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[kitten-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Heya all....

Wondering what you think of these names. A bit of background first:

I've always considered names to be a reasonably fluid thing, so the SO and I are yet to discuss anything about surnames. It'd be either 3 syllable starting with 'C' (hard) or one syllable starting with 'G' (also hard) or 2 syllable starting with 'R' - for what it's worth. He's a Dutchie/English extract, I'm a French/English extract, and we were tossing up naming possibilities using things such as our common ancestry, favourite poets and writers, things we like, etc etc.

Here's the list :)


FEMALE:
Sunshine Ardeer
Ginifer Albion
Laverton Aircraft
Chelsea Bonbeach
Rosanna Macleod

MALE:
Preston Bell
Clayton Westall
Patterson Bentleigh
Willison Hartwell
Gowrie Fawkner
Croxton Northcote


** I know they're a bit odd at first. But here should be a comment where I've elaborated a bit more on the meaning and personal reasons behind them.

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[kitten-wrangler.livejournal.com]

We are actually after a bit of quirk. My name is rather unique for my age cohort - and the SO's is an old classic name, but one for men about 30 years older than him. The two of us have pretty much always been able to get by in workplaces / school / university just by using our first names, rather than both. I love names that catch attention and stick in your mind. And a story behind a name is far more interesting than a simple 'we named you after your grandmother'.

Maybe I should elaborate a little more on some of the names.

Soleil is nice - but doomed to a lifetime of SoLEEL... which would put my teeth on edge eventually (my sister was to have the soft French 'j' in her name, but it never stuck). Sunshine won out as a nod to my faintly eco-lefty side. Plus, I like warmth.

Ginifer is somewhat of a tribute to my elementary teacher - Jenny Enever.

Aircraft I explained above. I just have a thing for out-of-left-field middle names (My great uncle's middle name was 'Carmen') - and a love of travel.

I know that Chelsea is a bit too common a name right now - but I still included it because of Leonard Cohen's song 'Chelsea Hotel'.

Bell is actually an allusion to one of my favourite authors; Charlotte Bronte who wrote under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

Preston - because of family heritage, and also again, an oblique reference to the Bill & Ted films (which I REALLY need to watch again)

Westall is showing off my uni-nerdery, but he did some incredible landscape sketches as a part of a ship's crew (and again with the travel)

Gowrie is actually a shoutout to Scotland - my father's family has their own tartan.

William is a family name on the SO's side (his great-grandfather) but has been used by one of his cousins, so we mucked around and hit on Willison (because, theoretically, a boy WOULD be William's great-great-grandson)

Croxton is another music-related name