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I am a 22 year old newlywed from Michigan. Being asked to help name my niece coupled with the idea of starting a family within the next few of years has turned baby name browsing into a hobby of mine. I love timeless, familiar names (names that everyone immediately recognizes and knows how to spell) that are still relatively uncommon. The only thing that's certain at this point is that my first born girl (if I'm blessed with one some day) will have the middle name Louise (just like myself, my mother Ann Louise, and my grandmother, Alice Louise.) Have to continue on the tradition! :)
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My list: Anthony Benjamin and Caroline Delia Emma Felicity Garrett Harrison Ivy James and Kelvin Lucas Miles Nathan Owen Pauline Quinn Rosa Susannah
Just an interesting name I heard the other day: a little girl named Daytona. I figured they must be race fans?
I know a 21 year old Irene and the name is lovely on her! She's a dancer, so to me the name always sounds graceful. :) I'm also a fan of Pauline. I know and really look up to a woman named Pauline, and would consider using it for a middle name if my husband didn't hate it so much!
@ktkates I love both Louisa and August! Fantastic. (Maybe I'm biased though... my middle name is Louise and my grandfather and brother are both August nn Augie.) :)
This reminds me of a story about my husband's grandfather. Apparently when he was born, his mother wanted to name him Thomas, but her mother (my husband's grandfather's grandmother) very strongly thought his name should be Marion. Somehow she got a hold of the paperwork after he was born and changed his first name from Thomas to Marion before it got turned in! After everyone discovered what happened, they didn't bother to change it... his name was legally Marion, but he was called Thomas for his entire life. My father-in-law (Marion/Thomas's son) is named Thomas (legally!) after his father. :) I would also fight for my middle name if it were somehow changed. It's the same as my mother's and my grandmother's, so there is an important family connection for me. I plan on using it for my own daughter someday, as long as I'm blessed with one. :)
@izzy I know of a real sibset of Ch@rles, H3nry, and Georgin@, which is what I thought of right away! Just need 2 more girl names.
"Also, anyone else have trouble with that "cess" sound? Is it too close to words like "cesspit"?" I think I prefer Cecily. For me, Cicely makes me think of the insult "sissy."
Really interesting post! I just finished reading the English translation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, which, as far as I can tell, kept all of the characters' Swedish names. It was an interesting experience for me, as I was being exposed to a lot of names I was not familiar with, but it could actually be confusing at times too. The author often went back and forth between referring to a character by their first name or only their last name, and especially for more minor characters with unfamiliar first names ("Malin" is an example I can think of now,) I would have to stop and think about who was being referred to and whether it was the character's first or last name. But maybe I just need to pay better attention when a character gets introduced. :) I'm the type of reader who flies through the book because I can't wait to see what happens next!
"I did have a friend recently mention that her first son was given her husband's role playing name from high school. It certainly seemed like an original way to name your son after his father." Going off of Melanie1's comment, if we named a future son after my husband's old Everquest (I think that was the RPG he played in high school?) name, he would be Aedwl@n, which he pronounces something like "uh-DWELL-in". Kind of an interesting sound, but I don't think the spelling is very intuitive.
"My family has named the talking GPS in our car, and I'm sure we're not the only ones!" Ours is nicknamed Jelly. :)
Off topic now, (this would probably fit in more with the post a few weeks ago, "The Mysterious Persistence of Little Johnny") but I met a 5 year old boy last week who went by Rick. I was surprised, never having met a little one going by that nickname, but I actually really liked it on him. :)
The only Gideon I know is in his mid 20s. I'm pretty sure his family is Catholic.
I just finished a book by a woman named Joshilyn Jackson and was wondering about her name. I thought maybe it was just a variation on Jocelyn, but possibly she's named after a Josh/Joshua. Really interesting! On an unrelated note, my husband is mildly obsessed with sporcle.com, and we've recently come across a few baby name quizzes that I thought were really fun. I'm not sure if anything like this has been posted here ever, but I figured people in this community would probably be very good at them. :) After you finish the quiz or run out of time, be sure to click on the "see the most missed" link to find more interesting data: your percentile and the percentage of quiz takers who guess each particular answer. Here are the links: Can you name the baby names that appear in the top ten for at least two decades? http://www.sporcle.com/games/triviahappy/Top_Names_of_A_Century Can you name the top 100 baby girl names of the 1990s? http://www.sporcle.com/games/jkat/top100girlsnames1990s Can you name the top 100 baby boy names of teh 1990s? http://www.sporcle.com/games/jkat/100mostpopularboysnamesof1990s They have quizzes for other decades/years too! Search for baby names.
This reminds me of those "what does your name mean?" things that generate a random adjective that starts with each letter of your name. They always end up being like: Sarah S - super A - awesome R - remarkable A - awesome H - happy haha. :)
emilyrae: Actually, now that you mention it, I remember having a teacher's assistant in one of my college classes named Emmanuelle, and she was from France. Maybe I didn't find it strange then because her French background was pretty obvious (she had a very noticeable accent.) The little Emmanuel where I work is African American, but obviously she could have a French background as well that is just not so noticeable.
I work at a math and reading center with kids who range from about 4 to 8 years old, and thought people might be interested in seeing some of their names. These are the ones I can remember: Violet Cooper Christian Aaron Dana Af@f & Noorh@n (sisters) @rjun Geneva Sori@h and Amir@ (twin sisters) Pooja Fesseh@ and K1dus (brothers) Sara Victor Christopher N@kshatr nn Naks (boy - not sure how his full name is pronounced, but the nn sounds like "nox") H@rini Guy@thri Olivia Jesse and Jason (brothers) Samantha Neil (2 times) Isabella (2 times - one nn Izzy and one Bella, plus another just Bella) Lucy Evan (2 times) Aid@n & Eliz@beth Ava M@dhav Ad@m and Mi@ (twins) Tiffany Terrance nn Terry Emmanuel (girl) @shmit Hailey James Sh@ilen (boy) Simr@n nn Simi (girl) Yasmine Rishi Dawson Julian I was surprised to see Emmanuel for a girl! I asked her what she liked to be called, thinking maybe she went by a nickname, but she thought for a few seconds and decided, "I would like to be called Isabella." haha
As a recent graduate of college, I have a lot of friends who have changed their names on social networking sites to avoid being found by potential employers. (One friend, for example, goes by something like Joel Astname on Facebook instead of Joe Lastname.) The problem with this is that it also makes it harder for friends and family to find them. I also took my husband's surname when I married, and went from being the only person with my full name on Facebook to being 1 of 8. When you google my new name, nothing that relates to me comes up, while googling my maiden name mostly brings up academic and athletic accomplishments of mine from high school. It's actually kind of disappointing having those achievements no longer directly attached to my name. However, I do love the length of my new last name. Much shorter and easier to sign. :) (also, hello! I've been reading this blog and the discussions in the comments for months, but I've never posted before. I found this website while trying to help my brother and his girlfriend find a name for their baby when they were expecting. My niece has since been born - they chose Charlotte Alice for her name, by the way - but this blog has me hooked. :) I even went back and read every previous blog post since it's beginning, haha. Love it!)