The name Sally - stand alone or knickname?

[dharmama]

The pink lines on my :+ have barely dried and I'm already thinking about names. :innocent

We are totally set on a boy's name (carried over from dd) so we're just focusing on girl's names this time around.

DH and I both love the name Sally. But we like names that have a longer version (like our dd is Lilia but we call her Lil/Lily).

I know traditionally Sally is a knickname for Sarah but we already have a niece named Sarah so that's not an option.

Does anyone know of any pretty names that could have Sally as a knickname?

Thanks!!
:love

~Erin (who realizes how silly it is that she is already obsessing about names ;) )

[Tine]

I work for a company that publishes baby name books. Here are a few longer names that begin with "Sal" from one of our books:

Salali
Salama
Salena
Salima
Salina
Salliann
Salome
Salvadora
Salvia

I know exactly what you mean about wanting a longer "formal" name even though you know you want to call your potential DD Sally. I feel the same way, and I'm choosing names with the same strategy.

[missus]

That is so beautiful! Sally for short is cool, and your (potential, future) daughter can choose what she wants to go by.

[dharmama]

Thanks Christine. What a nice list!

Is Salome -- Sal---ome (with a long o)?

I like Salvia but I worry that it would get misprounounced/mis-spelled as Saliva. :(

My real favorite is Magnolia and call her Maggie but dh just isn't digging it.

[ZeldasMom]

I like the Magnolia/Maggie idea.

Also like Sally on it's own. Though I understand your concern about wanting a more formal name. What about giving her a different first name, having Sally as the middle name, and then using her middle name for everyday use. When I lived in the South it seemed like lots of people did this.

Besides the issue of your neice being named Sarah, that name is super popular right now--#12 on the SSA popular baby name list.

About Salome, when I was in college we read a novelette by Lou Andreas-Salomé, a woman who hung out with Nietzsche. We pronounced her name saw-low-MAY. Though I *think* I have heard this name in other contexts, rererring to other people, as suh-LOW-mee (kind of like the deli meat, salami). Sorry I am not more help!

[dharmama]

i don't think salome would work for us (however it's pronounced) -- we have a jewish sounding name (and we're not jewish) so i think salome with our last name would be too much.

i was just having some fun looking through a baby name book in the A's trying to find an "Al" name that might work with tacking an S on the front!

good thing i'm spending my whole day obsessing about names. :eyesroll i'm sure i'm not going to have any time to figure this out between now and may!! :LOL

What about giving her a different first name, having Sally as the middle name, and then using her middle name for everyday use. When I lived in the South it seemed like lots of people did this

hmmm...hadn't thought of that.

thanks mamas!

~Erin
:love

[Crunchier]

Try a search at a webite like these. You can choose, boy/girl, first and last letter, # of sylables, origin, etc. There are so many sites with names out there, these are some of the lesser known ones.

http://www.babynames.com/

http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/

http://www.indiaparenting.com/names/index.shtml

http://www.kabalarians.com/cfm/surf-by.cfm?Baby=Yes

[annettemarie]

I've wondered the same thing about the name Molly.

[Mama2ABCD]

i love the name Sally. I didn't know it was short for Sarah. Maybe you could put an "ie" at the end instead of a "y" to make it more formal.

it rhymes with Cali and that's my dd name. :D

Happy naming :thumb

[NYCVeg]

Salara (Or Sallara?)
Salihah (I'm guessing you pronounce this sa-LIE-ah? or maybe sa-LEE-ah)
Salonia
Salvinah
Salmah
Salinah

I feel like there must be names that end in "sali"...or you could make one up: Amsali? Ansali?

[dharmama]

I've wondered the same thing about the name Molly.

Me too. DH's co-worker just named his daughter Molly....we were both like...nice name but....what could be a longer version of it?? :scratch

I feel like there must be names that end in "sali"...or you could make one up: Amsali? Ansali?

Oooooo.....that could be a fun way to go. Hmmmm.....

[Jeanne_L]

Molly is high on our list of girl names. (I think) it's traditionally a nick-name for Margaret or Mary, but we like it as a name all on it's own.


BTW I love Salama - it means "peace" (it's used as a greeting in Swahili speaking countries)

[juicylucy]

In England Sally is a stand alone name. I've known quite a few Sallys, and liked them all, so I think it is a great name.