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A Week of Girls’ Names

October 19, 2009 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

When I started writing Name of the Day posts, I had a simple plan: a girl’s name one day, followed by a boy’s name.

Trouble is that requests to cover girls’ names routinely outpace requests for boys’ names. And not by a little, either. I’ve been four, even six weeks ahead in girls’ names and realized I was missing a boys’ name for the very next day.

Searches for girls’ names outpace boys’ searches at about the same rate, too – even when I did manage to keep the content split evenly.

Given the requests and the searches, I’ve started to mirror that in my posts. And yet, I was still way behind in the number of requests I could accommodate.

So this week is nothin’ but sugar and spice and everything nice. (Or not, depending on what you think of the Names of the Day.) But they’ll all be suitable for a daughter. I’ll be back to a more balanced calendar next week.

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  1. photoquilty says

    October 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    Oooh! Ooh! Ooh! (Imagine me raising my hand and wiggling in my seat because I’m so very, very eager to be called on.)

    I have a boy’s name for you to do. A high school friend of mine has a son who’s soemewhere between 3 and 4 years old, whose name is – wait for it – Prosper! The mom is a Bard graduate. I kind of love it. I don’t even know why! Do Prosper, please! 🙂

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  2. photoquilty says

    October 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM

    I’m reading ‘the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, a Swedish import, and as you might imagine, it’s full of intriguing names.
    Stieg is the author, Camilla shwed up, there’s a Harriet, and an Ingrid. I know that’s only one boy’s name. Boo for me. Sorry! Please NotD these for me! 🙂

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  3. Sebastiane says

    October 22, 2009 at 4:48 AM

    Oh and may I suggest Corsin too, its a Romansch name.

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  4. Sebastiane says

    October 22, 2009 at 4:48 AM

    I have a suggestion, how about Korbinian?

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  5. British American says

    October 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM

    I have another submission. My daughter (age 4) has a new classmate and his name is Bridger. That’s a new one to me. At first I wasn’t sure if the name was male or female – later realized because it’s similar to Bridget.

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  6. appellationmountain says

    October 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM

    You are all too wonderful – let’s fill up November, and plan a boys’ week in December!

    11/11 is Fintan.
    11/13 is Robin.
    11/20 is Alaric.
    11/25 is Tadhg.

    Boys’ Week
    12/14 is Bram.
    12/15 is Milo.
    12/16 is Ivo.
    12/17 is Taran.
    12/18 is Owen. (Have I never written about Owen? Can’t be!)

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    • Charlotte Vera says

      October 21, 2009 at 6:02 PM

      Wonderful!

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  7. SilentOne says

    October 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    Darwin
    Milo
    Derek
    Garth
    Joel

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  8. Bewildertrix says

    October 20, 2009 at 6:03 AM

    Tadhg
    Bede
    Rafe
    Inigo
    Finlo
    Bram?

    Pretty please. All first name considerations for me this time around.

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  9. Charlotte Vera says

    October 20, 2009 at 3:42 AM

    I submit:

    Alaric
    Nolan
    Rupert

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  10. British American says

    October 20, 2009 at 12:42 AM

    So does that mean it’s harder to name a daughter, as parents-to-be do more research? 🙂

    I spotted the name Orlo in the local obituaries awhile back (presuming it’s a male name) but when I looked it up online, I only found information about the feminine Orla. So there’s a suggestion for you. 🙂

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    • photoquilty says

      October 20, 2009 at 2:01 AM

      I think it means that parents feel more able to be creative with their daughters’ names than with their sons’ names.

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      • British American says

        October 20, 2009 at 3:36 AM

        Very true.
        I had a hard time naming my daughter *and* my son. 😛 I think the list of girl names was longer though.

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  11. Dearest says

    October 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM

    I have a couple of suggestions for boys’ names as well, if you’re interested ^^
    Ivo
    Tobiah
    Justus
    Herman
    Deveraux
    Drummond
    Klaus
    and Taran which is a girls’ name in Norway but also a Gaelic boys’ name which I think is quite interesting as they both have Thor as their root, so the fact that it’s unisex and has ‘evolved’ in two separate cultures is a neat way to see how the most trivial things from history can be relevant today ^^

    I also have heaps of Norwegian/Scandinavian boys’ names you could feature if you want something a bit ‘out there’ 🙂

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  12. H says

    October 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM

    I’d love to hear about Robin for a boy. Not too stylish for a girl, but it seems nice for a boy somehow on Robin Williams, Robin van Persie, Robin Soderling, even Christopher Robin, etc.

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    • Bewildertrix says

      October 20, 2009 at 6:00 AM

      Seconded. It’s a second middle name consideration if this baby is a boy. It seems I’m too chickensh*t to place it up front.

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  13. Bevin says

    October 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM

    If you’re short on boy’s names there’s a couple I’d love to read about. And by “a couple” I mean heaps. 😉 If you feel inspired….

    Patrick
    Keith
    Andrew
    Darragh
    Cathal
    Fintan
    Ronan
    Eoghan / Eoin / Owen

    I keep trying to break away from the Irish attachment but it’s obviously dragging me back!

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  14. Sebastiane says

    October 19, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    I must admit that I have far more fun researching boys names than I do the girls. I even have a tendency to discuss girls names more than boys. I don’t know what it is.

    Reply

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