Comments on: Name of the Day: Gavin http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/ Where Every Name Has a Story Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Baby Name of the Day: Jehosaphat | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-22554 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:14:44 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-22554 [...] are common.  Irish legend gives us a headless faerie atop a dark horse; there’s also Sir Gawain and his decapitated Green Knight.  Jehosaphat has no tie to these stories, and it appears the [...]

]]> By: Baby Name of the Day: Gareth | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-21153 Wed, 25 May 2011 07:04:21 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-21153 [...] few knightly names have fared well in recent years, like Gavin and Tristan.  But Gareth has remained obscure, never cracking the US Top [...]

]]> By: Sunday Summary: 3/27/11 | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-19524 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:02:07 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-19524 [...] Yip welcomed a daughter, Vera Lillian Beatrix.  He and partner Craig Koch are also parents to son Gavin Joshua [...]

]]> By: Lydia May http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3942 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:15:49 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3942 I know a Gavin; he’s a sweet little boy in my church. I don’t know him well; he isn’t old enough to be in the group I work with in Vacation Bible School, but I know his older brother Logan quite well and he’s one of my favorite kids in the world, so my main association is very positive. They also have a soon-to-be-born younger brother, tentatively named Aidan, though I’m not sure about the spelling. I think Gavin lucked out and got the best name of the three. Logan sounds wimpy to me and Aidan is so overdone, but Gavin, though trendy, is charmingly medieval. I love the Gawain association.

I may also be influenced by a dear friend of mine who is absolutely in love with the name and dying to use it. Her fiance likes showy, somewhat eccentric Biblical names, like Zechariah and Ezekiel, but she’s all about the two-syllable, ends-in-n crowd, though her tastes aren’t as awful as some. I sometimes how they are ever going to come to an agreement regarding their children’s names. :D

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3927 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:20:19 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3927 My apologies, Emmy Jo!

You’re absolutely right that Gawain was your suggestion, not the watered-down Gavin! (Sorry – I deleted it from the draft at some point – probably while agonizing over the Gwalchmai connection – and never put it back in!)

As for GOW in versus ga WAYN? I think you’d get ga WAYN. And, of course, the unrelated Wayne has done well in the 20th century. But you’d be fighting an uphill battle to get GOW in to catch on. Then again, Gawain is so rare maybe you’d get away with it. Because GOW in seems inspired. :)

Here in DC, I don’t think I’ve met a Gavin. Ever. I knew one growing up in Eastern PA, so there’s at least one 30-something Gavin out there. (Okay, more than one. Statistics and all that. And Nessa and Lola, you seem to know a bunch!)

JNE, you’re right about Gavin/Kevin. That’s probably a big part of his popularity.

Allison, I thought the EXACT SAME THING while watching that ep! I watched it in a re-run, though, so I haven’t mentioned it here. But yes, there is a Beatles connection to Astrid, but I can’t recall it … let’s make Astrid NotD on 4/16 and I’ll go find out. :)

]]> By: Allison http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3926 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:17:36 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3926 Do you have Astrid on your list for NOTD? I was watching “The Office” last week and was delighted to see that was the name Jan gave her baby. Wasn’t that the name of the German photographer who was Pete Best’s girlfriend? Or was it Stuart Sutcliffe? Either way, what a cool name.

]]> By: photoquilty http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3925 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:10:24 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3925 Why bring Vegemite into it, Sarah? ;)

]]> By: JNE http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3924 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:13:49 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3924 Emmy Jo, Gawain is definitely more inspired than Gavin, but I think you’re probably right, ga WAYN is more likely the first-guess pronunciation of most (including me)… However, I think that the sound of GOW in is not difficult, so once you let someone know that’s the way to say it, it wouldn’t be a stuggle to pronounce. I must say, GOW in is far more appealing to my ears than ga WAYN. But, there’d likely be a whole lot of pronunciation coaching in your and your child’s future if used.

]]> By: Sarah http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3922 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:01:52 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3922 What?!?!

I had no idea that Gavin was popular again! I don’t know how it sounds to you USA-ers but here in Australia I doubt wether or not he will make it into the ranks any time soon.

For me Gavin might possibly have gone to school with Barry, Roy and Bruce and dated Sandra, Sue and Rhonda. Not so ‘Now’.

But we Australians like Vegemite and you USA-ers don’t quite get that either.

]]> By: rockingfetal http://appellationmountain.net/2009/03/02/name-of-the-day-gavin/#comment-3919 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:05:52 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1760#comment-3919 I completely agree with Cat as well. I know three Gavins, one in his 20s, and the other two are pre-school age. 20 year old Gavin seems much more inspired.

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