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[shabonmerc.livejournal.com]

Hi. My name is Sara, which obviously is very common (especially when you go to college at Sarah Lawrence. Plus the unoriginal jokes about it are endless.) My middle name is Thistle, which I love because I've never met anyone else with that as part of their name. I'm not going to need names for actual babies for several years still, but I'm an aspiring writer and have always had a love for baby names, especially unique ones. I've noticed a recent trend among girls around 6 or 7 that a lot of them seemed to be named -ianna. At the pool I work at there are two Gianna's and one Sianna. I'm not really sure who thought this was a good idea, because all of the names sound the same (kind of like the aidan/caden/jayden/etc. phenomenon) and I don't really think the names have a lot of personality behind them, IMHO. Personally, I'm a huge fan of welsh names and anything that can be shortened to a really endearing nickname. Growing up with name Sara, the best I ever got was "Sar."



Girls:

Kataerina
Isabella
Annabella
Kalasin
Lain
Magdalena
Trisana
Lilith/Lilia
Autumn
August
Clarissa
Ariel
Laila
Darcy
Beatrix
Zoe(y)
Aimee
Teague/Teagen
Imogen(e)
Naiad
Ophelia
Tygerlily
Morrissey (I saw a post somewhere and a woman had named her girl Morrissey Willow, and I just thought it was really pretty)
Kennedy

Boys:

Owen
Gavin
Jonas
Brandon
Liam
Oliver
Archer
Atticus
Myles/Miles
Kael
Riley
Orion
Jakob
Phoenix
Griffin

Comments

[fluffysings.livejournal.com]

I got stuck with Marianna - a name that no one can spell or pronounce. I have gone through life repeating it.

[shabonmerc.livejournal.com]

I've gone through life telling people that "No, no H. Yes, S-A-R-A. Right. No H." And my last name is very easy to pronounced but very intimidating on paper, so I've gone through life dealing with that too. I feel like no matter what you name your kid, there's always going to be some part of that name that they go through life going, "No, it's spelled/pronounced like this." Unless your name is Jane Johnson, like in those Face On The Milk Carton books.