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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.

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[neroli.livejournal.com]

J, by the way, what do you think of Seraphina/Serafina/Sarafina, etc.? That has some similar sounds, and has your "ph" at least in some spellings.

Another pretty one is the Arabic name Safiya, which I actually like better than Sophia (although I think it would always be misinterpreted as Sophia anyway.)

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Sarafina was something we called my sister (birth name Sara) sometimes. That and Sarasponda. So it seems kind of like a silly nn to me. Plus it would likely just be reduced to Sara, which is too plain for my taste.

Safiya, if I'm saying it right, sounds a lot like Sapphira, with the sa-FIE-uh pronunciation.

Thanks for the ideas.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know... I have always said it Sah-fee-ah (to rhyme with Aliyah), but you know I really know nothing at all about Arabic names so I may be completely off on that.