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HelpSome of you may have seen these before (with cheating!)
in reply to a message by trey
but my top five picks don't change, for the most part. I'm going to cheat and give my top five individual names, plus my top five combos, for each sex, and they don't always overlap. Combos do get changed more than individual names, though. And... always have to add the caveat: my true, far-and-away hands-down all-time favorite names and combos are already on my four children! See my profile. All the following are runners-up!, since they didn't get picked for my kids. But I do love these...
Girls: Individual Names
Summer
Mercy
Evangeline
Lorelei
Socorro
Girls: Combinations
Summer Siena
Mercy Evangeline or Mercy Nightingale (still can't choose)
Socorro Rose
Serena Lyriane
Veronica Bronte
Boys: Individual Names
Benedict
Jedidiah
Riordan
Archer
Dashing
Boys: Combinations
Sawyer Benedict
Jedidiah Hawking (nn Jedi or Hawk)
Luke Whittaker
Owen Brody
Fletcher Bowman
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Girls: Individual Names
Summer
Mercy
Evangeline
Lorelei
Socorro
Girls: Combinations
Summer Siena
Mercy Evangeline or Mercy Nightingale (still can't choose)
Socorro Rose
Serena Lyriane
Veronica Bronte
Boys: Individual Names
Benedict
Jedidiah
Riordan
Archer
Dashing
Boys: Combinations
Sawyer Benedict
Jedidiah Hawking (nn Jedi or Hawk)
Luke Whittaker
Owen Brody
Fletcher Bowman
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Girls: Individual Names
Summer = Summer...how beautiful is this name and the meaning??? I LOVE it. Its on my list as a middlename...I don't know why!
Mercy = cool name but bad connotations for me. I had a boss called Mercy Divine once (yes it really was her name!) and she was really horrible and fired me *sniff*
Evangeline = my favourite name right now and we're considering it for future bambinas
Lorelei = gorgeous! I really can't answer why this isn't on my list...
Socorro = I've never heard of it before but its stunning
Girls: Combinations
Summer Siena = very nice! I prefer Sienna though
Mercy Evangeline or Mercy Nightingale (still can't choose) Mercy Evangeline definetely!
Socorro Rose = brilliant combo - I love!
Serena Lyriane = Serena has so much strength about it...lovely!
Veronica Bronte = brilliant name. Bronte is so cool and great with being the Bronte sisters' name1
Boys: Individual Names
Benedict = I love the nn Ben but for Benjamin
Jedidiah = Jed rules!
Riordan = great Irish name. Me likey!
Archer = so brilliant! I love 'work' names. Archer, Sawyer, Sailor, Hunter, ect
Dashing = cool name but I'd never use it. Its NMS
Boys: Combinations
Sawyer Benedict = great combo. I love Sawyer!
Jedidiah Hawking (nn Jedi or Hawk) = nn Hawk is brilliant!
Luke Whittaker = wow...that is a seriously great name
Owen Brody = such a good combo! Great flow
Fletcher Bowman = very nice. I like it a lot
Summer = Summer...how beautiful is this name and the meaning??? I LOVE it. Its on my list as a middlename...I don't know why!
Mercy = cool name but bad connotations for me. I had a boss called Mercy Divine once (yes it really was her name!) and she was really horrible and fired me *sniff*
Evangeline = my favourite name right now and we're considering it for future bambinas
Lorelei = gorgeous! I really can't answer why this isn't on my list...
Socorro = I've never heard of it before but its stunning
Girls: Combinations
Summer Siena = very nice! I prefer Sienna though
Mercy Evangeline or Mercy Nightingale (still can't choose) Mercy Evangeline definetely!
Socorro Rose = brilliant combo - I love!
Serena Lyriane = Serena has so much strength about it...lovely!
Veronica Bronte = brilliant name. Bronte is so cool and great with being the Bronte sisters' name1
Boys: Individual Names
Benedict = I love the nn Ben but for Benjamin
Jedidiah = Jed rules!
Riordan = great Irish name. Me likey!
