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[beccaelizabeth]

Was looking up names on websites. Found ones that let you browse by girl name or boy name, but not so far ones that deliberately let you look for names that could be for either. This irritates. I mean, I suppose most parents are figuring they'll get one or the other, but in the absence of knowing why not pick a name that will work either way?

Mind you, there's always a vast pool of girl names that seem to be boy-name-plus-ina or -ietta or -e. The whole 'oops it isn't a boy' pool, I think of it as. Probably a bit unfair.
Why do I dislike the oops names but rather like the either names?
Huh.

Also weird: how many girl names mean father. I mean, you'd think there wouldn't be any, but no. Many.

Name meaning sites seem very dodgy to me anyway. Not agreeing with each other, no references, no sources, just a bunch of names with a couple of words about what they 'mean'. Meh.

Also it says Ace is a boy name only. Not!

Have decided that Ambrose and Ambrosia would be good names except for the thing where people have to go to school and wear them.
Quite a lot of names are except for in that way.

I like names that mean nice solid particular things. Except usually they don't. Even if you call someone "Ally" or "Aim" people will think they mean things that are not words.

"Visit the unbelievers with explanatory pamphlets" is probably a name that one could live without.

I'm kind of really really bored.

I'm sure I had a bunch of names research around here once upon a time. Wonder where it all went.

Seems like if I rule out all the names that mean father and all the names that mean god and all the names that are gods and all the names from languages I don't speak and rather think the website writers don't speak either then there are... zero names.

Or place names. And those always sound a bit 'found in', or possibly 'started in'.

Names of characters would be weird to name a baby after and unhelpful to name a different character after. Therefore an ever expanding pool of names is sort of ruled out. Specially if you include actors as well.


I think I see why people keep recycling family names. Makes things an awful lot simpler. Except then you either end up with a lot of living people with roughly the same name or some very old names coming up for use again.


Thing with being a writer is you end up having to name an awful lot more new people than your average family ever acquires.

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[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

You know www.behindthename.com ?

[beccaelizabeth]

nice. has more data. and letters in languages that aren't English.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

They have all these options around there.