Name Your Children

[Lightning Rod]

My children are named

Sativa Sunny Day January--after my favorite plant

Random Justus (justice) January-Chamberlain--he told me his name when he was ten minutes old.

Liberty Dawn January-Chamberlain-- What good is Justice without Liberty?

what are your children's names and why?

or what will you name your children?

[stilltrucking]

if i ever had a daughter i would call her Pearl, after hester's daughter in the scarlet letter
if I had a son?
I would Probably call him Clay. or maybe Sue.

[K&D]

ah yes, a boy named sue.

i really like the name sara for a girl i know its very common. i also like lillian, or lila.

boys, my friends always joke that i'm going to name my kid DylanAbbieAllen....George....but no i'll probably split the names up between four kids, but i'm not going to have that many kids...hell i don't see kids in my future at the momment i'm pretty busy. i will eventually have to choose, but i imagine the first boy will be named Allen.

[judih]

okay - inner secrets

Oldest daughter - Iris - she was born like a beautiful perfect flower - one eye blue, the other hazel with 3 brown triangle. We looked at her and named her.

Oldest son - Ahl - means above all. G heard the name one night as we were on our front porch gazing at the sky over the top of the loquat tree.

Second son - Rahm - means thunder. He slid out of me along with an amniotic wave - fine slick surfer. We named him on the spot.

Second daughter - Zohar . As we drove up the hills to Jerusalem's Natural Birth hospital, i gazed at the forests and wanted to include the word 'hill' in our about to be born daughter's name. i thought of 'zohara' which has an up and down to it.
But when she was born with her brown eyes wide open, i thought that zohara was far too pompous a name and so, she chose Zohar.


all of these wondrous children were given one name, nothing middle to speak of.
Each one wanted to change that particular given name to something else, something more pedestrian.

But now they're all cool with their names.

[hester_prynne]

I chose the name Stella for my daughter because it's a beautiful old soul name, (and she's definately an old soul), and also, so when I call her I can do Marlon Brando imitations.

STELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL A!


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[Arcadia]

my all-time favourite kid´s names are Julia, Marina and Francisco. Since I don´t have kids I suggested the names for other kids, specially my sobrinos but I didn´t have success... my sobrinos are named Bruno and Emilia.

[Doreen Peri]

Jason Christopher -
Simply because I loved both names.

Alicia Rose -
Alicia, after me... my middle name.
Rose after her father's aunt, plus because we thought they sounded good together.

[mnaz]

I was thinking,

Cletus,

or Rufus,

or Mahatma.

[Dave The Dov]

I would name my son after after my late cousin Timothy and his middle name would Samuel.
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[WIREMAN]

My daughter Lucy after her mom and her mom and her mom and....
....well she's the 8th......her middle name is Marie after my mom's middle name which broke the line of the mothers maiden name being the middle name for all those Lucy's, is that confusing or what?

[Marksman45]

for girls:
Rhiannon Rae
Genevieve

boys:
Seyward Orion
Redwic Caster


Of course, a woman who would allow me to name children things like that is probably a rare thing

[Zlatko Waterman]

I have deliberately exempted myself from the child-fostering game.
My conventional answer is that I didn't want to repeat my parents' mistakes. I'm sure I would have.

But the real reason is that artists are greedy for time, for the energy they commit ( and empathy) to abstractions-- whatever form their work takes.

Having an unusual middle name myself ( I was named after my father and grandfather), I have concentrated on middle names most of my life, naming characters I have created
( my fictional people are my only offspring) accordingly.

But I fancy some historical middle names:

Walter Savage Landor ( the English Romantic poet)

Warren Gamaliel Harding ( the 29th US President)


Gamaliel, some of you may recall, is the priest in the New Testament ( Acts 7, 34) who spares Peter.

I have tried out both middle names and considered changing mine, though I am fond of it.



Incidentally:

Zlatko Waterman is metrically the same, with the same accents, as my real name. A "Z" rotated to the right ninety degrees gives you the first letter of my real name.



--Z