Couple of Questions...

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

My husband and I are no where near expecting, but want to be atleast SEMI prepared when we are, so we're discussing future baby names. We've come up with 4 names, 2 boy 2 girl, and I wanted to run them by some people to see what reaction they may get. I'll start with a little background:

My name is Ashli and while I do have a slightly different spelling than normal, I have a VERY normal name. I was one of 5 Ashley's in my graduating class of 45 kids. I dont want that for my kids. On the contrary, I had a girl in my class named Tyne and she was the ONLY one in the entire school with that name. I dont want to give my children such outlandish names that no one can figure out how to pronounce them, I just dont want them to blend in with everyone all the time.. anyway, on to the names.

Girls:

Mykah Jorin

(Micah is my husbands name and I think I would rather have a daughter named after him than a son, and Jorin is a semi-combination of our middle names-- Jo and Aaron. I didnt like the spelling Jorron or Joron, so we changed it)

Kaeslyn Amari (Pronounced Case-lynn, it's Irish Gaelic and I'm mostly Irish)

Boys:

Elijah Malachi (both Biblical, both Christians)

Zavyr Bryon

(This one we just discussed tonight. He LOVES the name Xavier and I.... dont! I was playing with shortening it, and he liked Zavyr, but I think it's borderline "Y" happy. I suggested Zavier, but he's not a fan of that. Bryon is my dad and brother's middle name)

Comments

[saltimbanca.livejournal.com]

i like elijah malachi a lot. :)

i disagree with you that tyne is an "outlandish" name, though. i think it's a pretty name with a lot of history. i think names with made-up spellings border on outlandish.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didnt mean to insinuate that I thought it was outlandish, just not common.

[sugarbugevans.livejournal.com]

Elijah Malachai. Although I prefer Malakai instead of all that messy 'ch' buisness.

[queen-exene.livejournal.com]

i really think that you should spell the names they're meant to be spelled or replace a few of the 'y's with other letters.

I think you should try spelling it Caeslin. If you think about it, which would look better if your daughter became a CEO? Kaeslyn or Caeslin? just a thought.

[queen-exene.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry if that came of as angry/mad/arrogant...just trying to help.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

It certainly didnt. I like the spelling Caeslin as well. I do agree with the "y" thing, I think it's a big fad to change everything to y's now. However, in the name book I was looking at, the Gaelic Kaeslyn was actually spelled like that.. *shrug*

As far as Mykah goes, she's gonna be a girl with her father's name, and we wanted it to be at least somewhat different. We worked out just about any other possibility we could think of and Myka or Mykah were the only ones we really liked.

Thanks for you input!

[mamaskin.livejournal.com]

I agree with spelling names the way they were ment to be spelled. Making them *cute* is just annoying.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

The only names we changed the spelling of were Mykah and Zavyr... and Zavyr was about a 5 minute discussion before I posted my inquiry... Besides that... most names have more than one way to be spelled.

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I really like Kaeslyn, that's clever. :)

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Thanks=) I loved the name from the first time I saw it!!

I think I'm most worried/concerned with Zavyr. I DO NOT like the name Xavier, and my husband DOES NOT like the spelling Zavier. "Bryon" is how my grandma spelled my dad's name, and my dad spelled my brothers name, so it's staying like that if we use it regardless....

[solyma.livejournal.com]

Mykah Jorin and Elijah Malachi are awesome! I think they're exactly what you described; unique, but not too "out there". You could also vary spellings a little... Mikah or Myka. Jorin could be Joren or Joryn. But yes, I definitely like those names! :)

[ericaamericka.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I don't think that anyone will ever pronounce Zavyr the way you're intending it to be spelled. I think that completely making up a child's first name like that is a bad idea.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Actually, I didnt make up Zavier, I just played with the spelling. Now that I've looked around at a few more names, I like the spelling Zavier better anyway, but it certainly doesnt get it's origins from me.

[blush10ac.livejournal.com]

I would pronounce Zavyr (Zay-ver) different than Zavier (Zay-vee-er).

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

Yea, I think we've pretty much decided we will go with Zavier, and Caeslin.

This feedback is precisely why I posted this=) Thanks so much for your input in helping us choose good names!

[xthelovelylisa.livejournal.com]

Mykah Jorin makes me think of Michael Jorden. lol. but it is cute.