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A few years ago I mentioned Amanda Knox and her husband Christopher had their first child a daughter called Eureka. They now have a second child a boy named Echo. I don’t like either name but think they work as a set. WDYT?
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They're both car models! Like Nova and Camry would be. I'd get a kick out of it if my sibling and I both had car model names.
Echo is dependable except for being hazardously lightweight, and Eureka is harsh seeming but sporty...as cars. Beyond that, I associate both of them with California, because Eureka is a town there plus the first time I encountered Echo as a modern name was while reading a YA book in which the main character was named Echo (all I remember is that she was a miserable teenager, lived in California, and coped by habitually binging on tacos in the middle of the night)...they seem wacky to me but kind of in a cliche yuppie west coast way? Because superficially they seem like they could have been Sage and River or Aspen and Canyon except those weren't classical or avante garde enough.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I prefer Eureka to Echo. Maybe because it's wild yet seems about like Erika. I feel like Hero or Halcyon or Experience would have fit better with it. But I should probably just be glad they didn't pick Evidence or Epic.
Echo is dependable except for being hazardously lightweight, and Eureka is harsh seeming but sporty...as cars. Beyond that, I associate both of them with California, because Eureka is a town there plus the first time I encountered Echo as a modern name was while reading a YA book in which the main character was named Echo (all I remember is that she was a miserable teenager, lived in California, and coped by habitually binging on tacos in the middle of the night)...they seem wacky to me but kind of in a cliche yuppie west coast way? Because superficially they seem like they could have been Sage and River or Aspen and Canyon except those weren't classical or avante garde enough.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I prefer Eureka to Echo. Maybe because it's wild yet seems about like Erika. I feel like Hero or Halcyon or Experience would have fit better with it. But I should probably just be glad they didn't pick Evidence or Epic.
This message was edited 12/3/2023, 9:26 PM
When I first thought of Echo as a name for a person - around the time I discovered btn and the internet of names - I thought it seemed kewl like a ROG (refreshing overlooked gem) and all that. But on second thought ... thinking about a person actually going thru life named Echo ... I find myself thinking it's ghastly. I don't blame a person named it, but I wouldn't feel good about addressing someone as Echo. I can picture some guy pulling it off, but with its heavy metallic air of millennial hipster irony.
Eureka is not very namey imo. Kind of thoughtfully ugly ... again, the millennial hipster irony thing.
The names would work as a set, in a story. In real life, it seems like that's exactly what they're meant to do. Fill out the self-narrative of their "artsy" rich west-coast parents. I mean, I don't have a problem with that in itself. I probably like some names that the same people might have used but didn't. And people are who they are, and whatever we name kids it goes way beyond us, and ends up being different from how we fancied. But anyway these two names are just hitting the wrong notes for me right now. I don't like them.
Eureka is not very namey imo. Kind of thoughtfully ugly ... again, the millennial hipster irony thing.
The names would work as a set, in a story. In real life, it seems like that's exactly what they're meant to do. Fill out the self-narrative of their "artsy" rich west-coast parents. I mean, I don't have a problem with that in itself. I probably like some names that the same people might have used but didn't. And people are who they are, and whatever we name kids it goes way beyond us, and ends up being different from how we fancied. But anyway these two names are just hitting the wrong notes for me right now. I don't like them.
Thoughtfully ugly .... I really like that.
You know, I rather like Echo as a less obvious choice for a "junior" name. I could get into that. It's not a very nice sounding word, which is a shame. I like the look bit not the sound so much.
I actually knew someone who had a sister named Echo, when I was a kid. They had a very interesting sibling set - it was something like Azure, Echo, Summerly, and James. When I was 13 I thought that was devastatingly cool.
Eureka is an interesting choice. Not sure I'd have been able to handle having "reek" as part of my name growing up....or having the pressure to have "Eureka moments" through my whole life. It's another neat idea though - a child as a revelation or sudden inspiration.
I actually knew someone who had a sister named Echo, when I was a kid. They had a very interesting sibling set - it was something like Azure, Echo, Summerly, and James. When I was 13 I thought that was devastatingly cool.
Eureka is an interesting choice. Not sure I'd have been able to handle having "reek" as part of my name growing up....or having the pressure to have "Eureka moments" through my whole life. It's another neat idea though - a child as a revelation or sudden inspiration.
I've never heard of Amanda Knox, and that is probably a good thing. A yelp of delight for the first child, and presumably a kind of ditto-mark for the second, regardless of gender origins and parts of speech. Oh dear.
I like it on the right person, but I think it should be a girl.
I don't care for it, but it's at least better than Eureka.
This message was edited 12/1/2023, 8:03 PM
I really like Echo on a girl.
I enjoy the sounds of Eureka and the fact that the meaning is a statement, but it’s a bit too cartoonish as a human name.
I enjoy the sounds of Eureka and the fact that the meaning is a statement, but it’s a bit too cartoonish as a human name.
Don't like either