Name

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

My friend is going to name her daughter Amaya.
Any thoughts?

Comments

[screaming--pink.livejournal.com]

Real World Hawaii.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

haha that's what I thought of at first too. I guess b/c that's the first time I ever heard that name.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

Eh. Not my taste, not awful. I do like Maya.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Maya is pronounced My-uh so is it a-mya or a-may-uh?

I dont really like it, i mean it's pretty ish but a bit blah..

[danacarlesays.livejournal.com]

Ive heard it before, and I dont think its that bad. Shes just got to be careful with the middle and last name though; if they dont flow well, then itll be bad.

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

Amaya Grace Anderson

[danacarlesays.livejournal.com]

Ehhh....Okay, now I dont like it as much. A.A? Its not for me. But Amaya Grace is cute by itself, lo..

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

AA were my initials growing up=P AJA to be exact, and from them I got lots of nicknames including AJ, and Double A. In fact, a couple of my fellow name alliteration friends called each other (and still do even though we're married) by first and last name BECAUSE of the alliteration; I was Ashli Anderson and my good friends were Jeremy Jones and Sarah Shaw-- but they were cooler than I because they were triple letters, Jeremy Jess Jones and Sarah Shirley Shaw. It was a fun game. Now... I'm just boring ole AJM. =\

[danacarlesays.livejournal.com]

Lmao, thats great! Knowing me, Id probably get irritated having all my names start with D. I never had nicknames growing up, and Im pretty adimant about not having my eventual children have them either.

I really couldnt tell you why, exactly, I get irritated by it though. Weird.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

My parents didnt like nicknames either. They chose the names Ashli and Adam (my brother) because there's not really a whole lot of nicknames that can be derived from them. They joked before I was born, "What are they gonna call her? Ash?" and ironically, since I was little 98% of the time my dad has called me Ash. I've had a slew of nicknames including Ashy, Ash-head, Andy (from the last name Anderson), Dink, Ink Dink, Dinkster, Inky Dinky Do, Sis, Sister Sue... and right now at the preschool I work at, most people call me everyone Leelee. It's great, really=)

I, on the other hand, love nicknames and am condsidering what good nicknames my children could have with the names I've chosen for them=) I think part of what fascinates me the most about names is how varied the tastes of people are. Everything from pronunciation to origin to meaning to nicknames-- it's hard to find two people who like exactly the same things! It's so fun=)

[danacarlesays.livejournal.com]

Its cute to watch what kind of names kids will come up with. My husand, being the mature man he is ::cough:: is the one who tries to come up with the most rediculous nicknames he can think of, just to see if itll change my mind. It usually doesnt, hahaha.

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a bunch of pretty sounds thrown together... it's ok... nothing I'd touch though.

[embracinglove.livejournal.com]

My friend Rachel's daughter is named Amaya (Uh-my-uh) bhut everyone Calls her Mya. Amaya Maelynn is her name. I think its pretty :)

[thunderofsins.livejournal.com]

it sounds like a noise a baby makes when its crying

[kyo-o.livejournal.com]

It's cute but it sounds a bit out of place on someone with no Japanese heritage.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I quite like it.

[neuraltube.livejournal.com]

It's pretty!

[http://users.livejournal.com/---surfacing/]

Real World Hawaii!

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty, and it has probably the single best meaning of any name I've ever heard. It bugs me how it sounds like a question though. "Am I a...?" Are you a what? Half the time people seem to want to pair it with Rose, which sounds especially bad.

Here I think it sounds nice. Amaya Grace Anderson isn't too bad. (Though I do hate, hate, hate the overused filler name Grace.)

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

I agree, I liked Grace until it became another Elizabeth to me.

[itsyourlove19.livejournal.com]

I always think of Real World Hawaii when i hear the name. I like it though.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

My first reaction is also Real World Hawaii but I love the name. I hadn't heard it until that show, but I think it's pretty.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Mm... it's okay. I'm pretty neutral on it.