baby names!!!

[seasidefics]

 was actually gonna post abt this in my last entry, but i got carried away with the other topic and didn’t wanna loop these together, so separate post it is :)

but baby names. i’ve been thinking about them a lot recently because i was trying to find an author pen name that i liked and that suited the genre (think i finally found it for the spooky/horror/dark academia-centric themes). and that somehow led me down a rabbit hole of baby name sites and subreddits.

i thought i’d share my list bc ?? no real reason other than i like yapping. i honestly really don't get the secrecy or the gatekeeping around names, and that’s saying something for someone who as a kid  would literally force their sister to bias someone else in a pop band just because they liked them first... i guess to me it’s like, i just don’t care if there are multiple so-and-sos out in the world? and like i actually expect that as some of the names i like are not uncommon whatsoever and like they’ll always be different and tied to me since they’d have my last name???

anyways, i have so many options i love for girl names, but i kind of struggle with boys.

girls:

• elena
• eliana
• marie / maria
• marissa (merissa)
• mia

can you tell i freaking love m names??? i think it has to do with the fact that almost every older sister (and older sister figures) i grew up around had an m name as either a first or middle name, and even in-laws around me tended to have m names. and getting more into this topic, i’ve realized i looove liquid consonants and vowel-heavy names that are very flowy. i think most of these are classified as either modern classic or just classic.

boys:

• alexander (xander for short)
• elijah
• gabriel
• nolan

not really sure of the theme with this one but yeah.

Comments

[elisi]

Names are fascinating! I work in Further Education, in Admissions, and one of the highlights is just the names. There will be a hundred Callums, and then you get a Theophilus. And a hundred Caitlins (spelled a hundred different ways) and then you get a Bluebelle.