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Before the first Twilight movie had been released and the craze started I had both Esmé and Emmett on my list. They both were longstanding loves that I will likely never use because my SO and I don't like that they are so tied to the Twilight craze. Now, unfortunately my list has been so pared down that there are only three names SO and I have agreed on: Genevieve, Verity and Noam. I refuse to give in to accepting Olivia and he refuses to allow August on the list.
Linnaeus - I actually knew a girl named Phaedra - Professors at the university had a terrible time pronouncing it; specifically our Arabic proffessor. Patricia- Re: Cloë vs. Cloe I would certainly go with the diaeresis but I make that suggestion hoping you bear two things in mind: 1. I live in Canada and here accents and other "unusual punctuation" are used much more readily. François would be a completely different name if spelled Francois for example. 2. I don't know where in the states you are but I'm fairly positive that some areas will not include certain punctuation and even if they do it's quite possible that the transcriber can get it wrong. Finally something random that came to my attention recently: Prof. Robert Smith?, whose last name includes a question mark. His rationale is explained on his faculty website for those interested, and his area of research is fairly intersting as well (ZOMBIES): http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith
emilyrae - Minji is a close homonym to UK slang for female reproductive parts and at least in SW Ontario has the dual pejorative meaning of both dirty or Mennonite - It's not very classy.
Jane, Mother of 5 - My first thought for a "formal name" for Betsy was Elsbeth or Bette - though I suppose one or both of those my sound diminutive already. I do know a girl named Elsbeth and she mostly goes by Els, pronounced "Ehlz." Good luck!
Martha IS popular in the UK as mentioned before and another use of it is in Doctor Who and Torchwood; Martha Jones is an intelligent black woman with a medical degree.
I'm with Jennifer H., I too prefer Sadie to Rebecca, mostly because I grew up with about 4 Rebeccas (mid 1980s children) and it no longer feels fresh to me.
Re: Zion. I just can't stomach this name, while at one time the word/name could have been considered neutral to me despite its inherent religious undertones, today it's just rife with conflict. Me, being well outside the conflict living in N.A., and being neither Jewish, nor Muslim, nor Palestinian nor Arab, I can still honestly say that in my mind someone who names their child Zion is looking to cause some debate. Admittedly not everyone knows or feels the conflict behind the name, but I know that I do and I highly disagree with the name's use in the current climate. I just don't know how a child is supposed to deal with that.
Valentine: Not to be picky but Leila/Laila does not mean "dark beauty" in Arabic, it means "night" as in "alf leila wa leila" meaning 1001 Nights which is also known as Arabian Nights.
Suddenly I feel foreign being a Canadian, especially since in my area (NCR) the name Elodie is EVERYWHERE. Every person I'm around who is pregnant, has been pregnant or is someday hoping to be pregnant has considered this name. This is including my SO who has a small fetish for French names and actually LIKES Elodie, instead of responding with a shrug or relative indifference. I admittedly don't know any little Elodies yet however given a few years I imagine that I'll know several. Back closer to topic I have to say that I really like the name Orla but I'm not sure I would actually use it. Stylistically I'd say name favourite names come from everywhere and a good portion are not used frequently in the US or in Canada: Mattea - Italian var. Esme - French Anja - Russian var. Freya - Scandinavian Helena - Greek Noam - Hebrew Emmett - English Colm - Irish August - English
This is also interesting, I wonder if this is Chapters-Indigo Canada trying to sort out the version discrepancies: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=baby%20name%20wizard&pageSize=10 The site lists another Baby Name Wizard by Laura published January 1, 2050. I guess I will see what will come of this. I must say that I'm excited for this new book. Even being relatively new my copy of BNW is pretty messy.
I don't know why, but when I make hypothetical families I always want to use some sort of randomization just to throw different odds for children. It's part of the fun. But, because of the randomization factor I got a really distorted family because it rolled me 11 "girl numbers" out of 14. Anyways. F- Anja Cecilia (Ani) F- Esmé Elisabeth (Maisie) F- Freya Grace F- Mattéa Evangeline (Téa) F- Helena Juliet (Lane) M- Noam Peregrine (Noe) F- Isobel Anne F- Lillian Claire (Lil) F- Stella Arwen F- Celeste Avery M- Jack Laurent F- Twyla Leone F- Violet Serafine(Vi) M- Leo Grey (Lee)
I like the name Lawrence/Laurence but my father's name is Larry and in a strange twist of events the bank decided to change all of his documents to Lawrence. The end of this story is that he spent 6 months getting it all sorted out and now is a little annoyed by the name. I'm probably going to use Laurent in a middle name spot though.
Moonlady - I was going to suggest Noam as well - though I completely intend on having a little Noam myself someday - so since it's been thrown in already, I'll say I agree. Amy3's suggestions of Ari and Avi are cute too, and I still like your original proposition of Ronen. Good luck!
Wonderful, I love it when Dragonriders of Pern gets brought up! From my recollections my favourite dragon names were: Orlaith (gold) Ruth (white) And I've always held a soft spot for the names Nerilka, Menolly, Lessa, Sorcha and Robinton.
My sister's name was composed by my mother in order to honour her brother, Allan, and her grandmother, Anna: Hence my sister became Alanna, which I've always found beautiful. Some compound names work, others definitely don't.
On the topic of the anachronistic couple Abe and Shirley, I know a set of twins with the names Leon and Arlo who are in their mid-twenties. Leon seems like such an older and stodgier name to me. In fact, my grandfather is named Leonard. Arlo, on the other hand, seems so "new" and fresh; I feel as if I would be more apt to see it used in a kindergarten class.
I have a friend named Taric (rather than Tarek), but he's a French-Algerian and pronounces it to rhyme with Derek but with a French 'R'. Having this experience, I'll note that his name does not stick out much in a crowd; That's to say, when used in conversation it doesn't sound too "out there".
Me (a Megan) and my sister were both meant to be Jesse James but as we both ended up being girls, it didn't get used; When my brother came around he was named Nathan. Jesse doesn't feel like it suits me, but that may be because I have a close female friend named Jessie. But as for male name *I* feel like, I'm not sure. Nothing jumps out at me.