Mylee, Kodie, Skylar and Ebony.
What do you think of these names as a sibset? I know that most of you don't like Kodie (especcially with that spelling) but I'm just loving it. Do the names compliment eachother?
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I like Skylar and Ebony and prefer Cody for a boy.
They 'go together' pretty well, esp. the first 3, but I dislike them ALL very much. :-/
I'd say...
Mylee and Kodie match, though I can't say they compliment each other...more reinforce the negatives of the other. Skylar is in it's own category and Ebony...well, all the Ebons and Ebonies I've known have been African American so that seems like a third category. So I'd say "no" to the sib set idea as a whole.
Mylee and Kodie match, though I can't say they compliment each other...more reinforce the negatives of the other. Skylar is in it's own category and Ebony...well, all the Ebons and Ebonies I've known have been African American so that seems like a third category. So I'd say "no" to the sib set idea as a whole.
They're cute, like a Disney-manufactured tween sensation sugarpop dance troupe is cute. Years later one of them will briefly return to public consciousness when she holds up a Forever 21 then leads police on a low-speed chase the wrong way down the Indianapolis beltway and all the Sophias and Isabellas out there, born about the same time, will collectively gasp and exclaim, with giggles and shame, "Zounds! I remember Kodie! Those girls were the first CD I ever bought, I was nine and I saved up my allowance for weeks and then I had to hide it from my mom because they showed their bellies too much!"
So yeah.
So yeah.
*screeches with laughter*
Kodie will do the holdup and the low-speed chase.
Mylee will get married at 17, and continue to get married at regular intervals till she's 35 when she's hard up for cash, whereupon she will pose for Playboy and all the readers will write in and say "Man, she has not aged very well! I would rather have remembered her like she was at 15 than see her now! Why could you not have featured Jenna Jameson again?"
Ebony will struggle on as a solo artist, then peddle her own line of hair care products and oddly flavored lip balms, then try to host a teen talk show which will be universally despised by parents and politicians everywhere, then she'll just disappear, probably to work in a mid-priced real-estate company in Missouri.
Skylar will have several highly-publicized crises: drunken tantrums, car wrecks, an interesting videotape made with two has-been rock stars old enough to be her father ina cheap hotel on Sunset Strip, some tax evasion and family feuding. Then suddenly she'll come out of rehab and start makign top dollar as an "inspirational speaker" much in demand at schools and church groups, till she is sent up on money-laundering, mail fraud and check-kiting charges, then a secret recording of a phone call is released wherein it appears that Skylar is willing to pay to have certain witnesses "eliminated." She draws a fifteen-year sentence, is out in five and moves into a flophouse with other ex-convicts, assorted junkies and mental cases, where we leave her.
Kodie will do the holdup and the low-speed chase.
Mylee will get married at 17, and continue to get married at regular intervals till she's 35 when she's hard up for cash, whereupon she will pose for Playboy and all the readers will write in and say "Man, she has not aged very well! I would rather have remembered her like she was at 15 than see her now! Why could you not have featured Jenna Jameson again?"
Ebony will struggle on as a solo artist, then peddle her own line of hair care products and oddly flavored lip balms, then try to host a teen talk show which will be universally despised by parents and politicians everywhere, then she'll just disappear, probably to work in a mid-priced real-estate company in Missouri.
Skylar will have several highly-publicized crises: drunken tantrums, car wrecks, an interesting videotape made with two has-been rock stars old enough to be her father ina cheap hotel on Sunset Strip, some tax evasion and family feuding. Then suddenly she'll come out of rehab and start makign top dollar as an "inspirational speaker" much in demand at schools and church groups, till she is sent up on money-laundering, mail fraud and check-kiting charges, then a secret recording of a phone call is released wherein it appears that Skylar is willing to pay to have certain witnesses "eliminated." She draws a fifteen-year sentence, is out in five and moves into a flophouse with other ex-convicts, assorted junkies and mental cases, where we leave her.
No, they really don't sound like siblings. Mylee (I'd spell it Maile) is Hawaiian, or at the least Asian sounding. Kodie is a sickly-cutesy spelling of a sickly-cutesy name that I consider a boy's name. Skylar is so unisex I can't see it on either one, boy or girl. I can sort of see Cody and Skylar as a sibset, but I wouldn't be able to say which was a girl and which a boy.
