names

[strychnine-lace.livejournal.com]

hi im new to this community and i just wanted ur opinion on these names.

Im not sure if its a boy or a girl yet but my partner and i want to call our child either

Esmerelda Amaya D'Arcy 
or
Ariea Ilanthia Paige

Rowan Dante William
or
Aiden Vladmere 

opinions?

Comments

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

Esmeralda is from the "Hunchback of Notre Dame". that means "emerald". It's pretty.
Ariea, I think that's "Aria", the song that's sung in operas. That's also pretty.

Rowan, that's unisex, I'm thinking.
Aiden, or Aidan, that's Irish. That's very common these days.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

ohh yes Aria is so much prettier i agree.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

esmerelda is very pretty :]

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

i love the names esmerelda and rowan!

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I say Esmeralda Amaya Darcy
and
Rowan Dante William

although they're rather intricate names

[kohlminer.livejournal.com]

Girls: it's all a bit flowery for me, like an original character in a fan fiction. Maybe if you cut it down to one middle? And I don't like Paige so much.

Boys: Aiden and Dante are some of my favorites. Is Vladmere a variation of Vladimir? And as someone involved with the Pagan community, it's hard for me to disassociate the name "Rowan" from the baby name choice of every Celtic textbook Wiccan and every chick who wears waaaay too much purple that I know. But, I'll try: it's a nice name.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Just responding to the first names, here, I would go for the second girl's name. However, I would go with the spelling Aria: that spelling calls to mind the musical association which is so pretty; whereas adding an extraneous "e" makes it look like the word area instead. I think it would be a pain to have to correct everyone's spelling and pronunciation all the time.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Esmerelda Amaya D'Arcy sounds really silly to me, I'm sorry. Same with Ariea Ilanthia Paige. Unnecessarily complex and flowery, like characters in a teenage girl's fan fiction or something.

Rowan is okay, but Aiden is way too popular.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Esmerelda Amaya D'Arcy - Okay, first two I can deal with, but D'arcy? why on earth the spelling.. the cprrect use of apostrophes is to link a words with missing letters. This spelling is ugly and wrong. Darcy is fine. I adore Esme, a derivative of Esmerelda.
or
Ariea Ilanthia Paige- Paige seems a little odd, out of place. Ilanthia is nice, Ariea reminds me of Urea nd i'm not so sure how to pronounce it.

Rowan Dante William- Fine.
or
Aiden Vladmere - Atrendy vampire? heh.

opinions?

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

Awful, awful, contrived tryndie crap.

[strychnine-lace.livejournal.com]

I should have explained a bit better with the names lol.

My partner an I are both pagans and we wanted a unique name that would refect our little ones uniqueness, plus we both wated something different that wasnt used all the time.

With Esmerelda Amaya D'Arcy, we planned calling her Ella for short, but combined Esmerelda and Amaya mean, Emeral night rain which we thought was really pretty. D'Arcy was a name after one of my familiy members.

With Ariea, this was my partners favourite, and he refuses to change speling lol i had suggested Aria but hes kinda stubborn ;) Illanthia again his choice after a favourite fatasy character...as for paige...we are not sure either as to whether it suits or not...it was my idea but i couldnt think of anything else that suited and that he would agree too.

Rowan, again was honouring a family member, plus we really liked the strength of the name. Dante and Vladmere were names given to us by a special friend which we will retain.

and for Aiden, that was my partners friend who died. so we wanted him to be remembered :D

thank you all so much for ur feedback, its great to hear what u think.

if any other name can be thought up besides Paige let me know :D

thanks again so much

Circe