My favourite names

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

For boys:
Broderick
Kaeden or Caeden
Caedmon
Galen

Girls:
Christabelle
Kaelebeth
Sara-Catrin
Tieren-Rose
Shea-Leigh (shayley)
Caleigh (kayley)

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Good luck getting past this crowd with creative spellings!

I like Kaeden minus the popularity. Christabelle is pretty. Caleigh is too.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I like Christabelle but, and this is just personal taste, I prefer it spelled Christobel (I prefer Isabelle spelled Isobel so I think I just have an anti-Belle thing)

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

Some of those names like Caleigh and Shea-Leigh are in original Irish spellings, but yes, they are unusual for English speakers. I think some of those should maybe be spelled different.

Oh, boy.

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

Broderick - Matthew?
Kaeden or Caeden - NO MORE -DEN NAMES.
Caedmon - WHAT.
Galen - Yeah, Gay Len won't get teased AT ALL.
Christabelle - I don't hate it, but it's cutesy.
Kaelebeth - What does this even say? I'm saying "Kale Beth."
Sara-Catrin - Sigh.
Tieren-Rose - What's with the hyphen?
Shea-Leigh (shayley) - Two great tastes that don't taste great together.
Caleigh (kayley) - Eh.

Re: Oh, boy.

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

I wasn't thinking about that Gay-len thing. I was thinking about an ancient writer. I got Kaelebeth from a magazine article. Caedmon is the first English writer on record, he lived about 1000 years ago.

Re: Oh, boy.

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

That's where I've heard Caedmon before (yay Brit Lit!).

Kids will come up with anything to tease another about their name, but you don't want to make it too easy on them (I'm thinking of Gaylord Focker from Meet the Parents).

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

The only name I like out of your boy names is Galen, but as a previous poster mentioned, it's totally going to get bastardized into Gay Len, and then just Gay. The other names are way too trendy/kr8ive for my tastes.

For the girl names, I like them in theory, but the spellings and hyphens are going to give me a headache. What about Sarah Catrina and Tarin Rose? A friend of mine is named Shana Leigh, and I think that sounds MUCH better than Shea-Leigh, so I'm going to throw that one out there, too.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

But that looks like Cristobol, which is Christopher in Romance languages (at least in Spanish).

[xpaniic.livejournal.com]

Broderick - No.
Kaeden or Caeden - I love the name, but it is REALLY popular right now.
Caedmon - Reminds me of caveman.
Galen - I do like this one, but if I'm pronouncing it right, be ready for the "gay" jokes. But every name will get teased somehow.
Christabelle - Don't like.
Kaelebeth - Not sure how to pronounce this. Kayla Beth?
Sara-Catrin - No.
Tieren-Rose - My favorite of your girls names.
Shea-Leigh - No.
Caleigh - Someone I know ruined this name for me, otherwise it's okay.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

For boys:
Broderick - I usually really like last names as first names, but not in this case. Overkill.
Kaeden or Caeden - so tired of these names. SO TIRED OF THEM.
Caedmon - I love this name. It reminds me of the (awesome) band Caedmon's Call
Galen - If it were pronounced more like gall-en, it might be ok. But it isn't, it has "gay" in it, and therefore it is not a good name.

Girls:
Christabelle - I like Christa, plain and simple. Belle is so...unnecessary.
Kaelebeth - Huh? I can't even pronounce this.
Sara-Catrin - Dashes in first names are weird and hard to read
Tieren-Rose - ^ I like the suggestion Tarin Rose.
Shea-Leigh (shayley) - yikes.
Caleigh (kayley) - Kaley or Kailey or Caylie or Cailey...anything to get rid of the gh.

[lneef.livejournal.com]

No on all of them, for many different reasons.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Kaelebeth is particularly interesting.

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Don't really like any of them I'm afraid. However, Sara-Catrin could be nice if you completely got rid of the hyphen (I don't see the point in hyphenating first names, and it has always just come across as tacky to me), and maybe turned Catrin into Catrina.

Re: Oh, boy.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I actually know four Galens (one is a Gahlen and one is a Gayland). One is a teen, two are in their 40-50s and one is in his 60s. I have talked to all of them at one time or another and none of them reported any teasing related to the "gay" parts of the name. Even the sixteen year old said he'd only caught flack for it once...and that was in jail. The whole gay=homosexual thing didn't become an issue until the late seventies-early eighties.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like Tieren-Rose =) I'm not really a fan of any of the other names, but unlike most people here I don't think the hyphens are disturbing at all. I'm living in Holland, and it's pretty common here...it's just what you're used to, I guess =)

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

lol