Archer = so brilliant! I love 'work' names. Archer, Sawyer, Sailor, Hunter, ect
Dashing = cool name but I'd never use it. Its NMS
Boys: Combinations
Sawyer Benedict = great combo. I love Sawyer!
Jedidiah Hawking (nn Jedi or Hawk) = nn Hawk is brilliant!
Luke Whittaker = wow...that is a seriously great name
Owen Brody = such a good combo! Great flow
Fletcher Bowman = very nice. I like it a lot
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Thanks SO much, I love getting lots of comments back
So sweet of you to spend the time! Have to respond to some of your comments, just so you know!
Summer is on my list because my potential theoretical third daughter (whom Gideon would have been) would be Summer, because 1) it's another S name, carrying on with Scarlett and Sophie (David and the other kids voted that we should carry on with Ss for girls!); 2) I think it's a beautiful meaning, a gorgeous time of year; and 3) our last name is Sands. Yes, Summer Sands, say what thou wilt! Hey, she'd get married one day...
Sorry to hear about Mercy Divine! And Divine is NMS. But I cannot escape how much I love this name and its meaning. Grace and Mercy are said to be God's two greatest gifts to Mankind, and I feel His Grace and Mercy in my life. I don't give a damn how popular they get!
Socorro is a Spanish name that means "succor," as in "help, relief, aid." So it has a lovely meaning, but I mainly just love the sound of it. I first heard it as a name on a patient years ago named Socorro Torres. I have a thing for assonance and alliteration, and this combo of Socorro Rose has it, certainly. Plus Socorro is a reference to Our Lady ("Nuestro Senora de Perpetuo Socorro," or "Our Lady of Perpetual Help," one of Mary's many titles), which is always a plus.
As for Summer Siena, along similar
So sweet of you to spend the time! Have to respond to some of your comments, just so you know!
Summer is on my list because my potential theoretical third daughter (whom Gideon would have been) would be Summer, because 1) it's another S name, carrying on with Scarlett and Sophie (David and the other kids voted that we should carry on with Ss for girls!); 2) I think it's a beautiful meaning, a gorgeous time of year; and 3) our last name is Sands. Yes, Summer Sands, say what thou wilt! Hey, she'd get married one day...
Sorry to hear about Mercy Divine! And Divine is NMS. But I cannot escape how much I love this name and its meaning. Grace and Mercy are said to be God's two greatest gifts to Mankind, and I feel His Grace and Mercy in my life. I don't give a damn how popular they get!
Socorro is a Spanish name that means "succor," as in "help, relief, aid." So it has a lovely meaning, but I mainly just love the sound of it. I first heard it as a name on a patient years ago named Socorro Torres. I have a thing for assonance and alliteration, and this combo of Socorro Rose has it, certainly. Plus Socorro is a reference to Our Lady ("Nuestro Senora de Perpetuo Socorro," or "Our Lady of Perpetual Help," one of Mary's many titles), which is always a plus.
As for Summer Siena, along similar
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Thank you!
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Thanks!
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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There are no words for how much I love Jedidiah Hawking, honestly. I'd also recommend the nn Jed, which I found utterly awful before I read Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville. You might consider picking it up, because it's really great--it goes back and forth between the POVs of teenagers Marina (Yolen) and Jed (Bruce), who are brought by their parents to a hilltop in the wilderness to await the end of the world with the rest of their cult. It's amazing, and it's one of the reasons I've grown fond of Jedidiah.
Of your other names, I like/love:
Summer
Mercy
Evangeline
Mercy Evangeline AND Mercy Nightingale
Veronica Bronte
Benedict
Sawyer Benedict
Luke Whittaker
You might consider Scirocco as a never-ever-but-awesome name for Socorro's twin brother. ;) It's pronunced shir-AH-koh or thereabouts, and it's a word for a Mediterranean wind (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sirocco -- "scirocco" is a variant spelling that I like better).
Array
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
Of your other names, I like/love:
Summer
Mercy
Evangeline
Mercy Evangeline AND Mercy Nightingale
Veronica Bronte
Benedict
Sawyer Benedict
Luke Whittaker
You might consider Scirocco as a never-ever-but-awesome name for Socorro's twin brother. ;) It's pronunced shir-AH-koh or thereabouts, and it's a word for a Mediterranean wind (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sirocco -- "scirocco" is a variant spelling that I like better).
