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[Opinions] Re: Ruby
It’s a little cutesy, but not so much that it wouldn’t work. I like it. (-:Side note: I wouldn’t personally be able to use a former pets name as my child’s first name, but I don’t see anything wrong with using a pets name for a middle name. I love my pets like family and like to assume other people do too so I don’t think it’d be too unusual. (-:I just redid my PNL, please vote! https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/174843

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I can honestly understand why it might seem weird, but I really don’t see the big deal. Plus, like I said, it’s mostly just that I like the name more than wanting to name after my cat (the significance with the cat is it was my first cat, so I don’t see anything strange about naming after a pet for that reason).
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Sometimes people use names for their pets that they love enough to use for a child, but they are not planning on having any more or any children. That's why I once had a dog named Miranda and my sister once had a dog named Sean.However, if some accident had occurred to either of us, or if our plans had changed, I may have named a daughter Miranda and my sister may have named a son Sean. In this case, it would be because we wouldn't have wanted to eliminate a name we loved because we at one time thought we wouldn't have more children. It wouldn't have been naming the child after the pet.
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But the child will still hear stories about the pet, and know that you just recycled the name of an animal rather than thinking they were special enough to deserve their own.
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Not necessarilyYou can’t predict what an as yet non-existent child will think about their name.
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Well exactly. You don’t know if they’re the type to find it hurtful or shameful or not. So why not play it safe and give them their own special name, just for them? There’s a whole world of wonderful names out there.
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Nice save ;)
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One of my dogs is named Lara, which is a very common human name here. We know several little Laras and they all like that they share a name with a big, lovable dog. I also know a family where a dog is named Riki and the cat is Lili, after the kids’ best friends Rikardo and Liliana. All the kids think it’s fabulous and hilarious. Children, especially those who love animals, often don’t see it as a negative thing at all.
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