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might I suggest giving a girl a "traditional" sort of name that has multiple nicknames? then she will be fine as an adult with a "serious" name should she decide to enter the workplace, yet she will be fine with a shortened name that fits her better ..
you know, Elizabeth, Barbara, Katherine (I'd stay away from too many C names, but that's just me), Theresa, Margaret, et cetera
watch out to make sure her initials don't spell anything embarrassing (almost happened to me, I had to quick-change a chosen middle name for DS #2) -- and yell the full name out a few times to see if it sounds okay when you later yell out the back door ....
I did that with Chloe's name. Yell it out I mean. Chloe elizabeth. Im so glad I did too, because Im yelling it ALL the time. lol Or at least I feel like I yell it out allot. lol
One name I have been tossing around in my head is Stephene, spelt wrong on purpose. But I cant seem to come up with a middle name that fits. But if I decide on stephene, then I need to keep it a secret, because the baby would be named after her god mother, and my best frind of 28 years... Would want that to be a surprise.
as I've told a couple other people -- if you use an unusual spelling for a name, be prepared for the child to be frustrated at having to SPELL their name for many many people for the rest of their life
if you pick a name that isn't obvious as to sex, it can be awkward for the child later on
*** now I got loaded with a "family name" which is easy to mispronounce if you see it (almost everyone does), easy to misspell if you hear it, and way too close to an ethnic male name ... wasn't until I was a sophomore in college, going through sorority rush, that I finally switched to a nickname I'd been given back in 5th grade (and I was no longer living at home)
so my boys got fairly common names, and they say they like them
