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Archivesthis is the best web site in the whole world wide web! :-)
All of my baby name choices (and, for that matter, character names and even names for my journals, of which there have been many - I'm on Meredith Magdalene right now) have *had* to have meaning both from the name itself and from my personal life.
In the past few years, I've come up with many...
Kevin Ryan for a boy, then David Ryan when I stopped speaking to the two Kevin's I was naming him after and promised a friend (who was dying of AIDS and regretting that he had no children) that I would name a son after him, instead. (Ryan was my favorite character on Another World, and I love the name, and Orion is my favorite constellation)
For girls, there have been:
Cassidy Adair, after a close friend from my internet group which was very, very "there for me" after Ian died, and my husband's sister (& mother & great-aunt & nephew & cousin's kid);
Hannah Sophia - grace and wisdom, two things she'd never get genetically as my child :-) (plus my now ex-best friend was thinking of Emma as a girl name, and they would have sounded cute together);
Rhiannon Alannah, after the song (& goddess, I love mythology) and - well, I just like Alannah...
Harper Lea, after Harper Lee (author of what I consider to be the great American novel) and my grandmother, whose middle name was Lea, and because my aforementioned ex-best friend was naming her son Hunter;
and then Caitlin Davee, after another close friend and my great-grandmother's middle/maiden name, which was Davee. I have searched baby name books and other web sites trying to find a meaning for Davee, but never found anything that was really close.
Now, thanks to the links page and the surname links, I have found a meaning for the name! It's a British surname, meaning "Lullaby name for darling or friend" - as in, a short form of David, I gather, since "darling or friend" was the meaning they had for David. Now, not only do I have a meaning for the name if I use it, it can also be a way of naming a daughter after David instead of just a son!
Caitlin is a bit overused now, though... so is Hannah, darn it. When I picked the name it wasn't so popular. Cassidy Davee? Rhiannon Davee? Rhiannon Davee Lea? Rhiannon Adair Davee? Athena Davee?
I suppose I should get back to dating before setting up baby names, but it's hard not to do so...
So anyway, to sum up a long rambling post, this IS the best web site ever!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Laura
In the past few years, I've come up with many...
Kevin Ryan for a boy, then David Ryan when I stopped speaking to the two Kevin's I was naming him after and promised a friend (who was dying of AIDS and regretting that he had no children) that I would name a son after him, instead. (Ryan was my favorite character on Another World, and I love the name, and Orion is my favorite constellation)
For girls, there have been:
Cassidy Adair, after a close friend from my internet group which was very, very "there for me" after Ian died, and my husband's sister (& mother & great-aunt & nephew & cousin's kid);
Hannah Sophia - grace and wisdom, two things she'd never get genetically as my child :-) (plus my now ex-best friend was thinking of Emma as a girl name, and they would have sounded cute together);
Rhiannon Alannah, after the song (& goddess, I love mythology) and - well, I just like Alannah...
Harper Lea, after Harper Lee (author of what I consider to be the great American novel) and my grandmother, whose middle name was Lea, and because my aforementioned ex-best friend was naming her son Hunter;
and then Caitlin Davee, after another close friend and my great-grandmother's middle/maiden name, which was Davee. I have searched baby name books and other web sites trying to find a meaning for Davee, but never found anything that was really close.
Now, thanks to the links page and the surname links, I have found a meaning for the name! It's a British surname, meaning "Lullaby name for darling or friend" - as in, a short form of David, I gather, since "darling or friend" was the meaning they had for David. Now, not only do I have a meaning for the name if I use it, it can also be a way of naming a daughter after David instead of just a son!
Caitlin is a bit overused now, though... so is Hannah, darn it. When I picked the name it wasn't so popular. Cassidy Davee? Rhiannon Davee? Rhiannon Davee Lea? Rhiannon Adair Davee? Athena Davee?
I suppose I should get back to dating before setting up baby names, but it's hard not to do so...
So anyway, to sum up a long rambling post, this IS the best web site ever!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Laura
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