Rox-Anne
Sara
Hi lovely moms and moms-to-be,
My husband and I are expecting a girl in early May, our first child. We already found a name we both really love, but we're still debating the spelling. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
The name is Roxanne, and we want it to be fully pronounced, so really pronouncing the "anne" at the end in a Dutch way. If you just write Roxanne, many people will pronounce it as "Roxan". To emphasize the full pronunciation, my husband suggested a different spelling: Rox-Anne. I'm not entirely convinced yet, though. Of course, this makes the name unique. We're also planning to give our child a double surname. Has anyone here experienced this? How is the surname written then? Just the two names next to each other, or is there always a hyphen between the two surnames? If a hyphen is mandatory, I feel like having a hyphen in both the first and last name might be a bit much?
What do you think? Roxanne or Rox-Anne?
Thanks in advance for your honest opinions.
Sara
My husband and I are expecting a girl in early May, our first child. We already found a name we both really love, but we're still debating the spelling. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
The name is Roxanne, and we want it to be fully pronounced, so really pronouncing the "anne" at the end in a Dutch way. If you just write Roxanne, many people will pronounce it as "Roxan". To emphasize the full pronunciation, my husband suggested a different spelling: Rox-Anne. I'm not entirely convinced yet, though. Of course, this makes the name unique. We're also planning to give our child a double surname. Has anyone here experienced this? How is the surname written then? Just the two names next to each other, or is there always a hyphen between the two surnames? If a hyphen is mandatory, I feel like having a hyphen in both the first and last name might be a bit much?
What do you think? Roxanne or Rox-Anne?
Thanks in advance for your honest opinions.
Sara
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Anonymous Guest #2
Roxanne is pronounced more smoothly (which I think sounds nicer), so I’d go with that.
If you keep pronouncing the name fully yourself, people will probably pick it up, I think. And someone who shortens it to Roxan once probably doesn’t do it with bad intentions—maybe even because they like your little girl.
The double last name thing is new to me. You mean father’s last name + mother’s last name? I don’t think that’s allowed here in the Netherlands? Or am I mistaken? -
Sara started this #3
Thanks for your reply, Anonymous. In Belgium, a double last name is allowed. Indeed, it's then a combination of father and mother. -
Anonymous Guest #4
Ah, that's nice that it works like that, Sara! Too bad it wasn't possible here in the Netherlands (then I would definitely have chosen it).
(once again Anonymous :-) ) -
Roxanne Guest #5
For Rox-Anne, the stress is much more on the first syllable instead of being a flowing name.
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