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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
Notice:BABYNAMES is now on-line and writable! Enjoy...
Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

916.0. "Dawn" by MRKTNG::PRTZEL::MURRY (Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Liberal!) Wed Oct 27 1993 14:20

I haven't seen the name "Dawn" in any of the titles - so I thought I'd add a 
note since it's my name and I like it.  

Although, it was chosen by my father who owns and trains Thoroughbred race 
horses and one of his favorite horses was named "Delightful Dawn", I was also 
born at dawn, so it fits!  

People laugh when I say I was named after a horse, especially since my father 
has since named a new filly "Stormy Dawn" after me!  Guess he wanted to 
balance things out since I probably wasn't always delightful!

I don't like it when people call me "Dawny", except when my nieces 
Lauren or Marah calls me it - it's cute.

I plan to use "Dawn" as a middle name for a daughter if I ever have one.

Formerly - Dawn Marie Retzel
Now - Dawn Retzel Murry
(Dawn Marie Murry just didn't sound right and my husband teased me about 
being Marie Murry - he thought it sounded pretty funny)
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916.1Dawn/DonMPGS::PHELANMon Dec 13 1993 15:025
    Dawn is a very pretty name!  Do you find that when you leave your name
    over the phone or something that people tend to generalize it to the male 
    gender "Don"?  
    
    Funny, I love the name Dawn, but do not care for Don or Donald.
916.2MRKTNG::PRTZEL::MURRYFriends Don't Let Friends Vote Liberal!Tue Dec 14 1993 13:1915
Yes, 

Usually when they get confused it's because they hear a woman's voice, but 
hear "Don" and so they then assume it's short for Donna or I am leaving the 
message for someone else, like my boss maybe - arrgh!

What makes it worse is the way people in NH and eastern MA say my name - they 
pronounce "Don" the same as "Dawn" so that is why they confuse the two.

Dawn - pronounced do^n
Don - pronounced just don, NOT do^n

Good luck on your search for a girl's name!

Dawn
916.3Lovely name.JEREMY::RIVKARivka Calderon,Jerusalem,IsraelTue Dec 14 1993 13:368
    I love the name!!! we used it for our son (his name is Shachar which is
    Hebrew for Dawn). I also knew a girl few years back whose name was Dawn
    and she was so nice I've decded back then that when (if) I have a boy
    one day-that will be his name (don't know why a boy-here in Israel
    many girls are called Shachar as well...).Well-that tme has come-and
    he IS Shachar.
    Lovely name. Must be a lovely person...
    R/
916.4"Dawnne"TPSYS::HAMPSONNurture NatureWed Apr 13 1994 16:377
    
    I have a friend whose name is "Dawnne"; apparently her parents just
    decided to spell it that way!
    
    Aurora is another name for Dawn/Dawnne.
    
    Donna