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[mommy.livejournal.com]

i just got emailed a list of "Super Unique Girl Names" and, well, it's awful.

Atia - a variant of Atiya, which means "present" or "gift" in Arabic.
Ixchel - was a Mayan earth goddess.)
Analia - (pronounced a-nal-yah), Hebrew for "merciful.
Sakura - means "cherry blossom" in Japanese.
Sena - a variant of Selena and means "moon" in Greek.
Larkin - means "crowned with laurel."
Amara - means eternally beautiful.
Jovanka - derived from the Hebrew name Yochana, it means "God's grace."
Absydee - Judy shares, her Kindergarden teacher friend made up the name because it incorporates the letters A, B, C, and D.

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[redfield79.livejournal.com]

Sakura is a popular restaurant here.

[mommy.livejournal.com]

here too. lol

[kissyn.livejournal.com]

I actually like about half of those. Amara and Atia in particular. Absydee, on the other hand...ugh.

[heathersmoo.livejournal.com]

I can see the last one being pronounced like the word "obesity."

[mommy.livejournal.com]

LOL that's about how i read it, too. like uhbesity.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I had a customer named Ixchel the other day, strangely enough. She had a hyphenated last name that sounded, well, pretty
unexoticly English beside the first name, and just to add to the strangeness and length of it, she also used her middle initial.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I like Sakura, Amara, and Jovanka, though Jovanka is the last name of a Doctor Who companion, Teagan Jovanka.

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

An old friend used to joke around about using abcd as a name pronouncing it absidee. I know an anila which reminds me of analia. Anila is pronounced uhneeluh. She was adopted from India I believe. I always thought it was interesting.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I don't think most of those are too bad. I actually kind of like Larkin.

[ahavah]

I knew a couple Larkins, so I don't think that's particularly unique, at least in hippie-circles. Neither is Sakura really. Maybe on real kids, but it seems to be a standard anime-fan name in fanfic/roleplay circles (I'm not an anime fan myself, but a friend is and she's joked that it's so common and often poorly done that Sakura for her translates to "Asian Mary-Sue; see also: run away"). Hope I don't offend any roleplayers! Like I said, not my scene & it's a nice enough name, but it always makes me think of my friend's comment.

I kind of like Amara and Sena though.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

I really like Sena. I feel like she might get some "Xena" references though. And I like Amara and Larkin.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I actually like Atia, Analia, Larkin, and Amara.

Sena is too close to Senna for me. I can't imagine naming my baby after a laxative.

[cairtirnin.livejournal.com]

I like Sena, Amara, and Sakura quite a bit.

[rekkless.livejournal.com]

I've loved Atia since I watched Rome.
Amara is pretty too.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

I have loved the name Amara since my late teen years, I loved it's meaning.





i was going to reinvent myself and head off to whatever glamorous career as Geni Amara...short for Genevieve of course! Still really love Genevieve too.

[mommy.livejournal.com]

Amara is about the only one on the list i do like. i have a friend who's name is Sam and his daughter is named Samara, so i like it a lot. it's very pretty.

[being-lola-star.livejournal.com]

Samara makes me thing of The Ring.