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[timed.livejournal.com]

I am not expecting to have children anytime soon but I want your opinion anyway since someday my future children will probably have one of the names listed below. I seem to have a really hard time with boy names and I don't know if the names I like classify as "odd" or not, so let me know. (My boyfriend's last name is Poss, so I guess you could put the names with his last name.)


My favorite names for girls:

• Ellie Christina
(Ellie is my all time favorite girl name, but I am not sure "Christina" fits well with it.)

• Astrid Harper


• Lilly Bijou


• Audrey Catherine


• Frances Mary


• Isolde Juliet
  
• Adair Jolie
(Not after Angelina, my mom had told me about the name "Jolie" when I was really young and I have loved it since. I used to spell it "Joelie" though and I am not sure if that is a good way to spell it. Also, I think "Adair" is a boy name but I love it more on a girl.)

My favorite names for boys:

• Jude (?)


• Elijah Matthew


• Oliver (?)


• Noah Elliott


• Nolan Francis
(Though I think Francis sounds too feminine.)

So... thoughts, opinions, suggestions, criticisms?

Comments

[tigress-oils.livejournal.com]

"Jolie" is ridiculously popular here in Southwest Louisiana. People think they are going to be so clever and honor their Cajun French heritage, and then there's the popularity of the song "Jolie Blonde" driving the name's popularity, too. And then parents try to add accent marks and/or apostrophes to it when it shouldn't have any, or they capitalize the 'l' so that it looks like JoLie or Jo'Lee', and in general I just have bad feelings about this as a name. Shouldn't a name have more substance to it than "Pretty"? I feel the same way about Belle and Beau, not to mention Elle or Ella ("she").

Surprisingly, though, I do love the sound of Ellie.

Sorry, I deleted my comment by accident.

[timed.livejournal.com]

Well I don't really care much for the meaning of names, I just like how it sounds. That is why I kind of want to spell it "Joelie."

Re: Sorry, I deleted my comment by accident.

[tigress-oils.livejournal.com]

My comment was a little harsh; I apologize for that. My nit-picky problems with the name stem from something a lot deeper--my big problem with the re-appropriation of a tourism brand of Cajun culture around here. Names like "Jolie" are typical of that epidemic. I guess it's sort of equivalent to a Hawai'ian naming her child Aloha.

Re: Sorry, I deleted my comment by accident.

[tigress-oils.livejournal.com]

Are you pronouncing Jolie with a hard j sound or with a zh sound? I say "Zho-lee," but I wouldn't get that pronunciation from Joelie.