Help a sister out!

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Hello peeps!

Here's the deal I am a huge nerd and the boyfriend is more... not such a big nerd. He enjoys shows, books and rpg I do but he's more neutral about it all while I am... a bit crazy. The other day we were discussing names and while we both agreed Eowyn was a good option it got me thinking about how... far I wanna take the naming thing. I would not reeeeally name my child Eragon, for example (as badly as I want to) but I still want to totally geek out with names! I am currently IN LOVE with Eragon and Maurtagh but really? I would probably be a horrible mother naming a child of mine that. So I started thinking maybe just use names that make me think of those like Morgan and... I dunno. 

Another problem I have are NATURE NAMES. See... my poor child will not only have the biggest nerd ever as a mother but also a hippie. I love names like Grey, Snow, Frost, Dove, Fawn, Breeze, Rain (spelled like this), Lily, River, Leaf... you catching my drift? So again... a nerd name followed by a nature name? Too much isn't it? I've tried toning it down some but still... Are these names too much?

Boys;

Ares Jaime 
Morgan Snow
Moses Aragorn
River James
Achilles James

Girls: 

Lily Lucia
Luna Helena (or Helena Luna)
Morgan Frost
Grey Isobel

None of these are set in stone, just some examples I through together but... are they too much?

Comments

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

I geek out over things, but I settle for naming our pets after them.. Not our children.

I think it would be awful to name your child after Eragon characters, but that's my personal opinion. A lot of that stems from the fact that I, as a future teacher, am going to have serious trouble pronouncing some of these names or remembering how to spell them myself, as well as the ones who have parents who named them ~*kr8tvly*~.

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

That's being said, I do like River James, Lucia, and Helena Luna.

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

The ones you've listed here aren't bad imo. Although I do tend to think names like Frost and Snow are kind of... cheesy? It's okay as a middle name, if you really love them, but I'd definitely suggest not using them as first names. I'm not fond of Achilles personally, but the others are nice. I especially like Ares (a guilty pleasure of mine), Moses, River James, Lily Lucia, and Grey Isobel. I like Luna and Helena as well, though not together.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Hmmm. These definitely give a hippie kind of trying-too-hard feel but it doesn't SCREAM nerd + hippie. I think Morgan is a great name, nerdy or not. I like Morgan Snow. River James is nice too.

I'm a nerd, although a little less than my husband, and we just said those names are off the table. I do have a gamer buddy who has a son named Drake and I think it's pretty fitting without being too out there. I think there are happy mediums but you just have to search high and low for them.

[theljfromheck.livejournal.com]

I love these names!

River James is my favorite from the boys and I like Luna Helena/Helena Luna and Lily Lucia from the girls list. My daughter's name is Luna so I think it's a pretty awesome name.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I kind of WANT to name my child Eagon but... no I could not bring myself to do it. I kind o wish I could but... no.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Oh Gods I swear Ares will end up being a son of mine... which is crazy since I am a pacifist. But I can't help it!

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah I am guessing I will find a way to incorporate my love of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and other geeky things with the traditional naming traditions in our families =)

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Ares Jaime - I would prefer Ares James
Morgan Snow - This is ok, but Snow isn't my style.
Moses Aragorn - I like this.
River - This is ok.
Achilles James - I'm not fond of Achilles, but it's ok.

Lily Lucia - I would prefer Lily Helena just because I don't like both names to start with the same letter.
Luna Helena (or Helena Luna) - I think one of the names needs to end with a letter other than "a". Luna Isobel would be great.
Morgan Frost - This seems more like a boy's name to me.
Grey Isobel - I'm not fond of Grey for a girl. I love Isobel.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I am for sure using Helena. It's a naming tradition in our family and I love that in my family it's the girls that pass names down =)

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

I think Eowyn is a lovely name and not too in your face for a geeky name. Arwen is lovely too and because Tolkien was primarily a linguist, a lot of his names sound legit.

