You should consider where the names you choose come from.
Do you know what "aurelia" means? It's a genus of jellyfish-- or the pupa of an insect.
If you want your little boy to end up on the no-fly list-- no matter if your last name is Winston (by the way, I love that last name, always been one of my favourites)-- go ahead and name him Abdi Muhammed or Ahmed Khalil. I don't agree that he should end up on the no-fly; in this culture, though, it's quite probable.
Please, for the love of God, do not name your little boy Cassius Octavius. Pick one or the other, at the most. And consider this: the most famous Cassius of them all changed his name... to Mohammed Ali. My parents were quite unhappy indeed when I changed mine, even to a variant of my middle name; if you spend all this time dreaming up fantastic names like this, and your kid turns up hating the name you picked, then it will bring you down. (Cassius means "vain", by the way; Octavius means "the eighthborn"-- something to consider, if you're talking about your firstborn here.)
Miranda-- especially when combined with Starlynn-- sounds to me like a stripper's name... or a batty old fortune teller. It means "admirable beauty; one who is wonderful," so it sounds good... but consider also the image it presents, and consider what your child will think of herself if people around her first think of her as a batty old fortune teller or a stripper (or anything else) because of her name.
Kids with accented letters in their names (Léafa Jennifer) may have a hard time with it when someone asks them how to spell their name.
I really love Avalon, though, and Ivy has always been a favourite name of mine (as well as Holly).
In conclusion: know what you're doing-- look it up here (http://parenting.ivillage.com/pregnancy/babynames/finder/0,,,00.html), even. I would choose a first name that is easy to spell and to pronounce (phonetic; Avalon is good for this), and then get mystical with the middle name. You might even be able to make "Avalon Miranda Winston" work out-- I just wouldn't go crazy with it.
You do have some nice names here... but I will warn you that if you have a kid at your age and name him or her something far-out like the names you've picked, you may well end up regretting it when you're older, especially if the child is unhappy with their name.
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Date: 2005-11-29 01:34 pm (UTC)Do you know what "aurelia" means? It's a genus of jellyfish-- or the pupa of an insect.
If you want your little boy to end up on the no-fly list-- no matter if your last name is Winston (by the way, I love that last name, always been one of my favourites)-- go ahead and name him Abdi Muhammed or Ahmed Khalil. I don't agree that he should end up on the no-fly; in this culture, though, it's quite probable.
Please, for the love of God, do not name your little boy Cassius Octavius. Pick one or the other, at the most. And consider this: the most famous Cassius of them all changed his name... to Mohammed Ali. My parents were quite unhappy indeed when I changed mine, even to a variant of my middle name; if you spend all this time dreaming up fantastic names like this, and your kid turns up hating the name you picked, then it will bring you down. (Cassius means "vain", by the way; Octavius means "the eighthborn"-- something to consider, if you're talking about your firstborn here.)
Miranda-- especially when combined with Starlynn-- sounds to me like a stripper's name... or a batty old fortune teller. It means "admirable beauty; one who is wonderful," so it sounds good... but consider also the image it presents, and consider what your child will think of herself if people around her first think of her as a batty old fortune teller or a stripper (or anything else) because of her name.
Kids with accented letters in their names (Léafa Jennifer) may have a hard time with it when someone asks them how to spell their name.
I really love Avalon, though, and Ivy has always been a favourite name of mine (as well as Holly).
In conclusion: know what you're doing-- look it up here (http://parenting.ivillage.com/pregnancy/babynames/finder/0,,,00.html), even. I would choose a first name that is easy to spell and to pronounce (phonetic; Avalon is good for this), and then get mystical with the middle name. You might even be able to make "Avalon Miranda Winston" work out-- I just wouldn't go crazy with it.
You do have some nice names here... but I will warn you that if you have a kid at your age and name him or her something far-out like the names you've picked, you may well end up regretting it when you're older, especially if the child is unhappy with their name.
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