Eldest complained for years that he didn’t like his name, I told him that I’d wanted to call him Wolfgang originally and he said he would have preferred that, as the abbreviated ‘Wolf’ appealed to his six-year old self.
But they both recoil from the girl names we had picked out: Eldest would have been Imogen or Philomena, Blivs was looking at Violet Mabel or Drexciya. The latter Mad Mike warned me was a hex name and shouldn’t be considered-
Just letting you know we are a lame resource for baby names!
Tags: baby names
October 21, 2008 at 4:36 pm |
i really like imogen. alot.
what i’m feeling the most right now is “merrow.” totally different from the soft vowell sounds in baby #1’s name, and i love the meaning: it’s the gaelic version of the mermaid, benevolent and beautiful. i wanted an aquatic name since baby 2 will be a fish girl (pisces).
i think we scored with a hebrew name for baby #1, so we’re off the hebrew hook for baby #2. also, you can’t find it in any of those shitty baby name lists.
what do you think? norman is on the fence.
October 21, 2008 at 4:58 pm |
Imogen is nice because it abbreviates to Imo- but Merrow is lovely – I love the gaelic names – I like the gaelic Iseult ( Isolda) too.
Merrow is so unique, and goes with little P nicely!
I like Sorrel too, but it sounds like sorrow !
Soror is sister in latin…
October 21, 2008 at 6:11 pm |
i also like the name “zaida,” but norman nixed it. i also like zaidi, but not zadie smith, if only for jealousy reasons.
October 21, 2008 at 6:37 pm |
I like it too, but you know the illustrious Ms Smith ’s given name is Sadie, she switched it herself as a teenager because she wanted to be more unique!!! get it!
have your read On Beauty? I haven’t, it sounds boring ( academic types at east coast campus..) but I’m interested to see how her writing changed from white teeth times