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[supermonkeyfics.livejournal.com]

...and another to add to the tally of LJ Spotlight-induced new members. Hehe. Anyways, I'm not expecting to be a mother anytime soon. I just really, really like names. I enjoy writing, and since creating characters is my favorite part of the writing process, I spend quite a bit of time thinking about names.

My name is Nicole Marie. Both relatively common names, though Marie particularly as a middle name. I like my first name well enough, but it irritates me that it's common as both a first name and a middle name. Multiple times I've had classes where I've been one of 3 Nicoles. As for middle names, Nicole is the middle name of my current roommate, one of my best friends, and 2 of my elementary school classmates. And that's just for starters.

I do like the nickname Nikki. I don't really prefer to go by it, but it does make me happy when people close to me pick it up on their own (which is why I still don't introduce myself as Nikki even though I'm surrounded by new people in college). Alas, those people are few and far between - it worked pretty well in elementary/middle school, since that's where it started, but I went to a different high school than most of my friends, & only one person picked it up in high school. =(

girls:
Emmy/Emy
Ren/Wren
Vivian
Kairi
Remy

boys:
Lee
Connor
Alex
Tobias (Toby, perhaps?)
Rowen

Comments

[hotmaildt.livejournal.com]

Vivian, Tobias and Rowen! Love all three!

[twilightshadows.livejournal.com]

I was was one of three Samantha Jos and I think I was one of seven Samanthas in high school. My best friend and grandmother call me Jo, which I really like. But I still introduce myself as Sam normally.

I really love the names Kairi, Alex, and Rowen.

[chadam-lives.livejournal.com]

Remy is a cute name. Even though you have it down as a gal's name, I'd have it for a boy, short for Remus. Lol. Blame Harry Potter.

Personally, my name is Miriam Anita. It's a bit... bleh. So I go by the name Mim. I try to get everyone to call me by it now, but it still only happens occassionally. :/

And as for the middle name. Anita? Uh, so nineteen eighties. *shudder* (no offence to anyone named Anita, it's just not very 'me'.)

[radbiscuits.livejournal.com]

Haha, my name is Nicola, and I have the exact same opinion as you on the 'Nikki'/'Nicky' issue. I like it when someone chooses to use it, but I won't tell them to.
I like 'Nicola', but I get so many people thinking my name is Nicole, or just pronounced Nicole-a. Annoying.