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HelpRe: Eartha
in reply to a message by ConnorJosty
I like it okay. It's cool. It seems happy, but in a calm way, and not prissy.
I feel slightly skeptical of the etymology. For no reason - just a feeling that it seems unlikely, that it was invented based on Earth... it seems like it might have been one of those things where a name was meant to be something else, but it got written down as Eartha. I dunno, I'm just speculating.
I understand why many people don't like the sound ... but I feel like the Ur- sound is soft and pleasant, unlike Bur- as in Bertha (American accent). I also like Ursula. Eartha reminds me more of Samantha, somehow, than it does of Martha.
I can picture it on a kid or an adult easily, although it's rare enough that it'd surprise me either way. It could seem "hippie."
I'd be surprised by it on a kid also just because it seems pretty antique. About as surprising as a kid named Ursula, not as surprising as Bertha.
I dunno about middle names.
- mirfak
I feel slightly skeptical of the etymology. For no reason - just a feeling that it seems unlikely, that it was invented based on Earth... it seems like it might have been one of those things where a name was meant to be something else, but it got written down as Eartha. I dunno, I'm just speculating.
I understand why many people don't like the sound ... but I feel like the Ur- sound is soft and pleasant, unlike Bur- as in Bertha (American accent). I also like Ursula. Eartha reminds me more of Samantha, somehow, than it does of Martha.
I can picture it on a kid or an adult easily, although it's rare enough that it'd surprise me either way. It could seem "hippie."
I'd be surprised by it on a kid also just because it seems pretty antique. About as surprising as a kid named Ursula, not as surprising as Bertha.
I dunno about middle names.
- mirfak
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