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[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Sapphira

What are your thoughts? It's not my favorite or anything, so feel free to be as honest as you want. I anticipate many of the comments will go more in a stripper direction, and while I understand that point of view, I'd also like some more open-minded opinions on if you actually knew or imagined knowing a real normal girl/woman who was NOT a stripper, do you think you'd get used to it or even like it?

I just think it has so much potential. I love the stone (my birth stone) and I love the way the name looks written down and the way it sounds too. I just wonder if it's a hopelessly stigmatized name.

And what is it about Ruby, Opal, and Pearl that makes them more acceptable as names anyway?

Thanks for your thoughts and opinions.

Edit: No, I do not mean Sapphire. I mean Sapphira. (sa-FEAR-uh or sa-FIE-rah) Separate but obviously related. I would've thought that was obvious, but I guess some of you haven't heard the name version before.

Comments

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

Wow, I was not expecting such violent reactions to Sapphira! I love it, actually (though I prefer it spelled Saphira). I suppose when you think about it, it could sound a bit stripperish/gothish/bodice-ripping-ish... I think Sapphire is trashier than Sapphira, but they're both lovely. I find Ruby and Diamond much, much trashier than Sapphira/Sapphire, but probably only because they are more commonly used. I don't really like many gem names, come to think of it. Opal could be cool; I like Coral; Amethyst is a pretty word that could make a pretty name in La La Land...

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I was expecting it, just because that's how people in this community tend to be. If it's not Aidan or Isabelle it's crap. Still other peoples associations don't mean that much to me. I'm sure no one has actually met a person named Sapphira, and if they met my little girl with the name, for example, I hardly think they'd get her confused with an exotic dancer. KWIM? Associations, especially imaginary ones, vanish the first time a real person is there instead of this imagined one.

I like Ruby and Coral, but the other gemstone names don't do much for me either. Sapphires are my favorite though, plus I have a weakness for names with 'ph' in them for some reason.

Thanks for you commonet.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Saying "if it's not Aidan or Isabelle it's crap" is a completely false generalization. I don't even think most people in this community like Aidan. I certainly don't. And my taste in female names includes a LOT more than Isabelle. It just doesn't include Sapphira.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was a generalization, but this community is definitely more for the mainstream trendy stuff. Not every single person, but as a community, definitely.