A task for all you awesome name finders

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Ok... As I've posted several times before, my top 3 names for girls are Caeslin Amari, Ainsley Brynn and Zoe Laine. A few people like these names, a few dont. That's not the question anyway=)

If you would, help me find some "less trendy/made up/popular-in-a-round-about-way" names I would love it.

Here's the criteria:

I generally don't like names in the top 100 (I know Zoe may be an exception). I don't like old sounding names (Vivian, Evelyn, Josephine, Grace). I tend to lean toward Gaelic names but am willing to move away from that.

The boy's names I love have also been split decisions for the community: Elijah Malachi (Which breaks my no top 100 preference again, but I love Elijah way too much to care) and Tidus Aaron (which I've been told looks made up, although it stems from the Biblical name Titus and we're just trying to keep our child from being called Tit-us every day of his junior high life). My new obsession (as of today) is Dathan, but I doubt I'll be able to convince my husband that it's a name worth considering.

Happy suggesting! (Please and thank you!--- also.. my apologies for all those stinkin parentheses.. I got a little side-note happy *grin*)

Comments

[neroli.livejournal.com]

If you like Irish names, here's a site that has sound samples (http://www.babynamesofireland.com/) so you can hear the way they are pronounced by an Irish speaker (Frank McCourt, actually).

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That was fun! I really like the name Aibhlinn- Ave-LEEN. Although ironically, the English translation of that name is Evelyn...

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

Random things that popped into my head.

Nathaniel
Elliot
Emerson/Emery (Although with today's trendiness they may be 'girly')
Harrison
Landon
Leander
Macon
Madden
Sawyer

Okay, so some of these may be Top 100, Old sounding, Trendy, etc. They were just random names I chose *shrug*. Don't worry about offending me, they aren't my favourites or anything. =)

[kelyn39.livejournal.com]

My brother just picked out Rhiannon for his new baby. Here is the meaning:

RHIANNON

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology

Pronounced: hri-AN-ahn (Welsh), ree-AN-un (English), REE-an-un (English) [key]
Derived from Old Celtic Rigantona meaning "great queen". In Welsh mythology Rhiannon was the goddess of fertility and the moon. This name is also borne by a princess in Welsh legends, the wife of Pwyll.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Caeslin sounds just like Caitlin & that's practically number 3 with all the spelling added together!
Dathan looks like a typo of Nathan. I actually like Titus a lot, but yes Tit-us could be a problem..
anyway as you said you didnt ask for comments!


Cicely Alana/Alara

Calista Amelia

Aisleyne Brynn (Ash-Leen. i like brynn! & the gaelic thing is still there.. Aisling makes it Ash-lin but i've seen it Aislin/Aislyn also.)

[sayga.livejournal.com]

You might like this. I knew a girl when I was growing up called Shareen. Pronnounced just as you'd think it should be: shuh-reen. I also knew a girl named Clemency. Crazy British people. :P

Ainsley sounds really popular, though I don't know where it technically ranks. I like the name Dathan. I knew a Dathan in high school. He was very dashing. Student body president. Etc. Then I fell for his younger brother instead. Haha. Anyway, Dathan=good name in my book.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

instead of a typo of Nathan, it sounds like Nathan with a stuffy nose. :P I still like the name though.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

i tried to think of irish/gaelic, hebrew/biblical, and nice sounding not-as-trendy names:

ashton
ben
bryce
colton
cooper
dalton
damien
ezra
gideon
jonah
josiah
jude
luke
micah
noah
nolan
spencer
trenton
zechariah

alannah
ana
ariel
bree
brianna
dara
delilah
erin
eva
giselle
keelin
kira
kyla
mona
naomi
nora
rebekah
reese
ruby
shannon
tessa

[arbus.livejournal.com]

fiona?

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

I just revealed my "dirty little secret" of loving posh-sounding names to my husband last night. Emerson and Harrison seem to fit into the "old money" sounding names for me, and I do love them along with Preston/Prescot, Montgomery and a long list of those type names. I'm just not sure I could picture my son in khaki's and a pink polo with a yellow sweater tied around his neck *grin*

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

I know and completely understand about the Caeslin thing. It's just one of those names that, although it goes against most everything you're looking for in the name of your child, you still love it! =)
I agree on the Dathan thing, too. Actually, I saw the name posted first here yesterday. I'd never even thought about/seen it before then. My husband doesnt like it, I checked with him last night.. so there's no worries there *grin*

Do you think Tidus is a good option to still get the sound "Titus" with a little less teasing?

LOVE Cicely. Have a cousin named it, though=\ Love Calista.

Ainsley is actually further down the list than one might think. It was around 440 for last year. It just sounds trendy because of the -ley part, I think.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

I thought the exact same thing yesterday! heh=)

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Oops.. I posted this part in reply to the wrong comment! "Ainsley is actually further down the list than one might think. It was around 440 for last year. It just sounds trendy because of the -ley part, I think."

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

I like Cooper, Ezra and Zechariah. Micah is my husband's name, so it's a good name, but we're not into Jr's and stuff.

I like Delilah, Keelin, and Reese, but the only Reese I've ever actually known was a boy (besides knowing "of" Reese Witherspoon).

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Fiona is way at the top of my girls list! Absolutely adore that name. Can't convince my husband, though =(

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

Haha, well they can still be good stand-bys as middle names. Then, in case he ever, you know, joins a country club or something, he has a MN to fall back on! =P

[sugar-blaster.livejournal.com]

If it's Tidus like the character from Final Fantasy X, it's actually pronounced TEE-dus.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

My husband spent months playing that game (and I watched him because it was freaking awesome) and I sure dont remember it being pronounced TEE-dus.. then again.. they probably didnt say his name because of the changing his name option.. oh well... we wouldnt pronounce it TEE-dus.. the only purpose for changing it from Titus to Tidus is so he's not called Tit-us. I don't think it's too far fetched of a pronunciation, Tidus TY-dus.. I think the majority of people would be able to say it right.