Camellia

[jerseygrits.livejournal.com]

So I've become obsessed with The Shield, and when I was watching one of the episodes with commentary recently, Benito Martinez was talking about Camillia (pronounced kuh-meel-yuh) Sanes, the actress who plays his wife on the show. I don't know if I've ever heard this name on a person before, and it struck me as very pretty. I think I prefer the spelling "Camellia," though, like the flower. So I'm thinking of adding it to the list. My favorite names are those that are very rarely used but still sound like names, and I think this one fits the bill. The only problem I might have with it is that I definitely wouldn't want the nicknames "Cam" or "Cammy" to pop up (in large part because I dated a guy named Cameron/Cam for a long time, and that would be weird).

So what do you all think?