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HelpRe: From a Unique Girls Names post on FB
in reply to a message by Viatrix
A lot of these made my eyes hurt!
Tayden Shea is... all right, Shea is actually nice (particularly this spelling), and Tayden is more obnoxiously trendy than "Are her parents literate?" Bexleigh Danae is an even more polarized combo with the same dichotomy: Danae is lovely, but Bexleigh is absolutely hideous, and really makes people ask the above question. Here's to hoping the daughters go by their middle names!
Valoryn Lyneah... I'm assuming Lyneah is pronounced like Linnea. While admittedly pleasing to the ear, this name looks like even characters in a high fantasy novel would blink while deciphering it.
Tristen and Alexzander are good names with bad "trendy" spellings. Aathenna, I don't know what the heck is going on with the extra 'a' and 'n' - Athena is fine the way it is! Kieyah is, I'm assuming, pronounced like Kaia / Kaya. What was wrong with those spellings? Why are people making names messy? Have they forgotten that children will have to live with these names, and that in an era of standardized spelling they'll have to explain to everyone what their names are and how to spell them for THEIR ENTIRE LIVES! I'm sorry if it seems like I'm getting worked up over nothing, but these are, presumably, real children.
Paisley is already a really cutesy, childlike name - even if you are a fan of the Paisley Underground. Paislynn takes those qualities to the next level.
Stella is really nice. Brooklynn I find tacky, but I've learned that, outside the BtN community, I'm in the minority in that opinion. But Bishup... that already would've been bad on a boy. Seriously: if it's a word in the English language, don't friggin' misspell it on your children in a misguided attempt to be "unique." All it does is make people doubt your ability to read. And if it were spelled correctly... a daughter named Bishop? You're naming her after a male ecclesiastical occupation?
Arabella Monroe is a ray of sunshine in this post! Very classy. Unfortunately, it was followed by a sibset whose parents seem to want them all to become a crimelord's henchmen.
Bronwen / Bronwyn would've been fine. Why mess it up with Brohnwynn? Why...? Zephyr is admittedly cool, though.
When I saw Aibreann, I genuinely asked, "Air brain?" Bu the mother would know all about growing up with a "unique" name - how did she get through life as Kaththea, with that "thth" right in the middle? The name is apparently from the "Witch World" fantasy series, which isn't one I've heard of before today - was it popular enough in the 60s that her name would've been immediately recognizable?
Raelyn is one of the few "-aelyn" names that isn't... bleh. Sabina is lovely. I don't know what Calise is, but it's hardly the most objectionable name on this list. Stella Mae is very nice, though a little plain next to her sister, who got the fancy hyphenated middle name.
I'm going to go ahead and assume Amity and Eilithia are British, because their names are rather "posh" (that's the word, right?). Especially if Eilithia is a variant transcription of Ilithyia / Eileithyia.
The parents of NovaahLei Morrigana; Kimberlyyn RyLeigh Mae & Ameleigha Aroura Ruth; Lillionna, Truth, Freedom & Justice; Axel Marie, Cora Jade (this one's all right), ShyAnne Rae, Johonna Shay & Gunnar Bain; and the prospective parent of Briley Synclarie, Everland, et al... they have to be trolling us.
Have. To.
Please rate my personal short name lists (the latter includes combos):
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/91835 (updated)
http://greens-end.myminicity.com/env
Tayden Shea is... all right, Shea is actually nice (particularly this spelling), and Tayden is more obnoxiously trendy than "Are her parents literate?" Bexleigh Danae is an even more polarized combo with the same dichotomy: Danae is lovely, but Bexleigh is absolutely hideous, and really makes people ask the above question. Here's to hoping the daughters go by their middle names!
Valoryn Lyneah... I'm assuming Lyneah is pronounced like Linnea. While admittedly pleasing to the ear, this name looks like even characters in a high fantasy novel would blink while deciphering it.
Tristen and Alexzander are good names with bad "trendy" spellings. Aathenna, I don't know what the heck is going on with the extra 'a' and 'n' - Athena is fine the way it is! Kieyah is, I'm assuming, pronounced like Kaia / Kaya. What was wrong with those spellings? Why are people making names messy? Have they forgotten that children will have to live with these names, and that in an era of standardized spelling they'll have to explain to everyone what their names are and how to spell them for THEIR ENTIRE LIVES! I'm sorry if it seems like I'm getting worked up over nothing, but these are, presumably, real children.
Paisley is already a really cutesy, childlike name - even if you are a fan of the Paisley Underground. Paislynn takes those qualities to the next level.
Stella is really nice. Brooklynn I find tacky, but I've learned that, outside the BtN community, I'm in the minority in that opinion. But Bishup... that already would've been bad on a boy. Seriously: if it's a word in the English language, don't friggin' misspell it on your children in a misguided attempt to be "unique." All it does is make people doubt your ability to read. And if it were spelled correctly... a daughter named Bishop? You're naming her after a male ecclesiastical occupation?
Arabella Monroe is a ray of sunshine in this post! Very classy. Unfortunately, it was followed by a sibset whose parents seem to want them all to become a crimelord's henchmen.
Bronwen / Bronwyn would've been fine. Why mess it up with Brohnwynn? Why...? Zephyr is admittedly cool, though.
When I saw Aibreann, I genuinely asked, "Air brain?" Bu the mother would know all about growing up with a "unique" name - how did she get through life as Kaththea, with that "thth" right in the middle? The name is apparently from the "Witch World" fantasy series, which isn't one I've heard of before today - was it popular enough in the 60s that her name would've been immediately recognizable?
Raelyn is one of the few "-aelyn" names that isn't... bleh. Sabina is lovely. I don't know what Calise is, but it's hardly the most objectionable name on this list. Stella Mae is very nice, though a little plain next to her sister, who got the fancy hyphenated middle name.
I'm going to go ahead and assume Amity and Eilithia are British, because their names are rather "posh" (that's the word, right?). Especially if Eilithia is a variant transcription of Ilithyia / Eileithyia.
The parents of NovaahLei Morrigana; Kimberlyyn RyLeigh Mae & Ameleigha Aroura Ruth; Lillionna, Truth, Freedom & Justice; Axel Marie, Cora Jade (this one's all right), ShyAnne Rae, Johonna Shay & Gunnar Bain; and the prospective parent of Briley Synclarie, Everland, et al... they have to be trolling us.
Have. To.
Please rate my personal short name lists (the latter includes combos):
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/91835 (updated)
http://greens-end.myminicity.com/env
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