Array
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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Array honey, have I ever mentioned how you totally slay me?!
Because I know Sirocco quite well, thank you, and yes indeed, I have always secretly GP'd on twinnies Socorro and Sirocco! We're not even going to quibble about that C, it so doesn't even matter. What matters is your mind-reading capacity even at a distance. You just astound me, baby, really. In your honor and on your sole say-so I will go straight out and find this book Armageddon Summer.
You rock out loud, did I mention?
Are you sure you're only eighteen? I may one day ask you to confidentially snailmail me your birth certificate. I wasn't kidding the other day when I said I hope I grow up to be as cool as you...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Because I know Sirocco quite well, thank you, and yes indeed, I have always secretly GP'd on twinnies Socorro and Sirocco! We're not even going to quibble about that C, it so doesn't even matter. What matters is your mind-reading capacity even at a distance. You just astound me, baby, really. In your honor and on your sole say-so I will go straight out and find this book Armageddon Summer.
You rock out loud, did I mention?
Are you sure you're only eighteen? I may one day ask you to confidentially snailmail me your birth certificate. I wasn't kidding the other day when I said I hope I grow up to be as cool as you...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Wow--no one I've met has ever heard of Scirocco or Sirocco before. :D (The reason I prefer it with the extra C is because then it gets a good "SH" noise at the beginning, and that's also the way I first heard it--in the lyrics of a song describing a woman as "a scirocco on the sand.") This is very exciting, mon amie.
And if you read it and like it, you'll be the first person I've converted to Armageddon Summer. It's hard to resist it, IMO--Yolen and Coville are both fantastic writers, and together they're even better. (If you haven't read Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, you're seriously missing out on some fascinating Holocaust fiction.)
Array (will be nineteen in July--so she isn't exactly eighteen, lol)
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
And if you read it and like it, you'll be the first person I've converted to Armageddon Summer. It's hard to resist it, IMO--Yolen and Coville are both fantastic writers, and together they're even better. (If you haven't read Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, you're seriously missing out on some fascinating Holocaust fiction.)
Array (will be nineteen in July--so she isn't exactly eighteen, lol)
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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oops, double post, ignore
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
This message was edited 5/25/2006, 4:20 PM
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Somebody somewhere's heard of it
Volkswagon has a car named Scirocco. This link is to the newest incarnation of it, but VW has had it for as long as 30 years.
http://www.germancarblog.com/2006/05/vw-scirocco-first-real-picture.html
Sadly, I cannot remember, but this may have been my first exposure to the idea of a scirocco, in the form of a VW! Though I really thought I was the first person to think of it as a boys' name! Ah, well, all geniuses must arrive at some of the same thoughts eventually, I suppose...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Volkswagon has a car named Scirocco. This link is to the newest incarnation of it, but VW has had it for as long as 30 years.
http://www.germancarblog.com/2006/05/vw-scirocco-first-real-picture.html
Sadly, I cannot remember, but this may have been my first exposure to the idea of a scirocco, in the form of a VW! Though I really thought I was the first person to think of it as a boys' name! Ah, well, all geniuses must arrive at some of the same thoughts eventually, I suppose...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
This message was edited 5/25/2006, 4:19 PM
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And I should also mention
that yes, I also love the nn Jed, which, truth to tell, would probably be the one to come out of my mouth most often, because a nn at my house is typically just the most-emphasized syllable of the name, like Soph for Sophie or Dave for David or Axe for Alexander.
Or Joon for Juniper!
And as for Jedidiah, I also love the very similar name Jebediah, nn Jeb, though I cannot stand that it has become linked to what's-his-ass's little brother, whose name is not even Jebediah, that's the acronym of his initials, dammit...
And I have long thought that the obvious nn for Sirocco (or Scirocco, as you prefer, though I say it "sh-" either way, and will point out Sirocco makes a better alphabetic match for Socorro) would be Rocco, which itself would even tend to become Rocky. (And come to think of it, Socorro would try to become Corri, but I wouldn't let it! Go go Coco!)
