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HelpRe: WDYTO Summer?
in reply to a message by Bella
I know a young woman (about 20 or so) named Summer. I worked with her.
The name struck me as the sort of name that parents who were modern pagans of some sort would use, since it refers to nature.. and she was old enough that her parents could have grown up in the 1960s and been 'hippies.'
For a kid named today, I don't think the pagan/hippie thing is so strong, nor negative at any rate. But I do think that that particular nature name has a really unusually sensuous sound, because of the stressed UH and the paired Ms. That's something that will lessen as the name gets more common (and as other nature-names that have concrete images attached get more common), I'd guess. It could also be influenced by the Summer that I knew, who was tall, willowy, a bit vain, and had a sort of flirtatious, languid way of carrying herself.
I like the name.
- chazda
The name struck me as the sort of name that parents who were modern pagans of some sort would use, since it refers to nature.. and she was old enough that her parents could have grown up in the 1960s and been 'hippies.'
For a kid named today, I don't think the pagan/hippie thing is so strong, nor negative at any rate. But I do think that that particular nature name has a really unusually sensuous sound, because of the stressed UH and the paired Ms. That's something that will lessen as the name gets more common (and as other nature-names that have concrete images attached get more common), I'd guess. It could also be influenced by the Summer that I knew, who was tall, willowy, a bit vain, and had a sort of flirtatious, languid way of carrying herself.
I like the name.
- chazda
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