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HelpRe: Todays name list... for girls
in reply to a message by Joiya
Indah - dislike India; dislike Indah much more.
Blossom - where I live, it's margarine.
Delora - Dolores has the advantage of accuracy. This looks like the 'fashionable' prefix De- plus a spelling error for Laura.
Petunia - in the garden, fine; otherwise, no.
Faye - not bad; better without the -e.
Hazel - my friends had a dog named Hazel because she was such a nut. Enough said.
Meadow - bizarre. Why not Field or Yard?
Harmony - more a slogan than a name, though I might be biased, being tone-deaf.
Sommer vs. Summer - neither. But if necessary, Summer. Where I live, Sommer means 'just' or 'somewhat' or, as a reply to 'Why did you do that?', 'No reason - I just did'.
Lorraine - very dated; prefer the timeless Laura.
Belphoebe - desperately pretentious.
Naomi - where I live, it's nah-OO-uhme. Unattractive. NAYome is fine.
Jade - like Jane with a head cold. One of the less pleasing jewel names.
Merit vs. Marit - neither, really. Merit looks like an exam result, and Marit looks incomplete, as if it had moulted its g.
Patience - not the trendiest of virtues, and anything that shortens to Pat has got dreariness built in. There was a ghastly poet (for want of a better word) in the UK called Patience Strong who published sub-religious inspirational rhymes in housewives' magazines. One was about ironing as a metaphor for creating order from chaos.
Pleasance - even as a mn for Alice, it fails to convince me that it's a name at all.
Bree - only a nn for Gabrielle, surely? Either very cheesy or a reference to the pub in LOTR.
Emerald - there are better ways of having a daughter called Emmie.
Leda - the egg-laying victim of celestial rape? Follow The Leda? no, no and no again.
Bonus: Valiant on a boy - where I live there's a country-rock singer who uses it as his fn, though I bet it isn't. And the comic-strip prince. But Val is so common as a nn for Valerie that there would be confusion, real or evilly synthetic. But I could see it as a mn, perhaps.
Blossom - where I live, it's margarine.
Delora - Dolores has the advantage of accuracy. This looks like the 'fashionable' prefix De- plus a spelling error for Laura.
Petunia - in the garden, fine; otherwise, no.
Faye - not bad; better without the -e.
Hazel - my friends had a dog named Hazel because she was such a nut. Enough said.
Meadow - bizarre. Why not Field or Yard?
Harmony - more a slogan than a name, though I might be biased, being tone-deaf.
Sommer vs. Summer - neither. But if necessary, Summer. Where I live, Sommer means 'just' or 'somewhat' or, as a reply to 'Why did you do that?', 'No reason - I just did'.
Lorraine - very dated; prefer the timeless Laura.
Belphoebe - desperately pretentious.
Naomi - where I live, it's nah-OO-uhme. Unattractive. NAYome is fine.
Jade - like Jane with a head cold. One of the less pleasing jewel names.
Merit vs. Marit - neither, really. Merit looks like an exam result, and Marit looks incomplete, as if it had moulted its g.
Patience - not the trendiest of virtues, and anything that shortens to Pat has got dreariness built in. There was a ghastly poet (for want of a better word) in the UK called Patience Strong who published sub-religious inspirational rhymes in housewives' magazines. One was about ironing as a metaphor for creating order from chaos.
Pleasance - even as a mn for Alice, it fails to convince me that it's a name at all.
Bree - only a nn for Gabrielle, surely? Either very cheesy or a reference to the pub in LOTR.
Emerald - there are better ways of having a daughter called Emmie.
Leda - the egg-laying victim of celestial rape? Follow The Leda? no, no and no again.
Bonus: Valiant on a boy - where I live there's a country-rock singer who uses it as his fn, though I bet it isn't. And the comic-strip prince. But Val is so common as a nn for Valerie that there would be confusion, real or evilly synthetic. But I could see it as a mn, perhaps.
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