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Yesterday I was at a family party and I met my uncles girlfriend and her daughter <b>Charisma</b>.

I didnt hear a nn at all either way I think the name is horrible, Shes 10 I just kept thinking what if she turns out to be a dull person and the name is more ironic than anything :-/



WDYT?

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[queenfinn.livejournal.com]

Charisma Carpenter, actress.

Not my style but no different than Grace, Hope, Faith, Honor, Joy, etc.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

I immediately thought of Charisma Carpenter as well. I don't love the name, but I've heard worse.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it could have been much, much worse.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

My bet is your uncle's gf is a hardcore Buffy fan.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

LOL. Maybe if she has another girl, kid will be named Faith.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I know a girl about the same age named Karizma, but she goes by the nickname Turtle.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I've always hated the characteristic names. Still, I think names like Hope, Joy, Faith, Charity, and Prudence are way better than Charisma.

(However, I do like Honor and the variant Annora.)

[soul-inside.livejournal.com]

I also shy away from "character" names. It's strange though, because in many other cultures that is exactly what names are.. they have character meaning... practically all of them. They don't have to have a hidden meaning like they do in English. Imagine all of us walking around being called by what our names really actually mean... Princess instead of Sarah, Pure instead of Zach, Protection instead of William.
I am most familiar with Arabic names and meanings:
Habiba- love
Imam- faith
Shams- sun
Nur- light
said- happy
karim- generous
ok, now I am going on a tangent... but hey, it's still relevant so here I go...
The prophet Mohammed (pbuh) was of the idea that as long as the name represented a good quality, then it was a good name. It's been documented that he was known to actually change people's names (once he changed a man's name from Lonely to something else, but I forgot what).. who would name their child Lonely? It just goes to show that bad names is not something new to this generation (or culture!) only.
On yet another tangent, in Spanish there are names Soledad and Dolores. Dolores means "pain" and Soledad has a double meaning "lonliness" and "sunshine". I kinda like Soledad, in the sense that maybe it will lack "irony" because the child can be soledad in the sense of "sunshine" when she is in a good mood and "loneliness" when in a bad mood.
To finally get back to your point...
I shy away from "character" names for the same reason as you.. the potential for lifetime irony. But I think that the idea is, people will try to live up to their names... I do believe that.
But all that being said, I still probably wouldn't name my child Charisma.