WDYT?

[sittingsage.livejournal.com]

I'm finding that a few of the names that I'm growing to like/love sound similar to my son's name, eep! Is the name Amaryllis too close to the name Silas? What about Alice? Is the ending 'iss' sound too matchy? ugh. I also love Sylvia but its pretty much Silas feminized so I don't think I'd use it. lol
Amaryllis is a recent fixation of mine, but I go between liking it and finding it way too long and clunky. Non sequitur: What do you think of the name Mona?

Also while looking through a list of names on my family tree I came across some interesting

(most of these were 1700-early 1800s):

Deliverance Rich
Zebulon
Ephraim
Ezekiel
Ardelia
Marguerite Adele
Huldah
Asa
Hira
Ethelbert
Roxa
Salome
Celia
Xoa
Altha
Faustina
Melita
Saphronia
Asemath
Royal
Pliny

And there was even an Adin
These names stood out among the heaps of people named Thomas, William, Sarah, Alice, and Elizabeth on that branch. I like Marguerite Adele, Celia, Asa, and Ardelia

Comments

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Our cat's name is Ethel and we call her Ethelbert. Perfect for a cranky sea cow of a cat, but on a person? Eeep!

I really like Celia & Marguerite & Adele. Alice is one of my all time favorite names, but it does sound and look a lot like Silas. I only like Mona as a nn for Margot or Ramona. ;)

[sittingsage.livejournal.com]

haha, yeah poor Ethelbert, what a name :(