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pennyx, ah, yes, well i suppose everyone has different associations with different names. to me, sylvia is a name that was recently an old lady name and is juuust now coming back. maybe this impression is helped by my boss who has an adorable three-year-old named sylvia. both sylvia and ursula combined with your last name are just...smashing, in my opinion. oh, and i meant to ask you: have you seen the book griffin and sabine? that's the only association i have with sabine (and it's a very good one).
pennyx, from the last post, i wanted to mention that i like all of your choices, but kind of have a soft spot for sylvia and adore it with ursula. and i think sylvia brings out the prettiness of ursula. i strongly prefer sylvia to sylvie just because sylvie sounds like a nickname to me. i know it isn't; i know it's the french version. but especially next to ursula, it just seems less substantial and less serious. i also agree with zoerhenne that sylvie and ursula don't quite "match" in the way that sylvia and ursula do. but sylvia is just perfect. and you can always call her sylvie. but this is just my personal taste. i almost always go for the longer version of a name. i like your other choices too. :]
i think maybe there is some confusion amongst people (including me!) about name of the year. i don't think that it necessarily has to spawn oodles of babies with that name. none of the ones in the past have, have they? falcon, barack, taylor, renesmee, joe, "the situation".....pretty sure none of those were chosen because they were the next big hit. this is something else entirely. although if the name *did* see significant rise, that wouldn't necessarily be bad, right? i don't know. bookworm71's comment about pippa is what made me think of it, but other people have said similar things in this thread. but whether or not the name rises is kind of a non-issue, right?
pennyx, if you ever have a daughter named ursula and anyone rudely brings up the sea witch, you can just tell them that this is what ursula looked like in her youth: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OplOwt5NQzo/TsrkbuwQYbI/AAAAAAAAJ9s/OPS6Plqp53I/s1600/killed1.jpg :]
essy01, ah, interesting. that explains what anna s. said on the first page of comments, describing pippa as "the single sister with the nice bottom, an über-British nickname and a valid alternative to Piper." i just assumed it was anna's personal opinion. ha!
linnaeus, no idea. the writer gave a really positive review of the movie, which makes me doubt their credibility. given that, it may not be a great bit of evidence at all! i more thought it was interesting than anything else, given our discussion here, but not necessarily anything that proved me right.
regarding pippa: so, i went to metacritic-dot-com because i enjoy reading negative reviews of twilight movies (no offense to any fans out there; i do not like twilight, but i understand everyone has different tastes. for the record, i also enjoy reading really negative reviews of things i love. i once read an amazon review of pride and prejudice (the book) that said something like, "this sucks! i only like to read things about sports. FOOTBALL!!!!!!" it made me laugh really hard). anyway, in one of the reviews i came across this: "Worthy of mention is Carolina Herrera's design for Bella's wedding dress, sophisticated and demure in the front and Pippa Middleton sexy, and proper, in the back."
zoerhenne, it's definitely derwood. :D (although i think they left him out because they were only listing the magical characters) i actually think almost everything on the list is a really great witchy sibset; i love the variety! also, i've never seen charmed, but i like the use of p names.
ah, essy01, thanks! that is very interesting! although they still neglected ursula and morgana. (pennyx, how's morgana for a twin name to ursula? (just kidding--i by far prefer ursula!))
rachel dana, thanks so much! i've been wanting to read that article since halloween! very fun and interesting to read through that list. :] i will add that for number 8, bill and percy's full names are: William Arthur and Percy Ignatius also, i feel fairly certain that ursula and king triton were not siblings. am i the only one who is confused by that? one is a merman, the other is an octopus woman. ursula wasn't ariel's aunt. is there some sort of family scandal in the little mermaid part iv that i missed? i think it likely that they intended to say siblings ursula and morgana. morgana was ursula's sister in the little mermaid part II: return to the sea (don't ask me how i know these things...).
