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HelpHania, Jovanka and Nash
Okay, so the title was a bit misleading. I'm sorry :3 This is my first time on these boards and I have a few questions. As I, rather awkwardly, grow older it seems the more and more expectant couples I come across. As such, I have a few naming questions as to what I can suggest.
1) My best friend is expecting. She's got her heart set on using Nash as a name. I have no idea where she's gotten it from, but sometimes it seems like it has a little of a sad-tribute aspect to it, which I'm not sure is ideal. I'm an Evil Dead fan, so rather begrudgingly suggested Ash (heh) which I had on my list of names... but, no, she's set on Nash. Her fiancé has, in an Anglophone culture, a rather unusual, long, semi-exotic surname, so Nash is nicely simple... but it makes me think of Gnash, and is pretty 'macho'. Any views? Or... any combos using it? :3
2) Jovanka. EUGH! Jovanka! I've only ever known it said yuh-VAHN-ka, yoh-van-kah, yah-vahn-kah... that kind of varient... which all sound like someone with an accent, in English, saying... 'you...(ahem)'. The lady in question expecting aforementioned Jovanka plans to either name her child Iovanka 'EE-OH-vahn-ka' (blatantly, in my eyes, made up) or Jovanka said 'joe-VEYHN-ka' or 'zho-VEYHN-kya'. I feel like suggesting Josephine. What do you think?
3) For a part Polish friend - Hania or Zosia? They're expecting a little girl and want a pretty Polish-ish name. Hania has an open pronounciation - it's a debate between the authentic 'ha(h)n-yah' or 'ha(h)-nee-ah/yah' which is the most obvious English way of pronouncing it. They're also considering Ania, said 'Ahn-ee-yah' from a rather funny but slightly pretty butchering of Hania, but Anya would work better, eh? Any name views or suggestions?
4) And fourthly... the fourth pregnant lady friend! My best friend teaches Shakespeare and is pretty dead-set on Shakespearian names for his children. His new wife is a very indignant, very pretty and very pregnant French woman who isn't set on the whole Shakespearian-first-name French-middle-name formula and, in light of the fact that they might be expecting male-female twins has rebelled and threatened to name the children Romeo and Juliet. She isn't budging. Are there any nice combos fitting that pattern I can subtly suggest?
5) Name finds: Irinushka (a pretty elaborate Russian diminutive as a given name. I couldn't ask where that came from); Ira (EYE-rah) (f); Medea (on a three year old... interesting name sake, pretty name); Clélie (f) (one of the weirdest names I found after living for six months in France. I presumed derived from Cloelia and said like (KH)leh-lee or something equivalent... oddly, oddly pretty. Made odder by the fact that clé can mean 'key' in French) ... sorry they're all girls, but what do you think?
Feedback is loved, and nice site you have here!
- Sabina
1) My best friend is expecting. She's got her heart set on using Nash as a name. I have no idea where she's gotten it from, but sometimes it seems like it has a little of a sad-tribute aspect to it, which I'm not sure is ideal. I'm an Evil Dead fan, so rather begrudgingly suggested Ash (heh) which I had on my list of names... but, no, she's set on Nash. Her fiancé has, in an Anglophone culture, a rather unusual, long, semi-exotic surname, so Nash is nicely simple... but it makes me think of Gnash, and is pretty 'macho'. Any views? Or... any combos using it? :3
2) Jovanka. EUGH! Jovanka! I've only ever known it said yuh-VAHN-ka, yoh-van-kah, yah-vahn-kah... that kind of varient... which all sound like someone with an accent, in English, saying... 'you...(ahem)'. The lady in question expecting aforementioned Jovanka plans to either name her child Iovanka 'EE-OH-vahn-ka' (blatantly, in my eyes, made up) or Jovanka said 'joe-VEYHN-ka' or 'zho-VEYHN-kya'. I feel like suggesting Josephine. What do you think?
3) For a part Polish friend - Hania or Zosia? They're expecting a little girl and want a pretty Polish-ish name. Hania has an open pronounciation - it's a debate between the authentic 'ha(h)n-yah' or 'ha(h)-nee-ah/yah' which is the most obvious English way of pronouncing it. They're also considering Ania, said 'Ahn-ee-yah' from a rather funny but slightly pretty butchering of Hania, but Anya would work better, eh? Any name views or suggestions?
4) And fourthly... the fourth pregnant lady friend! My best friend teaches Shakespeare and is pretty dead-set on Shakespearian names for his children. His new wife is a very indignant, very pretty and very pregnant French woman who isn't set on the whole Shakespearian-first-name French-middle-name formula and, in light of the fact that they might be expecting male-female twins has rebelled and threatened to name the children Romeo and Juliet. She isn't budging. Are there any nice combos fitting that pattern I can subtly suggest?
5) Name finds: Irinushka (a pretty elaborate Russian diminutive as a given name. I couldn't ask where that came from); Ira (EYE-rah) (f); Medea (on a three year old... interesting name sake, pretty name); Clélie (f) (one of the weirdest names I found after living for six months in France. I presumed derived from Cloelia and said like (KH)leh-lee or something equivalent... oddly, oddly pretty. Made odder by the fact that clé can mean 'key' in French) ... sorry they're all girls, but what do you think?
Feedback is loved, and nice site you have here!
- Sabina
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