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[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

what are your thoughts on naming themes? I hate alliteration, whether its naming your kids kevin katherine and kelly, or if its joseph jenkins or sidney sebold, however, i love other naming themes, for instance naming your kids after your favourite authors, or book characters, biblical names, or musicians. opinions?



Also, I've listed some of my other name-theme lists before (Harry Potter, Rockstars, Fitzgeralds Characters), so heres my latest:
Francesca Lia Block Characters Names

I don't know how many of you have heard of FLB, but she write beautiful, ethereal novels, and uses some interesting names (often word names), some I love, some I don't like, and some I like but wouldn't actually use, so here's a short list of all of the above.

Boys

Lex
West
Smoke
Raphael
Valentine
Rafe
Paul
Dionisio
Dirk
Duck
Jack
Griffin


Girls

Marina
Ruby
Echo
Eden
Lillian
Cherokee
Snow
Barbie
Vixanne
Fifi
Primavera
Weetzie
Tuck
Winnie
Laurel
Claudia
Sylvie
Beauty

realistically, i'd probably only use Lex, West, Marina, Griffin, Ruby, Lillian, Winnie, Laurel, Jack, Sylvie, or Eden, but i really like some of the others too.

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

My sister and I (11 years apart, no one in between) are Sarah Lesley and Shannan Leigh. My mother says they didn't realize it when they picked my name, but didn't mind/care, so they just went with it.

I have a friend who is the oldest of 8 - all Biblical names:

Sarah
Benjamin
Rebekah
Joseph
Abigail
Lydia
Caleb
Joshua


I have another friend, the second oldest of 8 - with all the kids having 4 letters in their names.

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

i feel stupid for not knowing Lydia is in the bible! ha. i also knew a woman who picked all biblical names: Daniel, Sarah, Elizabeth, Joshua.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the biblical names theme, a lot, and those are great biblical names, better than the usual joseph, mary, john and peter

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

i'm actually very anti-themes, so much so that i wouldn't even pick two names for my kids if they ended in the same sound ["Kelly" and "Bailey" for example]

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't use kelly and bailey either, i don't like that sort of theme in the least, names that sound the same

[slayerkate.livejournal.com]

I haven't read anything by her in a long time, but I was a FLB junkie in high school.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

thats when I got started too, but I just never got over it. She's written three new books in the past few years, Psyche in a Dress, Ruby, and Necklace of Kisses

[jordle.livejournal.com]

I love Jack and I love Griffin but that is about it.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

Oh and to answer your question. I hate themed names. I just find it silly.

OT

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

Oh, Dexter.

Re: OT

[jordle.livejournal.com]

How good is it? Did you know that the first two eps of season 2 have been leaked?

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[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

NO OMG SRSLY

Where can you get them?!?!? I don't have Showtime anymore and I miss it so much!

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[jordle.livejournal.com]

Seriously!!

I got them from a Torrent. It is so so good!

[lneef.livejournal.com]

I think kids should be named for themselves, not as part of a set.

That said, if you like the names anyway and it's not too obviously themed, there's no harm in it. The top three or so name on my current girls list all happen to be queens or rulers. Didn't mean it that way, and most won't notice a theme if I wind up with three girls named Catherine, Elizabeth, and Victoria someday, but it's a theme all the same.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

I ended up with all my theme names because I realized I really liked names that happened to fall into groups, realistically, I'll probably mix all my different themes and have one kid with a name from each group or something.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

I'm typically not either (Apple.... wrong, just wrong), but a lot of real names came from that, Peter means rock and Rose is a flower but people often name their kids Rose or Peter

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

mine too! I'm planning on using Fitzgeralds names as middle names, Amory, Rosalind, and Isabell

[godmod.livejournal.com]

Aw. I remember some of those FLB characters. I love griffin.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

i haven't read i was a teenage fairy in years, so when i was listing names and remembered griffin i was like woah because its my exgirlfriends name, so i've come to associate it with being feminine

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

My husband is into three-letter names because all three of us - him, his son and me - have three-letter names (Rob, Max and Mia). That's all pure coincidence, of course. Other than Ava or Eva, I can't think of another three-letter name I really like. I'd rather use a name that fits my child than try to cram him or her into a theme.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

My boyf's an alliteration but only because his parents changed his original last name (mother's 2nd married name) to his father's name.

I personally adore Biblical names for boys and old fashioned names and honor names for girls.

FLB names I adore:

(B)
West
Jack

(G)
Marina
Ruby

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

my boyfriend has aliteration too, C and C, but i dont tell him i hate it, haha.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

I thought it cheesy for a while but now his name just seems.. so like him? If that makes sense. I can't see him as anything else and I love him, so it just works.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

My cousin's name is Eden -- Eden Jael.

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

I like:

Lex-cool
Smoke-intriguing
Raphael
Valentine
Dionisio
Dirk
Duck-LOL...I wouldn't really use it but I positively associate it with the engine from Thomas...>3
Jack
Griffin


Girls

Marina-pretty
Ruby-pretty
Snow-different, pretty
Vixanne-This one's interesting. I like names with Xs in them, like Roxanne. This is like a cross between Roxanne and Vivian or something...kinda nice.
Claudia-lovely
Sylvie-cute

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

Lex is one of my favourites, and i really want to name a baby Alexei and call him Lex