interesting names

[minga13.livejournal.com]

I'm a teacher and here are names of the children in my new class. Most are pretty standard names but with a few other interesting ones thrown in. (The kids are either Pacific Island or Maori which does influence some of their names)

---Girls---
Litia
Jesame (jez-ah-may)
Lydia
Tuseilda (tu-sell-da)
Nakita
Sarah
Amelia
Jade
Gaylene
Rene (said the same as Renée)
Julia
Suresa
Coopa

---Boys---
Yoba
Lazarus
Richard
Jose
Arthur
Jacob
Zechariah
Taifeni (thai-fen-ee)
Shannon
Maui
Logan
Nathan

Comments

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

I love Jesame, never heard it before!
And my Maori cousin's name is Logan, i like that too.
Is Jose pronounced with 'y' sound?

[minga13.livejournal.com]

Jose is pronounced as Hose-ay (the e in Jose should be accented really I think)

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

haha all those interesting names and two of them are my kid's names (Amelia & Logan).

I like Lydia, Sarah, Jesame Shannon and Nathan.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Love Jesame & Logan =) Jade is pretty ok as well.
Gaylene...hm. That girl might get teased with her name when she gets older =(.

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

Gaylene is my aunt's name, I'll have to remember to ask her wether or not it was ever a problem, haha

[zoe-rules.livejournal.com]

This might be out of left field, but Logan could possibly be an inspiration from the lead singer of Katchafire? I don't know, when I see Logan and NZ in the same sentence, I immediately think of him.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

weirrd, coopa reminds me of the turtles from mario...(they're named koopa)
i like lydia and jade and logan.