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HelpRe: Raistlin and Dayllan
in reply to a message by Kestrel78
raistlin - no! i mean, names bear with them some meaning... and you really don't want to give your kid that sort of baggage, do you? :D that, and raistlin is beginning to become a bit of a trendy name. trendy names can make kids wedgie-targets in school. also, consider a girl i know. her name is galadriel. yeah, a very pretty name, to be sure. but then when the lotr movies came out, she got picked on for the geek quotient of her name.
dayllan - again, no. i have three rules for appropriate names.
1. is it easilly pronouncable? many people may look at the name dayllan and be confused as to how to pronounce it. this is not to say that all names should be spelled phonetically - for example, everyone can pronounce philip, even though the 'ph' makes an 'f' sound.
2. is it indicative of the child's sex? i'm all for raising kids as gender-neutral as possible. however, a gender-neutral name will cause more trouble than it's worth. for example, aaron/erin is ok, if the gender-appropriate spelling is used. jesse/jessie is less so, since i've seen many girls named jesse. dayllan does indeed look like a butchered version of dillan, and thus there may be some confusion as to the gender of the name.
3. avoid cutesy names/name combinations. also avoid very trendy names for the reason given above. some examples of cutesy names - Chanda Lear, Savannah Storm (i actually saw this name in the course of my work), Candace (Candy) Hart (a classmate of a friend), Crystal Ball. and so on. don't get me wrong, i don't like very common names - jennifer, bryan, etc. - for children either. nothing wrong with them, just overdone.
and, since i hate leaving non-constructive criticism, here are some names i've come across in my job that i think are good baby names -
Irina (Irene)
Dahlia
Vanessa
Sophia
Eleanor is a name i've been somewhat partial to as well. a little old-fashioned, but not incredibly so, and Ellie is a cool nickname.
sadly, i don't see too many uncommon, un-trendy boy names at my job. boys are less likely to have an uncommon name. i'm sorry i can't really help there.
dayllan - again, no. i have three rules for appropriate names.
1. is it easilly pronouncable? many people may look at the name dayllan and be confused as to how to pronounce it. this is not to say that all names should be spelled phonetically - for example, everyone can pronounce philip, even though the 'ph' makes an 'f' sound.
2. is it indicative of the child's sex? i'm all for raising kids as gender-neutral as possible. however, a gender-neutral name will cause more trouble than it's worth. for example, aaron/erin is ok, if the gender-appropriate spelling is used. jesse/jessie is less so, since i've seen many girls named jesse. dayllan does indeed look like a butchered version of dillan, and thus there may be some confusion as to the gender of the name.
3. avoid cutesy names/name combinations. also avoid very trendy names for the reason given above. some examples of cutesy names - Chanda Lear, Savannah Storm (i actually saw this name in the course of my work), Candace (Candy) Hart (a classmate of a friend), Crystal Ball. and so on. don't get me wrong, i don't like very common names - jennifer, bryan, etc. - for children either. nothing wrong with them, just overdone.
and, since i hate leaving non-constructive criticism, here are some names i've come across in my job that i think are good baby names -
Irina (Irene)
Dahlia
Vanessa
Sophia
Eleanor is a name i've been somewhat partial to as well. a little old-fashioned, but not incredibly so, and Ellie is a cool nickname.
sadly, i don't see too many uncommon, un-trendy boy names at my job. boys are less likely to have an uncommon name. i'm sorry i can't really help there.
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