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multipara
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Cantiones sacrae; don'tspeak to soon ; Rollo was not an unusual name in mediaeval Europe-there may well be a saint of that name !
m (who only recently discovered that the Antichrist the late Nikita Krushchev was named for an Ukrainian Orthodox saint)
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HenryT
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Originally posted by Ariel:
When in doubt, fall back on the classics.
Primus
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I have a cousin named "Una", which is also a number.
How about transcedental numbers and other mathematical concepts?
Pi
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Epsilon, Omega (see Just Six Numbers )
I also knew a guy called Helium, though that might have been an anglicisation of something else.
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comet
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Originally posted by Henry Troup:
How about transcedental numbers and other mathematical concepts?
Natural Log?
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The Bede's American Successor
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Originally posted by Henry Troup:
I also knew a guy called Helium, though that might have been an anglicisation of something else.
Gasbag?
Or a shortened form of Helium Heels?
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I went to school with a guy named "Argon". He was pretty cool about it, but he was a bit of an air head.
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Beautiful Dreamer
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I went to school with a girl named Pocahontas Spring Mintz. At least she had a good sense of humor.
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the Pookah
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Ah Multipara;
even I knew that Nikita is a common Ukrainian saint's name (quite attractive) You need Komensky, & a while ago I too had the funny list of Soviet names;
Ninel, Illych, Octobrina, Vladelen. The French ones to my mind are way nicer & sound delightful: Brumaire, Fructaire, Bruttine.
the Pookah
Rook should name his spawn steak & chips;-)
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Fool on Hill
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A little surprised that weather conditions get not mention down here in Hell - I once knew a Storm (South African). Tsunami or Tornado?
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comet
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my son has both a Storm and a Thunder in his class.
it sounds like dog names.
I told Chasee#2 that if Storm gets obnoxious, just call him "Squall". ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Cantiones Sacrae
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Originally posted by Fool on Hill:
A little surprised that weather conditions get not mention down here in Hell - I once knew a Storm (South African). Tsunami or Tornado?
There's a famous stage director called Gale Edwards. Always amused me; wish I was called Blizzard. Or Monsoon.
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multipara
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The trend for 'revolutionary' names in the former USSR faded in the 1940s when such names as (one can only imagine the translation) "I didn't want"or 'I didn't expect" started to appearin the registry...funny how even in an atheist state everyone reverted to good Orthodox saints' names.
Curiously in post-revolution France the same thing happened and in fact some bureaucrat drew up a list of "approved" names for the sons and daughters of la patrie. I recall that many years ago a Breton couple took L'Etat to the World Court re their right to give 6 of their 12 children Celtic names which were not on the approved register..the kidswere , in effect "non-persons" as the local maire refused to accept their (baptismal) names on the local registry.
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Originally posted by Cantiones Sacrae:
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Originally posted by Fool on Hill:
A little surprised that weather conditions get not mention down here in Hell - I once knew a Storm (South African). Tsunami or Tornado?
There's a famous stage director called Gale Edwards. Always amused me; wish I was called Blizzard. Or Monsoon.
Hello Sun, hello Sky, hello Cloud, or would that be too uterly wet and weedy?
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I used to think that Nikita was a pet form of Nikolas, but the four Saints Nikita I can easily find in Google were all in fact originally called Aniketos.
Nothing Ukrainian about any of them - a Syrian, a Greek, a Goth, and a Great Russian.
As Aniketos means "Unconquerable" and Nikolas means "Victory of the People" both sound appropriate for Soviet-style communists.
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The Bede's American Successor
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Here is another science and technology angle for an atheist.
There was a female classmate in my high school graduating class whose first and middle names are "Enola Gay."
Now, it is possible that her father was a part of the military force being prepared to invade Japan—an invasion made unnecessary by the atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima. Naming his daughter after the airplane was a way of saying thanks that he didn't have to invade Japan.*
So, "Enola Gay" is a name taken from something important in world history that has nothing to do with religion.
