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What do you think of Wason Sean & Barclay Edmund? Siblings would be Jamesina Bridget, Cavan Ellis, Edda Francesca & Richenza Siobhan
Wason, Barclay, Jem, Cavan, Edda and Chenza
Wason, Barclay, Jem, Cavan, Edda and Chenza
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Hm. I remember commenting before on Jamesina, Edda, Richenza and Wason so I guess you already know how much I dislike them and why :p
Barclay is one of THE poshest sounding names I know. Probably from a book when I was a kid, the posh family's last name was Barclay-Loyd.
Not keen on it as a first name at all and he's probably gonna get the nn "bark".
Siobhan - this okay. It normal and usual and not very surprising (I've met several Shevauns). If I was a girl in this family I'd feel blessed with Siobhan even though I don't much like it.
Sean - this is a great name :) Easily the best of this lot, though you might want to say "Sean and Siobhan" together and see similar they sound. I wouldn't put the two in the same sibset!
Barclay is one of THE poshest sounding names I know. Probably from a book when I was a kid, the posh family's last name was Barclay-Loyd.
Not keen on it as a first name at all and he's probably gonna get the nn "bark".
Siobhan - this okay. It normal and usual and not very surprising (I've met several Shevauns). If I was a girl in this family I'd feel blessed with Siobhan even though I don't much like it.
Sean - this is a great name :) Easily the best of this lot, though you might want to say "Sean and Siobhan" together and see similar they sound. I wouldn't put the two in the same sibset!
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You ask about Wason frequently and as I recall few, if any, have said that they like it. But I understand that for you, it's a family surname.
This puts me in mind of my maternal grandfather's first name. It was Byram. It was also the name of my great-grandfather, as my grandfather was named after his father. When I was a young teenager, I could never figure out why I could never find Byram in any name book. I thought it must be a commonly accepted first name because it was my grandfather's first name. That was because I did not know then, but found out later, that in our case, Byram was a family surname. My grandfather and great-grandfather were descended from a prominent family whose surname was Byram. They were prominent in my home state of New Jersey, at least -- there is a small town in New Jersey, Byram Township, named after them. My great-grandfather's mother was a Byram, so that's how he got the name as a first name.
I don't bother asking about Byram as a first name here because it's just going to sound weird to people because it's not really a first name. To me, it sounds first-namey, because I had family members whose first name it was, but it doesn't sound that way to other people, and they're just not going to really like it for that reason. I guess in other words, I can't really ask others to consider it as a first name. It's like if I took my very ethnic-sounding, three-syllable, ends-in-O maiden name and asked people "What if I named my son this? Do you like it?"
Wason has meaning for you, so that's good.
But to be honest, I think all of the other names you list as first names, Barclay, Jamesina, Cavan, Edda, and Richenza are all rather ridiculous, so it's obvious we don't have the same taste in names.
This puts me in mind of my maternal grandfather's first name. It was Byram. It was also the name of my great-grandfather, as my grandfather was named after his father. When I was a young teenager, I could never figure out why I could never find Byram in any name book. I thought it must be a commonly accepted first name because it was my grandfather's first name. That was because I did not know then, but found out later, that in our case, Byram was a family surname. My grandfather and great-grandfather were descended from a prominent family whose surname was Byram. They were prominent in my home state of New Jersey, at least -- there is a small town in New Jersey, Byram Township, named after them. My great-grandfather's mother was a Byram, so that's how he got the name as a first name.
I don't bother asking about Byram as a first name here because it's just going to sound weird to people because it's not really a first name. To me, it sounds first-namey, because I had family members whose first name it was, but it doesn't sound that way to other people, and they're just not going to really like it for that reason. I guess in other words, I can't really ask others to consider it as a first name. It's like if I took my very ethnic-sounding, three-syllable, ends-in-O maiden name and asked people "What if I named my son this? Do you like it?"
Wason has meaning for you, so that's good.
But to be honest, I think all of the other names you list as first names, Barclay, Jamesina, Cavan, Edda, and Richenza are all rather ridiculous, so it's obvious we don't have the same taste in names.
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Barclay, or Barkley to be exact, is a not-uncommon name for dogs here in the US. On the long-running kids' show Sesame Street, there's a big Muppet dog named Barkley, though for all I know it really is spelled Barclay, I've never seen it written down.
Together the names are unbearably stuffy and posh.
Together the names are unbearably stuffy and posh.
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