Im obsessed with names with meaning. Especially anything to with lore and fantasy, and its a plus if it has anything to with mermaids/fairies. A name I found is Asrai . (Az-rye) Its a type of auqatic fairy in English and Scottish folklore. But I had thought about adding an “a” at the end, making it a madeup name. Asraia (Az-rye-uh). I find it quite cool sounding, but Id never wanna give someone a name that was terrible to traverse through everyday life with. I know there is the Hebrew names, Azriah or Azariah, would it be considered a different spelling to those names? What are your honest opinions on madeup names.
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I think the pronunciation is fairly intuitive from the spelling, so I think it would work quite well in real life. It reminds me of [name_m]Azariah[/name_m] like you mentioned, but also many of the liquid-y sounding girl names that are quite “in” right now (Amaya, [name_f]Alaia[/name_f], [name_f]Anaya[/name_f], etc.)
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Asrai / Asraia are lovely names.
My only concern is that at first glance I’d honestly just assume the person was trying to spell Azariah but be ‘different / trendy’ but that’s not to say the spelling it bad it’s just the first thing that came to mind
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Asraia sounds distinctive and intriguing, but it also sounds substantial and name-y.
I might wonder if it was linked to [name_m]Azariah[/name_m] - or to [name_f]Sarai[/name_f], [name_f]Soraya[/name_f], Azira, Asmira, [name_f]Azra[/name_f] / [name_f]Asra[/name_f] etc
I think it’s usable
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Lol! [name_f]My[/name_f] husband would probably never let me name our kid that. But flipping love it!
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