Names

[SnoopDog]

I recently had this conversation about names with a good friend of mine.
So I wondered, what would be everybody's favourite names.
What would you have liked to be called.
What would you name your children (if you don't have any).
What's the coolest name you ever heard. Or maybe the weirdest?
What names do you use in stories?
I'm sure this has been done before, so don't flame for it.

I, myself, hate that my parents didn't give me two names but only one. I don't know, but I somehow love the idea of two or more names, not only because it can sound pretty cool but also because you can chose what name you would be called if you didn't like one of them.

If I ever should have children, I haven't thought about a boy's name, but my favourite girl's name is Anna-Maria because I love both Anna and Maria and especially the combination.
So what about you?

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

Your parents named you Snoopy?

 

[cloudy]

I'm quite happy with my first name: Patricia.

It's too bad that the only time I've been called that is 1) when I was in deep shit at home, and my dad would use my full name or 2) in school, the first day of class.

My youngest, if he had been a girl, would have been named Julia Rhiannon. My best friend's name is Julia, and Rhiannon just because I think its a beautiful name.

 

[Marsipanne]

I used to really, really want to be called Euphemia. And then, Zenobia.

At the moment I'm quite fond of the name 'Lelia' which is the name of the main character of a story I'm writing. (Story's called 'Lelia's Palazzo' and is a future lit story)

 

[McKenna]

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[McKenna]

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[ABSTRUSE]

My daughter is Hayley Storm.

Never name a child after a natural phenomenon.

 

[Marsipanne]

I'd give my daughter/son a relatively normal first name and give them many, many weird middle names. At least three.

My name is really nice, actually. It's certainly..unique. In China you make up names using words in the dictionary and my mum's really good at this. I'll make her give my children Chinese names. People who've heard and read my name (and my brother's) think they're very dramatic and romantic and asked if she got them from novels. Thing is, I don't use my proper name apart from for formal stuff. All the other times, I use my baby name (name given when a baby and just stuck).

 

[Guest]

What would you have liked to be called.

vella.. rachelle is boring..
*bitch on occasion*


What would you name your children (if you don't have any).

my imagination was a dry well when i named my kids
kathryn and thea.


What's the coolest name you ever heard. Or maybe the weirdest?

shaniqua.. cool name .. actually alot of african american names are fun to try to pronounce.

 

[SnoopDog]

Bump ??

Snoopy

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I have two choices:

Rose ... for David Rose (The Stripper)

Melody ... for Irvin Berlin’s (A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody)

But, ANYTHING would be better than the one I got stuck with. It makes me very grateful that I can use a stage-name.

 

[SummerMorning]

Lucifer

definitely a name to remember.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I recently had this conversation about names with a good friend of mine.
So I wondered, what would be everybody's favourite names.
What would you have liked to be called.
What would you name your children (if you don't have any).
What's the coolest name you ever heard. Or maybe the weirdest?
What names do you use in stories?
I'm sure this has been done before, so don't flame for it.

I, myself, hate that my parents didn't give me two names but only one. I don't know, but I somehow love the idea of two or more names, not only because it can sound pretty cool but also because you can chose what name you would be called if you didn't like one of them.

If I ever should have children, I haven't thought about a boy's name, but my favourite girl's name is Anna-Maria because I love both Anna and Maria and especially the combination.
So what about you?

Snoopy

If you name your first daughter Anna-Maria, what do you name your second one? Why not name your first Anna and your second daughter Maria?

My first name is that of an uncle and my second is my father's name and I am fine with that, although "George" is a hard name to find a nickname for.

Most of my stories are written about specific readers and when I write such a story, I use her name. (I have never written about a male reader.) Otherwise, I use common names that I think fit the characters.

 

[SnoopDog]

Re: Re: Names

If you name your first daughter Anna-Maria, what do you name your second one? Why not name your first Anna and your second daughter Maria?

