Hey! First post here!

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Hey all! I looove names, so, yay! We all have something in common! :) I also apparently love exclamation points and smilies, but that probably won't last long so don't worry. Anyway, I've loved names forever. I still have some of my old notebooks from 4th grade where I wrote out lists of names I liked and different spellings. So, yeah, I'm a name-o-phile (I used to know the word for that but I don't anymore).
Just as an introduction, here's my current list of favorite names. My husband and I are currently in the process of trying for our first, so it'll be awhile before we need to chose, and I'll probably change choices a million times. Feel free to pan or praise 'em, of course :)

Boys:
Arthur Christopher (after people who're important to us)
Vincent (cuz it's a cool name, especially if you played Final Fantasy 7)
Cassian (rhymes with passion, Cash would be a nickname)

Girls:
Lilika
Serah (yeah, it's a real name and it mean Morningstar. It's not a variant of Sarah)
Corinna (Rin as a nickname)

Whatta y'all think? :)

Comments

[apple-seed.livejournal.com]

Arthur Christopher is the only name I can stomach. And what's your source on the meaning of Serah?

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Well, here are a couple places, but if you do a Google search a bunch of websites come up. Serah was the daughter of Asher, one of Jacob's sons in the Bible. Of course, I'd never actually use this name. I know she'd have her name mispelled, which is annoying (of course, my name is Megan and that's always mispelled).

http://dict.die.net/serah/
http://baby-names.yeahbaby.com/baby.php?name=Serah

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

Not nuts about any of them, and Rin and Vincent together would be a bit much IMO.

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

What on earth is your icon and why do I recognise it? It's gonna drive me insane if I can't figure it out... :(

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

They're from Sesame Street.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Arthur Christopher - I like this a lot. I love the name Arthur.
Vincent - Never much cared for this. Makes me think of some sleezy guy with chest hair and gold jewelry.
Cassian - Too weird

Lilika - I LOVE this name, have it on my list too.
Serah - More trouble than it's worth. You'd have to explain it's not Sarah way too often.
Corinna - Fine

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the input. Yeah, I always felt that way about Vincent too, but it kinda grew on me. None of them were names I was interested in until recently. I swear, I change favorite names about once a month. :)

[a-purple-dream.livejournal.com]

I like the name Christopher, not too crazy about Arthur. And I prefer Corina over Corinna.

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

The name Christopher is nice, but it's so common. I know so many Chris's, both male and female, so it gets to be a middle name for whatever first name we chose.

Starry starry night...

[jennifergroovy.livejournal.com]

Vincent is cool because of Vincent Van Gogh of course, but also Vincent Price. (Among other things, Vincent Price is the voice of Michael Jackson's 1982 epic, "Thriller.")

I think Corinna is beautiful.

Re: Starry starry night...

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to hate the name Vincent until I started learning about so many Vincents. Same with Arthur, really.

And yeah, I love Corinna. I'm a fan of most names starting with "Cor", probably because I've never met anyone with those names :).

[thorabrighid.livejournal.com]

I don't like any of them. : ( Esp. Vincent. Ewewew.

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thanks for your honesty :)

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Arthur Christopher- I;m not hugely keen on Christopher but i love Arthur.
Vincent- oh i don't think this is a cool name! just not my style... Vinny is awful.
Cassian- I know a Cassian that pronounces it Cas-ee-un. The little boy in question is a monster so i have bad association everytime i think of the name, but i do like it.

Girls:
Lilika- hm... looks made up. Lily on it's own it way way way nicer.
Serah- I dont even like Sarah...
Corinna- Don't like this either.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Love all your boys' names - although Vincent has terrible nickname potential... If no-one ever used Vinnie, this would be a pretty great name :)
And Cassian needs to be rediscovered. It's got a great history behind it.

Not a fan of any of your girls' names - Corinna is all right, though.

[whisperthewords.livejournal.com]

I once knew a girl whose nmae was spelled Corinna, but she pronounced it Core-in. It really bugged me, and so I'm unfairly prejudiced against the name.

Serah is still pronounced like Sarah, yes? Even though it's a different name, people will just think it's a you neek spelling.

Lilika is alright. It looks a little made up, but it flows nicely.

