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[chocolatee136.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine is due in August and she is deciding between two names for her little girl. I almost dropped the phone when I heard her choices, but please tell me if I am just overreacting or if I am justified in telling her that she is crazy to even suggest these names:

Memorie Rayne (pronounced Memory Rain)
Cairo Lillian (yes, like the city in Egypt)...I do like Lillian tho.

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[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Uh....yeah, not so much things I'd pick.

[chocolatee136.livejournal.com]

no, nobody is from Egypt or anywhere close, so I honestly don't know where she got that name. I was too stunned to ask

[chocolatee136.livejournal.com]

I will make sure to ask next time I speak to her, because I am curious (she's a childhood friend so I figured we would be on thesame page with stuff like this, but guess she really caught me by surprise)...it's her daughter tho, so I'll just be nice. But...sigh

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

Memorie Rain is just about the tackiest thing ever - I could not agree more! I'd vote for Cairo Lillian if those are the only two choices.

However, just to contribute some more tackiness: my best friend has a manager who named her newborn daughter Justyce Candles.

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

It's because her daughter is "the light of [her] life," which if very sweet, but yeah... Candles.

[hells-librarian.livejournal.com]

The intent is cute. The name is awful. At least Mom will have some nice explanation if the kid complains about it later on.

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

I am literally laughing out loud at Candles.

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Wow........um........

Ugh. Can't.....think.....head......hurts.

[missinfinity.livejournal.com]

yes.

[chocolatee136.livejournal.com]

thats what I said! I feel like a bad friend thinking my friend is weird for choosing these names!

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

What about Lillian Rayne or Lillian Cairo? Not the best names in the world, but a whole lot better than the current choices...

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

I second this. That sounds so much better.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Third! The only time place names are okay is when they have some meaning~ I would use Brooklyn because of my dad's birthplace or Georgia because of mine... but as pretty as Virginia may be, I'd never use it.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

[I pressed enter too soon]

..or any place name, Cairo, Alexandria, etc. if it didn't have significance to me.

[spikes-sexkitty.livejournal.com]

lol hey! i'm named Alexandria. for the ancient capital of Egypt. :(

i'm German/Irish/Spanish. lol. my dad was just a MAJOR history buff... he's travelled the world. So I got named after Ancient Egypt.... and my nn, Alix, after Russian/German history... (Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse)).

Alexandria is a nice 'normal'-ish name. and most ppl sadly don't make the connection to Egypt so much as the state of Virginia.

lol, i always felt like Juno did when ppl would go: "oh! Like Virginia!" and i'd respond: "No. Like Egypt."

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Haha =)

I actually like Alexandria much better than, say, Alexandra.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

those are really bad. =/

[decembermama.livejournal.com]

memorie rayne is far worse than cairo

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I like Cairo as a name, but more so for a boy. It's not horrible though, and Lillian is nice.

Memorie Rayne is awful. Two word names both misspelled.... ick.

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

I think if a friend of my suggested either of these names I would just laugh in her face. Not to be mean, but because I would actually think she was joking!

I think Rain is fine, although a bit flower childish and I think it's idiotic to misspell the word, and Lillian is a lovely, classic name that the child can use if she is unfortunately given Cairo as a first name.

Has she been to Cairo? Is that where the baby was conceived? I was nearly given the name Mississippi, because I was conceived on a ship that was docked on the river, or so the story goes. Fortunately, my mother came to her senses and named me Jacqueline instead; otherwise I would have had to become a Blues singer.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Aw, but then you could've gone by Missy! What a surprise when people ask you what it is short for...

Jacqueline is nice. I don't hear that one very often.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Cairo Lillian, I think, is a perfectly decent name. Memorie Rayne, is not, the mispellings the least of the offenses.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could just suggest Lillian Rayne to her. That sounds like the best, out of those.

[chocolatee136.livejournal.com]

I like Lillian Rayne or even Lillian Cairo...not the other way around. She disagrees but I'll keep trying

[lindo-711.livejournal.com]

This brings us back to that whole discussion about how to tell someone they are cursing their child. For which I still have no solution.

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Memorie Rayne is much better than Memorie Layne. :P

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i know a woman named cairo. her brothers name is paris.

(theyre both in their 30s)

i dont think cairo lillian is so bad, but memorie rayne is yuck.