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p.s. can someone copy this name candy article http://www.namecandy.com/celebrity-baby-names/blog/2011/10/29/top-10-witchy-families-or-how-to-name-your-magical-children and paste it in here? no matter what i do, i canNOT make it show up on either of my computers.
thank you zoerhenne and amy3! :D i am definitely keeping my vote for pippa, but i will say that i think siri is a decent idea, but i don't think it is name of the year material, just because i don't think it has had that big of an impact *yet*. maybe i'm just biased because i hadn't heard of it, but it has only been around a couple weeks, right? i don't know. and this new buffy phone that zoerhenne mentioned isn't out yet either. to me this sort of feels like something that might be better for next year because at this point it just feels like...there's so much potential, you know? like siri could fizzle and die or it could explode in all these different directions and spawn lots of new things. it feels premature to choose it as this year's name of the year.
hmm... i will second the nomination for pippa. as someone who basically lives in a bubble and hears very little about anything (both serious world events and pop culture), a lot of the nominations are unfamiliar to me, but i have heard of pippa middleton. i don't really like the suggestion of anonymous. i appreciate the creativity of the suggestion and the attempt to tie it to current events, but it isn't a name, and i really feel that the nominations should be names. and i also don't really believe it fits the criteria. the word "anonymous" isn't actually "essential to the story" of wall street or the tsunami in japan. and the usage and meaning of the word hasn't changed. i appreciate some of the objections to pippa--a) that american men are less likely to have been impacted by pippa middleton than american woman (Guest1000) and b) that as NEs, we already have this name on our radar, so perhaps we aren't objective (RB). however, i still think that pippa is the best candidate. it seems to have put the name on americans' radar in a way that it wasn't before. my dog is named pippa. i used to get really blank stares, brow-furrowing, and responses of "hippa?" (seriously. i can't count how many people think my dog is named after a health information privacy policy.) i still get those things sometimes, but i also started getting, "oh, like pippa middleton?" even my DAD said that, which, if you knew my dad, was pretty shocking. i find the objection of it being a name from the "yellow press" (Guest-2011) irrelevant. the yellow press influences names too. i also find the objection of not having yet heard the name in any other contexts (isa) immaterial; this is the name of the year, which kind of means that it is happening *right now*, so it makes sense to me that we might not start really seeing it in other contexts until next year or the year after or something. in fact this is the exact reason that i'm not voting for harper. sure, a couple celebrities have named their daughters harper, but they are jumping on the bandwagon a little late in the game, i think. to me, these celebrities are more indicators that the name has *already* changed in usage/social meaning than the fact that it is changing right now (harper jumped from outside the top 1,000 in 2003 to #119 in 2010). (p.s. not trying to pick on Guest-2011 or Isa. i only mentioned their names in case someone wanted to scroll back and find their comments to know what i was referencing.) so anyway, pippa is my vote. my second choice would probably be adele. if she really is as big a deal as you are saying, i think it would vastly change the perception of the name which up until this point, i would say was distinctly *not* pop-celebrity-ish. linnaeus, although i had no interest at all in the royal wedding and did not watch it or any of the coverage, i somehow saw some photos of it, and funnily enough, i actually think pippa middleton was the only woman *not* wearing a ridiculous hat--she wore no hat at all. (although she may have worn appalling hats at other times; i do not know.) i did see some doozies though. zoerhenne, kind of off topic, but your discussion with RB made me remember something that i have been meaning to say for awhile. i wanted to commend you for doing such a good job of recommending names to people despite the fact that they differ so much from your personal taste. i should say that i actually think that *everyone* here does a great job of that, but i think i notice it more with you because i know you secretly want to name your kids things like brian and steven, but you do a good job of catering to people who like things like august and ferdinand and whatnot. :] isa, i think there are probably a lot of differing opinions on the appropriateness of names like dakota or cheyenne. i think some people feel like dakota is an "american name," since it is distinctly an american place name, and that they now have as much right to it as native americans. i can see that point of view, as my first thought when i hear "dakota" is indeed north and south dakota and not a native american tribe. however, i definitely also see the point of view of those who feel it is insensitive.
