Oh, and I am weirdly fond of some of the names from the Earth's Children series. Ayla. Joplaya. Johorran. That kind of thing. But I would never, never do that to a child (which I say now because I am not under the sway of pregnancy hormones).
Love Daedalus, but because of James Joyce.
Also Marlowe, after Christopher.
Llewellen was a on our final 5 boy list the last two times, too. And I love Denbeigh, but DH nixed that.
I don't have the cobblers to do it, but I wish someone would reclaim for their sons those traditional boy names that have become girl names: Robin. Leslie. Tracy. Kelly. Darcy. Rory. Cary. Audrey. Evelyn.
I am eternally grateful that my parents were conservative with names. In my Dad's family tree appear Hooker (yes, that General Hooker, from whom the slang reportedly comes in popular culture...not apparently true, though!) and Church (Dad's mn). The running joke when my Mum was pregnant with me was that I would be Hooker Church Surname. Yikes!
We knew a family (in California, where else?!) with the surname Silver. Boy Sterling, girl Tiffany. Kind of cute, but I couldn't do it. Ditto Picabo Street.
ETA. My mother's maiden name was McCraken. Anyone remember the SNL skit with Patrick Stewart?
Edited by MammaG - 4/6/11 at 5:39am
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