Favorite names
My requisites for names are that they be uncommon and old-fashioned (and, apparently, unpronounceable by Americans, at least for boys). Soooo, my favorites for boys:
- Edmund
- Ralph
(RAFE) - Rupert
- St. John
(SIN-jin) - Hamish (HAY-mish)
- Aubrey
- Owen
- Rosamund
- Violet
- Evelyn
- Lavinia
- Eleanor
- Harriet
- Louisa
- Violet
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posted by Laura at
10:27 PM
8 Comments:
Tee hee! I just loved reading this post. My mother named me something terribly American because her name was so foreign... now I want to name any future children something foreign since mine was so boring! :) I think its a cyclical thing :)
Yes, our names are rather similar, actually... mine is Laura Kathryn. You can tell we were born around the same time! It's so interesting how name fashions come and go.
I love the names Aubrey and Lavinia. :)
No Peter on your list? I'm surprised.
Rosamund is one of my favourite names too... it was my great-grandmother's name, and if I have a daughter I intend to give her the name. For a namesake she'll have one of the sweetest ladies ever, all the way to one hundred years old.
Here's hoping you marry a fellow who agrees with your taste in names. I hope the same thing for myself... I think that good old-fashioned names need to make a comeback... especially for girls! I want girl names for girls to come back in fashion. I've met too many girls called Ryan and Aidan recently.
And why is it that the nice boy names are always unpronounceable to most people? I have Seamus chosen out for a future son, but people always seem to say SEE-mus. Of my list of boys' names, I think the only one people could get right the first time is Gilbert Keith.
Natalie -- Peter, though a very nice name, does not fit Requirement #1 (uncommon). I suppose if I had twins I could name them Peter and Harriet, but that would be a little much, wouldn't it? ;)
Mamselle Duroc, Seamus is a great name, though I know what you mean about the pronunciation. When I was a child, I really liked the name Sean, but I honestly thought it was pronounced SEEN. :) I think there are some old-fashioned girls' names coming back into style, such as Sophia and Emma.
I'm guessing Gilbert is your homage to Anne of Green Gables. :)
We have similar tastes in names, it seems. Fiona was going to be Violet for about 6 months before she was born. Then, all of a sudden, an epiphany: Fiona is her name! How silly of us to think of calling her Violet when, clearly, she is Fiona!
Oh, a funny story about similar names of girls born around the same time:
My friend Amanda has a sister named Katie Michelle. A girl in our class in high school was named Amanda Michelle, and her sister was Katie.
There were a total of 3 Amandas in our class...one day one was absent, which cause a smart-aleck to comment that "Sixty-six percent of the Amanda's are present." I still laugh about that.
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