As a Katie (not short for anything) I’m really surprised at how many of you know other Katies. No one ever had my name growing up.
We named my 3 month old daughter Audrey. I haven’t met another Audrey, but I’m sure I’m not that original. I originally wanted to name her Dixie, which her dad was rabidly against. I adore the name Dixie and will campaign for it again if we have another girl someday.
I have a friend who named his daughter Clara eight or nine years ago. The more I think of it, the more I like it.
How about Doryanne for a girl? A little unusual but not waaay out there.
My mom’s name is Rose, and I think if I were naming a girl (which I won’t be), I’d opt for a version of her name - probably Rosalyn as the prettiest of the bunch (not Rosanne, though, because that’s my sister’s name). I like names given in honour of a relative that aren’t exactly the same name.
Yeah, that’s how it’s pronounced. The ‘h’ has something to do with the way the letters translate from one alphabet to the other. According to Wikipedia, the name in the Ancient Greek alphabet is Χάρις. I don’t know why what looks like an ‘X’ would then require a ‘CH’ to make the same sound or really, how the Ancient Greeks read their damn confusing alien alphabet at all.
I may just drop the ‘H’ and go with Caris. I just want everyone to understand that it’s the Greek, not the Welsh. Not that I have anything against the Welsh.
Or maybe I’ll just spell it Χάρις. That will be fun for her.
EDIT: I did not know that Catherine Zeta-Jones had used the name, but Google says you are right. Carys Douglas really bothers me too.
My son will be 5 in a few weeks. I had the name in mind since I was about 25, so since about 1990. Years later when I met and told the hubby what I wanted to name a boy he loved itl We both love to star gaze. The nice thing was that we never had to crack open a baby name book.
My husband is a very large 6’ 5", so our Orion might be big too. I will have to prepare him for the Ogre names! He has already gotten Oreo from a few older people, but as a joke.
I love hearing about older Orion’s. I think there is a huge football player from Nebraska named Orion too. They may have had a QB with the name Orion a few years back too. I only know that because I worked for some people from Nebraska who still follow all the college sports back there. I live in WI.
My sister has an old Orion TV. There is a big nameplate on the front. My son was already pointing it out when he was about 2. He loves his name, and finding it in odd places.
He is also convinced he will be the first person to fly the new Orion spacecraft.
I want to find a shirt with THIS logo on it.
My little girl, who turns 17 months old tomorrow, is named Aubrey, which is close, I guess. I do have an excuse, though: it’s a family name on my wife’s side. Her great-grandfather is Aubrey Daniel (“Aubrey” was more of a man’s name back then), her grandfather is Daniel Aubrey, and the little one is Aubrey Danielle.
I’m afraid that I’ve surrendered naming rights to the next girl to my wife, and she’s already chosen “Rachel Diane,” so there’ll be one more Rachel running around.
Yes, as I recently mentioned in another thread, that’s my daughter’s name. As she was only 6 when that particular storm came ashore, she still bristles when anybody but immediate family members call her Katrina. At school and at daycare she goes by a nickname version, and even in that she has difficulty, because so many people (including many relatives and long-time friends) continue to spell it “Katie” instead of “Katy”.
As for me, well, I went to a small, all-boys parochial high school, and there were six other Davids in my senior class (out of a total of 84). It got worse when I went to college. The dorm where I lived for my freshman year housed about 75 guys. On the first floor there were 9 Davids, and on the second floor there were 16. With one phone on each floor.
As a Christine who had at least two other girls named Christy, Christa, Kristen, or Christine in every class, I wanted to avoid popular names (my mom was the victim of “oh, this is a nice but unusual name . . . wait, now everyone’s naming their kid that!”). But as much as I love the names Siobhan and Niamh, I just couldn’t do that to my kids. “Chloe” was #24 the year daughter 1 was born, and we’ve never run into another one her age. “Claire” was much further down the list this year, so I think we’re safe. But they are both recognizable as traditional girl’s names in our culture. Funnily, it seems one out of three female characters in TV and movies is named Claire. As long as it’s not true of real life, it’s cool.
My husband is Chris. His boss is Chris. His officemate and work partner, with whom he has a lot in common, is named Chris. Chloe calls him “other Daddy.”
(Yes, we’re all Cs. It’s mostly coincidence, but I guess if we ever have another, we’ll have to name him a C name so he won’t feel left out.)
ETA: I know an Orion too. His mom is a Jewish Unitarian doula who wears a lot of tie dye and broomstick skirts, just as you might imagine. And they call him “Or-ee” just to confuse everyone.
Ka-riss, short vowels, but like many other adopted celtic names, it seems to be acquiring spontaneous new pronunciations.
I teach or have taught several Matilda/Mathilda/Mathildes. All have chosed to shorten it to Tilly, and both make it into the
It’s already happened in Britain. Among the most popular new girls names in 2007: Grace, Ruby, Olivia, Millie, Daisy, Freya, Molly, Martha, Matilda (and Tilly sneaks in at no. 100.) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_girls.asp
My sister was supposed to be Rachel Elizabeth. Apparently, on the way to the hospital to have her, my mom announced that she preferred Rachel Kate. And so she is.
The only problem was that my mom’s name is Kathleen and apparently all of the family members thought that she was naming her daughter after herself. (My mom’s middle name is her mom’s first name, so I guess they thought it was a pattern.) Quite a bit of baby paraphernalia relatives sent - like the silver cup my great-aunt had engraved - says Rachel Kathleen.