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[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly like the idea of giving a real kid a word as a name (too much semantic baggage), but there's something lovely and quirky about it. It's always fun to give them to characters in stories. 

A lot of them I consider fairly unisex.

November
Lyric - Looks and sounds like a boys name (mostly because it reminds me of "Eric") but meaning-wise it seems more feminine...
Adelaide - I know it's an actual girls name, and it's gorgeous, but I associate it with the city so I wouldn't use it.
Paper
Whisper
Spell
Book
Trilby - Again, a somewhat archaic real girls name, but you hear it, you think "hat".
Teal
Charcoal - For a boy.
Kite
Candle
Thimble
Thread

Go ahead and add your own to the list... or tell me how mad you think I am. :p (Just remember I'm not going to give these names to REAL children, so don't panic.) Ooh, Panic! Niiice...

Comments

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I like Poet and Indigo.

[luckyverve.livejournal.com]

Love your icon. Love that movie! ^__^

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Poet is cool. Kind of in the same realm as Book and Paper, hehe.

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

I really like Poet, but I don't know if I'd have the guts to actually use it.

[fruhlings.livejournal.com]

lol, my dad wanted to name me Indigo!

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

My great grandmothers name was Annie Adelaide!

And i think Lyric is kind of cute, for a girl or boy.

What do you think about the infamous 'Apple', or 'Peaches'?
You could use other words for fruits as names...
Clementine
Berry
Cherry

I tend to think weatherish/element-esq names are cute, i doubt i'd ever use one though.
Frost
Snow
Storm [i know a girl called storm]
Sunny
Stone
Flame
Sandy
Rayne/Raine/Rain [this is one of my favourite names]


Seasons?
Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring?
I personally think Autumn or Winter would be really cute.

Months, or days?
May/June/November.....Juillet is French for July.
Tuesday/Wednesday

Places? Cities?
Sydney/Adelaide are common enough...
Paris [duh!]...Lyon, Clermont,
London
Sicily
Sienna/Siena
Vienna
Jakarta
Dallas - i like this for a boy or a girl.
Albury
Cairo


Secret
Jet
Feather
Blade - this is the middle name of a boy i know.

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Clementine is an actual name, and I like it. Other fruit names in general I'm not too fond of... although Tangerine is cool. :p
It's funny how you often hear Summer/Autumn/Winter as names, but never Spring... I think it's cute. Bouncy too. :p
Paris... ick. Too common. Clermont I like (where is that?). Albury too.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Clermont is in France
Albury is a country town in Australia!

And noone is ever going to see the name Paris the same again, it's been ruined lol.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Apple got so much flack, but I LOVE it. I've always said my hypothetical twin girls will be named Rhubarb and Rosemary... both with two built-in non-food word nicknames, if they don't want to go by their real name.

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Ruby (or Rhuby, I suppose) and Rosie, as the nicknames? That's sweet. :)

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I thought so! Most people roll their eyes, but... too bad.

[stormyshay.livejournal.com]

My SIL's name is Rain. Of course when you pair it with her last name of Storm it makes for a very interesting conversation. It fits her though because she is a wildlife biologist. I guess my in-laws had a sense of humor.

[zodiacstargazer.livejournal.com]

Vienna is such a cool name. :) Vienna Teng uses it for her psuedonym.

[candyshowers.livejournal.com]

I love the name Trilby.

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Me too! Your icon is fantastic.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like Storm, River and Blue =) By the way, I once heard of a girl called Alyric (a lyric?). Just thought it was funny =)

[iceni.livejournal.com]

I saw Rain Pryor on TV last night and I must admit I like that name. I see from Google images that there's also a male Korean singer called Rain.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

And the most beautiful little girl ever! Did you see her in Google images? I googled it a long time ago, but it made an impression on me.

[iceni.livejournal.com]

I've just seen her as an adult on TV & google today because of this thread.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant that if you Google the word "rain" in Google Images you get a picture of the most beautiful little girl ever. Or you did, a few years ago. It's this image. It made an impression on me :)

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a gorgeous photo.

[xo-inthered.livejournal.com]

I love Kite.

[iceni.livejournal.com]

I suppose I like hippy names. There was a Star in 'The Lost Boys'.

[ex-ollivande895.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's a good movie.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Random Noun names, but only if they're spelled like the things they are. Why disguise your intention by tweaking it with extra Ys or Hs or Ks or whatever?

Flower nouns are a bit done, but nice, and intangible nouns (Hope, Charity, Dolores, etc.) aren't quite as zesty, in my opinion, but I like a lot of both of those categories, too. Just not as much as Real Things.

The good thing about a lot of these names is that while people may blink a bit and say "Your name is Kiwi?" at least 1. it's different AND 2. people know how to spell it.

Rare combination, that!

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter has completely ruined the name 'Dolores' for me.

[ex-ollivande895.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

I agree, I hate it when they're misspelled.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I've been seriously considering November for a long time! I really love the word, the month, the romance of it.

I like Teal, too - probably for a boy.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Did anyone read that Point Horror novel Freeze Tag when they were little? West, Brown, and Tuesday Trevor - rockin'!

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Other noun names:

Raspberry
Kalico
Pistachio
Amaretto
Oak

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Calico is nice, but not with a K. And Pistachio is cute!

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

Alice Cooper named his daughter Kalico :)

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I think you and I are name-thought siblings.

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the best sort of sibling to be. :p

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

cypress.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

oh two more, tupelo and honey.

Trilby

[neroli.livejournal.com]

The hat was actually named after the character (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trilby), not the other way around :)

Re: Trilby

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's interesting! Thanks for enlightening me. Must read the book now...

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

I always thought "Malice" would be a cute name for a girl. I wound up using for the name of a character in a story I'm writing, a perky Goth girl.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Ha! Malice? Wow!


... this reminds me... anybody know if that girl way back when actually ended up naming her son Arson?

[composure.livejournal.com]

I knew a girl names Fathom - I always thought that was unique.
My cousin named his daughter Lexus.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

fathom...how interesting yet believable, i like it.

[zodiacstargazer.livejournal.com]

I like city names. They are oh-so-lovely [but I agree, Paris has been ruined forEVER. :(] Although I really can't think of any word-based names [mine is actually word-based, but it's in Korean. :) It was based on a sentence about succeeding in the arts] I do love Kali. There was a girl in school I knew who had that name. It appealed loads, especially when you couple the mythology of that name [Hindu goddess, scary, fierce, war-based, etc.] and it really fit her brash, impulsive personality.