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[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

alrighty hey what's up.

in a perfect world, i will have four children... boy, girl, girl, boy. mhm. this is what i'd name them, if i had them right now:

Arjen Alexander Black

Magdalena Renee Black

Emmanuelle Nazarette Morgan Black

Dmitri Jules Black

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now, i'm waiting for the flaming lmao but i'll try and shortly explain...

Arjen is a dutch name, and it would normally be pronounced 'ah-ree-un' or something along those lines... no. Ar-zhen. simple. :) Renee is a recent development... i had been considering Kennedy instead, until i realized how poorly it flowed. i have been DEAD SET on Emmanuelle Nazarette as long as i have been on my own name. it has deep meaning for me, despite the fact that i'm not christian. but i started to feel bad, and although i hate to do it... though a second middle name might be helpful incase she REALLY despises her name. and Morgan is convienantly a tribute to three of my friends at once. :-P i tried to give them all fairly normal middle names for this reason.

Dmitri Jules is very tentative, as it just developed today (i hadn't thought of a fourth name yet).

ANYWAY, what i ask is: what would you expect a person with these names to look like, act like, personalities, etc. whatever comes to mind. i'm the kind of person that really loves doing this sort of thing, and i hope others would like to, also? i'd be curious to see the responses. :D

Comments

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

Mm, I'm not good at doing that kind of thing, sorry. Only with really obvious names like Brittany or something. But nothing comes to mind with those.

Well actually I just thought of something. The middle two (Mag & Em) sound very Biblical and I would expect a prim and prudish little Catholic girls. I can't help but think of Mary Magdalene, gah. I like Kennedy better with that, too. Oh and I'd probably call her Maggie.

I hate the four names. It sounds like a huge mouthful and it's awkward. I understand why you want Morgan in there, and that's a dilemma. Because yeah, those ARE two very strong names that she could end up really hating and wouldn't be able to do much with. But wow, what a mouthful.

I like the first one just fine, except I think "Ar-yin" which I think sounds better anyway.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Arjen Alexander Black - Tall dark handsome stranger

Magdalena Renee Black - A nun maybe

Emmanuelle Nazarette Morgan Black - A rock star/Preacher

Dmitri Jules Black - A foreigner

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

I don't tend to make sterotypes/impressions like that in advance. The children will carve out their own identity.
The set put together suggests to me the family are either European or travel there a lot, are quite well educated and sophisticated.

Those aren't names I'd use myself, but still really like them. They have pretty good potential nicknames too.

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

They have pretty good potential nicknames too.

that's what i like about Emmanuelle, there's a million nicknames... there's also Manny, but uh. who cares. haha.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

I picture a bunch of snobby rich kids wearing sailor suits in a formal portrait, but as Sageharper said, children carve out their own identity.

Having said that, while the names are a bit pretentious, I think they're rather nice. Except Emmanuelle Nazarette Morgan. Morgan does not fit at all! And Em. Naz. is really over the top, even if you were Christian (heck, I'm Catholic, and it's way too much) - it just screams Jesus!! It makes me think of a born again Christian who changed her name after her conversion!

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA. i love that last bit, it's pretty true. but i'm hoping she'd survive? Emmanuelle isn't a horribly uncommon name, i don't think.

and hey, i can't say i'm not a pretentious person. :-P

children carve out their own identity.

oh, of course. i'm just interested in that sort of thing. i write, and when i name a character it has to like... fit. so i guess that's why i like that sort of thing. but yes, you are right. i wouldn't think that a name would dictate their personalities, rofl. that'd be silly. just curious, y'know? :D

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

I am imagining them all as teenagers for this...

Arjen Alexander Black - slightly gothic and quite quite

Magdalena Renee Black - attractive but knows it, a nerd. And religious.

Emmanuelle Nazarette Morgan Black - less attractive than her sister and quite butch (I've only known Emmanuelle a a male name. It also makes me think of the porn films.)

Dmitri Jules Black - He's alright, loud and popular enough.

[last-summer.livejournal.com]

I like Emmanuelle and Dmitri, but I don't really like the others. A comment on Emmanuelle Nazarette though, I don't think a second middle name is really necessary. It makes the name even longer, and if she dislikes her name, she could go by Emma or Emily, which are both completely normal names.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Naming your kid Emmanuelle if you aren't Christian is like naming your child Allah if you aren't Muslim.

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

get over it. ;D

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

I was never under it.

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

good!

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

I'd expect an Indian kid, because Jules' little brother is friends with an Indian kid named Arjun.'

dudes, on behindthename.com it was like AHH INDIAN NAME and i was like... you fucking moron. then it got its act together and said arjan was danish. or more like i typed it correctly. damn right, bitches. :O