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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 1:57:35 PM
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OneOfHisJewels
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and was convinced the Civil War was still on
I've met many relatively young southerners who think just that, only to them it's not the Civil War, it's the war of Northern aggression, or the war between the states.
To round it back to topic, I nannied for a VERY southern family for 2 summers. When they were having their fifth child, the dad wanted to name her Bonnie Blue after the Bonnie Blue flag. The mom said "No way."
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 2:00:46 PM
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I think Bonnie Blue is a very nice name.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 2:02:41 PM
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In all honesty, I liked it better than the name they did pick, but I wasn't going to tell them that after the fact.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 2:06:15 PM
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I think Bonnie Blue is a very nice name.
I prefer Katie Scarlett myself.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 2:19:40 PM
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Oh, and Manda, the "rakish vampire feel" was a shadowy allusion to a character on a Gothic soap opera based in Collinsport, Maine. Perhaps it never crossed the water?
Indeed it did not!
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/30/2008 11:23:36 PM
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Why does it matter? Won't we be given a new name in Heaven?
Our son's name is considered "trendy". He has a German/English first after a pilgrim (a form of Michael) and a Spanish middle name. We didn't decide on his name until I was 8 months pregnant and waited to announce it when he was born. We prayed and meditated on it and I get very annoyed when people assume we named him based on a trend due to a popular teen sensation at the moment. Our "trendy" name means as much as a biblical or faith based name.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/31/2008 2:27:06 PM
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I'm with those who say it does not matter, except in cases where the name is extreme and offensive/burdensome in some way.
I wanted uncommon names for my kids. I also wanted something that sounded nice. I named my son Zachary Mark & my daughter Kylie Marie (middle names were both family names). Zachary went from unique to annoyingly common within months of the "Zack, Zack, he's a legomaniac." commercials. Kylie has also become fairly common, though I had only heard it once before choosing it.
I have worked with kids (infant-young adult) for many years and I will say that names are pretty irrelevant in the end. I have known kids with very traditional, biblical names who were terrors. And I have known kids with unusual and even "ghetto" names who were kind-hearted, strong Christians, successful.
Especially making judgements about people's character based on their names or those of their children- pettiness, IMO!
Who is to say names like Sedona or Sequoia are "new age"? Christians can be nature lovers! Who is to say that someone who chooses a non-Biblical name is turning their back in some way to their spiritual roots?
I see no evidence- either Biblical or experiential that Biblical names are superior/preferrable in any way to others.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/31/2008 2:43:23 PM
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There was also a Portia (people always asked, "You were named after a car?")
Clearly people aren't reading their Shakespeare.
I did work with a gal in the church nursery who had been in the nursery for 10 years. She said she could easily predict baby name trends simply by watching Soap Operas, and I did think that was kind of sad.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/31/2008 9:56:58 PM
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Just wanted to comment on the most unique name I've heard: a young girl who's named was pronouced Ab-sa-dee and spelled Abcde.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/31/2008 10:57:05 PM
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There was also a Portia (people always asked, "You were named after a car?")
Clearly people aren't reading their Shakespeare.
I did work with a gal in the church nursery who had been in the nursery for 10 years. She said she could easily predict baby name trends simply by watching Soap Operas, and I did think that was kind of sad.
Apparently she's right
http://www.babynames.com/Names/Television/soap-operas.php
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/31/2008 10:59:48 PM
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Just wanted to comment on the most unique name I've heard: a young girl who's named was pronouced Ab-sa-dee and spelled Abcde.
Maybe she'll marry a guy named Espn
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/31/2008 11:05:39 PM
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Out of that list, Abigail was listed once and Abby was only listed once. Even though it's the number 2 name for girls int he U.S.
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RE: What's with the names? - 9/4/2008 2:16:41 PM
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Names in the Bible are NOT Christian names- they are Hebrew, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Assyrian, etc.
My dad's people are Scottish and he named me Allison, which means "small and truthful" in Scots Gaelic. However the root name, Alyssa, is Pictish and means "sacred woman" or "sacred mother" and was the titleof the high priestess of their religion. My mother was going to name me Jody Matilda...
