Your favorite names from literature or mythology that could be given to kids today?

[Anonymous]

Girls:
Daisy
Meg
(^^both of which could be nicknames for Margaret too)
Caddie/Caddy
Ada
Alma
Maribelle
Eudora (with possible nickname Eudie…I know it sounds odd at first but I actually love this)

Boys:
Anselm
Quentin
Bayard
Emmett
Junius
Percy

I guess it’s obvious I’m into southern literature lately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Especially names that are less commonly given?

Girls:
Flora
Freya
Athena

Flora is currently pretty popular, OP.

no it’s not. It’s not even in the top 1000 baby names: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

Weird. I know two newborn baby Floras and one five-year-Old Flora.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Especially names that are less commonly given?

Girls:
Flora
Freya
Athena

Flora is currently pretty popular, OP.

no it’s not. It’s not even in the top 1000 baby names: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

Weird. I know two newborn baby Floras and one five-year-Old Flora.

I happen to know 2 young kids named Enid. Doesn’t make it a popular name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Especially names that are less commonly given?

Girls:
Flora
Freya
Athena

Flora is currently pretty popular, OP.

no it’s not. It’s not even in the top 1000 baby names: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

Weird. I know two newborn baby Floras and one five-year-Old Flora.

I happen to know 2 young kids named Enid. Doesn’t make it a popular name.

But it does make it weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Especially names that are less commonly given?

Girls:
Flora
Freya
Athena

Flora is currently pretty popular, OP.

no it’s not. It’s not even in the top 1000 baby names: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

Weird. I know two newborn baby Floras and one five-year-Old Flora.

I happen to know 2 young kids named Enid. Doesn’t make it a popular name.

But it does make it weird.

A weird name or weird that I know 2 of them? Both? Anyway, I just was responding to PP’s claim that Flora was currently pretty popular which was apparently just based off the fact that PP knows 3 Floras. It’s odd to me to claim a name is popular when it’s objectively not just bc you happen to know some people w that name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beatrice. But only pronounced the Italian way.

I also love this. DH is Italian but he (and his mom) dislike how it is pronounced in Italian and wanted to use the English pronunciation. I was torn because I knew that would be easier for an American-born kid, but I fell in love with this name studying Dante in college and really prefer that pronunciation.

We wound up going with Penelope, which I love but was surprised they did too, because Italians are not always so fond of Greek culture. Go figure!

(And if it seems like my MIL was super involved in naming the baby, let me introduce you to the rest of my Italian ILs— a lot of rule by committee!)

[Anonymous]

Freya
Minerva
Isolde
Helena

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Girls:
Daisy
Meg
(^^both of which could be nicknames for Margaret too)
Caddie/Caddy
Ada
Alma
Maribelle
Eudora (with possible nickname Eudie…I know it sounds odd at first but I actually love this)

Boys:
Anselm
Quentin
Bayard
Emmett
Junius
Percy

I guess it’s obvious I’m into southern literature lately.

I have a friend named Ada and, while beautiful, it’s an absolute nightmare when it comes to pronunciation. Nobody ever gets it right.

I’m personally leaning Mary (Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice), Minnie (Anne of Green Gables), or May (Alcott) now that I’ve learned the gender. Not quite sure yet, but loving these ideas!

[Anonymous]

Rima (from “Green Mansions”)
Tess (“Tess of the d’urbervilles”)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pip. Maybe a nickname for Pippa or Piper but couldn’t be a cuter nickname for a girl!

Agree with Pip. You could also just have the name Pip. I know a mom named Pip and our kids lovingly call her Pippie