English-Spanish names

Hey everyone! We’re expecting our first and don’t know the gender yet. My family speaks exclusively English, my husband’s family primarily speaks Spanish and baby will be raised bilingual. We’re looking for names that are easily read and pronounced in both languages. My BIL already “stole” some of my favorite girl names: Sofia, Amelia, and Adela so you should use them if you’re in the same boat because we can’t 😂.

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My family are English speakers and my husbands speak Spanish. We named our son Enrique Rogelio. His nickname is Kique (kee-kay).

If he was a girl, we were going to name her Elena.

Julia?

My daughter is half Brazilian and we named her Eva Lucilia. We're now looking for Baby girl names for our 2nd...

My favourites are
Camila
Clara
Ana
Felicia

Our daughters middle name is going to be Luna.

There’s also…Diego, Carmen, Anna, Lucia, Mateo, Elena. I feel like there’s so many that could be good.

I gave my kids English names so to speak but my Spanish speaking dad makes their names sound Spanish anyways lol

Raquel

Maria

My daughter name is Selena my daughter is hafe polish Hafe spainsh I also liked lucianna for girl for boy I liked Fabricio

We were in a similar boat, my family is Latin American and husband’s is Chinese and Canadian, it is quite the combo. We wanted a name that actually “exists” in both languages, not just able to be pronounced. We chose Nora Isabel 🥰

Other choices we were considering were: Maya, Noa, Clara, Naomi, Asha, Emma, Mia.

For boys we had a harder time as we only came up with Simon, Lucas, Sebastian.

Mireya is a beautiful Spanish girl name that means Miracle 💗

My daughters ate half Mexican my oldest daughters name is Christah Kalani it’s supposed to be ChristahKalani but I didn’t wanna find a middle name and my daughter that I’m carrying now is ValentinahMackenzi and her middle name is Madison

How about Rosa? Such a beautiful name x

Oliver hahah that’s my son’s name we are also bilingual and that name goes perfect with both languages

and for a girl Nicole

I love Amara and Andrea

Alba x

Eva

Someone I know (not Spanish but loves spain and eventually wants to move there) named their 3 Luciana, Giorgio - gio for short and alba.

I know a Quita and a Alita which are beautiful Spanish names xx

As a spanish speaker we where looking for a name in spanish but can also sound good in english, her name will be Luna (moon) its short and cute, you can consider this name

Same here bilingual family, my boy is Benjamin Rafael

Alba for either a boy or a girl, Cora for a girl x

My partner also spanish and we named our baby girl Aurora 🥰 everyone loves her name 💕

gaberella sofia natalia adalia Ainara amalia or amalie meaning hard working aura meaning glowing light Belinda meaning beautiful Eliana meaning God has answered eliette also meaning God has answered

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