Ebony is *very* black, in my opinion. You rarely ever see it on a white girl in the US, and when you do it always seems affected or forced, like this black guy I knew called Ivory.
Ebony is *very* black, in my opinion. You rarely ever see it on a white girl in the US, and when you do it always seems affected or forced, like this black guy I knew called Ivory.
I live in the US and the only Ebony I've ever met is African-American. I had the impression it has sort of a pride and celebration of her heritage tone about it. I believe there is also a magazine called Ebony that is geared toward African-Americans, which may perpetuate this association for many people. If I hadn't known the girl with that name, I may not think anything of a person of a different color being given this name.
yes...
There is a magazine, geared toward upwardly mobile blacks, called Ebony. It's been around quite a while. Also one geared toward black women called Essence, a name I have also seen only on blacks.
There is a magazine, geared toward upwardly mobile blacks, called Ebony. It's been around quite a while. Also one geared toward black women called Essence, a name I have also seen only on blacks.
I don't think I would get
the same sound of Mylee out of Maile. It looks like either mail (male) or MAY-lee, and the latter's a stretch for me. The nearest similar name I can think of is Maite / Mayte, but that ends in long A (as in day).
I once met a set of biracial twin girls named Ebony and Ivory; they were beautiful little girls, with caramel-colored skin and green eyes (father was white, mother black). I've also met blacks, both male and female, named Ivory. I can't say I've met a white girl named Ebony, but I don't think it would be so out of place, particularly on a child with very black hair.
Out of curiosity, what makes you say Mylee is Hawaiian?
Edit to clarify: I ask because I don't see Mylee and Maile being related, and I am uncertain of the correct pronunciation of Maile. Mylee to me seems a tryndee kre8tion more than a real name.
the same sound of Mylee out of Maile. It looks like either mail (male) or MAY-lee, and the latter's a stretch for me. The nearest similar name I can think of is Maite / Mayte, but that ends in long A (as in day).
I once met a set of biracial twin girls named Ebony and Ivory; they were beautiful little girls, with caramel-colored skin and green eyes (father was white, mother black). I've also met blacks, both male and female, named Ivory. I can't say I've met a white girl named Ebony, but I don't think it would be so out of place, particularly on a child with very black hair.
Out of curiosity, what makes you say Mylee is Hawaiian?
Edit to clarify: I ask because I don't see Mylee and Maile being related, and I am uncertain of the correct pronunciation of Maile. Mylee to me seems a tryndee kre8tion more than a real name.
This message was edited 1/10/2007, 8:39 AM
Maile is Hawaiian...
And it is pronounced My-Lee. I know a Hawaiian lady who is named Maile and that's how she says it.
And it is pronounced My-Lee. I know a Hawaiian lady who is named Maile and that's how she says it.
Wikipedia says...Another question
Its its MY-lay, which is different to me at least.
But I am glad to see you know someone pn it My-lee.
Question: Do you think people (in America) will stumble on the pn of Maile too much? Its not a huge problem for me, my name is Kristina and people stumble on that all the time, and my mom's name is almost never pn correctly until she tells them to just call her by her nn.
Its its MY-lay, which is different to me at least.
But I am glad to see you know someone pn it My-lee.
Question: Do you think people (in America) will stumble on the pn of Maile too much? Its not a huge problem for me, my name is Kristina and people stumble on that all the time, and my mom's name is almost never pn correctly until she tells them to just call her by her nn.
How on earth do people stumble over Kristiana? It's common enough that nobody should be mispronouncing it. I can see them getting it confused with Christine or Kristen though.
I think a lot of Americans would probably have some difficulty figuring out how to say Maile by just seeing it written down, unless they're familiar with Hawaii or tropical flowers. (Maile is a flower, I believe.) Byt the pronunciation itself isn't hard.
The Maile I know has lived in Delaware her whole life, mayber her way of saying it is more "Americanized?" She has a big family and they all have Hawaiian names too. I know one of her sisters is Keahi, said like Kay-Ah-Hee. Maile has a daughter named Leilani too.
I think a lot of Americans would probably have some difficulty figuring out how to say Maile by just seeing it written down, unless they're familiar with Hawaii or tropical flowers. (Maile is a flower, I believe.) Byt the pronunciation itself isn't hard.
