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[sugarwaltz.livejournal.com]

My husband and I are expecting a boy in October. I am dead set on Odin Lennox. He's having second guesses. What do you think?

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[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

odin reminds me of odor, i don't like it. lennox i'm fond of, though.

[sugarwaltz.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of the relation between the two.. thanks.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to be the only one here to say I love Odin and dislike Lennox.

[sugarwaltz.livejournal.com]

I loved Odin when I first heard it and then after reading the story about the God Odin, I loved it even more.

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

I don't like Odin. What if he gets called Odie, like from Garfield? Lennox is nice, isn't that in Hamlet or King Lear? It's been a while since I read those.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

How do you pronounce Odin ? OWE-din or OH-din?
If it's the latter, then I dislike the fact that Odd might come as a natural nickname.

I like Lennox, but even though it sounds masculine, it makes me think of Annie Lennox (singer) and Mary Lennox (The secret garden)

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between "owe" and "oh"? :(

My husband says "aw-din" or "odd-in", but I say "oh-din". We knew some horrid bastard with that nickname, so I can't really like it. Plus a lot of White Nationalists use names like that because their kid must be some Norse god or some shit.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

sorry, I meant between Owe and Aw.
Odin is fine, if you're ok with a pagan name for you kid, but Odd-in, not so much.

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

Odd-in is just a totally incorrect pronunciation. It's a long O, or you can go the Scandinavian route and use Woden. But, dear god, I hadn't even thought of the neo-Nazi association, but I guess that would be a favorite name of that sort of group! That's a little scary.

[justuschickens.livejournal.com]

I like Odin, but then I plan to name a boy Loki, so you may not want to ask me about norse inspired names.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Odin a not-so-nice figure in a Norse myth? I don't remember exactly.
It seems a little feminine to me (though I know is not), but maybe that's because I like Odette and Odille for girls.

I'm not very fond of Lennox either, but that's just personal taste. Odin Lennox flows very well.

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

He is the top guy! Has two ravens that fly around the world and tell him everything. Um... and he had a horse with six or eight feet. I think that's all I remember.

What about Oda?

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of myths about Odin. He was generous at times and at other times petty and vengeful, much like the Greek gods. He had a pair of ravens whose names translate to "Thought" and "Memory" who spied on the people of the world for him and returned to tell him secrets; the magical, eight-legged horse was Sleipnir, who was one of Loki's children. Odin also knew many secrets (an ability for which he sacrificed one of his eyes) and would sometimes reveal them to mortals, sometimes not, but his wife knew every secret of the world and would never reveal her knowledge to anyone.

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, their names were "Munin and Hugin," come to thing about it.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

Oda is a girls name, at least in Norway.

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

I dislike both. Odin sounds like odd and is therefore not so good. Lennox is a company and sounds like you're trying too hard to be cool.

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

Odin is not pronounced like "odd." The O is long, as it is derived from the older form of Woden, the Norse God. In fact, the word Wednesday is derived from Wodensday, which literally means "Odin's Day" and is still the Danish word for that day of the week.

However, I dislike it as a name for a child for a variety of reasons and I completely agree with you about Lennox; Lennox seems like a Jolie-Pitt name.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

I kind of like Lennox Odin a bit better. To me it sounds better that way

[sballik.livejournal.com]

I like it, although I also agree with satunian -- Lennox Odin sounds nice, too :)

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

I don't like either name that much, but I doubt it'll be a burden for you child. =)

I pronounce Odin "OO-din."

[perfectcherry.livejournal.com]

I think you must be joking.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

I like Odin but not Lennox. I'm having a boy in Oct too =)

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

People name their dogs Odin.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Lennox! I was trying to think of another name that Brangelina could use if they ever had another boy. Anyway. I like Lennox, it's really nice. Odin, I really don't like at all. There's not a real particular reason why, it's just not my style. Much prefer Orrin.

But other than that, I think that you should come up with something mutually agreed upon with your husband. If he doesn't really like it, I wouldn't use it.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i like lennox, but not odin. odin reminds me of odie--wasn't that garfield's friend's name?

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Lennox is alright. Odin sounds better suited to a pet, not to a person. Like the first person said, it sounds like odor.

It just sounds like you're trying too hard.

[zante.livejournal.com]

I like it!



But, Lennox reminds me of the singer Annie Lennox from the Eurythmics :) (The more you know!)

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i dont like it.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

Odin is getting more popular in Norway, but I've never come across it anywhere else. It does seem a bit weird to me when people name their kids Scandinavian names and doesn't know how to pronounce them properly, but whatever floats your boat I guess.

I like the name Odin though, and Lennox seems okay to me, so if you like it, go for it!