My first name is that of an uncle and my second is my father's name and I am fine with that, although "George" is a hard name to find a nickname for.

Most of my stories are written about specific readers and when I write such a story, I use her name. (I have never written about a male reader.) Otherwise, I use common names that I think fit the characters.

Well given the fact that I planned on two daughters that would be a possibility. But chances of that happening are rather small I guess.

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

I have gone by my middle name, Martin, for more than 20 years. My first name, Gerald, Caused me considerable grief growing up. Anyone who remembers Flip Wilson will know what I mean. And to pour salt on the wounds, just about the time everyone was begining to forget the whole "Geraldine" thing, along comes this hispainic news reporter and it starts all over again.

Martin Spencer works well for me. I think I'll keep it.

 

[oggbashan]

My parents argued over what to call me and finally agreed when my mother was in labour.

My father was so convinced that she would change her mind again that he registered the birth within an hour of the registrar's office opening. She hadn't changed her mind but the argument meant that they insisted on calling me that name and not any diminutive or contraction of it despite everyone else shortening it to a common abbreviation. I can still hear my father's despairing voice whenever one of my friends rang "Do you mean '***...?'

I had the same initial (nearly the same initials) as my elder brother. That has caused confusion all our lives. Then my brother called two of his children with the same initial. Then he adopted two with initials (and in one case the same first name) as his children. So one was called big 'name' and the other little 'name'. As one girl was six foot three and the other was five foot four there wasn't much confusion between 'big' and 'little'.

My real surname is rare and most people with that surname are related to me from a traced ancestor. Tracing ancestors was relatively easy because the spelling has been identical from the earliest records. Only in Caesar's Gallic Wars did he give us a Latinised version we never used.

Og (been around since before the flood. Which flood? All of 'em.)

 

[Boxlicker101]

I have never been able to figure out why parents give a son his father's name and a perfectly good middle name and call him by the middle name. This results in confusion when the boy starts school and has friends, teachers, etc. who call him by his first name. Why shouldn't his first name been the one he was always going to be called anyhow and his middle name be the same as his father. That happened to my oldest nephew and to my youngest grandson. The latter is too young now to know the difference but he will have problems later.

 

[Guest]

Box, it's a tradition for Mexicans to use the middle name. I always liked having a name only used by my family. I'm a different persona to the world outside, so it's fitting. It's like having only two people in the world call me Mom. I also have a name that only one person calls me. It's all fun to me.

Perdita

 

[Carl East]

I've never minded my first name; Carl, but I would have prefered my second name; Stephen.

Which is just what I called my one and only son, Stephen Carl. I named my daughter Michelle, which I quite like. You can all call me horny though.

Carl

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I always wanted to be called Zoot.

Do you think it's too late?

---dr.M.

 

[Clare Quilty]

My two favorite names, male and female respectively, are -

• Magnus
• Zoë

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I always wanted to be called Zoot.

Do you think it's too late?

---dr.M.

Not anymore.......Zoot.!!!!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Not anymore.......Zoot.!!!!

Okay, let's see: dr. Zoot? No.

Zoot Mabeuse? Now we're getting somewhere!

Dr. Zoot Mabeuse. Dr. Z. Oot. Mabeuse.

I think I could learn to love it!

--dr. Zoot M.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Box, it's a tradition for Mexicans to use the middle name. I always liked having a name only used by my family. I'm a different persona to the world outside, so it's fitting. It's like having only two people in the world call me Mom. I also have a name that only one person calls me. It's all fun to me.

Perdita

Apparently it's a custom in the Philippines too. My grandchildren, who are actually my step-grandchildren but I would NEVER refer to them as such, are known by their second names and their third names are their mother's maiden name.

 

[rgraham666]

Lucifer

definitely a name to remember.

I think that name is under copyright. And the owner also owns all the lawyers in the world.

Plus he has other means he can fall back on if the lawyers fail.

I'm not sure changing your name to that is such a good idea