[name_m]Hi[/name_m] Edited to say, baby named now, given on post 22.
I join in pretty dire circumstances (which I don’t want to go into) which takes a lot of the shine out of having a new baby (and only girl!) to name but I have lurked the past few days and thought you name nerds would find my children’s names interesting, and you could perhaps hold our hands in naming the littlest- who is 6 weeks on [name_f]Monday[/name_f]!
I am nervous about putting full names here and may edit out some. Also please lmk if the way I have listed (random dots) is pointless or needs altering.
BTW surname is Irish/ Scottish, begins with L, ends with N, 5 letters and commonly used as a first name now, some of you may possibly guess it.
My mum is Greek Cypriot in background.
OK, boy no.1 is [name_u]Mika[/name_u] [name_m]Zak[/name_m].arias. His dad was [name_u]Michael[/name_u] and with Finnish granny (although pronounced as we did would be written Miika in Finland- didn’t fancy that!). My mum had a friend called [name_m]Zak[/name_m] (super common name at the time) but I wanted a Greek addition and it reminded me of Greek for sugar.
Boy 2 Dem.itris [name_f]Su[/name_f].nsh.ine. I had many miscarriages between these two and wanted a ‘fertile’ name. He is 10, does get called [name_f]Demi[/name_f] (a fear of my ex…) and loves his middle name.
No.3 with ‘new’ partner (Irish) is [name_m]Man[/name_m].anna.n Yi.an.nis. Partner dead set on Manann.an (pronounced more like Mon a non) and I wasn’t keen but took to it on grounds we use Manan which is actually a lovely name in its own right and whilst obscure it doesn’t sound it! Yiannis was for the Johns in the family but I don’t think any felt the honour sadly!
No.4 Am.ergi.n (pronounced Averin) [name_m]Arte[/name_m].mis [name_m]Le[/name_m].fte.ris. We pushed the boat out here! We do have name regret about the spelling of the first name. We probably should have done more research with Irish speakers as Amergin, whilst the top spelling by far on Google is an appalling anglicisation. The long Irish version was extremely long and it is only much later we found an intermediate version… Most translations give this ancient name the pronunciation of Avergin but Irish speakers have told us the -in version is, in their opinion, more likely going from the lengthy original Irish spelling (and the name would have been in existence before Irish was written anyway!). [name_u]Artemis[/name_u] my partner wanted as we were camping beside a forest when I went into labour (and it has a sibling thing going too) and Lefter.is as I thought he was my last and I always wanted to name a girl Elefth.eria… (I actually love Lef.teris even more perhaps but the dads didn’t want to risk the nn Leftie…).
So, we were shocked by the girl… Partner wanted a mythological Irish name but not a minor player and Irish seems a bit short on girl names of that type. Have considered [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] as an obvious major strong character but it is very common in [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] and we want to avoid that. Also [name_f]Anu[/name_f] or [name_f]Danu[/name_f] but not feeling love and [name_f]Danu[/name_f] has people asking if after a singer called [name_u]Dana[/name_u]…
I think DP may now be serious about Elefteria (adjusted spelling I just came across recently that we both prefer as making it less of a mouthful) though he thinks nn [name_f]Ellie[/name_f] and I think that is very common now (I didn’t like it much beforehand either). It seems to have huge nickname potential however! What would be your favourite nn for Elefteria? Quite likely with one of the Irish names as middle name…
We are very picky and specific but would welcome thoughts. And what do you think of my ensemble so far?!
here are some Irish girl names I like