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[Opinions] WDYT of Esther?

by AET

8/29/2006, 7:28 PM

Esther - It's been starting to grow on me, but really doesn't fit in with a lot of the other names that I favour. Any ideas for sibling names?

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- slgn4

8/30/2006, 4:21 PM

Esther pretty name

Miriam
Lydia
Delilah
Dinah
Bernadette
Naomi
Theresa

Abraham
Asa
Josiah
Solomon
Thaddeus
Moses
Ezekiel

- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)

8/30/2006, 12:20 PM

I plan to use Esther (French pron.) for my second girl. With Mathilde, Tsipora (see Zipporah), Moshe / Maurice, Israel / Samuel & Shimon / Simon as siblings. :)

~~ Claire ~~

My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July

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- Lauren (ljs73)

8/30/2006, 9:16 AM

Esther sounds a bit old-ladyish to me ,but it might grow on me.
some sibling name ideas are Jonathon for a boy, Abby (nn for Abigail) for a grl.

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- Lauren (ljs73)

8/30/2006, 9:16 AM

Esther sounds a bit old-ladyish to me ,but it might grow on me.
some sibling name ideas are Jonathon for a boy, Abbby (nn for Abigail) for a grl.

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- DLB

8/30/2006, 3:35 AM

I love Esther and would like to name a child that.

Some siblings . . .

Abigail
Lydia
Naomi
Ruth
Hannah
Miriam
Grace
Faith
Rebekah
Sarah
Rachel
Clara
Cora
Edith
Harriet

Asher
Reuben
Michael
Luke
Theodore
Andrew
Gideon
Elijah
Ezekiel
Isaiah
Matthew
James
Jonathan
Walter
Julius
Albert
Clarence
Emmett
Herman
Lemuel
Moses
Saul
Solomon

Do you like any?

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Loving Theodore and Chloe!

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- Pink Princess

8/30/2006, 1:50 AM

I really like it, I love that it means star. I think these names would fit with it:

Girls: Rachel, Rebecca, Sadie, Felicity, Josephine, Charlotte, Lily, Miriam, Bethany, Katherine, Phoebe.

Boys: Jacob, Benjamin, Gideon, Luke, Tobias, Nathaniel, Daniel, Joseph, Felix, Caleb, Sebastian, Maxwell.

- orchid (guest)

8/29/2006, 10:20 PM

I love Esther. I think it goes well with names like Mariah and Victor.

- morrissey

8/29/2006, 8:32 PM

I really like Esther and it has featured in some sibset combos that I have come up with in the past. From memory one of the sets were:

Esther Merle
Stephanie Bess
Marcus ?

Some other names that might go are:

Alice
Eve
Frances
Margot

Harvey
Edmond
Alfie
Crispin

- Bear +1

8/29/2006, 7:46 PM

I fell in love with the name when I was introduced to a 3 year old Esther. So cute, and it's great to see names revived.

I'm more interested in how a name works with the surname than sibling names. That said, here are some siblings for Esther:

Susannah
Persis
Natalie
Abigail
Judith
Hadassah
Mayim
Mariah
Miriam / Mariam / Maryam
Miranda
Lily
Marisa (mar-EE-sa)

Jonah
Daniel
Isaac
Bernard
Robert
Thaddeus
Micah
Theodore
Adam
Cornelius
John
Cyrus
Simon

- AET

8/29/2006, 8:18 PM

I know what you mean about working with the last name! Esther would sound pretty snazzy with my last name, but less so with my boyfriends - his ends with "-der" so its almost got the rhyme-y thing going on, you know?

I'm also not too keen to get matching sibsets, per se, but I just like the harmony of siblings with names who share a similar kind of...origin, I suppose :-) Gosh, I don't even know what I mean, I sound like a cult leader or something!

That being said, I really like Natalie, Abigail, Mariah, Miranda, Lily and Marisa for girls, and Daniel, Thaddeus and Theodore for boys. Esther, Lily and Thaddeus sound great together!

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