(no subject)

[scarletladyy.livejournal.com]

My fiance was playing Europa Universalis 2 yesterday when he started telling me about different provinces he wanted to attack (or something like that, I don't play it) and one of them was called Dauphine.

Now, I have heard of this place before, it's in France, but I never thought about it as a name.

The more we thought about it, the more we both loved the idea of calling a daughter Dauphine. We both find it beautiful and love the way it rolls off the tongue.

We're not married yet and we don't want to have children until we are next year, but we find it so hard to agree on names this was a mircale x]

He prefers older names like Raziel, but never really has any prefence for girls' names, so it's good to find one we both love.

Anyway, i'll stop the rambling now! Sorry about that...what do you think of Dauphine as a name for a little girl?

Comments

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Dauphine is totally a name in French, so don't worry about that :)

[scarletladyy.livejournal.com]

Ahh brill, thanks! :)

[cybeleadam.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is (http://www.aufeminin.com/w/prenom/p4304/dauphine.html), although Delphine is so much more common. I'm not sure that many people would believe it's a real name. It would rather make them think it refers to a female dolphin (even though "dauphin" is not supposed to be feminized when it refers to the animal). Like other people said, it's a way to call a king's heir's wife...and now the girl who's second after Miss France (or any kind of "Miss Something") is also called "la dauphine".

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, after writing my post, I looked it up on Google and Facebook and realized it's not at all common, quite the opposite. So I'm thinking it must be a weird coincidence that I actually know 2 girls named this!

[cybeleadam.livejournal.com]

Big coincidence indeed! I've never met any, even though I live in France and Belgium (French speaking part).