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[whisperthewords.livejournal.com]

I'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.

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[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Noemie: I think this would grow on me if I saw it used. I always forget how to say it and want to say Naomi instead.

Midori: Yeah, liquor.

Odette: Eh. The -issa, -ette names have never done much for me. A little too frilly.

Lacey: Also very frilly. I've never much cared for this name either.

Gemma: I know this is weird, but I don't like this name because it sounds sticky. Or like a word I'd use to describe the way old people sound when theey talk without their dentures in.

[magcnurserybaby.livejournal.com]

Malachi makes me think Children of the Corn, but I'm a horror movie nut so maybe its just me, lol.

I like Gemma and Lacey alot, and Midori is cute but it does have some liquor thoughts coming to mind.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Noemie- As in no-em-e? It sounds weird to me.

Midori - I don't drink and the first thing I thought was 'isn't that the name of some kind of booze?'

Odette - Reminds me of both odour and omelette. Possibly that's just me, but I can't help but think of those things when I hear this name.

Lacey - I love Lacey, it's so pretty.

Gemma - To be honest I think it sounds better as a dog's name.

[mars-daydream.livejournal.com]

Noemie: very cute! I like this a lot.

Midori: instantly a liquor for me.

Odette: I like this too, but it sounds very "old" to me for some reason.

Lacey: Reminds me of Lacey Peterson, sadly.

Gemma: Not my style, but okay.

Malachi: Children of the Corn connotations.

[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

The only one I like is Gemma. I know a girl with that name and she's gorgeous. I like Malachi, but probably wouldn't use it. I don't like the other names.

[a-purple-dream.livejournal.com]

I like the name Gemma too and I don't know why either.

[namegirl.livejournal.com]

I knew a Jemma. She was gorgeous, a bit full of herself, but generally nice. The rest of the names are...different.

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I worked w/ a young woman last year named Midori. She didn't seem bothered by the connotations. It was also the last name of a professor I had last year.

[rawness.livejournal.com]

hahahaha

Gemma is a very common name in England :-X

[rawness.livejournal.com]

Lacy/Lacey and Gemma are alright, but the rest? Eh.

If you do Malachi at least spell it right ;). Then again if you want him to be called Kai I could see why you would spell it that way but if you want him to be called Kai, just name im Kai?

[bree019.livejournal.com]

I like Lacey, given there's an "e" in it. I also think Midori might grow on me, given time. Please, please don't name your baby Odette.

[bree019.livejournal.com]

given, given, given.

[whisperthewords.livejournal.com]

It's the spelling my SO likes.

It's listed on behindthename, so it's not entirely made up. :)

[rawness.livejournal.com]

Well I realise that it's not entirely made up but ugh. I can't see saddling a kid with a name they will have to spell and respell their entire life.

(this comes from someone who has a name that no one can pronounce after seeing written and no one can spell after hearing it said)

[scintillated.livejournal.com]

I like Noemie and Midori.

Noemie is kinda like Naomi, so I like the "different" factor.

Midori I'd be careful with...because of the liquor thing. I also think of Midori Ito, a Japanese figure skater from the early 90's.

[whisperthewords.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I love the way it sounds, but I think the liquor thing might be too much.

I'm not planning on having kids for a few years, so I'm sure I can think of some similar sounding stuff before then.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

It was my opinion. I also really like the name Max, which isn't that uncommon, but a lot of people I've talked to think Max sounds better on a dog.

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Noemie: I loooove this name, though it'll be mistaken for Naomi every now and then.

Midori: This name is very beautiful.

Odette: Cute, but somehow I prefer it's cousin Odessa. Dunno why.

Lacey: Cute, but not really my cup of tea.

Gemma: I've always wanted to like this name and for some reason it just always sounds a little off to me. Like it's missing something.

Malakai/Malachi: It's a nice name, but it is actually becoming common. I know several little guys named this. It's becoming one of those "fashionable" names.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

lol. he shoulda married me. my step dad is a Moriarty, and i wanted to name my first son (seth) malaki.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

oh, and a little boy named malachi, the son of one of my church friends, bit my little guy (topher)'s nose last week. :(

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

My first thought of Midori was the violinist. I like Gemma.

[babyhoyt.livejournal.com]

ok, phew. another nerd like me! that was my first thought too!

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Heh - mine too :)

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

I do not think I'd use Midori unless I was of Japanese heritage.

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.

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

Noemie: I like it, personally, but people will always think you've misspelled Naomi.

Midori: It makes me think of booze and animi or some goth kid.

Odette: Love it. Just tell people not to call her Odie.

Lacey: NO. It will sound cute when she is a baby, but what if she wants to study the law one day? Lacey Gray, Esq doesn't sound nearly as solid or professional as Catherine Gray or Elizabeth Gray or even Odette Gray.

Gemma: I like it, but there are a heap o'Emmas in the world already. Maybe go with something like Genevieve or Grace? You still get the G but not the EMMA.

[daveandmonika.livejournal.com]

To me Odette is the cartoon character in "The Swan Princess" that I watched growing up...
Noemie I like, it is what we used when we were teaching the story of Ruth in VBS in Mexico (except it was pronounced Root instead of Ruth and Boze instead of Bo-az and No-em-ee instead of Nay-o-mee) I also know a girl who named her child Niomi and pronounces it Nigh-o-mee and she told me that a lot of people think it is still Naomi even though there is no a in it :-p
Midori on anyone not of Japanese descent would make me think of the liquor.