I like the name, but I think a lot of people will mispronounce it, so it sounds like Chair.
(I’m guessing it’s pronounced Care-iss, right?)
Damned straight! I also like Bianca, Andrew (and call him Drew), Gilbert (why not–call him Gib), Simone or Simona, Martha, Marta, Amelia, Timothy (not Tim) and yes, Cecil.
Now all I see are names. :eek:
They need to put a moratorium on the name Emma for a while.
I teach preschool part-time, and I’ve had an Emma almost every year. This year, I have two Emmas and an Ella.
I’ve had more Justins and Mollys than I can count, as well.
Old names that are making a comeback include Amelia, Ava, Olivia and Rose. I’ve had several of each over the years.
I also have an Earl this year, which made me laugh when we played the “What is your name?” game the first day. The kids are sitting in a circle, and you roll a ball to each child, and they say, “My name is …”
Of course, it got to him and he said, “My name is Earl.”
I had to stifle a giggle.
That(the name Carys) reminds me of a name I have run across a lot recently.
It is Kjersti. It is a girls name, and very Scandinavian I guess.
One girl I know with it wants it pronounced, “Chair stee”.
The other insistes the correct way to say it is, “Care stee”.
who knows? Anyone?
From the smattering of Swedish I’ve learned at my church, I’d go with “Shure-stee” or “Share-stee.”
Some would say they’re both wrong, and others would say that whatever way that they want to pronounce it is correct. I guess that the latter means that I should spell my name as Raymond Luxury Yacht and expect people to call me Throat Warbler Mangrove. :dubious:
I’m going to wager that it’s pronounced “ky-er-stee”, as this is how I’d pronounce it based on my basic knowledge of Icelandic. J in most Germanic languages is pronounced like a Y and “er” is similar to “air” in many of the languages.
What about those people who omit first names?
Like the guy who is E. Michael Edwards, or J. Matthew Johnson?
I’ve always liked obscure names-like Algernon, or Brandford, or Edgar!
Yes, people seemed to realize that Emma was just too popular, so they went with Ella, and now there are Ellas everywhere. Ella, Ellie, Eve, Eva, Ava, etc. In my son’s preschool class we have:
Ellie
Ella
Emma
Eden
Julia
Jessica
Lily (x2)
Isabel
Michaela
Joshua (x2)
Luke
Lucas (x2)
Josiah
Payton
Micah
David
Daniel
Robert
Benjamin
There’s a six month old Mathilda in my mother’s group. I wondered if Heath Ledger’s daughter Matilda was the inspiration, but it seems she was named after a relative.
Aren’t too many little Carols running around, but there seems to be no shortage of Carolines. I’m a Carol, but I prefer Caroline (I just won’t answer to it because it’s not my name).
Both of you need to get out of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas’s heads! Their daughter Carys was my first encounter with the name. I met the parents of a small Carys recently, but didn’t have the opportunity to ask if that was the inspiration for the name (and is it just me, or is Carys Douglas a bit much?).
I love the nickname Ellie (or Elly) and when I was seriously pondering Eloise for my daughter, that was a tick in the “Pro” column for it. I ended up going with Annabel, but would consider Eloise/Elly if I ever had another daughter. My cousin’s 2 year old daughter is Evie, but it’s short for Evangeline (which seems to be having a minor revival of it’s own).
Some of the names of kids I’ve come across in my daughter’s age group (<8 months):
Ambrose (actually, he might be a little older than 8 months)
Imogen-Lee
Imogen
Isabelle
Bailey
Rory*
Zali
Mathilda
Breanna
Lacey
Chloe
Molly
Thomas
Logan
(*Hi Claire!)
Orion was on our short list for middle names for our son. Both kids have middle names that are stars (Maia and Antares), but we were having trouble coming up with a star name that we liked for the boy, and we considered some constellations and moons before returning to Antares.
You know, I wonder if that’s because of the song I was inspired to name a character after a three or four years ago: “Evangeline” by The Mission (UK).
If not for this thread, I’d have no idea how Carys is pronounced. My guess would have been “carries” just like the verb. Does anyone know how to pronounce Islene? “Is-lene” or Is like “eyes”?
My best guess is that the ‘s’ is silent (as in ‘island’) and would be pronounced just like ‘Eileen’.
ETA: As for Carys, I work with a Karis, which we pronounce Care-Iss.
raises her hand As a Rachel Elizabeth, I can attest to the truth of this going back for a few years. In the honors college at my university, there were 70 people in the class of 2005. Six of us were named Rachel.
My 15 year old neice is Rachel Elizabeth.
I think my cousin’s daughter’s name was inspired by Evangeline Lily from Lost. They’re huge fans.
Having a common name myself and having suffered from this in the past, revenge was sweet.
I worked for a major restaurant chain that was undergoing a period of expansion and I got the short straw of having to do the recruitment interviews for several new openings.
One of them ended up with every male member of staff having the very common first name of the regional manager, and every female with the female equivalent.
My parents thought they were cute giving me an unusual name. :dubious: My wife name is Chinese. We decided to give our daughters normal, non-trendy names for their ages. Maria and Catherine.
In a school full of Mackenzie’s, Katelyn’s and Madison’s the classics are unique.
We went with Lavinia for our daughter’s middle name. I’m pretty sure that’s not a common name, but I’m sure next week there’ll be a thousand of them. We went with Sabina for our first daughter thinking it wouldn’t be popular, there’s another one in the day care center.
Add the Butler household to another family with an Olivia. We did, however, have it picked out years before she was born, so as to name her after my grandmother Olive. (there was no way we were going to name her Olive, but Olivia was pretty close)
Of course, the year she was born, it became something like #5 on the list.
Yes, I would believe how many people can’t pronounce it. My brother’s name is Orion, born 1979. Adults will call him Or-ee-on and children will call him Oreo. In my brother’s case, since he was always a huge kid and grew to be 6’7", he got Ogre a lot.
How old is your son? My brother is the oldest Orion I know by more than 20 years. He even predates the first movie by Orion Pictures, which a lot of people thought he was named after way back when (he wasn’t, obviously.) I actually have a second cousin with the name too who is about 8 or 9, and I’ve heard of about a billion toddlers with it over the last few years.