Girl names

[kryscat]

Discuss.

(Yes, I've seen http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html and http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/)

Comments

[agntprovocateur]

lol! i'm not sure i should answer since my kid's named after an animal.

my two best friends named their boys: peregrine (after the falcon, peri for short) and blixa (after mr. bargeld)

i originally wanted "blixa" for a girl's name. but sarah e took it because she had a kid first. also liked "asche" for either a boy or a girl. my sis gave her second kid the middle name of "piper", which i love. and my kid's middle name is aster. I originally, i wanted aastrid, but my ex thought it was too nordic. basically means the same thing, star or light.

we're not normal!

[cypherpunk95]

Hmm... Where on the Britney...Michelle...Darlene...Death spectrum are you aiming? :-)

[kryscat]

I think we're looking for something a bit unusual but not torment-worthy. Rob wants no family names (we're both named after parents). I dunno. Something somewhat myth-related? Or something "ethnic" from one of our backgrounds? (Polish, German, Ukrainian, Italian, Catalan, Lebanese on my side and Irish, Scottish, English, Norwegian, Danish on his side doesn't narrow things down too much.) Or something else entirely...

[ariyanakylstram]

Literary names I like:

From Dickens:
Arabella
Estella
Lillian
Madeline
Rose (or Rosa)
Violet

From Shakespeare:
Bianca
Cymbeline
Helena
Iris
Valeria
Viola

...and then there are the Gashleycrumb tinies...
; >

[threadwalker]

nice collection

[eviladmin]

Just make sure it doesn't feed into my law practice :-)

[chimerically]

As said over on rebbyrib's blogMy parents named both my sister and me before they knew what our sex was - so we both have gender-neutral names (though gender-neutral names, interestingly, tend to become feminized over time - look up names like Morgan, Kelly, Lauren, Alexis, Ashley, Leslie, Lindsey/Lindsay, Kerry, Robin, Leslie, Kris, Courtney, Ariel, Jordan, Alexis, Dana, Avery, etc. on the name voyager to see what I mean). Anyway, when I was little I wished I had a more feminine name like Megan, but since then I've found my ambiguous name very useful, especially in a male-heavy field like computer science. (I experience a certain peverse satisfaction upon meeting someone who clearly expected me to be male

[chimerically]

er, whoops, that should be rebbyribs's blog :~)

[yosh]

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