I want to name my daughter (if I ever have one) Aurora. Not because of the story, but because it was my great-granny’s name, and from what I know she was a cool woman, so I think it’s good to continue the name.
I love Wolfgang. It was a top 5 contender for our son, except my best friend’s dog in elementary school was named Wolfie, so that kinda made me think I would be calling a german shepard instead of my son.
Names that I love:
Josephine (Josie for short)
Biercheart (Beer-cart. It’s Irish but sounds so kraut)
Ignatius (One of my favorite names.)
Augusta
Gideon
Oliver
Sebastian
Percy
Gypsy
I want to have three daughters and name them Faith, Hope, and Charity. Faith I might actually use as a name someday, I suppose.
Cordelia - both from the Anne of Green Gables series and…yes, Buffy. I think it’s a cool name for a little girl. But I just can’t see using it as a name…however, when I have a kid, I might change my mind.
Johann. I love it, but I can see a kid geting teased. Or I could just name a boy Bach.
Ava
I’ve always like Cordelia, too. But I only knew it from “King Lear.”
Mine too. If I didn’t have to worry about my kid getting the snot kicked out of him on a regular basis, I’d name my son Pirrup Ignatius. We’d call him “Pip” for short (ala the main character in Great Expectations), and then his first name would be the same as his initials.
I’ve also wanted to have three sons and name them Ira, Dana, and Joshua. Those are the only male names ending in “a” that I can think of.
:::shrugs sheeplishly::: I’ve never read King Lear. I do like Shakespeare, and have read most of it, just not that particular play.
Ava
I have an aunt named Bunny.
Aelfric. (pronounced elf-rick).
Beefy Johnson.
eep.
I’ve always loved the romantic, exotic sound of “foreign” names. Guillermo, Magdalena, Athena, Filomena, Phillipe, Francois, Vincenzo… and I married a guy with a very obviously Irish surname. What the hell was I thinking?
When I was expecting my daughter, my very Italian mother suggested I look for a nice Irish-sounding name, then proceeded to tell us her ideas of nice Irish-sounding names: Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Patricia, Mary Claire, Mary Colleen and Mary Erin. We only got her to stop making suggestions when we told her we were going to name the child Mother Superior.
Godzillatemple, I went to school with a guy named Augustine Fu.
I didn’t make much of it until one night, after staying up all night with some buddies, his name just struck me:
“What the HELL kind of name is Augustine Fu?”
Laughed for hours…
It gets better - I went to school with a guy named Ludwig Lee.
Only guy I’ve ever met named Ludwig, and he’s Asian. Well how do you like that.
Faith Hope and Charity is a cool idea except you know that one of these days the third one is gonna stumble on that verse that says “and the greatest of these is charity.” Instant sibling rivalry disaster of, well, biblical proportions.
Cassandra and Jocasta would be wonderful names but for the mythological association (though I did once know a guy named Orestes, which he got away with by being Greek.) I knew another girl named Regan, though - jeez, what kind of parent names their daughter after one of the evil princesses?! How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, indeed…
Aurora is a wonderful name. Moon, Mona (an older form thereof) and Luna would be great names too, except that 1) they sound hippie, not necessarily a problem, but also 2) they are easily corrupted to Moon Unit, Moaner, and Looney.
I mentioned Barcelona; Montreal and Madrid could conceivably be cool-sounding middle names, possibly for a boy. (For Madrid and Barcelona it would be essential not to have the least trace of Spanish ancestry. Madrid and Barcelona O’Leary-Chang, if at all possible.) I did name a character in a putative manga story I was drawing “Madrid.”
Seriously, though, I love the name Cynthia (an epithet of Artemis, which is a pretty good name by itself), but everyone I’ve mentioned it to has said Ick! Opinions?
My father swears he was ‘this close’ to naming me “Gaylord”. Yeah - way to go dad.
I always liked nouns as names (but not those hippy-esque ones like star river moon sky etc.). How about:
"Monitor"
"Box"
"Ledge"
"Bucket"
"Toothbrush"
My GF says I wouldn’t have the guts to name a child one of those. well now, ::hitching up trousers:: we’ll just see about that…
"trousers" - another winner!
Did everyone go to school with an Asian guy with an odd name? I went to school with Ulysses Wu.
Gack. It sounds like a bad joke:
Ludwig Lee, Ulysses Wu, and Augustine Fu walk into a bar…
I went to high school with a kid whose name was General Fred {Insert Last Name Here}. I thought he was lying, because who the hell names their kid General? Well, apparently his family does. His father’s name was General also, and my friend Fred was either “junior” or “the third”.
Coffee droplets on the computer screen, now…
I went to school with a Jack Yu. Anyone wanna finish the joke?
When I was young, I always said, that I would marry a man with the last name of June, and have a daughter and name her April May.
My last name is Jones.
Mrs. RickJay and I are having an ongoing debate over whether our first son’s middle name should be “Indiana.”
Believe it or not, I am the doubtful one. But it WOULD be cool.