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Offline DigitalLogos

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Re: Baby names?
« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2021, 11:13:33 PM »
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    • Quote from: Todd The Trad on September 30, 2021, 10:44:42 PM
    Looks like you've already narrowed it down but I thought I'd throw another "A" name for a boy out there, Andrew. St. Andrew the Apostle is actually the patron saint of Scotland. I don't know if this has ever been verified but I've read that Scotland was the final resting place of his remains. Andrew is a Greek name meaning "manly".
    Unfortunately, Andrew is more of a tradition on the wife's uncle's side of the family. But I have nothing against the name, of course.
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #31 on: September 30, 2021, 11:21:01 PM »
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    • We've settled on "Isla Rose" for a girl. Rose, after my wife's maternal grandma

    Still not settled on boy names, though she thinks "Kieran James" doesn't work. :facepalm:
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    "A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon." [Ecclus. 27:12]

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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #32 on: September 30, 2021, 11:25:46 PM »
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    • Quote from: DigitalLogos on September 30, 2021, 11:21:01 PM
    We've settled on "Isla Rose" for a girl. Rose, after my wife's maternal grandma

    Still not settled on boy names, though she thinks "Kieran James" doesn't work. :facepalm:
    What Cyprian, Damian, Linus, or Lawrence?
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #33 on: October 01, 2021, 01:44:34 AM »
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    • Isla Rose is lovely!  For a boy, what about using the same initials?  (In case it’s twins!)
    Ivan, Isaiah, Isias, Ismay, Idon, Igor, Ilon, Ion, Ira?  Ralph, Ronald, Roland, Richard, Ross, Roger, Russell, Rodney, Roderick, Reginald, Raymond, Rex, Rollo?
    Ivan Ross?  Idon Richard?  Lots of combos!
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #34 on: October 01, 2021, 07:22:26 AM »
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    • Quote from: Seraphina on October 01, 2021, 01:44:34 AM
    Isla Rose is lovely!  For a boy, what about using the same initials?  (In case it’s twins!)
    Ivan, Isaiah, Isias, Ismay, Idon, Igor, Ilon, Ion, Ira?  Ralph, Ronald, Roland, Richard, Ross, Roger, Russell, Rodney, Roderick, Reginald, Raymond, Rex, Rollo?
    Ivan Ross?  Idon Richard?  Lots of combos!
    "Isla Rose" is indeed very nice, though "Isla" isn't a saint's name.  The "Rose" covers that.

    I'm assuming that the name is pronounced "eye-la", as with actress Isla Fisher.  "Izz-la Rose" would sound a little strange.
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #35 on: October 04, 2021, 07:16:58 PM »
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    • Quote from: bodeens on September 30, 2021, 01:23:21 PM
    Male: Gideon

    OT names are coming back in a big way.
    Terrible name lol :facepalm:
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #36 on: October 04, 2021, 08:08:27 PM »
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    • Quote from: Dingbat on October 04, 2021, 07:16:58 PM
    Terrible name lol :facepalm:
    Better than Dingbat! :fryingpan:
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #37 on: October 04, 2021, 08:57:03 PM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on October 01, 2021, 07:22:26 AM
    "Isla Rose" is indeed very nice, though "Isla" isn't a saint's name.  The "Rose" covers that.

    I'm assuming that the name is pronounced "eye-la", as with actress Isla Fisher.  "Izz-la Rose" would sound a little strange.
    Lol yes, it is "eye-la"

    We still can't come to an agreement on a boy's name
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #38 on: October 04, 2021, 08:59:49 PM »
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    • Quote from: Nadir on September 29, 2021, 09:37:47 PM
    I wonder why you would include Austin in this list. Austin is a good Catholic traditional manly name and a boy would be proud to wear it.

    My great uncle Austin died at the age of 8 from the Spanish flu before my mother (born 1918) could form a memory of him.

    Jerome is a fine name. What about Miriam for a girl. Maybe he/she will be born on a special feastday.
    St. Augustine is referenced as St. 'Austin' in various places. 
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    Re: Baby names?
    « Reply #39 on: October 05, 2021, 07:09:10 AM »
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    • Quote from: Mithrandylan on October 04, 2021, 08:59:49 PM
    St. Augustine is referenced as St. 'Austin' in various places.
    That is true, it is a fine name, and most emphatically a saint's name.  I was merely using it as an example of six-letter, two-syllable English names that are so in vogue these days.  I have even thought, if people so have their cap set on giving their children these euphonic, epicene names, such surnames might be found among the various English martyrs who died in the Henrican and post-Henrican persecutions.  St John Fisher comes immediately to mind, though unlike "Hunter", "Fisher" isn't a commonly encountered first name.

    As I alluded to earlier, twenty or thirty years ago, it was all about Irish names, Caitlin spelled every way you can imagine, and some people went full-on Hibernian and named their daughters Siobhan (she-von) and even Niamh (neeve), and Caiomhe (kee-va). These are all lovely names, but I'd only say to the parents, while Siobhan has become somewhat mainstream (and often spelled phonetically), no one outside of Irish culture would have a clue as how to pronounce Niamh and Caiomhe --- I had to look it up myself.  Saiorse (ser-sha), as in Miss Ronan, is another example. 

    And I cringe whenever I hear "Nguyen" pronounced "noo-jen" (like Ted without the T at the end).  It's something like "hw-inn", with the "ng" lightly aspirated.
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