My daughters have traditional Native names. My oldest, whose father was Brule/Muscogee, was given the name Keoma by an aunt. It's Lakota(Brule's are a band of the Lakota) and refers to having a warrior's heart. There's nothing she likes better than a good fight, either.
My younger daughter is named Nioka, which in Cherokee means to shine brightly. She really does. She is happy, funny, and has a nack for making people feel better.
The oldest son was given his paternal grandfather's first name and maternal great-grandfather's last names as his first and middle names.
The younger son was given his father's first name and maternal great-uncle's middle names as his first and middle names.
I think people should know the meaning of the name they give their child so the child knows that the name was chosen with care. Other than that, it matters not where it comes from so long as the parents like it.
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RE: What's with the names? - 9/4/2008 2:28:08 PM
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I'm with those who say it does not matter, except in cases where the name is extreme and offensive/burdensome in some way.
I wanted uncommon names for my kids. I also wanted something that sounded nice. I named my son Zachary Mark & my daughter Kylie Marie (middle names were both family names). Zachary went from unique to annoyingly common within months of the "Zack, Zack, he's a legomaniac." commercials. Kylie has also become fairly common, though I had only heard it once before choosing it.
I have worked with kids (infant-young adult) for many years and I will say that names are pretty irrelevant in the end. I have known kids with very traditional, biblical names who were terrors. And I have known kids with unusual and even "ghetto" names who were kind-hearted, strong Christians, successful.
Especially making judgements about people's character based on their names or those of their children- pettiness, IMO!
Who is to say names like Sedona or Sequoia are "new age"? Christians can be nature lovers! Who is to say that someone who chooses a non-Biblical name is turning their back in some way to their spiritual roots?
I see no evidence- either Biblical or experiential that Biblical names are superior/preferrable in any way to others.
Tara P
Sequoia was a Cherokee who lived from about 1753 to about 1840 or so. He is the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary, which uses 85 characters for writing the Cherokee language. As a soldier,when the Cherokees were allies of the Americans aganst the Creeks, he observed whites writing letters and in journals, and understood how messages were dispatched over long distances.After the war he went to the Morovian school to try to learn how to read but decided that the english system did not work for the Cherokee language. It took him 11 yrs,a divorce, and a witchcraft trial, but he perfected his system based upon the syllables of the language. Within its introduction in 1820, 90% of the Cherokee Nation was literate in their own language, and by 1823 the Cherokee Phoenix paperhad been started. Except for a brief interruption during the Removal, it has been issued to thid day.
Sequoia is the only person in recorded history who being illiterate himself, created a system of writing for an entire language which previously had none.
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RE: What's with the names? - 9/4/2008 3:07:44 PM
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Oh, and the name Sequoia is ancient, predating both the Cherokee and the Muscogee, who both use it. No one knows what it means but it is thought to come from the Mound Builders.
I once heard somone say it meant pig's-foot, but pig in Cherokee is se-qua and foot is a-la-s-de-na, so pig's-foot would be u-la-s-de-na se-qua. changing the 'a' to 'u' at the start of the word denotes that it belongs to someone or something.
Sequoia was lame in one leg, reportedly having had a deformation to one of his feet. He was a silversmith by trade. If you want more information you can can go to the websites for either the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians or the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. The Sequoia Birthplace Museum in Vonore, TN also has a website you can google.
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RE: What's with the names? - 9/6/2008 9:47:58 PM
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Coven would make me do a stutter step. That would be almost like naming a kid Satan or Lucifer.
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RE: What's with the names? - 9/8/2008 1:35:38 AM
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Speaking of unusual names, I think Sarah Palin's kids names are a little unusual.
Bristol (makes me think of the brand Bristol-Myers)
Willow(that one's actually kind of cute..a little hippieish maybe)
Piper (makes me think of smoking a pipe)
Trig (When I hear that, I think, wow, Sarah P. must have loved Trigonometry in high school)
And I will probable be voting for McCain, so this isn't a politically driven opinion.
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RE: What's with the names? - 9/8/2008 6:29:10 AM
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Willow and Piper I've heard before, the other two are new to me. What's the 5th kid's name?
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