A couple of names.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

What do you think of,

-Lina, pronounced Lee-na.

-Noé(m), pronounced No-ay. It's French for Noah.

Comments

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I like both. I must say I definitely prefer Noé on a girl, though. I guess because I've only seen it on a girls so far, and because it reminds me of Zoé and Chloé.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

I've read it can be a girl's name which is strange to me because in French it's the equivalent of Noah as in Noah's Arc (L'Arche de Noé.) Never would have thought it was a girl's name. I like Zoé as well, definitely on my list.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's a Dutch thing! Names ending in é are definitely female here =).

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

Oh I see...In French there's a lot of guy name ending in é, René, André etc.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

I hear you...But I'm French Canadian from French descents, and we're always going to live where there's a French community because it's my daughter's first language and we want her to attend French schools. So I'm not TOO concerned.:)

[trishy-h.livejournal.com]

Lina is cute but the sound it makes sometimes hurts my ears (if that makes sense at all).

WTF is Noé?

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

Noé is French for Noah in the bible. I didn't care for it before, but it's growing on me.

[trishy-h.livejournal.com]

OIC. It just seems like an attempt at being 'unique'. That's what all these creative spellings have done to me! I can't even recognise actual names!

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

It's not by any means a common name, at least not where I live. But it is a real name.;)

[ladyjbug.livejournal.com]

I think they're both great names.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Noé is pronounced like "No-ay"? I would feel weird pronouncing the é as an "eh" but maybe you meant otherwise.

I really like the name Noémie though. Lina is really pretty.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

Hummm, yeah the babyname website I looked up wrote it as "No-eh" but in my mind it's the same as "No-ay". I'll fix that in my entry.

I love Noémie but it's very common around here and since my daughter's name (Cléa) isn't common, I would want my second child to have a similarly un-common name...I just heard Lina in a movie yesterday and I kinda fell in love with it.:)

[manabanana.livejournal.com]

I know a salvadoran gentleman by the name of Noe, but he pronounces it "No." I must say I like the pronunciation of No-ay better. Love Lina!

[pinkysmith.livejournal.com]

i love them both.

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

I hear 'no-way' and so I don't like it terribly. Lina is more my style.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

Oh...That's what I hear now too. Bummer!

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

I like Lena and the other makes me think "no way!" So it doesn't work, I guess.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Noé is okay, but I don't like Lina.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Okay, now melly_issa has me thinking of it as "no way". =/
It's still okay, if living amongst a French speaking population.

[jerseygrits.livejournal.com]

I like Lina, along with a bunch of other similar-sounding short names (Mira, Mila, Mina, Lia, etc.). I think it could have made it onto my list if my husband hadn't already vetoed it. It's relatively common in Sweden, where he's from, and he just has some not-so-great personal associations with it from people he's known. I think it's a simple, pretty, can't-go-wrong-with-it kind of name. :)

I'm not as crazy about Noé, and it does make me think "no way" as well. :-/

[galaxydazzle.livejournal.com]

Lina to me is a nickname for Evelina, but that's probably because my mother is Swedish. I really like it!