<p>I am a parent who has a 15 year old daughter considering changing her name to one of the following three: Dreanne (dree-ann), Deanna, or DeAnn. The situation we are in right now is that we feel as if this name sounds, well, "hooker/stripper-ish." My daughter is Vietnamese and wants to move her Vietnamese first name to her middle name and choose a new first name. My husband and I work in Hotel Management, and as a result we live in Las Vegas. Here in Las Vegas schools, you will find numerous children with strange names, which I feel makes people prejudge them as poor and/or uneducated/unprofessional, and in most cases these children with strange names often come from broken familes. </p>
<p>In this case we would also like to ask college-aged kids as I have exhausted my supply of young adults that I know. Also, in our area names like these are not really considered unusual, but we are moving to CA so the image of the name is important. She wants a rough sounding name but It's a teenager phase probably. Also, my husband and I think the name Dreanne is too "cute" and will not work when she is 21 or older.</p>
<p>1.) Which of the above names would you prefer</p>
<p>2.) Does the first (Dreanne) really sound unprofessional/unsucessful?</p>
<p>3.) Does it match with her ethnicity (she wil have a vietnamese middle name)</p>
<p>4.) Any names you think will work for her (open to opinions!)</p>
<p>I think you should make it HER choice. Don't change her name just because you think it sounds hookerish. She's going to go off to college anyway (probably away from Las vegas right?) where people'll have the weirdest names ever.</p>
<p>Personally as a fellow asian with an asian name, I think you should just keep her name. You must have put alot of thought into her name when you first named her, so why make that all go to waste? If your daughter doesn't like it that's a different story but if she doesn't care, just leave it be. I don't like the english name my father gave me and i don't use it anymore... lol</p>
<p>Her name right now is Giang, and she wants to change it to one of the above. Dreanna/Dreann (pronouced like Dream, but people will see it as dray), Deanna, or DeAnn. (any other suggestions?) She doesn't like that name as her first name and it was given to her by someone in her adoption agency. She wants to make it her middle name and choose an american first name, She wanats something different but not something too "white bread" as she calls it. She has told me she doesn't want a name like sarah or michelle or something like that.</p>
<p>I like Deanna (agreeing with pronunciation as de-anne-ah). and with deanna it could easily be shortened to deanne in some cases, which would mean she would be able to use both names.</p>
<p>I vote for Deanna. I have another suggestion though. I like her original name, but if she would want to keep her initial, I know a girl who had a beautiful name called Gianna (she pronounced it "jee-onna" but I guess you could also pronounce it "jee-anna").</p>
<p>Personally, I think Gianna is a little more different and exotic than Deanna, and it's a little closer to her original name. Anyway, good luck with the decision.</p>
<p>I think she should change it if she wants to, but, I remember my older cousin wanted to change her name to "Summer" when she was 16. It completely clashes with the person she is now, and I know she hasn't for a second regretted keeping her original name (Emily). I also think that the names suggested Dreanna/Deann/etc. might present the same problems in pronunciation as her name now. </p>
<p>If she really wants to change her name, let her, but make sure she's really thought it through. Maybe getting a book of baby names and making a list from there would help? I just can't imagine picking a different name at 15 that I would have been happy with now. Maybe your D has better judgment than I do though :)</p>