the spotlight brings another one!

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

NAMES. I love them and thinking about them and looking at them and...Yes.

So hey. I'm Carmen (my middle name is my mom's maiden name). My brothers are Matthew Henrik and Steven James, parents Kristy (whose middle name was once Nora but is now her maiden name) and Jim (James) John.

My aunts' names, on my dad's side, are Mary Josette (would have just been Josette, but the cardinal of Boston was at the hospital that day and baptized my aunt that way; she goes by Mary Jo) and Janet (my grandma planned to name them all with J's after her father, Juan); my grandparents are Pilar and Clemente. My dad's family is Filipino. The name Jaime (Spanish for James) and its derivatives occurs a whole lot in my family after my great-grandfather; in my dad's generation, there's Jaime, Jamie, and James (and Jamie was called Jaime until the eldest son had a son!).

On my mom's side, less interesting: my aunt's name is Kim, and my grandparents are Clarence (Larry) and Cynthia.

In my generation, my cousins are Anna (whose middle name is my family's last name), Noah Lambert (something to do with his dad's family), Carl Indi (male, goes by Indi, like his dad who was Carl Henrik but went by Henrik, and...I don't know where it came from), Moss Yates (also male--Mary Jo and her late husband, who named these two, were a little hippie, and Yates I hear just 'sounded nice'), and Grace Nora (after my maternal great-grandmother), Stella Jean (after her paternal grandmother), and Chloe Vada (after her paternal great-grandmother).

I can't say I mind any of them except Stella, really...I'm not entirely sure why, but to me it's borderline stripper...

Wow, that was a really long diatribe. Anyway!

Some names I love:
For boys:
Christopher
Michael (not Mike, maybe Mikey, but I love the full name)
Oliver (and ALL its derivatives)

For girls:
Tyler
Sawyer
Mila

Also...I knew a girl in high school whose name was Mia. Her sister's name was Tia. How do you feel about that one?

Comments

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

Just had a baby born into my 'family' [best friends family, but I'm practically adoptive :p] called Mia. Its cute but with Tia? Each to their own but I'd never be able to do that XD

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

I like Mia, and I like Tia, but I like them separately! :P

[robothor1111.livejournal.com]

Sawyer. That's a good one!

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

It sounds so lovely! Yay for androgynous names! (I don't like it on boys, though...)

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I like:
James
Jamie (as a nickname only)
Stella
Oliver
Mila

I kind of like Moss too...in a guilty pleasure sort of way.
I really do not like putting boy's names on girls so I don't like Tyler or Sawyer from your list. Actually, I don't like Tyler regardless of sex. Sawyer has grown on me some lately (for boys), but it's not a name I would ever use.

It's funny to see those names on your list though because I just did a post...yesterday or the day before, about a baby boy I met named Sawyer and my cousin's newborn son named Tyler Reese. Someone initially thought Tyler Reese was a girl for some reason and they were intrigued so...yeah, your post made me think of this.

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

I actually totally agree with the Jamie thing, but since they wanted his name to be so close to Jaime, and my dad was already James, it was kind of hard.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that. Personally, I would have found out if first James minded a second James and then called the baby Jamie as a nickname. I don't think it would be that big of a deal since, if I understand correctly, your father is the first James and goes by Jim. Of course, there IS always the possibility that the baby would decide he wanted to go by Jim as he aged, and that could cause some confusion. I'm rambling. This is in no way, shape, or form supposed to be taken as saying your family did it "wrong" or anything like that. I understand different people have different feelings about naming and different traditions. That's just what I think I would do. :)

Also, besides James, I quite like Benjamin with the nn Jamie.

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

I don't think my dad would have cared, really, but I'm not totally sure of the exact details as it's now two generations removed from me (Jamie was really young at the time, like 2, so it was his parents to make the choice). :P

I've never thought of that one! It's cute though. :)

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

I love "Grace Nora".

[ealexsism.livejournal.com]

I also love the name Michael, but my husband says it's too common :(

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

Aw :( my brother Matt was almost Michael, but my mom ended up choosing Matthew when he came out.

[quinnthevixen.livejournal.com]

Okay...I just have to say, you are the ONLY other person I've ever seen on here w/ a family member/friend/etc. who has the name Henrik! Especially spelled that way. My step-dad is a Henrik. He gets Heinrich, Hendrick, etc. but no one ever seems to get his name right. Anyway, I just was so surprised to see that name pop up.

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

Really? He was Swedish. He used to get Heinrich a lot too. Bugged the hell outta me, but he didn't seem to care. :P

[quinnthevixen.livejournal.com]

My step-dad is actually german, and so I think people had a problem with the name in both the U.S. and in Germany. But I wouldn't think it would be that hard!

[pandemon-ium.livejournal.com]

Me neither, but I suppose if you've never seen it written down, you might get it wrong by the pronunciation.

[mirhanda.livejournal.com]

I don't like Tyler or Sawyer for girls. Might as well call her James or Michael as call her Tyler or Sawyer.

[starringmyeye.livejournal.com]

Since the only person I ever met called Tia pronounced it Tee-ah and the only person I've met called Mia pronounces it My-ah...I didn't realize Mia is often said like Tia.