baby names

[flea]

Born to the Park Mommy clan:

Jasper, older brother Emmett (not sure of spelling). Since to me Jasper evokes a 90 year old New England bachelor farmer, I find it especially amusing that his father's last name is strongly ethnic Ukrainian, and his mother's equally strongly Italian.

Elliot (not sure of spelling), a girl to be called Elly, older brothers Jonah and Evan. Scrubs notwithstanding, I still consider Elliot a boy's name, and there are tons of things to name your kid if you want to call her Elly.

I also met a 3 month old Florence recently, older sister Laura.

Names in Casper's class at school, almost all approaching 2.5 years: Olivia and Delancey (identical twin girls), Isabelle, Stephanie, Jasleen (girl), Chase, Connor, Evan, Ian, Kabir (boy), Lee (boy). Jasleen's father is a Sikh I think, and Kabir's mother is South Asian, and Stephanie's father is British, and I think everyone else is white Americans.

Names in contention for the Armadillo, at least in my head right now:

Flora, Louisa, Laura, Caroline, Shyanne just checking to see if you were reading, Mary/Maria/Maryanne?, Margaret except that's my boss' name, Sasha except that's RF Dad's name ugh, Alice.

Paul, Peter, Ant(h)ony, Joseph but for the misfortune that will be obvious if you know mr. flea's last name and think of Friends, Edward/win, Jeremiah I wish it's an ancestral name and I love it although it's weird but I really dislike Jerry, William but the world is too abundant in Wills right now and I don't like Bill.

Comments

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Elaborations on what seems to be your trains of thought:

girl: something you would plausibly find in an Enid Blyton novel, weeding out the overused classics. Further suggestions: Gloria, Victoria, Vivian, Madeline, Agatha (okay, that's too fussy), Dora, Eleanor/Elinor, Iris, Violet, Rosalind. I am still assuming y-names like Dorothy and Polly are out.

boy: Classics preferable, possibly with a smattering of RAF names. (The boy-classics have a much more narrow range of overuse, it seems.) How about George, Harold, Josiah (no you can NOT turn this into Jed), Jonathan, Samuel, I suppose Earl still hasn't come back into fashion, Matthew, Mark/Marcus, Stephen, avoid Sebastian like unto a plague, I don't think you've ever been partial to Benjamin, and Obadiah.

Okay, that last was just so I could call it Armadillo the Bold!!

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Actual trains of thought:

girl: something you might find on a woman born in 1910. Of your suggestions, I like Madeline and Eleanor and Rosalind but the first two are too popular and the 3rd too much like Casper's name. Don't like the rest.

boy: classic but not too popular or too fuddy-duddy. Of your suggestions, Matthew and Mark/cus make my extended list, George has good associations but is too stodgy (though Georgina could work), Ben is too popular, Earl is that dumb guy with a moustache on the TV show, don't like the rest, except I would so totally name a kid Josiah or Obadiah you have no idea. It's just the Jeremiah takes precedence. (Hm. Josephine for a girl also nice.)

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Josephine, okay. I say Georgette over Georgina, but I think they're both precious. Same for Harriet or Henrietta. If you lived in Britain, maybe, but you don't, and therein lies danger and the collecting of commemorative plates. Just say no!

Women being born in 1910 were named Gilda, Millicent, Mildred, Una, Dorothea, Noreen, Else, Annie, Peaches, Barbara, Paulette, Joyce, Hilda, Lillian, Thelma, and Akira Kurosawa. (Okay, he was born that year.)

Wiki

The fact is, you don't have a lot to choose from, with male classics. Most will either be too popular or too stodgy, depending on the passage of time. Blame all those stupid people who kept naming their children William or Thomas or John.

Although, if you're willing to go with REALLY classic classics, how about: Ajax, Barnabas, Calvin, Erasmus, Frederick the Great, Galen, Hadrian, Louis, Maximilian, Newton -- a good flip through Bartlett's Quotations might find you your man.

Dude, did you know there was a Pope named Lando? Apparently he was Pope for only six months (in 913).

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[mightyurchin.livejournal.com]

Peaches - now that's the ticket!

I think one can go too far with trying to avoid names associated with famous and/or unlikeable people. For pretty much any name, you can come up with some bad association, so unless it's an evil or annoying person you think about often and/or is very prominent in your consciousness, forget about it. Your child will own that name for you.

This came up when my sister & her girlfriend decided to name their dog Pauly, which suited the little guy very well. Then someone remembered Pauly Shore and the name was temporarily changed. My point was - how often do you think about Pauly Shore??? And it's true that now when I hear the name Pauly, I think of the dog, not the comedian.

Re: names

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

My old student when I was pregant with Casper and I used to come up with joke names. My favorite was when we were suggesting R&B singers, and Peabo was mentioned.

I think about Pauly Walnuts, but then I haven't met the pooch. Nor ever watched the Sopranos, but whatever.

My mother turned in her MA yesterday - you're next!!