ladyphlogiston
- Name
No info yet
- About Me
Truth-Seeking Skeptic Holistic Engineer Mother and Wife and Warrior Princess
- My Favorite Names
-
- My Recent Blog Comments
Baby Name Wizard Store
Celebrate with personalized baby name products! Custom birth announcements, invitations, bibs, onesies & more.
Start Shopping
Jordan would be pretty, though possibly I only thought of it because I know a musician whose stage name is Jordan Elias.
All of your boy names are Biblical classics. Is that something you're looking for or just an accident?
I love Ophelia Pepper, and it gives her the option of going by Pepper if she wants to. Ophelia Violet is lovely, but the names have such similar style that it almost feels a bit bland. Still, no reason not to use it if you love it. Ophelia Opal is pretty too. I don't think the double-O would worry me unless your last initial makes it problematic.
Gad was the first one that came to mind, as I've just been studying Genesis (his mother said "what good fortune!" and named him Gad)
LOL. the above poster and I posted simultaneously - I guess great minds think alike :)
Well, there's always the Jewish version of namesakes, which is to use the first initial - so baby Jonathan was named to honor grandpa Jacob, for example.
Betty was probably short for Elizabeth. Any chance you like any of the other Elizabeth derivatives? There's about a million of them. Sue also has Susan, Susanna, and maybe a couple others.
YES!! I'd forgotten him, but his company was featured in Wired years ago and I think that's what put the name in my head to begin with. Loved his ideas.
Zane shouldn't be hard...there's tsen, which means prickly, or tsana, which means shield. (The TS tends to turn into Z as it gets anglicized) Or there's tsaniph, which is a stretch but a word I'm interested in using in a name somewhere (it means tiara, and notably occurs in Isaiah 62 - You will be a crown of glory, a royal gem in the hand of God. I've felt VERY drawn to that verse in the past.) And zun means to be well fed, and zan means type/species/kind.
So really the likeliest choice there is to use Zane as a nickname for Zaniph, only Zaniph is kind of ugly. Or to say that Zane is "derived" from Zaniph, which sounds unlikely. But I really like that Isaiah 62 verse. Well, we will see.
To be honest, the two names are essentially interchangable in my head. Very similar sounds, very similar meanings, and I don't have a strong preference. If my husband doesn't either we'll have to flip a coin to decide. Like people trying to pick between Natalie/Natalia or other closely-related names.
And I tend to pick the pronunciation that appeals to me. My daughter uses the American pronunciation of her name (much to the disgruntlement of a variety of people, but tough noogies) because I like it better. (I don't mind if native Hebrew-speakers use the Hebrew pronunciation, just like I don't mind when people from the UK call me cathleen.) If we go with Elon/Elan we're likely to use the Hebrew pronunciation because I think it's more graceful. I do apologize if that's disconcerting; I know I get thrown for a loop when someone isn't as consistent as I am about something.
of course, sometimes an accidental namesake is a good thing...not sure how I'd feel about it personally, but I bet there's plenty of people who wouldn't mind an accidental connection to Princess Diana.
I can totally sympathize we went through this last time. I never could come up with a boy's name that felt right, though admittedly I stopped trying very hard after the ultrasound was clearly a girl. It's been easier this time around, partly because my husband's naming taste has loosened a bit.
Emerson and Atticus seem to line up well to me - plugging those in to nymbler suggests Lucius, Cornelius, Bennett, Liam, Bridger, Julius...I wish I could think of a good rock/literary intersection, but nothing is coming to mind.
Kezia is pretty....
Yeah, he is a guy. He actually has a whole speech about it in one book - the bad guys snarks "isn't that a girl's name?" and he talks about how once in a while there's a male who is such a good hunter that he gets to use the name anyway and that's why he caught the bad guy. Or something. Probably complete nonsense, but it sounds awesome.
And despite the main character being a guy, the series is not deficient in awesome heroic ladies. So that's cool.
Pearl Barbara might work, though now that I type it out it sounds a bit like "Pearl Harbor" so never mind. Unless you're in the uk, maybe.
Carlene
Rosemarie
Myra
Stella
Audrey
Spencer made me think of the poet....
Alma
Florimell
Gloriana
Una
perhaps a little too unusual for your taste?
It appears you are correct. Fascinating. Thanks!
I generally say eh-LAWN, which is closer to the hebrew pronunciation. (Hebrew generally accents the second syllable.) But it's worth noting that lots of people will get that wrong.
Thanks for your thoughts! (You're corect about my daughter's name, btw - I took it out of my post after a while)
I kinda like the cowboy vibe of Levi, which surprises me because I'm not interested in any of the more common cowboy names. But there it is. Levin is a nice twist. (Meaning is largely a function of parental thought process in a case like this - I probably could come up with a new meaning for Levin, but there's no need to)
My dad was actually part of the Gideons for a year or two - I'd forgotten that. It wouldn't bother me, anyway. (We're Messianic Jews, so that's not as bizarre as it sounds) It is certainly true that Gideon takes out all the tree names - I was thinking I could stretch the name to "giant-slayer" or something but I'm not sure how effective that would be.
I do know an Isaac - probably more than one if I put my mind to it - but for some reason it's a name I wouldn't mind using anyway. Weird. He's a very unassuming guy, which might help. The patriarch seems to have been a bit of a pushover, but there's other historical Isaacs in the world.
I hadn't really considered Elijah, and I'm not sure why. Thanks! (And don't worry about the tree/rock thing - I've noticed that pattern popping up, but it's not a requirement at all!)
I think that Luca Faye is just gorgeous! If I were in your shoes I'd just go with that.
I'd also like
Luca Claire
Luca Grace
Luca Skye
I actually disagree with the above posters - the WAR initials wouldn't bother me at all. Initials are rarely noticed anyway, and if it is noticed it's likely to be considered cool by his classmates. (EAR maybe not so much, but as I said, it's rarely noticed.) Don't use it if it makes you feel squishy, but I don't think you need to worry about it.
You have lovely taste in names, by the way!
LOLOL! No, not at all. I was generally using it to look up names I'd seen elsewhere, not to come up with new ideas.