This is why I should not be allowed to spawn.

[changeling]

Things I would name a child of the feminine persuasion:
Anathema
Avarice
Kali
Rhapsody
Nocturne
Sootica
Demoiselle
Tyche
Lamia (I actually knew a child called Lamia, but I think it was spelt Lamyaa or similar, and she was of South Pacific decent)
Lunette (it's funny if you read the description in the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary)
Thames
Mephala

Things I may name a child of the masculine persuasion but probably wouldn't because I have no desire to pay for his nose reconstruction:
Zan
Lucius
Cyanide
Kurt
Shadow
Loki
Laudanum
Salem
Dante
Ford
Frost
Atoc
Seth

I think I may use some of these (except the obvious ones such as Avarice or Cyanide; they don't belong to me) in an upcomic story I have boiling away in my head. Laudanum so has to be the name of a character.


I just got up, and caught myself wishing I had a pair of jeans to throw a t-shirt over. I do not wear jeans. I do not know what is wrong with me. Maybe I am sick.

Comments

[unsworn-nomore.livejournal.com]

I believe I can speak with some authority on part of this subject: I have never once had my nose broken. The major problem anyone named Loki faces is that their name will constantly be pronounced Locky, which will lead people to assume that it is actually Lachlan.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

You have that problem with any unusual name:

Danika = Monica = Veronica...

Nyssa = Lisa = Melissa...

My parents are troublemakers.

[frzn-mmnt.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine back home named her son, Dante. As far as I know, he's still in one piece too.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think some of the names are more likely to be beaten up on than others. For example: Dante and Loki, less so; Laudanum? almost definitely.

[tzarohell.livejournal.com]

Wooo! *does the "I have a cool name, even though it is also the name of the lame Wonder Twin" dance*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*giggles* You have a very cool name. ^_^

[nys.livejournal.com]

Sootica :) That's the reason why I want to have girls... so much easier to give them unusual names and they're more likely to like you for it as opposed to hating your guts.
I want to call my daughter Winter.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool name. :D

I think we're living proof that the maxim "People named Tinkerbell name their daughters Susan."

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Shadow? ;-)

And Salem was a name I loved so much it ended up as a surname. Good taste in names, m'dear.

(Was always a fan of "Jessamyn" myself...)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Why thank you. *bows*

Hmm. Jessamyn doesn't do much for me... I think Nat had a RP character called Jessamyn. She had lots of names on that theme.

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[painispretty.livejournal.com]

I tend to be fonder of MALE names that start with a J, mind. Hence many unfinished stories staring "Jordan" or the like, and one finished one featuring "Jonah", and another "Jory" (mercilessly ripped from Virginia Andrews, who has no right to be using such a cool name).

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Jory IS cool.


I thought of another cool name earlier today, but I've forgotten it again. Oh well.

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[painispretty.livejournal.com]

I hate when that happens.

Oooh, "Talli" was a favourite of mine for a while. I forget why.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I heard a cool one tonight: Maudlin, for a girl. The person doesn't spell it "maudlin", but I immediately thought "what a cool name!"

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[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Do they spell it "Magdalen"? Because that's the name of an Oxford college. Which you probably already knew. ;-)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I think I knew of the name... but it's pronounced Maudlin? Dude. That's even cooler.

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[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Yup. Cooler still, it's the college my best friend goes to, and it's where they filmed bits of Wilde.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I love Wilde. *falls into fangirlish gibberings*

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[painispretty.livejournal.com]

So do we. :-p Talk to daimon_hyperion.

[inkiemouse.livejournal.com]

always with the French
Lunette means "eye glasses" ... but "lune" means "moon" and "ette" would be a cute little feminine thing to add at the end.
I would avoid Demoiselle if I were you n_n But of course, these ain't my kids ^.~
I would choose Salem for a girl, that is a v. shibby name ^_^
My children's names will be (and I can tell that you're oh-so-interested) Olivia and Séverine for girls (not the English Olivia, euugh), and Lewis and Shinji for boys (Lewis will be pronounced Louis).
My mom said that if I give my kids English names, she'll disown me. Didn't say anything about Japanese names though. :D

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Lunette means several things as listed in the Oxford Illus. Dictionary, including the hole for the neck in the guillotine.