KWIM?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
that yes, I also love the nn Jed, which, truth to tell, would probably be the one to come out of my mouth most often, because a nn at my house is typically just the most-emphasized syllable of the name, like Soph for Sophie or Dave for David or Axe for Alexander.
Or Joon for Juniper!
And as for Jedidiah, I also love the very similar name Jebediah, nn Jeb, though I cannot stand that it has become linked to what's-his-ass's little brother, whose name is not even Jebediah, that's the acronym of his initials, dammit...
And I have long thought that the obvious nn for Sirocco (or Scirocco, as you prefer, though I say it "sh-" either way, and will point out Sirocco makes a better alphabetic match for Socorro) would be Rocco, which itself would even tend to become Rocky. (And come to think of it, Socorro would try to become Corri, but I wouldn't let it! Go go Coco!)
KWIM?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Yes, I've noticed before
that we have a lot of favorite names in common! Yet another example of great minds thinking alike.
OT, I have this cool book about how names can affect your life and destiny. Would you like to know what The Secret Universe of Names has to say about Andrea?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
that we have a lot of favorite names in common! Yet another example of great minds thinking alike.
OT, I have this cool book about how names can affect your life and destiny. Would you like to know what The Secret Universe of Names has to say about Andrea?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Okay, check this out
I haven’t tried writing a long post on my Word and then copying it to a message before, but I figure this is a good time.
To best understand what I am going to copy from the book for you, please read the following link (at least the first part, that talks about this book) before going on to the bulk of this post. The responses to that post will also help.
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=515445&board=ot
The book says that the dominant phoneme of your name is the consonant combination “and.” This phoneme is called The Cynic. Characteristics of people with names dominated by this phoneme are: Strong, Introspective, Aware; Conspiratorial, Phobic, Calculating. People with “and” names rank 8/10 for Charisma, 9/10 for Career Success, 7/10 for Love & Friendship, and 8/10 for Power.
Names dominated by the “and” phoneme include:
Anders
Anderson
Andre
Andrea
Andreas
Andres
Andrew
Andy
The combination of the authoritarian letter A and the negative letter N sets up a level of tension that manifests itself in many pessimistic forms (anger, antagonize, anxious, anti-, anguish, and annoy) and it’s this friction that creates the inherent conflict in the AND personalities. The dark qualities of the letter D (death, destruction, doom, damnation, and despotism) don’t do much to mitigate the problem, and even those whose names incorporate the letter R (Andrea, Andre, Andrew) are affected by the dramatic effects of the DR phoneme found in the words druid, dragon, drek, drum, dream, drastic, and dread.
I haven’t tried writing a long post on my Word and then copying it to a message before, but I figure this is a good time.
To best understand what I am going to copy from the book for you, please read the following link (at least the first part, that talks about this book) before going on to the bulk of this post. The responses to that post will also help.
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=515445&board=ot
The book says that the dominant phoneme of your name is the consonant combination “and.” This phoneme is called The Cynic. Characteristics of people with names dominated by this phoneme are: Strong, Introspective, Aware; Conspiratorial, Phobic, Calculating. People with “and” names rank 8/10 for Charisma, 9/10 for Career Success, 7/10 for Love & Friendship, and 8/10 for Power.
Names dominated by the “and” phoneme include:
Anders
Anderson
Andre
Andrea
Andreas
Andres
Andrew
Andy
The combination of the authoritarian letter A and the negative letter N sets up a level of tension that manifests itself in many pessimistic forms (anger, antagonize, anxious, anti-, anguish, and annoy) and it’s this friction that creates the inherent conflict in the AND personalities. The dark qualities of the letter D (death, destruction, doom, damnation, and despotism) don’t do much to mitigate the problem, and even those whose names incorporate the letter R (Andrea, Andre, Andrew) are affected by the dramatic effects of the DR phoneme found in the words druid, dragon, drek, drum, dream, drastic, and dread.
This message was edited 5/25/2006, 4:48 PM
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