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in reply to a message by HaySkyNat
Shar-leez.
It's kind of pretty, but also kind of cheap-sounding. Also, the only reason anybody knows about it as a name at all is because of Charlize Theron. There's no other association, and so the name seems silly on anyone else.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
It's kind of pretty, but also kind of cheap-sounding. Also, the only reason anybody knows about it as a name at all is because of Charlize Theron. There's no other association, and so the name seems silly on anyone else.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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Year, I'm not sure if her name was made up (her father is Charles right?) or if it's a legitimate name..
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The BtN entry implies that it's used as a name at least sometimes in South Africa, where Theron is from. In submitted names, there are Hannelize, Delize, Marlize as SA names.
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That kind of combination name is found useful by many Afrikaans-speaking parents who have a strong tradition of naming children after the grandparents but want to avoid having a kid who shares a name with numerous cousins. Or they merge their own names - I know a Janine who married a Rudolf and had a daughter Runine.
I don't know if Ms Theron was named after a Charles and an Elize, or if her parents just followed the merger tradition because they liked the sound of it.
I don't know if Ms Theron was named after a Charles and an Elize, or if her parents just followed the merger tradition because they liked the sound of it.
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Ah, I hadn't thought of it as a combination name because I don't think of -ize as a typical name ending. Is Elize a common name there?
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Very common! Certainly it's been in use in the Afrikaans community for the reasons I gave - almost Elizabeth but not quite. I know a woman in her late 60s whose names are Elisabeth Deborah, and she always goes by Elise; another friend is in her 40s and was named Elize Antoinette. In both cases, it's a tweaked family name.
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