If your name is like carmen and your family calls you Carmelita?

What do you think of the name Carmen Josephine?

• I'm finding out in two weeks whether I'm expecting a boy or girl & I have no name choices for a girl. I've always wanted something different and I loved the name Gemma, but the father hates that name (as do most other people I mention it too). Then I was thinking Brooke, but it's way too common. So Carmen Josephine is what I've come up with (Josephine for my g-paw who died very recently). Any thoughts on this name combination? Also a friend of mine says it sounds "too Spanish" lol, whatever that means. Do you think so?

• Answer:

  I do think it sounds very Spanish, but too Spanish? I don't see how a name can be too Spanish, especially one as lovely as Carmen Josephine. That's like saying Stephanie Marie is too French or that Isabella Lucia is too Italian. (Come to think of it, that one could be too Spanish too!)