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[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

What do you think of parents naming their children after them? For example, recently a friend Alexandra "Alex" Heather and her husband Louis called their daughter Lexi-Lou. I've also met a Joseph "Joey" Russell who's mummy is Josephine "Josie". But what raised this question is that Belinda"Billie" is planning on calling her child William Martin/Billie-Mae (sibs and step sibs are Conner, Connor, Morgan-Jean (f), Sarah-Lou, Charlie-Paige) and I can't decide what I think about it?

Also my at my twins playgroup there was a new family (unsure of age order but they're all under 4) Elsa "Elsie" Bryony, Olive "Olly" Maria, Harriet "Hattie" Anneliese, Mabel "May" Francesca. Mum (Francesca/Fran) was pregnant with Theodore Peter and Greta (possibly as a nn for Margaret or Gretchen, but likely just Greta) Lillian. Dad was "Eddie".

ETA: Just realised Alex spelled her daughters name Lexxie-Lou, not Lexi.. Sibs are Lucy-Lou, Luca-Lee, Louisa-Lee and cousin Lacey.

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Virtue names

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

ThatI'm not a huge fan of virtue names, but I get why some people are. Most of the people I know with virtue names (besides the obvious ones - Faith, Hope, Grace) are Nigerians. I took my son to the pediatrician and there was a Nigerian nurse with the first name Comfort.

Comfort is totally not my style, but her name made me smile anyway. How appropriate that she would be a nurse for children.

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"if you like... you might love" game

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Here's an idea for a game.

Look up the top ten (or five or twenty) boys and girls names for your country/area, and suggest a similar, less popular alternative that might appeal to the same person who would pick the original name.

(Fellow Canadians, StatsCan does not have national statistics sadly, but most provinces have stats.)

I'll go first with then top ten for 2011 for British Columbia:
If you like... you might love...
1. Liam -> Declan
2. Ethan -> Eli
3. Mason -> Mercer
4. Lucas -> Nicholas
5. Benjamin -> Benedict
6. Jacob -> Caleb
7. Logan -> Ronan
8. Nathan -> Eamon
9. Owen -> Ewan
10. Alexander -> Xavier

1. Emma -> Gemma
2. Olivia -> Octavia
3. Sophia -> Serena
4. Ava -> Ada
5. Chloe -> Charis
6. Emily -> Cecily
7. Isabella -> Theodora
8. Ella -> Helena
9. Abigail -> Adelaide
10. Sophie -> Lucy

WDYT of my alternatives?