Contemporary names

[doczinn]

I dunno. Dave is kinda timeless, but it won't sound so good when I'm 50.

Anne Ewity Free?

Ayam?

A Marine friend of mine named his daughter Cadence.

[Werewolf]

Branwyn and Morwyn.

Hmm.  I don't recall those names from LOTR.  Welsh mythology?

Beats me man. Brian was the LOTR freak not me. He said the names came from LOTR - I believed him. Maybe they came from some LOTR derivative?

[Eleven Mike]

They might not be recognizable characters you remember from the LOTR or Hobbit books, but Tolkien had many, many other characters just in those books that were mentioned only in passing.  Then there are the appendices at the end of The Return of the King, then there's the Silmarillion, and I believe Tolkien wrote some other stories about Middle-Earth.

[Stickjockey]

Stickjokey, I don't get the joke.

Say "Mike" and the guy's last name together quickly (do it softly).

There you go. Sophomoric? Absolutely, but then we were in, I don't remember, sixth grade?. The funky part was that everyone got it, including him, but he still was adamant about it. Odd way to get noticed, I guess.

[mustanger98]

I dunno. Dave is kinda timeless, but it won't sound so good when I'm 50.

Anne Ewity Free?

Ayam?

A Marine friend of mine named his daughter Cadence.

I'm aquainted with an 80 year old Texan who's name is Dave. He's a good hatter.

I know a couple on another board... their granddaughter's name is Cadence. The kids parents are Marines. I wonder if we're talking about the same kid; she was born in the last couple of months, IIRC.

[Perd Hapley]

I like the resurgence of names like "Mabel" and "Gertrude." 

When I was a teenager all enamored of martial arts, I thought it would be cool to name a daughter "Catana." 

[Twycross]

Branwyn and Morwyn.

Hmm.  I don't recall those names from LOTR.  Welsh mythology?

'Morwyn' is a mis-spellling of the name 'Morwen'. She appears in the Silmarillion as the wife of Hurin.

'Branwyn' I cannot find anywhere. The name overall seems to be made up.

[wingnutx]

A Marine friend of mine named his daughter Cadence.

My wife proposed that one, on the offchance that we ever have a kid.

[The Rabbi]

I like the resurgence of names like "Mabel" and "Gertrude." 

As mentioned, my daughter is Gertrude, named after my grandmother who was born in 1892.  But lately she's taken to calling herself "Gertie" which drives me nuts.  She is also the subject of Oleg's famous pic.

[cosine]

She is also the subject of Oleg's famous pic.

Which pic?

[wingnutx]

There's more than one?

[The Rabbi]

[wingnutx]

Cute kid.

[cosine]

Thanks Rabbi. I've never seen that one before. Makes you think, doesn't it?

[The Rabbi]

Cute kid.

That was a few years ago.  Now she's 13.  Make me an offer and she's yours.

[Monkeyleg]

"Make me an offer and she's yours."

Another classic zinger.

[El Tejon]

I have represented people named for paint colours, space-age polymer blends, categories of animals, veneral diseases, food products, chemicals/drugs, Confederate generals, motor vehicles and origins unknown.  Nothing, and I mean nothing, surprises me when it comes to names--nothing at all.

Give your child an intelligent name, see Chapter 6 of Freakonomics.  A child's name is a window to his future.

[Perd Hapley]

Monkeyleg is one of those strong, timeless masculine names.  When you meet a Monkeyleg, you just want to trust him right from the get-go.  I'm keeping it in mind, should I have a boy someday.  Apparently, it comes from Welsh, and means, "Too stupid to be devious, yet kind and helpful." 

[Perd Hapley]

I have represented people named for...Confederate generals

  I have an ancestor with the first name General and middle name Jackson.  He wasn't from Indiana.

[doczinn]

I know a couple on another board... their granddaughter's name is Cadence. The kids parents are Marines. I wonder if we're talking about the same kid; she was born in the last couple of months, IIRC.

Couple I knew, he's a Marine but she's not, and the kid would be 5 or 6 now.

[Monkeyleg]

Monkeyleg is one of those strong, timeless masculine names.  When you meet a Monkeyleg, you just want to trust him right from the get-go.  I'm keeping it in mind, should I have a boy someday.  Apparently, it comes from Welsh, and means, "Too stupid to be devious, yet kind and helpful." 

Sorry, Fistful. Monkeyleg is an entirely unique name. It means, "a young, hormone-driven adolescent male who suddenly gets a late-developing birthmark that covers almost his entire left leg with thick black hair, just in time for co-ed gym and dating; said birthmark mysteriously disappears after a year of marriage."

[Sindawe]

  Well frell me dead, ya learn something new every day.  The Rabbi's daughter occupies a place of honor in my home.  A variation of that image hangs in my great room (ok, main level of my condo) over my South American biome aquarium.

Now she's 13.  Make me an offer and she's yours.

Don't do it!  13 y/o females are IMPOSSIBLE to live with.  All moods and hormones and non-stop talking of boys.

Branwyn: Female Arthurian Legend Daughter of Llyr. 

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branwen

[Perd Hapley]

Wow, Sindawe, you out-geeked 'em all.   

[Sindawe]

I guess that would explain why I have a white tom cat named Uther Pendragon and a black female cat named Morgana la Fey. 

[Tallpine]

I have an ancestor with the first name General

I have a great-great-great-uncle who was a Doctor - literally, his first name was "Doctor" 

Middle initial was W and no idea what that stood for...?

I guess that would explain why I have a white tom cat named Uther Pendragon and a black female cat named Morgana la Fey. 

We had a series of female cats with Tolkein names: Elanor, Goldberry, etc

Currently have a part Siamese named Arwen - and she acts the part too, she thinks she is royalty.


I guess it's a good thing I didn't start learning Gàidhlig 25 years ago - my girls would probably have had names like Ealasaid, Raonaid, Oighrig, Màiri, Eilidh, etc ...