What makes a name a “stripper name?” I’d like to start out by acknowledging that, of course, just being named something like “[name]Cinnamon[/name]” doesn’t automatically make someone a stripper. I’m not interested in condemning anybody’s name choices (or career choices!) or calling anybody trashy. However, it does seem like some names are more likely to be perceived as ...
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LOVE Rory for a boy but my girlfriend is naming her daughter Aurora nickname Rory and I cant use it. Any others that give the same kind of vibe? So you know our style, we also like names like Leo, James, Miles. Thank y…
And the trendsetter names recycle pretty quickly, so that upper class name of 10 years ago is probably top of the charts today, and today’s trendsetter name probably sounds weird to most regular people until it gets a rep of being used by successful people, then it’ll start sounding less weird.
I grew up reading my mom’s childhood favorite books, and some of those date to decades before she was born. So I kind of crush on some fairly old names, including some that may sound unattractive to ears used to [name_u…
Hello all, This is more of a question out of curiosity than anything else. I am a writer, and I wanted to pay homage to my father—who is an electrician—by naming a female character of mine with a name connected to electricity in some way. My first thought, as a Classicist, was [name_f]Electra[/name_f]; In Greek mythology, [name_f]Electra[/name_f] was the daughter of [name_m]King[/name_m ...
This, exactly. Some of the “mean girls” at my school don’t have what you would consider “mean girl” names. I agree with @mellowyellows suggestion of researching names that were popular in [name]Virginia [/name] and [name]Louisiana [/name] during whenever they were born.
As with Southern names, I think the Appalachian feel comes more from the name as a whole rather than just the first name on its own. Are there any usable surnames on your family tree? If your family is from the Appalachians, you might could look to names of grandparents, great-grandparents, their siblings, and beyond for inspiration.
I’m just curious to hear some of everybody’s favorite nonbiblical names for boys. I like more classic, traditional names and finding ones with no ties to the bible is actually pretty hard to do.
