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babynamesI'm sick and bored, so I figured I'd post my current favorite girls names and see what people think of them.
Noemie: This is my absolute favorite girls name right now. I've never met anyone with this name, but I see it mentioned a lot, and I'm so worried it'll become really popular before I have a little girl.
Midori: This is the name of a great character in one of my favorite books. I love the name, but I'm worried the fact that the liquor connatations will be too much. I don't want people to think I named my little girl after booze!
Another plus to it is that I love a lot of color names, (Violet, Rose) but my child will have a color last name (Gray), so I feel like it'd come off as weird. Midori means green, so I feel like it's a sneaky way of using a color name without it sounding too goofy.
Odette: I love this name, and I love Swan Lake. I don't know if I like the nickname "Odie", though.
Lacey: I think this name is so cute. I've known one little Lacey, and the name was so adorable on her.
Gemma: Not sure why I like this one, but I'm very fond of it.
My SO is dead set on naming our son Malakai Moriarty. The Moriarty bit is kind of crazy, but I like the name Malakai/Malachi, and it'd certainly have a powerful effect when you pulled out the full name on the kid.
Noemie: This is my absolute favorite girls name right now. I've never met anyone with this name, but I see it mentioned a lot, and I'm so worried it'll become really popular before I have a little girl.
Midori: This is the name of a great character in one of my favorite books. I love the name, but I'm worried the fact that the liquor connatations will be too much. I don't want people to think I named my little girl after booze!
Another plus to it is that I love a lot of color names, (Violet, Rose) but my child will have a color last name (Gray), so I feel like it'd come off as weird. Midori means green, so I feel like it's a sneaky way of using a color name without it sounding too goofy.
Odette: I love this name, and I love Swan Lake. I don't know if I like the nickname "Odie", though.
Lacey: I think this name is so cute. I've known one little Lacey, and the name was so adorable on her.
Gemma: Not sure why I like this one, but I'm very fond of it.
My SO is dead set on naming our son Malakai Moriarty. The Moriarty bit is kind of crazy, but I like the name Malakai/Malachi, and it'd certainly have a powerful effect when you pulled out the full name on the kid.
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Date: 2006-02-04 11:31 am (UTC)Lacey sounds... lacy :) - frilly, like someone else said! Not a big fan.
And Odette makes me think of a not-too-positive character in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." I'm a big nerd so I'll never get rid of the association - Odette will always be a "kept woman" (read: upscale prostitute) to me.
Malachi is cool, but spelled this way, not Malakai. The -kai spelling doesn't make any sense. (in the Hebrew the sound at the end isn't -ai, but -ee. I know it's pronounced with an -ai sound in English, and that's great but changing the spelling seems wrong and fake - doest that make any sense?) I think it's a good name, and it means "my angel" or "my messenger", which I like. putting Moriarty with it is a bit over the top, like you said! I can't help but think of evil Dr. Moriarty and laugh a bit :)
I think Gemma and Noemie are nice.