Heh. Haven't come across Séverine before. What's it mean?

(Wasn't Shinji a character from Evangelion? Or am I thinking of a random character in my jap texts?)

Namerous.

[inkiemouse.livejournal.com]

Séverine means "severe". It doesn't sound like a nice-person name o_o But it is ^_^
And yes, Shinji is from Evangelion. No one likes him, but I do. >_> Not enough to name my child after him, though. The prettifulness of the name has something to do with it.

*looks on babynames.com* Wow O_O They have my name! For a female! ...*cries* ;_;

Re: Namerous.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I liked Shinji... what little I saw of Evangelion...

What's your name?

Re: Namerous.

[inkiemouse.livejournal.com]

It's a secret n_n;;; *got made fun of all her life for having a male name and other name-related things* I don't say :D

Re: Namerous.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That's okay. *pets*

People used to deliberately mispronounce my name to get at me, but I no longer care.

[jessindistress.livejournal.com]

I like Nocturne...

And Lucius, Seth, Loki and Dante were all potentials for Lewis. As was Maldoror, which I was threatened with all kinds of torture if I chose... :(

But our next boy is going to be Neo. I'm batting for Neo Lucius...

~Jess

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Maldoror sounds a bit like a character in a bad fantasy novel to me, I'm afraid. Sorry! Where did you get the name from?

The first Matrix movie did very little for me... which is the only reason why Trinity doesn't appear on the list. I quite like it as a name.

Luscious Lucius. ;)

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[jessindistress.livejournal.com]

Maldoror- from the novel by the same name by Compte de Lautreamont, written in the late 1800s. Imagine a very, very dark anti-hero... sort of an American Psycho only more philosophical and of that time... ;;)

I don't mind Trinity... but it sounds a tad religious to me... I'm a total Matrix nerd... *g* It was only after we'd had Lew, we were watching the movie, and Petri goes, "Neo... there's a cool name," and I was all, "D00d! I thought that but didn't want you to laugh at me!!!" So it's agreed- next son is Neo! *g* I'll fight nail and tooth for Lucius, too- I adore it...

~Jess

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

The book sounds cool! And I haven't read American Psycho yet.

Hehe, go you. Hope you win!

[tycho.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiousity, how would you pronounce "Tyche"?

And I like Laudanum as a boy's name.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Ty-key, more or less.

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[tycho.livejournal.com]

Fair enough then.
Pretty much one variation of "Tycho" I hope I'm never called. "Tyk", "Ty" and "Ty-Ko" are that I've been called with that name, and it's pretty much the way I want it to stand.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Tyche would not be a variant of Tycho. It's a girl's name for a start, and is in fact a Greek goddess.

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[tycho.livejournal.com]

Whew, good to know.

[iambliss.livejournal.com]

Lunette, eh? *grin*

"Hi, I'm French Glasses! What's your name?"

</ Andreaissosillywithblackcoffee >

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I was more amused by its alternate meaning; the hole where one's head goes in teh guillotine. But yes. :D

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[iambliss.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't know that alternate meaning!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary! *pets it*

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[iambliss.livejournal.com]

I always used my dad's ginormous dictionary. We're talking 1 foot by 1.5 feet by a good four to six inches thick!

And now all I have nearby is Greg's Webster's College Dictionary. I don't like College dictionaries - not enough words. Don't trust em.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Phreow! I want a dictionary that big!

I usually use dictionary.com *admits*

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[iambliss.livejournal.com]

It's good stuff, dictionary.com. I always wonder how big it would be if put out in paper form.