third name

[scouty.livejournal.com]

hello

I need your help

I´m pregnant with a little boy
his name is evan samuel

but my mommy is in hospital since christmas...in artificial coma...now we dont know what will happen
and as the baby is the most precious thing for my mom I was thinking about giving him a third name...to honor my mommy

I asked her before....but she doesnt like her first name..
and she told me the name must fit to the other two...so we never talked again about that

now..in this situation...I´m thinking about it again

but I cant find a name..

her name is brunhilde...so..thats not easy :/

maybe you guys can help me ...

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[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

i didn't know this for a long time, and just figured it out...
my friend Jessi and Justins daughters name is Kelly, and she's 4 so when i met them she was 3, i was like well that name seems kinda out dated, like all the kellys i know are like 40+, so i always found it odd, but its not a bad name so i just went with it.
well then i found out that Kelly is Jessi's maiden name. and their daughters middle name is Dee which is Jessi's middle name.

so how do you guys feel about using the mothers maiden name as a childs first name?? i think its cute.

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[laminy.livejournal.com]

The first baby of year in my area was a little girl named Reese. Her older sister is Rilee.

WDYT?

Making up names

[cathubodva.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in seeing a discussion on made-up names. This is triggered by the post on "Alivia," where many people said they didn't like it because it sounded too much like a made-up version of "Olivia." But the name "Olivia" was made up by Shakespeare. And at some point, anything we use as a name had to have been "made up" by someone, unless it comes directly from the original word with no alterations. If it's just a variation in spelling from an accepted name, does that invalidate it (and how do we decide what is a valid variation in spelling - Sara/Sarah, John/Jon - and what is not - Michael/Maicol, Danielle/Danyelle)?

At what point does a "made-up" name become acceptable? Does it have to have been in use for X number of decades or centuries? Do we need to be able to trace it directly to a word or country of origin? Does it need to have appeared in literature at some point? Is it different if the name is made up by Shakespeare versus, say, a teenage girl?

Linguistically, this fascinates me!