The Maile I know has lived in Delaware her whole life, mayber her way of saying it is more "Americanized?" She has a big family and they all have Hawaiian names too. I know one of her sisters is Keahi, said like Kay-Ah-Hee. Maile has a daughter named Leilani too.
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From what I can tell its a vine or something used to make the lies.
As far as screwing up Kristina, I have no idea. Most people pn my name Kristen or Kristine, or will write it that way after I say Kristina. I grew up with quite a few of them, so it wasnt a problem in school - but people I met randomly would question it.
Thanks again!
From what I can tell its a vine or something used to make the lies.
As far as screwing up Kristina, I have no idea. Most people pn my name Kristen or Kristine, or will write it that way after I say Kristina. I grew up with quite a few of them, so it wasnt a problem in school - but people I met randomly would question it.
Thanks again!
Miley
Miley Cyrus, the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, is the girl who plays Hannah Montana on Disney. Her real name's not Miley, that's a contraction of the nn Smiley her dad called her. Her real name is Destiny Hope.
Since she's the only Miley I've known of with that spelling, and I know whence it came, I don't think of it as being related to Mylee, other than merely being its homonym. Same with Maile, which I would have thought ended in long A, as you said.
Miley Cyrus, the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, is the girl who plays Hannah Montana on Disney. Her real name's not Miley, that's a contraction of the nn Smiley her dad called her. Her real name is Destiny Hope.
Since she's the only Miley I've known of with that spelling, and I know whence it came, I don't think of it as being related to Mylee, other than merely being its homonym. Same with Maile, which I would have thought ended in long A, as you said.
I'd take Miley over Destiny Hope any day
Even though I think of Miley as a surname. I know a guy whose last name is Miley.
Maybe Mylee is on a level with Tayler, Ryleigh and Kaycee, kre8yv spellings of (originally) surnames.
Even though I think of Miley as a surname. I know a guy whose last name is Miley.
Maybe Mylee is on a level with Tayler, Ryleigh and Kaycee, kre8yv spellings of (originally) surnames.
Thats what I was thinking...
Mylee being a creative twist to Miley.
And Miley is much better than Destiny or Hope much like together.
And I just said it was a character, I looked up Mylee and other similar spellings on Google and it came up. I know nothing about the show.
Mylee being a creative twist to Miley.
And Miley is much better than Destiny or Hope much like together.
And I just said it was a character, I looked up Mylee and other similar spellings on Google and it came up. I know nothing about the show.
I was thinking that about Ebony too
I thought it was solely an African-American-and-proud name in the States (although I've known of white Ebony's in Britain and Australia).
Whereas Kodie and Skylar have this White North American, trailer-trying-to-be-cowboy feel to me. I realise this whole post is labelling 'types' of people, but these particular names are just so easily labelled imo. Can't help it - so no, they don't seem like siblings :-/
I thought it was solely an African-American-and-proud name in the States (although I've known of white Ebony's in Britain and Australia).
Whereas Kodie and Skylar have this White North American, trailer-trying-to-be-cowboy feel to me. I realise this whole post is labelling 'types' of people, but these particular names are just so easily labelled imo. Can't help it - so no, they don't seem like siblings :-/
It's funny you should say that about Ebony
I've known of two Ebony (I think one was an Ebonie though) and they were both blond-haired, blue-eyed. I live in England though.
I've known of two Ebony (I think one was an Ebonie though) and they were both blond-haired, blue-eyed. I live in England though.
To be brutally honest it's the worst sibset I've ever heard. Sorry I know that's harsh. None of these names do anything for me. I literally cringe when I hear them, but each to his own. If you like it - use it.
Ditto completely.
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If this is the WORST sibset you've ever heard, you must not have read this one yesterday - http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=765833&board=baby
lol
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Just awful. I'm torn between the two.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Just awful. I'm torn between the two.
I think...
That lady was just making up a story. We get people like that sometimes, trolls, who like to throw out bizarrely-spelled bunches of kids just because they know nobody around here likes that kind of thing.
That lady was just making up a story. We get people like that sometimes, trolls, who like to throw out bizarrely-spelled bunches of kids just because they know nobody around here likes that kind of thing.
I don't like any of them...they are all very trendy and tacky IMO. I like Maile though, only spelt this way.
Yes, they compliment each other. All are trendy and cutsey/insubstantial and rather sex-less, and can be dated to the present era.
ETA. Explanation
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This message was edited 1/10/2007, 6:51 AM