River James, Morgan Frost and Luna Helena [Luna is one of my favourites, mostly for geeky reasons XD] are really nice. I love Lily, Ares and Isobel. I like Grey too but I think it flows a little better for me as Isobel Grey :)

I honestly think these names are subtly geeky. Not too obvious and your bf could appreciate them as nice names even if he doesn't love the reference? :D

[lil-cherub.livejournal.com]

I just had this conversation yesterday with someone. They knew two gamer couples. One had a daughter and named her Zelda. The others had a son and named him Link.

I also have a friend with a cat named Daenerys. I sorta feel that those names belong on pets, not people. Perhaps try to sick to geeking out on just your child's middle name?

There are lots of good nature names: Clay, Birch, Aspen, Lilac, Violet, Robin, etc. I would consider those types as a first name and a geeky middle.

[sweet-far-thing.livejournal.com]

some of these i really like and some of them...maybe not so much. i think naming your kid ares is sort of asking for trouble and moses aragorn, to me, is just way too far. i like names like frost and snow as middle names, if anything, but i do really love some of these options with a little modiication. isobel grey is really lovely and so is river james. i don't like lily lucia or luna helena, but that's only because i hate alliteration. i do like the names separately.

[kaizopp.livejournal.com]

I'm not too fond of Ares personally, but I more or less like the rest... but I do myself have a very wide range of what I consider acceptable names. (If I have a daughter I'll call her Cassiopeia, lol)

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Jaime is a family name on his side... it's his brother who died a year ago so it's an honoring thing. I don't much like it (or naming children after dead people, for that matter) but Imma throw the boy a bone.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I like Arwen because of the reference but I HATE Arwen the character... which is why I vetoed the name =(. Honestly the ones I MOST like from LotR are Eowyn (still on the table) and Faramir (not sure I would actually use it).

Oh he loooves the references... this is why I want to tone it down because even though he likes classic names he might qactually let me name a child Anakin faramir James if I suggest it XD.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind Link and Zelda as names for children (Zelda is a legit name, after all) but Daenerys is taking it a step too far... says the girl who seriously considered Faramir at one point...

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Really? I see it the complete opposite. Just like when I see Heavenly as a name or anything extremely god/bible related I always think those kids will end up becoming atheists XD

I've always thought if I name a child Ares he'll take after my pacifist ways and I dinno... do ballet or something. And then hate me all his life for naming him after the god of bloody/out of control war!

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Oh yes... I considered the name Antares for years.

[iftherainstops.livejournal.com]

Not my style at all and I agree with the previous poster that geek names are usually better suited for pets. I would feel bad for a kid named River, Achilles, Luna or Ares.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

funny you mentioned all the non-geek names XD BUT your opinion is your own and thanks for sharing it =)

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I can fully understand that. I would use Jamie in that situation, too.

[stacyinthecity.livejournal.com]

A lot of Welsh names sound similar to LOTR names if you want something that has a real name history going beyond something from a book.

Awen sounds similar to Eowyn and means poet or muse.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Morgan Snow. Although I can totally see that on a girl and not boy hahaha. And vice versa with Morgan Frost.
Grey is more of a boys name to me but for a girl I think it would be better as a middle name.
River James is lovely too.
I don't like Achilles but I think it's because it just reminds me of anatomy :P

Have to say I am very fond of both Eowyn and Arwen as names (read that you hate Arwen the character though) but some of the male names in LotR rub me the wrong way. Aragorn is okay as a middle though.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Morgan seems to be seen as a classically girls name but I love it for a boy (do not even get me started on Mordred or the fact I would name a girl Damien... issues, I tell ya!). I have weird views on girl/boy names and what constitutes as feminine/masculine, apparently XD

Yeah... again I would most likely steer away from the LotR boy names (*sniff*) because I have to remember this child will HAVE to use their name their entire life and I want something original and geeky without straddling them with a name that will just not work outside the moons of endor or middle earth.

[nynaeve-sedai.livejournal.com]

Morgan Snow for a boy sounds really pretty or even Ares James.

I have a hard time seeing River for a boy (Doctor Who: River Song, Firefly: River Tam - both female characters and so now it's solidified in my head as a female name, sorry! LOL). For a girl I'd totally see River Frost :D

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Ooooh Ares James is gorge (adding to list!)

