Baby name selections for the week
So it is coming down to the real crunch.
We are all set on the arrival of any little girl.. but still afraid of what we might do moniker-wise to any whelp made up of puppy-dogs' tails who may be en route. (Notwithstanding the college-draft names to which we were referred by Sarah.)
I have, of late, protested about the whitewashing of our family tree with the seriously Anglo names we are all toting. Now we are pretty damn white but actually not very Anglo. Our ancestors were for the most part Wasyls and Olgas and Vladamirs and stuff. So I am looking for a decent Slavic name if I could nail one down.
Of all the suggestions we've had in this department the only one hangin' in is the hyper-manly, Drago. P-man says "Billy Drago, he's the best!" Clearly, we need help.
ps... if you can name the winner you will be our best blogger friend FEREVER and we will actually tell you what we name the kid in reality!
We are all set on the arrival of any little girl.. but still afraid of what we might do moniker-wise to any whelp made up of puppy-dogs' tails who may be en route. (Notwithstanding the college-draft names to which we were referred by Sarah.)
I have, of late, protested about the whitewashing of our family tree with the seriously Anglo names we are all toting. Now we are pretty damn white but actually not very Anglo. Our ancestors were for the most part Wasyls and Olgas and Vladamirs and stuff. So I am looking for a decent Slavic name if I could nail one down.
Of all the suggestions we've had in this department the only one hangin' in is the hyper-manly, Drago. P-man says "Billy Drago, he's the best!" Clearly, we need help.
ps... if you can name the winner you will be our best blogger friend FEREVER and we will actually tell you what we name the kid in reality!
posted by mo-wo at 10:21 p.m.
12 Comments:
Name the girl matilde and she will grow up to be lovely
TRUST ME! :D
How about Elise? That's sorta Nordic/Slavic isn't it? and it's got a song named after it.
Since you evoked the good Viking tradition, how about these:
Linnea
Freja
Amanda
Tilde
Fanny
Josephine
Isabella (Cheeky was almost an Isabella herself...)
Good luck!
TW
Anatol? (from the east)
Boris?
I found a link to slavic names.
BTW, I've arrived. Tear Free attacked me on her blog. I am now officially a Kool Aid granny. She said so.
Ivanhoe.
OK, if Ivanhoe doesn't work for you(but BY GOD why would it not?), I propose Gavril or Dimas. Either for either sex.
Okay, buckle your seatbelts. A quick scan on Babycenter for slavic/hungarian/polish names for boys produced:
Burian, Kelemen, Zoltan (a little G-Force if you ask me), Sandor, Andrey, Pavel, Laszlo, Aleksy, Damek, Armen, and Jarek/Erek/Marek (the last a little Buffy-the-Movie).
German/Teutonic names turned up:
Roderick, Halden, Harlan, Adler, Anselm, Arman, Burke, Allard, Elden, Kellen, Kiefer, Ingram, Alder, Armand, Barnard, carleton, Derek, Emery, and Forest.
These are just the ones that weren't too weird or stereotyped and mostly were two-syllable ones, not single-syllable, as I somehow seem to recall you wanted something a bit longer? Or was that mrs. fortune? Anyhow, hope something's useful in there. Naming is such a brutal process!
Anja? (or Anya, if you go for easy spellin' easy pronouncin' names) Or Dita? Jana?
Any of those is better than Stanislava.
Well, if you REALLY don't want to use D'Qwell, how about Eliska?
I`ve always been partial to "Stanley" (aka, Stanislaus) because it sounds like a WASP last name instead of a Pollack first name.
My daughter`s name is Anastasia Zofia.
As an alternative, how a nice Jewish name? Asher is nice. I also like Ezra and Noam. There is a long list here http://www.hanefesh.com/edu/Hebrew_names.htm
Good suggestions folks..
anon. we are actually looking at Ezra, but does that mean my boy will be E-Z ??
L. we just had a Zofia added to our circle early this month. Such a lovely name.
Every once in a while I wonder if I should ask p-man about Goren .. since I know it is a dream of his that his son grow into a really really tall and lanky, come from behind Wimbeldon champion. But Gore would be a horrid nickname, no?
dorte (with the oompla(?) over the e?
griffin for a girl... love it (but that may be angle. no wait, it's def anglo. sorry. not following direx).
elan?
xenia (pronounced sayn-ya)?
linus -- oh wait. not a girl's name.
or my personal fave anglo baby girl name, finley.
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