Diverging Styles
Someone I know just had a gorgeous baby girl and named her Cor!nne Z@ra.
The most interesting part for me was how this name diverged from the naming style that she and her husband used for their son, !zzy M0e. It would be really interesting if they next had a son because I'd love to see whether it's a boy vs. girl style thing or something else.
By Karyn
Fri, 04/20/2012 - 6:54pm
Fri, 04/20/2012 - 6:54pm
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Cor!nne Z@ra is very pretty to me but !zzy for a boy seems off.
Yes, I think that their daughter's name is pretty, too. However, !zzy for a boy seems perfectly logical since there are many old Jewish men with that name (mostly from Isidore and Yitzhak/Isaac). In fact, I think of Izzy on a girl as being a male nickname for a female name, like Charlie for Charlotte, for example. It was mostly their use of two nicknames that I found... unsettling. If he had been named Isidore Moses, I wouldn't have thought twice, and merely wondered which men from his family tree had inspired his name.
Ahh, totally makes sense now. Thanks for the explanantion. There are so many styles of names I still need to learn more about.
It sounds like they're attracted to a set of sounds: z, r, o and "short" i. Otherwise, I agree, the styles sound very different. It seems a lot of people like "friendly" names for boys (which usually means more common) and "elegant" names for daughters; while the popularity profiles are reversed here, this pair would fit that pattern. I too find the daughter's name pretty. The son's name sounds to me like an old-timer from the Baseball Hall of Fame ... I like it, actually.