curious

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

My aunt and uncle have a son and two daughters.

Levon Jullian
Ecko Rebekah
de'Ette Marie

I'm just curious to see other people's reactions. LoL I remember being really confused as to their choices with each pregnancy, but now they're just so normal to me. Echo/Ecko has kind of risen in popularity it seems, as I've met quite a few in the last few years, but never spelled with a k [my aunt said she didn't want 'ho' on the end of her name LoL]. And they say de'Ette was named after someone they know, but...whatever. Her name's grown on me too, but I feel like she's going to have a lot of trouble when she gets older and starts learning all that about people's names ALWAYS begin with a capital letter, you know?

Anyway, just curious to see some opinions of my adorable little cousins and their odd names. :-)

Comments

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I don't think Rebekah goes at all well with Ecko, because of the repeated "Eck" sound. It sounds like a tongue twister. That being said, I like Rebekah.

de'Ette doesn't make much sense to me - how is it pronounced - like debt? And why not d'Ette? There's no need for an apostrophe unless a letter is omitted, right?

The other names are fine.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

LoL We always say Ecko has the "Dr. Seuss" name because her name is Ecko Rebekah McCabe. Eek!

It's pronounced dee-ette. And there was a whole discussion about this with my other aunt who told them they were spelling it wrong because you're right, it SHOULD be d'Ette, but they say since it's after someone they know, they're spelling it the same way as that person.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Well, if the most wonderful person in my life was named Poopstick, I think I'd find some other way to honor them. That said...

There's nothing wrong with naming somebody after someone else and changing it around a little. (Especially if it's, uh, spelled wrong.)

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Poopstick :)
Thanks, you made me LOL :)

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, I was just explaining why they spelled it that way according to what they told me.

my eyes are bleeding

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Christ on a cracker, those are atrocious.

I was going to say that at least they have decent middle names to use, until I saw that Julian was misspelled. D'oh.

As for "Ecko," I think misspelling names that are actually words is worst of all.

And poor de'Ette's name looks like some kind of joke. A small letter and an apostrophe, together at last! If they were trying to make it look French, they failed terribly.

Wow. Wow. WOW.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Ecko Rebekah is kinda... mismatched, but I like Echo.

de'Ette - weird. lol

Levon is all right.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Definitely interesting.

My opinions on naming have really really relaxed lately. I find I respect interesting, unusual names names a lot more than the completely vanilla safe ones. (And I mean really unusual, not a top 10 name spelled wrong.) Give me an Ecko Rebekah over another Isabella Grace any day.

The mispelling of Ecko really doesn't bother me. Maybe because I find Echo too silly and flighty. This spelling seems to make it a name, rather than a word, a word better left as a word.

I have a hard time imagining loving anyone enough to actually use de'Ette, lol. But that's cool. I respect that they didn't do one of those "we're *honoring* you with D'Ette instead" moves.

Jullian is the only thing I really don't care for, to be honest.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I find I respect interesting, unusual names names a lot more than the completely vanilla safe ones

I totally agree on this. I just don't think I could ever even consider naming my kids Sarah or Amy or Ashley or something else entirely overused and common.

I know my aunt and uncle are very different. My aunt's very earthy, had all home births, etc. No one expected anything common out of her. And Ecko is actually named such because Levon was her son from a previous marriage, so Ecko was the first child they had togther. Since echo means "continuation" and she was a "continuation" of their new life together...It kinda gave it a new little spin.

:-)

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's always great when there is so much thought and meaning behind a name that there's a whole story that goes with it. So much preferable to "oh, we thought it was cute." Blah.

[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

Marie ain't bad.... as for the rest, I'll forever hold my peace ;-)

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I like Marie too because it's my middle name. :-)

It's fine of you don't like the rest, it's not like I named them. LoL I'm not easily offended, just curious.

[ferretiger.livejournal.com]

Levon? Like the Elton John song?

And the girl names... I have no words. I'm sorry.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Yes, like the song, but I don't think he was named after the song. A drummer in a band, I think? I'm not entirely sure, because he was already six when his mom and my uncle started dating. I know more about the girls because I was around through the naming process when she was pregnant for both of them.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they're adorable, but to me their names look like they came from the Utah Baby Namer. (http://wesclark.com/ubn/)

[sundayuniverse.livejournal.com]

levon is strange to me but i guess, it is ok. jullian is really nice but should be spelled julian or julien.

ecko is in my oppinion a male name... well, at least here in germany there is a rapper called ecko. so i think it is no good name for a girl. rebecca would be nice and also rebekka but rebekah is misspelled in my opinion.

de'Ette.. how do you pronounce that? does it sounds like "that" or "death"??
well, i really really like marie though.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

de'Ette is pronounced like the letter d then the ending ette. When you say it, it comes out like dee-yet.

[ms-cucumber.livejournal.com]

How sad for these children.

Funnily, the different spellings of Echo remind me of different things:
Echo -- the Greek goddess
Eko -- Mr. Eko from Lost
Ecko -- the Geico Gecko

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but i think they are ridiculous.
de'Ette isnt a name...it's like...very pointlessly stupid!

[xcuore.livejournal.com]

Levon Julian would be nice, but JulLian? NOoooooooooooo
Ecko Rebekah... hmm i prefer Echo Rebecca but its still oke ;)
De'Ette Marie.. i HATE names with ' in it.