Words as names

[drunkontea.livejournal.com]

What are some words that you think would make good names if it weren't for the connotations/definition attached to it? For example, I've always thought the word, "bellicose," was pretty but I'd never use it for obvious reasons.

Comments

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I've always thought Celery would make a good name if it wasn't, you know, a disgusting vegetable.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I knew someone who SWORE they saw the name "Celeri" in a birth announcement.

I really hope they were just fucking with me.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

I've met an Ellery who was called Celery-Ellery as a child, and I've seen the word "celerity" used as a name.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I know a girl named Hillary who always gets called Celery.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

duuude I LOVE celery. haha! am I the only one in the world?

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Apple celery salad!

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

That is SO funny... I had a stuffed pig named Celery growing up!!!

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

Valet
Gentry
Novella

A friend of mine and I used to talk about this all the time. I wish I could remember more. I know she thought "Mascara" sounded pretty.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

oh you reminded me of how I like "Mescalina", which is the name of a drug in italian! something from a plant..

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

I know a woman named Novella.

[jerseygrits.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with a girl named Gentry. I always thought it was pretty weird. :)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Jinx and Rubella !!

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Chlamydia is a pretty word. Really, I think a lot of medical terms and disease names are pretty words, which is sort of a shame when you think of all the beautiful things that have sort of bleah-words, like peonies. I love the flowers, but unlike a lot of flower names, I don't think it works well for a people-name at all. Can we trade "peony" with "chlamydia"?

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

hahahah i always liked chlamydia too

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Haha, my friend Lydia always gets called Lydia Chlamydia. It doesn't help that her last name sounds like a part of the male anatomy too.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Avalanche. I love that word!

[snowowl.livejournal.com]

Chimera - a grotesque product of the imagination (or, when capitalized, a fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head, goat's body and serpant's tail)

Callipygian - having beautifully shaped buttocks

Quintus - the number five in Latin; I'm actually trying to convince my S.O. of letting us use this, with the nn Quint

Lamia - female demon of vampire

Anemone - a genus of flower, the most famous variation being the sea anemone

Arpeggio - the notes of a chord played in a succession

Febrile - feverish

Kismet - fate, fortune

Merkin - a wig for the female pubic area

Phalanx - a group of people; a body of infantry with long spears (e.g. the Greeks in the movie 300)

Reverie - a state of musing, daydreaming

Virago - a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman

Diarrhea - a condition in which feces is discharged frequently in a liquid form (divorce yourself from the association and just SAY the word, isn't it pretty?)

Aqua - a light blue green color

Myriad - a countless or great number

Cadence - an inflection of the voice (I really like this one but S.O. vetoed it)

Gruyère - a hard cheese from Switzerland

Guinness - a type of beer

Mantis - Greek for "prophet" but usually referring to the praying mantis, an insect related to the cockroach who folds its forearms as if in prayer before striking its prey. The females are famous for devouring the males after copulation.

Renaissance - a period of time between the 14th -16th centuries

Leviathan - a sea monster

Quasar - a massive, remote celestial object that produces a large amount of energy and may contain black holes

Areola - circular shaped pigmented skin surrounding the nipple

Femora - the plural form of the bones of the thigh

Crucifix - a cross with a representation of Jesus Christ on it

Sodomy - sexual intercourse involving anal or oral copulation

Holocaust - from the Greek to "burn the whole," a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially by fire

Nightmare - a frightening or unpleasant dream, originally from the Old English denoting a female incubus who would attempt to suffocate sleepers "night maere"

[isoldereverie.livejournal.com]

umm...there are some on your list there that I NEVER in a bajillion-gazillion years would have considered!

I have seen kiddos named Quintus, Kismet, Reverie, and a bunch of Cadences (with all types of variant spellings.) Renaissance is interesting...maybe nn Renai, pronounced like Renee.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

I always think of Areola when people talk about the name Aurelia.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[florallove.livejournal.com]

Diarrhea does sound like a name for a person.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I like Vienna, like the city, but I suppose people would think of the sausage first.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

I've always liked Vienna as a name, too, but I worry about both the sausage connotation, and I don't like the German name for the city--Wien (more sausage connotations, and it just isn't as pretty).

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I watched an episode of Law and Order SVU in which there was a pair of sisters named Jenna and Vienna.

[robocrush.livejournal.com]

Cialis. I think it would be sooo pretty if it weren't, y'know, the name of a drug that gives you a boner.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

ROFL! I loved the name Allegra when I was little. Then the allergy drug came out.

[robocrush.livejournal.com]

Yes! Drugs get the best names.

I mean, Flonase? Seriously, they ruined it for me, I was totally going to name my cat that.

Ok not really.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

You could pronounce it flo-NAH-zay, for an exotic cat!

[robocrush.livejournal.com]

Actually it's pronounced flan. The other letters are silent, kthx.

[pinska.livejournal.com]

I still like Allegra. Even though I've taken the allergy drug.

[maniacalapricot.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I love that name. :)

[lindo-711.livejournal.com]

Jezebel.

I know it's a name, not a thing, but I've always thought it's so pretty. Too bad I don't want to name my daughter after a biblical whore.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Poetry/Poet
Story

[pbslm515.livejournal.com]

My high school history teacher had a child named Story. I think it's an awesome name. Her other kid's name was Kasmir.

[hippiemommie.livejournal.com]

call me crazy, but i always thought Chimney would make a good first name

[searlait.livejournal.com]

Story
Thyme
Panacea
Porcelain

[emtotherescuee.livejournal.com]

Bellatrix (from Harry Potter). Such a beautiful name, I think, but obviously the whole "she-killed-off-everyone's-favorite-character" kind of ruins it:[

[so-there.livejournal.com]

Adrenaline!

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Malachai!

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

Etiquette and Lacquer. Two of my favorite words! ;)

[pinska.livejournal.com]

malaise

[soulsplinter8.livejournal.com]

Coral
Rain
Maverick
Zephyr
Ocean
Ceilidh (pr. Kaylee - it's an Irish word describing a sort of dance)
River
Aura
Prairie
Melody
Lake
Flint
Storm
Briar
Ember
Aria
Jet
Bracken
Morning
Ridge
Azure
Canyon
Ardour
Dune
Stone
Riviera
Cedar
Tinder
Echo
Arroyo
Tempest
Marina
Sage
Tranquility
Champagne
Epiphany
Evanescence
Ethereal
Gossamer
Lithe
Rhapsody
Serendipity
Eternity


Ok, that's all I can think of at the moment. :o)