Orpheus and Eurydice

I love Greek mythology names. [name_f]My[/name_f] favorite story is the myth [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] and [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]. (OAR fee us, your IHD uh see)
Basically, [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] (son of [name_m]Apollo[/name_m] and CALLIOPE) is really good at the lyre and [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] is beautiful, they fall in love. They were married by Hymenaios. At the wedding, her ex lover Aristaeus tries to kill [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m], but [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] falls into a pit of snakes and dies. [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] is sad, but goes to the Underworld, everyone he passes entranced by his music, which convinced [name_f]Persephone[/name_f] and [name_m]Hades[/name_m] to let him get her back. Under one condition. They can walk back up to the [name_f]Earth[/name_f], but he cannot lay eyes upon her until she’s back in the light. They make their way up, but [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] gets out first and turns around too soon. [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] is sent back to the Underworld.
Overcome with grief, [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] plays sad songs, rejecting women who desired him. One group killed him, and he was found by the muses and buried. He is reunited with his love, [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f].
I really like the names [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] and [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m], but they could never work in real life together. [name_m]Just[/name_m] GPs? Would they work?
I like [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] “Ory” and [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] “Dixie” not as a sibset
Middle names and opinions? Middle names?
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Orion[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Gian[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Mackenzie[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Clay[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Oak[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Blaise[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Blaire[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Sage[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] Thea/o
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Tate[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Lane[/name_u] (Dixie Lane)
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Yelena[/name_f]
Eurydics [name_f]Bianka[/name_f]
As some of you know, I’m too young to have kids. All theoretical! TIA!

[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] & [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] are some of my favorite mythological names :sparkles:

I think they could work in real life — not together, but individually, definitely!

[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Sage[/name_u] is super cool! I like…
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Violet[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_m]Fate[/name_m]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Matilda[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Snow[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Lark[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Mabel[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Fern[/name_u]

I could also see [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] working as a middle! Maybe…
[name_f]Zelda[/name_f] [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
[name_f]Fiadh[/name_f] [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
[name_f]Mira[/name_f] [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
[name_u]Jasper[/name_u] [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
[name_f]Olive[/name_f] [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
[name_f]Audra[/name_f] [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]

For [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m], [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Marlowe[/name_u] is singing to me!

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[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] and [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] are great names. What a classic myth to choose—I think they’re so cool.

I’m absolutely swooning over [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Yelena[/name_f]! Any time I see [name_f]Yelena[/name_f] around here I get so excited. That’s a gorgeous name, and her gravity works so nicely with [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] to me. [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Lane[/name_u] is also a fave. [name_f]Dixie[/name_f] [name_u]Lane[/name_u] !? That’s so cool. [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] is a lot of name to wear, to be sure, so I like the idea of a spunky-cool nickname like [name_f]Dixie[/name_f].

[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Mackenzie[/name_u] is my favorite boy combo! [name_u]Mackenzie[/name_u] on a boy is underrated—he softens any name right up, and I think he’s a smashing hit with [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m].

The only bone I’ve got to pick with these names is that… I don’t think they’d make good sibling names at all. Stylistically? They’re a perfect match. But given their history together in mythology? Very, very strange for siblings to wear. The same way I wouldn’t go for [name_m]Romeo[/name_m] and [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] as siblings nor [name_m]Zeus[/name_m] and [name_f]Hera[/name_f] …I wouldn’t go for [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] and [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] together. (I like [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] better, just personally, so I’d opt for her with a different brother name! Perhaps [name_u]Orion[/name_u] or [name_m]Odin[/name_m], I think. Mythological and O-centric still, but less of a romance-connection for siblings.)

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These are very cool - as you say, not as a sibset, but otherwise I think they could work!

[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Clay[/name_m], [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Blaise[/name_u], [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Mackenzie[/name_u], [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Blaire[/name_u] and [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Lane[/name_u] are lovely!

I’d suggest:

[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Jude[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Rowan[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Leo[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Jasper[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Beau[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Lyle[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_u]Marlo[/name_u]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Gabe[/name_m]

[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Maia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Opal[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Garnet[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Vita[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Ceres[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Lark[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Ailish[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Tegwen[/name_f]

I like [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] with the nn [name_f]Edie[/name_f] too :slight_smile:

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I’d say no.

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[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Yelena[/name_f] :heart_eyes:

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I like the association more than I like the sound. I certainly would not use them for siblings - no more than I’d use [name_m]Romeo[/name_m] and [name_f]Juliet[/name_f], [name_u]Tristan[/name_u] and [name_f]Isolde[/name_f], or [name_m]Adam[/name_m] and [name_f]Eve[/name_f]. [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] does not sound attractive to me, but it’s lively. More usable than [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] is, as that one sounds vaguely villainous? Orphic.

Combos…

[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Corbinian[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Faust[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Korbinian[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Meriwether[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] [name_m]Thor[/name_m]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] Zarathustra
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m] Zoroaster

[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Aura[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Aurora[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Beryl[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Boudicca[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] Chryseis
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Claudia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Diana[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Dido[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Dinah[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Francesca[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Godiva[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Hydra[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Keturah[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Laura[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_u]Laurel[/name_u]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Marcella[/name_f]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f] [name_f]Millicent[/name_f]

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