Girl names

[kryscat]

Discuss.

(Yes, I've seen http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html and http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/)

Comments

[cypherpunk95.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Where on the Britney...Michelle...Darlene...Death spectrum are you aiming? :-)

[kryscat]

I think we're looking for something a bit unusual but not torment-worthy. Rob wants no family names (we're both named after parents). I dunno. Something somewhat myth-related? Or something "ethnic" from one of our backgrounds? (Polish, German, Ukrainian, Italian, Catalan, Lebanese on my side and Irish, Scottish, English, Norwegian, Danish on his side doesn't narrow things down too much.) Or something else entirely...

[ariyanakylstram.livejournal.com]

Literary names I like:

From Dickens:
Arabella
Estella
Lillian
Madeline
Rose (or Rosa)
Violet

From Shakespeare:
Bianca
Cymbeline
Helena
Iris
Valeria
Viola

...and then there are the Gashleycrumb tinies...
; >

[threadwalker.livejournal.com]

nice collection

[threadwalker.livejournal.com]

there's various baby-name searches that give you the ethnic origen and meaning of the name. I used to have a book I used for naming characters, but I resorted to the internet when I lost it. I think some of the searches you can search by ethnicity. Lost the links, but I suspect you could find it.

[mcalamari.livejournal.com]

Sophia / Sophie

It is simply a good German, Polish, or Italian name. Though it means wisom, all the Sophie's I've met have been more fun loving and outgoing, though not the absolute visible center of attention types.

It is not unusual though ... however, as a Michael, there are actually some serious advantages to having a common as dirt name, people either remember me at Mike or Mark, and I got attention in school because nobody would forget my name. My friends with really unusual names are constantly bypassed professionally when it comes time for credit / acknowledgements because who wants to make a mistake! :(