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HelpRe: What would you name...?
in reply to a message by Cateline
1) a child if you wanted to honor a loved one whose name you don't like
Use their middle name, or their last or maiden name if it's usable as a first name and I liked it. The bottom line is, I have to like the name enough to want to use it even if I didn't have a loved one with that name that I wanted to commemorate. I'd even consider asking that person, if they were still alive, to pick a middle name.
2) a child of a blended family whose siblings on one side were Jude and Cleo and on the other side Elizabeth and Patrick
I think I'd just name it some name that I already liked rather than trying to find a balance between such a wildly different style of naming.
3) a child whose first and middle names are stereotypical or very common names from your own ethnic/cultural heritage
Well, I'm Cherokee and I don't have any experience or knowledge of actual Cherokee names; I have one cousin whose name is Tiana, which I was told at the time was a Cherokee name, but I don't know for sure and I've seen it used on other races as well so I can't say. Anyway, in my family people just have regular, familiar English/American names. So again, I guess I'd just choose a name I liked. Which is what we did.
4) three or more siblings where the last letter of one name is the first initial of the next
Valerie, Ellen, Noah, Heather, Rebecca, Andrew, William, Melissa, Ashley. And no more!
I think, therefore I judge.
Use their middle name, or their last or maiden name if it's usable as a first name and I liked it. The bottom line is, I have to like the name enough to want to use it even if I didn't have a loved one with that name that I wanted to commemorate. I'd even consider asking that person, if they were still alive, to pick a middle name.
2) a child of a blended family whose siblings on one side were Jude and Cleo and on the other side Elizabeth and Patrick
I think I'd just name it some name that I already liked rather than trying to find a balance between such a wildly different style of naming.
3) a child whose first and middle names are stereotypical or very common names from your own ethnic/cultural heritage
Well, I'm Cherokee and I don't have any experience or knowledge of actual Cherokee names; I have one cousin whose name is Tiana, which I was told at the time was a Cherokee name, but I don't know for sure and I've seen it used on other races as well so I can't say. Anyway, in my family people just have regular, familiar English/American names. So again, I guess I'd just choose a name I liked. Which is what we did.
4) three or more siblings where the last letter of one name is the first initial of the next
Valerie, Ellen, Noah, Heather, Rebecca, Andrew, William, Melissa, Ashley. And no more!
I think, therefore I judge.
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