mk, thanks, that's exactly what i was hoping to hear! has anyone checked out the "what's my candy name?" feature on name candy? mine is: "emilumpies" "round mounds of emilumpy goodness!" i wish my candy was slightly less sexually connotative, but it's kind of a fun game. EDIT: oh never mind, never mind, laura did a post on it that i apparently missed.
hyz, haha, yes, i'm glad i joined in. it was fun, but difficult, though my blatant disregard of the rules made it slightly easier. yes, my friend's pregnancy has made me realize how much harder naming is in real life. in the abstract, i make all these sets ("oh, i like julian, oliver, simon, and august together" or whatever), but in real life, you have to pick ONE NAME. if i ever have children, i've no doubt they will be nameless until they are several months old.
okay, i will try it... two notes: a) i got a little lazy; i just listed boys' and girls' names alphabetically, as opposed to in the order of the duggars. sorry, zoerhenne. : / b) i didn't use names that were in close family. for example, i like the name olivia, but it is my sister's name, so it's not something i'd really consider for a child. c) i cheated, big time. oops! enjoy... august/amos benjamin/bartholomew casper/casimir dexter evander/elliott frederick/ferdinand/felix graham hugo ivan julian/julius kermit/kingsley (well, it does have kingsley amis in its court...) linus/leander/leland/leo magnus/miles/milo noel oliver/oscar peter/phineas quentin/quincy rupert simon/silas theodore ulysses valentino wolfgang xavier yale zebedee adelaide/ada/agatha beatrix/bianca charlotte dahlia (beth the original was right about the lack of girls' d names!) eleanor/eva/eve felicity/fern/flannery/flora gwendolyn/genevieve/greta hope/hazel ivy/iris june katia lucy/lucia/luna may/mae/mabel/margo nora/noelle ophelia/olympia/olive penelope (am skipping q) rose/rosemary/rosamond/ruby sylvia tess/tessa ursula violet willa/winter/wednesday xanthe ylva zelda/zora
hyz, regarding silas: yes, i looked it up in namepedia and the standouts to me were the davinci code, weeds, and deadwood. i haven't seen/read any of those things, but i hear about all of them quite often, so i feel like surely the name is in the public consciousness... oh, and it was also the name of one of the members of the who. mama gray, it's funny that you compare silas to titus because the silas on deadwood is played by a man named titus. :]
continuing on the silas thing, my friend compared her concern to when i tell people that my dog's name is pippa, and they're just like, "huh?" they often don't know that it's a name, and i get a lot of blank stares. i think she wants to avoid that.
random tidbits: lucubratrix, ah, your announcement got lost in the shuffle! congratulations! i am so excited because i've always wanted to meet a rupert in real life. i love it! rupert james is wonderful. :] regarding julia: i wanted to second whoever said that julia is not middle-aged. i definitely agree. i actually think of julie as middle-aged (or at least approaching middle-age. didn't it peak in the 60s?), but julia seems timeless to me or even young. it's ranked 55 right now, the highest of all the female juli- names by almost 100 spots. zoerhenne, juli, and elizabeth t, i just wanted to thank you for including emily on your lists. :] i know that for many people emily is boring, overused, etc, but i actually like my name very much, so i'm always really pleased when others do too. (even if you only like it a little bit.) elizabeth t, your story about your husband was hi-larious. "Apparently all the names I like fall into a certain style category because there they all were on one list. Isn't that crazy?" ha! yes indeed, so crazy. hyz, hmm, that is very interesting about quilla. it sounds very natury to me, i guess because of porcupines...? ha, just did a google search, and this fits in well with the topoic: it's a shoe! :D http://www.zappos.com/gabriella-rocha-quilla zoerhenne, haha, i think boys' 'a' names are the worst as far as indecisiveness; i don't think any other letter would be quite as ridiculous as that one. but the thing is, with very few exceptions (i don't think i would use algernon or amadeus in real life), i would actually consider using all of those! oh, and random fact, did you guys know that algernon means "one with mustaches" or something like that. hilarious!