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HelpRe: Opinions on some names
in reply to a message by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk
I immediately see Alien; Alena is better, but better still as a nn for Magdalena.
Samwel: there's a character in Dickens's first book, The Pickwick Papers, whose name is Samuel Weller. I can't get past that!
I quite like Valda, but not either of the longer forms.
My first daughter had Mary as a middle name, after her grandmother, Bertha Maria: it was the only version we liked. I think that Mary had just been too well used for too long. I hope it will come back: I like it very much, though I don't know any aged less than 70.
Artemis is a Greek moon goddess who also presides over hunting. Artemiziya sounds unfamiliar and therefore more interesting, I suppose.
I don't enjoy place names for people. I love Ruth and would use it, but single-syllable names for girls aren't fashionable so perhaps people go for Ruthenia as a long (and therefore more acceptable) form of Ruth? I've also seen Ruth-Ann, for instance.
Samwel: there's a character in Dickens's first book, The Pickwick Papers, whose name is Samuel Weller. I can't get past that!
I quite like Valda, but not either of the longer forms.
My first daughter had Mary as a middle name, after her grandmother, Bertha Maria: it was the only version we liked. I think that Mary had just been too well used for too long. I hope it will come back: I like it very much, though I don't know any aged less than 70.
Artemis is a Greek moon goddess who also presides over hunting. Artemiziya sounds unfamiliar and therefore more interesting, I suppose.
I don't enjoy place names for people. I love Ruth and would use it, but single-syllable names for girls aren't fashionable so perhaps people go for Ruthenia as a long (and therefore more acceptable) form of Ruth? I've also seen Ruth-Ann, for instance.
