names

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Before you ask, _NO_ none of these names were chosen because of BtVS. the two familiar ones just happen to be familiar because one is a fairly common name, and the other's part of my cultural obsession with things Scot/Irish.

I've been thinking of names I liked for my children since I was about 11 years old. Is that weird?

(provided the father is willing to be bullied into it...)

What I'd like to name my future children:

Boys
1. Connor
2. Tobias
3. William (shortened to Will not Bill)
4. Trevor

Girls
1. Rhiannon
2. Cassandra (Casey)
3. Raye
4. ... I really liked the name "Margot" here, but my mom swore she'd disinheret me if I named her granddaughter of hers that.

Comments

Re:

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I really like Cassandra, but watch out if the girl ever grows up and reads Classics. She may be less then thrilled!

Classic what? Classical Mythology? Literature? Cause I know that Cassandra was the name of the Seeress in Troy who was cursed--but that was in Homer I think, not in mythology.

Clarification

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

"Classic what? Classical Mythology? Literature?"

I meant as in reading Classics as a degree/school subject. (Classics in this sense is the study of greco-roman culture/mythology/philosophy, so I guess I meant reading all three.)

"Cause I know that Cassandra was the name of the Seeress in Troy who was cursed--but that was in Homer I think, not in mythology."

Ahh. See now I was taught that Homer IS mythology after all he is a major source when looking at how the ancient greeks saw there gods. I was also told that it is popularly supposed that he was basing his work on earlier stories so I think Cassandra the seer can count as a myth, at the very least in the same way that Faust or King Lear can.

I was thinking of the sad way Cassandra got her powers of prophecy or rather the sad way Apollo treated her. Greek gods are rather like High shcool boys,only after one thing!

On the subject of Classical names I really like Medea, but again I think if the girl found out where I got it from she'd kill me!

Re: Clarification

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

See now I was taught that Homer IS mythology after all he is a major source when looking at how the ancient greeks saw there gods.

Ah. That was always a rather fuzzy distinction, in my mind.

I think Cassandra the seer can count as a myth, at the very least in the same way that Faust or King Lear can.

I didn't realize that people considered King Lear a myth. Faust, yeah; but I thought Lear was something from Shakespeare's head. But I've never read it, so I don't know.

On the subject of Classical names I really like Medea, but again I think if the girl found out where I got it from she'd kill me!

I like how Medea sounds, but I wouln't call name that. Actually, the 'where you got it' part is kinda cool. But the name itself is rather anachronistic, and she'd probably get teased for having a "weird name". It'd work as a neat middle name though.

Re: Clarification

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

King lear was based on an old English/Celtic myth. I love shakespeare dearly, but he never made anything up when he could nick it (albeit to make it better!)!

You are of course right about any girl getting called medea being mocked (But check out the other names I like in my LJ!), but part of me thinks that Children get picked on in school anyway, even if there name is Jon, so I might as well give a child a uncommon name.

Incidently I went to university with a girl who had a most beautiful name, but I always wondered hwo hard growing up with it must have been, learning to spell it and all. Her parents must really have liked a Thousand and One Arabian nights, beacuse the girl was called...(not even sure I can spell it...)

Scheherazade!

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Re: Clarification

[hils.livejournal.com]

I nearly put Scheherazade on my list of names until it occured to me that I didn't know how to spell it. Kudos to you for having a go where I chickened out

Re: Clarification

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I love that name. And I think you pelled it right, except that first 'a' might actually be an 'e'.