Hah, no offense but I’m a girl and my name is TaylOr - and I saw your spelling and went, “Gah!!” Its too much like “Tyler” and I absolutely hate that name because people always seem to want to call me that…
Asher is a fantastic name.
My names:
I’ve always been very fond of “J” names for boys:
*James (best friend just named her son that, gr)
*Jerry (not Jerold, just Jerry on its own)
*Jack
*Julian
*Jesse (a family name).
However, I absolutely adore Oliver and if I ever have a son, that will be his name.
Boys names are easy: something that conveys strength, like Vulkan, or Caesar.
Girls names you have to be a little more careful with. Chastity is nice, but may be a little too obvious. Prunella, Agnes, Ethel or Mabel can also do the trick.
I love Melody for a girl’s name, and funnily enough, I quite like the name Ivan for a boy. If the woman who wanted to bear my children had triplets, then I’d have a problem.
My daughter’s name is Alexandra and it always bugs the hell out of me when people say Alexandria. That’s a city! Besides, my daughter’s other name is Victoria and when you put it all together that’s just too many ia’s.
I picked Francis Xavier as my Confirmation name so I could have an X in my name. It’s what happens when 12 year old kids are allowed give themselves a new name. In the '80s apparently Madonna was a common Confirmation name for girls.
My son is Matthew. He would have been Claudia if he was a girl, although my husband didn’t like it and we’d agree upon Diana. I was going to sneak it on the birth certificate. Later, when we were trying again, he agreed to it because I had had a miscarriage and he was being kind to me.
As for my son’s name, my sister mildly admires that I got to use my lifelong favorite name for boys.
If we had twin girls they would have been Georgia and Enza after their grandfathers George and Enzo. It’s not that I revere my father and father in law so much, I just thought it would have been cool.
As well you should. Look up, if you haven’t already, Don Henley’s lullaby for his daughter. The song (from the album Inside Job) and the little girl are both called “Annabel.”
I love the name Siobhan, but I wouldn’t saddle my kid with it because it would always get mangled. Other girls names include Bridget (my confirmation name), Madeleine, Corinna, and Alice.
As a Siobhan, I can confirm that it does get mangled. Not a big deal though, as far as I’m concerned - I like the sound of it, and often people are interested in how and why it’s spelled that way. It can be a bit of a pain when you also have a tricky surname, and you want to give a name to book a taxi or reserve a table at restaurant. Much International Alphabetting ensues. Or I lie.
I love the name Aobh (Aeve) but think for your average Brit (I live in Dorset) it’s a trickier one than even Siobhan. I’m not really a fan of picking a ‘foreign’ name and then altering it for the convenience of the masses. And I say that as the English born offspring of Irish parents.
I am inordinantly fond of the names Jo or Alex for either a boy or a girl.
I have always thought the name Roxanne was way cool. Long before The Police popularized it I had a vision of what a Roxanne would look like. Sting wasn’t far off.
My friend Siobhan is Irish of Asian extraction and in England she was always getting called things like “Sy-ob-han”. It’s more common there than it used to be though. I think it’s a loverly name.
I say ‘Shvawn’ - almost a single syllable. That’s what I prefer to be called. That’s how my Waterford mother says it too. Sigh-oh-ban is very popular, but my recent favourite was Slobodan, as the person thought I was ‘one of those Polish workers’. I’d rather people gave it an enthusiastic go and get it wildly wrong than mumble incoherently, which is the other popular option.
Georgina (which is actually my middle name)
and Morley (as a boy or girl name)
Im sure there are more but I think Im too tired to think - if that at all makes sense?!
Its too much like “Tyler” and I absolutely hate that name because people always seem to want to call me that…