Short, unique names?

[audiciousamazon.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine is having her baby in a few months, and she needs to find a name that will fit in with the rest of her brood. She wants it to be a short, unique name -- four letters at the most.

Her children so far are:
Isa (Lynn)
Ona (Lee)
Ina (Brenn)
Una (Bree)
Nya (Kaye)

I know those are a little "out there," but if it's any comfort to you, her name is Ana Brennalynne -- she likes the shortness of her name first name, and she wanted to somehow add her middle name into her little girls' middles name... So far she'd had only girls, but she and her husband are hoping this one is a boy. Do you have any suggestions? Boy/Girl, because she won't be finding out the sex of the baby yet.

Comments

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

girls:
ayla
isla
gia
lia
maya
raya
lena
luna
bea
nika/niko
dory
ika
lulu
olya
olga
mina
flora
lora
dora
juno
lyra

boys:
eli
luca
asa
oli
ori
yuri
yuli
ozzy
milo
remy

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

Kai for a boy or girl.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Girls:
Lia
Brea
Ara
Mia
Uli
Mae
Ari

Boys:
Udo
Teo
Cyd
Bo
Des
Jay
Rai

You could make a lot of names from her middle name, like Brenna, Bryn, Aly...

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

I babysat a baby boy named Ari. He was very happy and full of smiles:)

[audiciousamazon.livejournal.com]

She absolutely adores this name! It's now one of her two choices for a boy's name. Thank you so much!

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

No problem. I'm glad she likes it. It's a very cute name:)

Fun looking through my Norwegian baby names book.

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Ina is perfectly normal to me. Other traditional Norwegian names/old Norwegian names which are short for boys:

Ola
Per
Ask
Ravn
Ari
Ulv/Ulf
Alf/Alv
Arnt
Dag
Hans
Jan (yan)
Jarl (yarl)
Leif/Leiv
Mons
Odd (*giggles*)
Ove
Olaf/Olav/Olof/Oluf
Stig
Sven
Sten
Tor
Ture
Ulf
Aage


Boys names which were NOT reccomended:
Aino
Devy
Elam
Eren
Juri (yuri)
Lai
Ter
Don
Heinz
Hinz
Jann
Kean
Leon
Rodi/Rudi
Sem
Cay
Geo
Hay
Ibs
Iten
Jor (yor)
King
Konn
Lake
Lery
Ovid
Pitt
Rikk
Viil

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

i think uli and maya are cute

[audiciousamazon.livejournal.com]

I've been telling her to use the name Uli! But she doesn't like it. =(

I'm glad someone else thinks it is cute.

[straight-outta.livejournal.com]

girls:
ama
dea
mia
mya

boys:
eli
noa
len

[audiciousamazon.livejournal.com]

She loves "Ama," "Len," and "Noa"!

They've all been added to her list. Thanks!

[joybelleblossom.livejournal.com]

Boys:

Ian
Ira
Asa

Girls:

Ava
Eva
Eve
Isla

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Ana, Ona, Ina, and Una? Are you serious?

I guess they are missing Ena.

Elsa
Ada
Noa
Leo
Rio

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

And Yna, sometimes a vowel.

[tokossel.livejournal.com]

noa
rio
zia
kai

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Putz
Gork
Fila
Deek
Fak
Tex
Mog
Waf
Pox

[ghostveins.livejournal.com]

Girl:
Ivy
Zia
Zoe
Kat
Mia/Mya
Ava
Eva/Eve
Kim
May/Mey
Fay/Fey

Boy:
Kai
Kim
Ben
Jay
Noah

[joybelleblossom.livejournal.com]

Thought of one today:

Ada

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised more people didn't say Ian. Also good are Eli, Leo, Lars, Luke/Luc, Paul, Jack, Noah, Abel, Saul, John, Cole, Clay, Reid, Rhys, and Ren.
She could also use a nickname by itself (though I don't love that phenomenon): Sam, Ben, Ken, Jim, Jake, Vin, Will, Rob, Cam, Pat, Zack, Pete, and so on.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Koi!