I am soon to become an uncle so I need baby names. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Celtic? Anglo-Saxon? But not Norman.
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I am soon to become an uncle so I need baby names. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Celtic? Anglo-Saxon? But not Norman.
Fire away!
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Morgaine or Raven :rolleyes:
My sister's kids are called Bethan Rhiannon, Bronwen Eluned and Osian Llyr - that's my contribution :thumb001:
Leire or Leyre, Iria also, although the latter is more doubtful origin Celtic. Do you use this names in your countries?
"John Rambo" for a boy and "Lady Terminator" for a girl.
I know two celtic names I like, but they are celtic of French Bretagne.
Anyway: Nolwenn for females, Gwenael for males.
Ps: here you find females Breton names http://www.nomix.it/bretonif.php
and here male breton names:
http://www.nomix.it/bretonim.php
on the same site you find also Irish gaelic names.
Saoirse or Aoife for a girl :thumb001:
I've just recently became an unclemy self and I also have a new cousin on the way.
My niece's name is Imogen :).
These are the some chosen Names for a Girl
Melissa,Gwenhyfar (Jennifer),Sabine,Astrid,Heike,Franziska :) ,Frederike,Rike,Elfriede
I also like Charlotte,as well :p
These are the Names for a Boy
Lasse,Frederik,Jens,Ernst,Fridolin,Hendrik
If the baby has your characteristics why not a mediteranean name something like Enrico, or Sophia? :)
Enrico is germanic... Heinrich ;)
Some Italian names:
Neolatin names:Marco, Antonio, Adriano, Marzio (mean. holy to Mars), Lucrezia, Letizia ("Joy"), Gaia ("happy"), Gaio, Giulio (Julius), Giuliana, Giulia, Emilia, Emilio, Aurelia ("golden"), Ottavia ("the 8thborn"), Novella ("the 9th born), Regina ("queen"), Massimo ("the best/highest"), Quinto ("the 5th born"), Valerio, Valeria, Valeriana, Sabina ("inhabitant of Sabinia"), Marcello, Marcella, Alba (meaning "white"/"light"), Clara, Clarissa, Chiara (all of three meaning "having light hair), Nerissa (having black hair), Claudio/Claudia, Rossella and Rossana("having red hair"), Martina/Martino ("holy to Mars"), Diana ("the goddess of moon and hunting"), Barbara ("foreigner woman"), Silvio/Silvia ("creature of woods"), Margherita ("pearl")... etc. etc.
Girls
Daisy
Rhiannon
Holly
Edith 'Edie'
Rose
Heather
Anwen
Fern
Gwendolyn
Emma
Éowyn
Audrey
Ellen (usually a form of Greek name 'Helen' but it's also an AS word meaning courage)
Boys
Alfred 'Alfie'
Edward
Rhys
Carl
Ashton
Finn
Edmund
Aled
Winston (Billie Piper called her son this...I think it's cute)
Ingeld
Stan
Taliesin
Sweyn
Bert :D It would make my day to see a little Bert.
For a boy I can offer you my own name "Tristan" but when it will be a girl I have a couple of suggestions: "Siobhan", "Erin" or "Máiréad".
Lady Terminator is a fairly decent Indonesian B-Movie. Recommended. :D
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095483/
I was an uncle when I was about ten (my older brother is over twenty years older than me).
I think it about time some Old English names that survived the conquest and were popular up until the 60’s were revitalised and end the chavdom that has given us a myriad of inter changeable Chantel’s and Jason’s.
Edward
Edgar
Edmund
Harold
Alfred
Edith
Ethel
Probably wouldn’t get away with some of the more archaic names but I like Leofwine and Leofric.
Hm, boys names I like would be..
Peter, Michael, Joseph, Patrick, John, Francis, Robert, Malcolm, James, Charles and Darren amongst others.
Girls names.. Mary, Annemarie, Kerryanne, Kerry, Bernadette, Isobel, Teresa, Catherine, Catriona, Fiona, Margaret and Samantha amongst others.
Girl Anglo-Saxon
Arleigh (Meadow of the hare)
Ashley
Blythe (cheerful)
Ethal
Hollis
Boy
Aidan
Boy: Astley, Wade, Edward, Weland/Wayland, Alfred, Edmund, Bradley, Wendell.
Girl: I'll leave that to my wife.
All depends on the strenghth of the parents. I would like to see such names used again, Siward, Hereward, Athelstan etc. Funny how the English will laugh at such names but would gladly call their children Reece, Cameron, Kieth, Sean, Aiden, Connor,Ryan:rolleyes2: etc
Anwen, Darina, Eireen, Gwyneira or Muriel.
I like the names Garrett, Hayden, Renton, Winston, Richard, Eric, and Edward for the boys.
For the girls I like Lyra, Golde, Willow, Cheryl, and Autumn. :)
Out of all the girl names posted so far I like Rhiannon, Saoirse, Fiona and Catriona.
I named my little brother and I chose Evan. I also like Ian.
Nezahualcoyotl if it's a boy and Quetzalxochitl if it's a girl.
I've been looking up Irish names and I really like Saorla, which apparently means "noble queen" and for boys, Tadhg and Kieran.
For a boy... Karl, Erlend and Ingvar, Ivar and Sven are nice names.
For a girl... Linda, Katrin, Ingrid, Karin, Signe and Hanna are nice names.
These names are common in Estonia and wouldn't sound weird in most European countries.
If it's a boy name him Beorn(the old english version of my first name)
Keep it simple. Be considerate of the teachers who have to figure out how to pronounce the name.