Really? I have a hard time seeing it on a girl because the only River I knew of was River Phoenix hah hah. But I guess nature names can be more ambiguous... I mean there is no way (in English anyway) to truly say if they are a boy or girl's name.

[magpiefirefly.livejournal.com]

They aren't my style.

That said, husband wanted an R name for this baby without repeating any in his family, of which there are many. I'm reading the Song of Ice and Fire series. The only help I was were names like Rhegar, Rickon, and names of the like. You know. Not helpful, but I may have taken it there.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

You mention in a comment that people seem to think of Morgan as a classically female name. This surprises me as my understanding is that it was originally male. Then, the girls stole it. :\ I don't personally care for it on girls, but I think it's great on boys! I think Snow sounds very feminine and Frost very masculine though, so if you were to use one of those combos, I would switch the sex it is used on.

River James sounds great. I first and foremost associate River with River Tam (see icon), but I guess it is more commonly used on boys? I don't know. I have gotten to the point where I can see it on either.

I would use Achilles as a middle name if you really love it. I don't think it really works as a first name. You could maybe get away with Ares and Moses though. I'm not really fond of them to be honest. Moses Aragorn sounds alright, but both names are not commonly used and have strong associations.

Lily Lucia is a bit "L" heavy for me. Lily Helena is slightly better even though it has the same number of L's. It helps that they aren't both starting with the same letter.

I like Helena Luna better than Luna Helena because it is easier to say in that order. Both names are on my list actually.

Grey is a name that I can see for either sex/gender, but I tend to prefer it in the middle name slot, especially on females. Also, I think Isobel Grey just flows so much better. I also think Eowyn Grey would be pretty.

In general, I would pick a more traditional name and either a geeky or nature name to pair together. That way, the child has something "normal" to use if they so desire.

[nynaeve-sedai.livejournal.com]

Haha! You know what happened? I read Ares Jaime and translated Jaime into James (I know Jaime is sometimes pronounce Jamie in English, but I have a Spanish degree so I read it as "Hi-may" and then mentally translated it into James - not sure which version you were thinking of).

I think it depends on the experience with the name. Truthfully, I doubt anyone is going to think of River as a girl's name in a broad sense since it's not a common name in general I don't think. I just have a hard time wrapping my own mind around it.

[owlzen.livejournal.com]

I really like your names! If I didn't have a dog named Luna, it would have definitely been on our girl list. In fact, my husband asked.if we could use the name anyways, haha! We have 3 sons though! Luna Helena is wonderful!
& yay for geeky hippie moms :)

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Do not tempt me with Rhaegar... XD

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Link is an excellent nickname for Lincoln. Zelda is a legit name but also has a nerdy-twist. I think that's the perfect mix for me. It has to be legit (the nn could possibly be totally nerdy, but the full name needs to be a REAL name). That's why I like Morgan from your list. It fits both categories.

[sictransitsuzy.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly like any of your name combos but I do love the themes. I honestly don't think they're too much. Most of the names on my list are nature names as well! And I have seriously considered using fantasy names from Game of Thrones/Harry Potter/etc. :)

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

First of all, let me say that as a fellow geek...I think I would want to confine my geekdom to playing games and maybe naming my dogs Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield or Cloud and Tifa. A name is something a child will have their entire life - long after they have stopped being thought of mostly as a part of/entity of you and into life on his own, as an adult, with their own family...applying to jobs and grad school and such.

That said, I think there are subtle ways you could weave your geekery into your kids' names without naming them Eragon. Lily and Gray are pretty regular names - Lily in particular is a pretty name for a girl that doesn't necessarily have to have any ties. Even Lily Lucia is fine; most people won't get that reference and the people who do will think it's awesome. Luna Helena is a little more out there but is kind of doable.

But your boys' names, I'm sorry, I just wouldn't. Especially not the Greek god names (Ares and Achilles). River and Morgan are also more girls' names to me - I think you could get away with Morgan for a boy, but River sounds like a straight-up girl's name (maybe because of Firefly or whatever).