I'm anti Aria as a first name because I've seen it so excessively used in the last couple years.
Is it really that popular? I've never met an Aria, even when I was a kid. I've never minded popular names though, I had to endure school with a fairly normal but very rare name.
I've also never met a boy with DS's name, and it ended up on the top 20 for his birth year....
It's 29 on the Social Security name list...but that still only accounts for 0.33% of total female births for that year.
I'm anti Aria as a first name because I've seen it so excessively used in the last couple years.
Is it really that popular? I've never met an Aria, even when I was a kid. I've never minded popular names though, I had to endure school with a fairly normal but very rare name.
I've also never met a boy with DS's name, and it ended up on the top 20 for his birth year....
In the last couple years just about everyone I know IRL that has had a girl has named them Aria or Ariana.
If you love it, go for it. Don't let popularity dissuade you. DS is An.drew. I didn't know anyone with the name and after he was born I started seeing it everywhere.
Can we talk for a second about obnoxious youneek spellings of otherwise common names? I'm looking at you Xaverie (Avery - seriously a silent X?!?!) and Automne (Autumn and was none too pleased when I called her au-tom-nay) These are real life people I've encountered through work
OMG with the youneek spellings. We have friends who have a son named Conor (one day I'm going to slip and call him cone-or to his face) and they are naming their second son Ethen.
Conor is the correct spelling though and the two n spelling is a variant. I don't know anyone who doesn't spell it Conor.
Post by coconuthead on Jan 26, 2017 10:32:54 GMT -5
I like Aibhlinn morwen but I can understand the concern. We have nixed Siobhan for the same reason. People already struggle to pronounce DS's name which is Lucian so I can't imagine the headache with some of those names, gorgeous as they are.
We are struggling between Estelle or Celeste with me favoring one name and DH favoring the other. Honestly I think we will have to do a coin toss at some point because I don't see either of us budging. I was hoping DS could give his input but it isn't something he understands yet.
morwen I love Irish names too - I'd love to name our daughter saoirse (pronounced seersha) but no one would have a clue how to say or spell it so no way
I hate the "youneek" spellings of names too. It is so hard on that person and anyone who ever wants to pronounce or write their name.
morwen How do you pronounce Aibhlinn? I think a lot of the Irish names are pretty, but yes, impossible for lots to pronounce!
It's pronounced Ave-leen
I LOVE that! I would never have gotten there with the spelling though. Could you give it a spelling that American-english speakers could pronounce? Aveleen, avelene? The a is pronounced like Amy?
I LOVE that! I would never have gotten there with the spelling though. Could you give it a spelling that American-english speakers could pronounce? Aveleen, avelene? The a is pronounced like Amy?
Yup the A is like Amy.
I would only use as a MN because of the spelling, and we have a family name we'd use instead in the MN spot. Although one of the English derivatives is Evelyn and that name is on our short list if it's a girl
When we named DD1, H would not let me use the standard spelling. It's totally a legit French/European spelling, but I still have a hang up over it. It makes the name go from a top 10 traditional to #300 something.
Can we talk for a second about obnoxious youneek spellings of otherwise common names? I'm looking at you Xaverie (Avery - seriously a silent X?!?!) and Automne (Autumn and was none too pleased when I called her au-tom-nay) These are real life people I've encountered through work
SO TERRIBLE! Name your child whatever you want but please spell it normally!
Is it really that popular? I've never met an Aria, even when I was a kid. I've never minded popular names though, I had to endure school with a fairly normal but very rare name.
I've also never met a boy with DS's name, and it ended up on the top 20 for his birth year....
In the last couple years just about everyone I know IRL that has had a girl has named them Aria or Ariana.
If you love it, go for it. Don't let popularity dissuade you. DS is An.drew. I didn't know anyone with the name and after he was born I started seeing it everywhere.
+1. DS is a Mason, a very popular name. H and I loved it, so we didn't really care. We both have very popular names, and it never bothered me.
morwen I love Irish names too - I'd love to name our daughter saoirse (pronounced seersha) but no one would have a clue how to say or spell it so no way
It's funny you say this, DH is obsessed with that name but I've given it a hard veto for that exact reason. I'm all for Irish or European names, but if I have to think too hard to pronounce it it's a no go.
We are Team Green. DD is A.bigail L.ee and DS is J.ack R.obert. So we clearly skew traditional. The middle names are family names. We don't have any male family names left to use though (DH and I both have absent fathers, and we are both seem to have mainly women on our mothers' side). If it's a girl, I'd like to use Jean (my middle name) or a combination of our mothers' middle names (Marie and Ann) as the middle name (Marianne; Marian; Annmarie???).
Our biggest problem is another boy name.DS wasn't named until he was 2 days old because my husband vetoed every name in creation. This time he is insistent that we use T.yson Fitz.gerald as a boy name. There are not enough words to explain how much I hate Tyson as a first name.
We are Team Green. DD is A.bigail L.ee and DS is J.ack R.obert. So we clearly skew traditional. The middle names are family names. We don't have any male family names left to use though (DH and I both have absent fathers, and we are both seem to have mainly women on our mothers' side). If it's a girl, I'd like to use Jean (my middle name) or a combination of our mothers' middle names (Marie and Ann) as the middle name (Marianne; Marian; Annmarie???).
Our biggest problem is another boy name.DS wasn't named until he was 2 days old because my husband vetoed every name in creation. This time he is insistent that we use T.yson Fitz.gerald as a boy name. There are not enough words to explain how much I hate Tyson as a first name.
Marian Jean would be my vote for a girl, but either would make a wonderful mn if you're looking at a different first name.
Fitzg.erald is a cool middle name, but i'm with you on disliking Tyson as a first name. He got to veto last time so you can sure as heck veto this one
per www.behindthename.com/ masculine forms of Jean include Evan, Ian, John, and Sean/Shawn, so maybe some of those would be possible male name? I'd stay away from John personally since Jack can be a nickname for it, so having a Jack and John might be a bit odd.
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