They aren´t so common.Swedish names, why should they be very common in here.
Because of historical tradition, German names are indeed very common among Estonians.Swedish names are less common although some of them-like Ivar and Sven have been popular in different periods.But generally-Estonian name tradition is not rigid and one can call his baby Carlos (Mexican soap operas, you know), Kevin or Keanu (Hollywood products) as well.
I respect different ethnicities and their names. I respect if someone is Vladimir, someone is Bjoern and someone is Giustino, but I personally think (too) foreign sounding names aren´t the best taste.
Why the fuck an Englishman would allow his heir to bear an Irish name when he had no known connection with that island is beyond me.
My own thick stupid lazy pig-ignorant (fully-English) cousin called his kid 'Conner' (sic). Fucking thick bastard. Shun't be allowed to ave bleedin kids... :rage:tsk:
Ahem.
:suomut: The moral is, don't call your kid a name that they haven't some sort of RIGHT to.
And Christ.... Eowynn?! Avoid popular fictional characters. Even if they have authentic names, you'll still be mocked for doing so. :tsk:
Welsh names.... :strokebeard: I'm of two minds on this one. There's not an Englishman alive who won't have British ancestors from 1500 years ago, but well... That's quite a long time!
PROPER ENGLISH NAMES:
Sadly, I think AEthelbeorht is pushing it, ever so slightly.
There are not a few names that have decent modernish forms that you can get away with easily enough though (including Anglo-Scandinavian ones). Edward, Eric, Elliot, Mildred, Alfred, Carl, Ethel, Gytha, Audrey, Abb, Oswald, Bernard, Edmund, Howard, Rolf, Edith, Hilda, Harriet, Cuthbert, Wilfred, Edwin, Osborn, Arnold...
A lot of the more obscure ones have survived as surnames, which should be noted, and can provide a more 'familiar' sounding form to modern ears than the original. If you like Leofric, you can call your kid Leveridge, Leofwine > Lewin. Torfinnr > Turpin, Eilafr > Ayliffe, Aethelfrith > Alfrey, Hwitraed > Whittred...
The tendency to give placenames as first-names puzzles me. Under this heading go Astley, Ashley, Ainsley, Ashton, Bradley, Shelley, Chelsea.... ?!? :confused: I mean, if you're from there, or have an ancestor with that surname, okay... but otherwise... ! :tsk:
There's tons of names to choose from. Here's a fairly exhaustive list;
http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/pase/persons/index.html
(Click on the letters at the top, and you'll get all names that begin with them)
I'd suggest going through it, eliminating the absurd ones that you'll never get away with, and presenting your sibling with a list of some to bear in mind.
And PLEASE check back with us, to prevent horrendous potential embarrassment! :rotfl:
I reckon there's a few more obscure ones that could be brought back without too much fuss; Aldred, Ailfrith, Edwulf, Waldeve, Kenward, Kilvert, Baldrick ;), Oswy... :wink:D
Adolf is a great name!
Heinrich sounds better. Or Wilhelm.
Not for Englishmen. :rolleyes:
OUR form of the same name was AEthelwulf, though the related Eadwulf sounds more like it.
I actually rather like the latter. :p Its more recent form was spelt Edulf.
I'm interested in 'modernising' the old names, by the way. We say 'tree' and 'town' now, instead of treow and tun, so why should we use only the older forms of our old names? They can be subjected to the same development that our other linguistic heritage has.
From Anglo-Saxon names I like these, maybe best as middle names.
Denby Anglo-Saxon Male From the Danish settlement.
Brigantia Anglo-Saxon Female Yorkshire goddess.
Brogan Anglo-Saxon Male Terror.
Bron Anglo-Saxon Male Brown or dark.
Diera Anglo-Saxon Female From Diera.
Irwin Anglo-Saxon Male Sea lover.
Isen Anglo-Saxon Male Iron.
Although Denby, no connection to that place. And I've just realised I am thinking of Danby.. I guess its name came from the same place?
Reviving proper Old English names is nice in theory... but the child is going to be living in the real 21st century world and will have to deal with the very real likelihood of teasing if they have what appears to be an 'unusual name' among their playground peers. Apart from a limited selection, OE names have been out of vogue in England since the Norman conquest - so they will seem strange and archaic to the average modern Englishman. Unless there is a sudden surge of little Eadwulfs and Godrics I do not see that changing.
That said, I recently saw a birth announcement for a baby Wulfstan in The Times newspaper. :thumb001:
Brigantia was a pre-Saxon goddess and Brogan is Irish. I wouldn't trust a lot of the baby name sites out there, they literally make up meanings and do no etymological research whatsoever. I find www.behindthename.com to be the most accurate. They properly research the names. :)
Amongst the welfare bred in London, Irish and Welsh names (Scottish first names/Surnames to a lesser extent) are common place. Like the rest of the population, they have ancestry from those nations, yet I doubt this is the reason for the prolific use of the names. :confused3:
Regarding Astley; as mentioned before, it has been in use on my Mums paternal side for nigh on 300 years. The bearers are from your neck of the woods, Fallowfield and Withington.
Thanks for the link.
Edward or Edwarda
Is there any Anglo-saxon form for the Portuguese Ildefonso, which derives from the Gothic Hildefuns?
Well, every Indian/Paki/Bangladeshi who has ever been through the education system here has been ‘teased’; it has not affected the choice of names for their offspring.
You should take a visit to Chichester Cathedral, where there are portraits of Bishops up unto the 1500's, Old English names are plentiful right up until the end, if I recall.