I like all you boys names, esp. Cassian.

[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

Cassian is neat, I like it but wouldn't probably use it myself. All the other names are bad, IMO.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Boys:
Arthur Christopher - It's better reversed, ie: Christopher Arthur
Vincent - No, and everyone will associate it with the dumb guy from Harry Potter.
Cassian - This is a really interesting name. I like it.

Girls:

Lilika - How is it pronounced?
Serah - Mmm, okay I guess.
Corinna - It's not horrible, but it's not my sort of thing. I think I prefer Corinne.

[serendipitous13.livejournal.com]

I don't think everyone would associate Vincent with Harry Potter.
I would think most people know him as Crabbe.
They certainly wouldn't associate "Vincent" with Harry Potter more than "Hermione" or "Ron".

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not everyone, but there are a lot of people who would know.
I don't think Hermione and Ron are really relevant here.

[last-summer.livejournal.com]

I'm a big HP fan, and I definitely wouldn't associate Vincent with Harry Potter. Van Gogh would be a more likely association, I never even thought about Crabbe until reading serendipitous13's comment.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Well I know a lot of people who would automatically think of Vincent Crabbe, but ok, fine, I overreacted.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

for cash nicknames, i prefer the full name of cassius (im not sure what the proper spelling is of that, but i think theres an e and an o in there somewhere) to cassian.

[knightanika.livejournal.com]

I like Arthur and Serah.

Cassian would make a awesome name for a character. I can see it now... Space priate (since it would be Star Wars.) dark brown hair, light blue eyes, tall and handsome.

*giggles like a fangirl. ohh I like the name now.

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Hehe, actually, my best friend and I work on a comic book as a hobby, and two of our characters are Cassien and Corinna (which is why I'll probably never use the names myself, but I love them anyway). We decided on Cassien solely because it rhymes with passion, though we spelled it differently than the proper spelling of Cassian. So yeah, I have a Cassian to drool over, and for the record he's a magic user with white hair and light blue eyes, and he's very tall and very handsome. I too giggle like a fangirl when I hear the name now :)

[serendipitous13.livejournal.com]

Boys:
Arthur Christopher- I like it.
Vincent- Eh. It's an all right name just nothing I would use.
Cassian- Again, nothing I would use.

Girls:
Lilika- Don't much care for it.
Serah- I like this.
Corinna (Rin as a nickname- I like this too although I think I like Serah a bit more.

[scintillated.livejournal.com]

Vincent and Corinna. Serah's okay, too, but people will probably misspell it as "Sarah" a lot.

[jessiac.livejournal.com]

I love Arthur Christopher :-)

Arthur's one of my favourite names.

As for girls' names, I really like Corinna. I have a good friend called that.

[bree019.livejournal.com]

I like Cassian. It's different but not too weird. Corrina's okay, depending on how you pronounce it. I'm assuming Core-in-ah?

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, core-INN-ah, with the stress on the second syllable. I have a second cousin Karina so I probably will never be able to use this name as it's too similar to that, but hey, I can still admire it right?

[heatherica.livejournal.com]

I've always loved the name Vincent. I don't like Vinny though. I really like Cassian too :)

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

I know! If there were a way to prevent a kid from ever being called Vinny, then Vincent would be a good possibility for a name. Alas, this isn't possible, so it will have to remain a good name only in my head (and when I'm watching Vincent Price movies, of course).

[solyma.livejournal.com]

i really, really like cassian and having the nickname cash... i think that's so cool. i also really like corinna. serah is interesting, i've met someone with that name before... another name that sounds similar is serala (or sarala) which is a hindu name, like "sara" with an extra "la". i like it at least... i don't know if i'd use it, but i think it's neat. :)

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I like Corinne better than Corinna. What do you think of Corinne?

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Arthur Christopher - sounds really dull and I hate the name Arthur.
Vincent - I hate this name and would you really name your child after FF7??
Cassian - sorry but I also hate this. Sounds like a "Fabio" type name, like the kid's gonna be on the cover of crappy romance novels or at the very least on a soap

Lilika - sounds totally made up, doesn't sound like it flows at ALL
Serah - I like the meaning but no, too difficult, she'll be explaining her name her whole life
Corinna - eh Im kinda neutral about this name.