Comments on: When naming your own children isn’t enough…

By: baby boy

baby boy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:26 +0000

Sometimes the name came to me and the other times I have a hard time finding it.

By: Cam

Cam — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:15:55 +0000

Thanks to these links, I just wasted a few hours. I haven’t laughed so heartily in months! I emailed a few of the funnier ones my son — just trying to save him years of therapy knowing that his name could have been far worse….

By: sandi

sandi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:35:30 +0000

Heather, Aurelia is such a beautiful name. You must love it all over again every time you say it. It looks pretty written down, too.

Becca, prepare to waste a whole day (if not a week) perusing these naming sites. They’re the most fun time-users ever! And the best part is, it really feels as though you’re doing something important for your story, so you can justify all the time it takes. What fun! Good luck with you story.

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:50:19 +0000

Well, I came across this post at the perfect time – I spent a good portion of my airplane ride earlier today trying to come up with names for the characters in the short story that’s been bubbling around in my head.

I love names – it’s the first thing I ask about a new baby. So I can’t wait to check out all those neat “name” site people have listed!

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:00:32 +0000

I don’t have any characters to name, but my daughter does have an unusual name. She was named after my great-grandmother (although we replaced the middle name Agnes with Elizabeth). Her name is Aurelia Elizabeth Porterfield. While it was not intentional, her first and second name together mean “Golden oath to god”.

By: sandi

sandi — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:25:15 +0000

Kay, now that would have been a HUGE mistake–Pansy O’Hara. I can’t think she would have been the same person at all.

But imagine changing all of that without a computer. And here I thought I had it bad, because when changing my character from Cate to Annabelle, my computer (in its wisdom) changed all the words like “category” to “annabelleegory.” And in one place (this made me laugh) “fornicate” turned to–you guessed it–forniannabelle. Search and replace is sooo much fun!

By: kay

kay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:44:03 +0000

How can we be doing this to each other? As if we needed distraction! Alas, I bookmarked all the name-finder sites before I coulld muster my self-preservation instincts. (I finally had to delete every solitare game from my computer)

But Sandi, take heart. There is precident for your name-resistant characters. Scarlett O’Hara was originally called “Pansy” until the second draft of “Gone with the Wind.” And Mitchell had to make that change on a manual typewriter with no search-and-replace options. We – whatever our name(s)are – have it so easy!

Good writing, fellow wordsmiths-
Kay

By: sandi

sandi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:57:13 +0000

Nancy, I loved the bad baby names, especially the story from the mom who named her kids Bayne, Quillon, Griffon, and D’Artagnan. Interesting people!

And Guy Davis, how wonderful to find your site. It’s fascinating to see the popularity of names in other countries. And to see that Addison is the most popular girl’s name here. Addison! Is this because of Grey’s Anatomy, do you suppose?

Wow, there are so many more wonderful ways to procrastinate than I ever dreamed possible. Caryn, wait until you go to these other sites. You’ll never get another thing written. Just like me.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:59:27 +0000

I’m so glad that you got sucked in my the Random Name Generator. It’s only fair, after all, since I spent entirely too long playing with the Baby Name Wizard.

By: Guy Davis

Guy Davis — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:52:02 +0000

If you found the Name Voyager interesting, you may also like this map of popular baby names. It shows the same US-wide data as Name Voyager, but also shows statistics per state as well as from many other countries.