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What's in a name? Your name, baby names, terrible names, awesome ones
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It'll be my first son's name, as it is my fathers and great grandfathers name.
Wren I always liked as a girls name, there was a pair of twins when I was in high school and one had that as her name. She was tall, leggy and it suited her exactly.
You can imagine her friends saying, "G'day Euphy, how are ya?"
Would you refer him as "Vee" or "Five"? This is important!
Unfortunately for me, my family are all very uncreative and I wound up having three first names. To make matters worse, my last name is a misspelling of a common first name (Herold instead of Harold, even though it's pronounced the same). People I've worked with for years still have to ask how to spell it. It's so incredibly annoying. I've even seen several misspellings listed as aliases on my credit report due to other people filling out random forms throughout the years. I swear this is going to get me in trouble some day.
Also, if I ever have a girl I'm totally stealing Freya. Though finding a middle name that could match Freya without going over the top may be difficult. Hrm.
Bet you didn't see that one coming.
Yes, everyone automatically assumes I smoke hashish. Never even seen the stuff.
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Seriously. Though surnames ending in -ham tend to be either awesome or go terribly wrong. A girl I used to work with was Kirsty-Bree Fotheringham. Just rolls off the tongue.
Edit: Damnit!
― Marcus Aurelius
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Sorry.
I'm named after a (legendary) king of Ireland by the way.
Actually you are half right. Thinking on it, they can't be deemed prescient since I doubt they were picking names based on the likelihood other parents in the future would pick the same names. I don't dislike my name but it does kind of suck that it is so popular. Especially since I use a shortform that is even more popular.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
I've debated on whether or not I could get away with calling my son Fox. Fox Wolf Ram. Part of me thinks that would be a sweet name to have, but I also recognize that I'm probably deluded and that it really isn't and that it borders on the craptastic names that jerkwad parents give that people here are rallying against.
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I guess the real question is... would I still love him if I ever found out?
...No, his ass would be out the door if I ever found an animal suit under the bed...
Really though, the only reason I would even consider that name is because of one Fox Mulder of X-Files fame. Really the only reason I think I could get away with a first name like that.
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Well, I think what his nickname would be is almost a given.
I haven't been called by my given name in a social setting since I was in high school. Everyone just calls me Wolf. To the point where it's funny when people are introducing me to others.
"This is Gary, and Kim, and Kevin. Oh, and this is Wolf."
On that thought... I guess it really doesn't matter what first name I give him at all.
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Are...are you on American Gladiators???
I think Fox would be a cool middle name.
One of the possible meanings of mine, for example, is "Godlike". Knowing this may have affected me growing up, as I consider Weezer's "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" to be my personal theme song.
EDIT: Also, my name was the most common for my birth year. Yay me? I'm popular? However, the unusual spelling of my last name means I'm relatively unique. Unlike those poor 228 Uniques born in the '90s (see Freakonomics).
sigh.
My favourite boys' names are Felix and Oliver. I like James, too. For girls I'm fond of Eve, Sophie and Josephine (Josie is an adorable nickname.)
Too bad three-quarters of the world can't pronounce it though.
I have JJJ as initials
My familyname means "son of" my first name. I go by my middle name but as I have to sign with first and last names I sign as Jens Jensen.
Also what is with americans and shortning names, I don't believe I know 1 person who go by a short of their name, either it is completly original nicknames or their full name.
You lucky wiener. My last name is Cumings, and I'm in high school - for like the first two weeks of high school, I was cumdawg but I finally got past that shit by being a cool guy.
Phew
Needless to say my brothers and sister have set the level for names...
Also my last name is Devine, so I've always thought it would be great/horrible, to name my daughter Grace or something.
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My first name is Meghan and it means "little pearl" since really it's just a nickname for Margaret.
My middle name means "she who ensnares men" which is pretty awesome.
Given the fact that Fox Mulder is the best name ever. Also the whole foxes v hedgehogs business in the context of the present economic crisis. The only thing fucking up the Fox brand is Fox News.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
At the bottom of that article:
For some reason, I thought, "...use the name of a childhood bully to name the first kid of opposite gender to that bully you have?"
As for my own name, my father and I have the same initials--KMC, and I plan for one of my children to follow that convention as well. If I have a daughter, I want to name her Katherine Melisande. (And if it must be shortened, it will be Kate. None of this Katie nonsense.)
For a boy, I have no idea. I would name him Kilroy, but it sounds horrible with my last name.
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Especially because if I came out a girl I was gonna be Georgina. Ughhh.
But I like the idea of having a name that can work in two seperate ways with a full length and shortened version, so I may look at names like that for my kids..
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Hopefully he just tells everyone his name is Seph. God. I mean, why that? If they were huge FF fans there's always much more real candidates... you'd get away with Locke, Cecil, Zidane, but fucking Sephiroth? Do not want.
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Arcee, I'll grant you.
Optimus Prime, however, was awesome, and Sephiroth was a whiny bitch. Thus: Optimus Prime is a better geek name for your kid.