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[fenix409.livejournal.com]

Like so many others, I am not pregnant or planning on have kids for awhile, but I'm obsessed with names, and have been since as long as I can remember. Here is a list of the names I like (most favorite on top)- just wondering what you think. Also, if your mother had named your sisters "Noelle" and "Juliet" and then named you "Matilda" or "Agnes" would you feel... I dunno, cheated, like your name was too simple or dumpy sounding? :o) Also, these are for both first and/or middle names.


Phineas
Hero
Risto
Xavier
Noah
Kael
Hayden
Doran
Maddock/Maddox
Peter
Arlo
Koi/Koy
Alton
Owen
Milo/Miles
Linus

Noelle-
Juliet
Agnes/Agatha
Viene
Matilda
Ophelia
Helena
Evangelina
Naiya
Valentine
Violet
Linne
Alida
Isolde
Orenda
Nell

Comments

[composure.livejournal.com]

Phineas - The name means "Loudmouth." Would you want to name your child that?
Hero - A song. Or a dog's name.
Risto - Another thing I'd call my dog.
Xavier - Looks too much like "saviour" to me.
Noah - I love this name. I used to picture an old man with a long, white beard, but this name has grown on me.
Kael - A vegetable.
Hayden - I love it, but it's become way too popular.
Doran - Uhh.. no.
Maddock/Maddox - I like it, spelled like the latter, but because of Angelina Jolie, I wouldn't use it.
Peter - All I can see is a boy wearing a green hat.
Arlo - Ehh... maybe as a middle name.
Koi/Koy - No.
Alton - I like the name Alden.
Owen - I like it.
Milo/Miles - The dog from Milo and Otis. Miles doesn't seem like a name to me, even though I know of a few of them.
Linus - Like, the character from Peanuts?

Noelle - If she's born around Christmas, I like it.
Juliet - Too Shakespearian to me.
Agnes/Agatha - Too old fashioned.
Viene - How do you pronounce it? Like vien, without the e? Okay...
Matilda - The little girl from the movie.
Ophelia - I actually love this name.
Helena - My Chemical Romance ruined this name.
Evangelina - If you called her Eva for short, then sure. I think I'd just go with Evangeline, though.
Naiya - No.
Valentine - If she was born in February.
Violet - I like it.
Linne - If the pronounciation is the same, I'd spell it Lynne.
Alida
Isolde - Like the new movie? I don't like the name at all.
Orenda
Nell

[fenix409.livejournal.com]

Actually, I found the Phineas means "Oracle" in Hebrew. It's an English version of an Egyptian name. I agree that Hayden is too popular now, but I still love it. Arlo, Koi, Alton, Owen, Milo and Linus (just like the Peanuts character) would all be middle names only.

Viene- like the city Vienna with the "a." Vee-en. I don't think that many people listen to My Chemical Romance for them to instantly think of them when they hear the name Helena. Plus, I'm not having kids now, so who knows how popular they'll be either when I have kids or when my kids are older (when people they meet might say, "Oh like the MCR song!") I also don't think that names should reflect the season they were born (Noelle or Valentine). If I did have a daughter born in December I would purposely NOT name her Noelle. And Valentine would only be a middle name. Linne is with an accented "e"- Linn-ay. It's my great-great grandmother's name. Violet is my grandmother's name. Also both only middle names. Isolde- middle name, and no not like the new movie, like the medieval love story. Also where I got Juliet and Ophelia (from Shakespeare). Quite a few of my names are from literature (Phineas is from A Separate Peace by John Knowles). Evangelina, I would def. call her Eva.

[fenix409.livejournal.com]

Viene- like the city Vienna with the "a."

*without the "a".

[composure.livejournal.com]

http://babynames.com/Names/name_display.php?n=PHINEAS (http://babynames.com/Names/name_display.php?n=PHINEAS).

I'm not saying everyone else will think of MCR when they hear the same Helena, but I personally, do.

[fenix409.livejournal.com]

I searched maybe 15 name meaning sites. All but two gave the meaning of Phineas as "Oracle"- origin either Hebrew or Egyptian. One gave the meaning "Colorful," with no origin. And one gave the meaning "Mouth of brass"- origin Greek.

Besides, people don't know the meanings of every name. Most don't even know or care about the meaning of their own name. So yes, I will sadle my son with a name that might mean "Mouth of brass" (Loudmouth?), given that few people will ever associate that meaning with his name and that it's my all time favorite name ever.

My name, Lindsay, means linden island. That's how I think of myself too, yes, as a great big island of linden trees. It's ruining my life that I'm not something like Lucia (light of God), Alanna (fair) or even Heidi (noble). Nope, I'm just a big copse of linden trees.

Sorry, I'm very sarcastic :o/ Anyway, it's just I've heard every argument against Phineas (mostly that he'll be gay or that kids will call him Finny the Ninny) but I've never heard the argument against the meaning of his name. But thanks for your opinion; I did ask for it after all :o)

[sophonisba.livejournal.com]

No, Milo's the CAT. That's one of my favorite boy names.