*My father was a part of those forces being prepared for the invasion. He ended up being an MP patrolling Occupied Japan when the peace treaty was signed. You never suggest to my father that Truman might have been wrong to order the dropping of the Bomb. I can understand his feelings on this, even if I can take a more objective point of view.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Hello Sun, hello Sky, hello Cloud, or would that be too uterly wet and weedy?
WEEDY! It's perfect! No annoying religious overtones, PLUS it is a kick in the teeth for those goody-two-shoes types that like beautiful flowers and that kind of shit. You could make it longer like WEEDSTON or WEEDINGTON and then shorten it to WEEDY for everyday use.
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Jengie jon
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well for a girl Belladona should work well.
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Luz y Fuerza
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Originally posted by PeteCanada:
Faith is still known here in Canada. One of my great-nieces is called that, and I know a few others
Charity and Hope are long gone though.
Counterexample. Of late 1950s, Southern Ontario vintage, I had a Hope in my class. As I was very young, and practically every name I met in my kindergarten class was new to me, it was years before it occured to me to relate the name to the virtue "hope".
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by comet:
my son has both a Storm and a Thunder in his class.
it sounds like dog names.
I told Chasee#2 that if Storm gets obnoxious, just call him "Squall".
I worked with a "thunder."
Went to school with a kid named "Two-Dogs-Fucking.", but he'd get all pissy when you asked him how he got his name.
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Okay but what language was that one in, Kelly? If you say English, I will stand in awe.
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Kelly Alves
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It's an old joke, Duch.
I'd link it, but the godawful stuff Google is throwing up at me is pushing the joke down.
[ 14. October 2007, 05:59: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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the Pookah
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Winter & Autumn are attractive;
thunder & storm do sound like dogs;-) I actually don't know any witches with witchy names, they're called 'wendy' or 'nancy.'
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If you google the phrase in quotation marks, there's a 'jokebook' as the third entry- I assume the one there is the joke to which Comet refers.
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Kelly Alves
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Kelly.
Ok, I will type out a short version. (which I was too lazy to do last night)
Young truthseeker comes to village shaman and asks him how he selects names for the children.Shaman answers:
"When the child is born, I look out the window, and if I see snow gently falling, the child is called "Snow-Gently-Falling." If I see a galloping horse, the child is named "Galloping Horse." Why do you ask, Two-Dogs-Fucking?"
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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comet
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I told a joke?
(actually, I know the joke, but it wasn't mine on this thread!)
nice crosspost!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Young truthseeker comes to village shaman and asks him how he selects names for the children...
On that basis, my children would be named Recycling-Bin, Traffic-Cone and Cat-Who-Prowls-Around-Dustbin.
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The Izlet has a "Trinity" in her class. We're still working out whether the parents are religious or just really liked the Matrix - the kids are 5 and 6, so it could be either one.
She also has some kids with some god-awfully pretentious names - whose parents I have met. The parents, as expected, are godawfully pretentious.
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jlg
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An atheist could go retro to the 60s and 70s: lots of Tiffany, Crystal/Krysyl/Kristel/Crhystal, Britney, etc. for girls. The boys back then were more trad/biblical, but the modern atheist could follow the earlier female trend and look to fashion and capitalism for inspiration. Vuitton, Polo, Abercrombie.
One of my brothers suggested one night at the dinner table that Capital Gaines would be a great name for a male child. Sadly neither of my brothers had children and since neither of my husband's brothers did either, I wasn't about to ask that our only son be given my last name.
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comet
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on the "two-dogs-fucking" tangent - taking into account time of year and location and time of day -
daughter would be "Solstice Party" (born near solstice middle of the night in Fairbanks, with the midnight party near the hospital)
son#1 would be "Marching Grunts" (oh bad...) (born on Army base)
son#2 would be "Large Jets in Whitehorse" or "Canadians on Alert" or, perhaps, "Anesthesiologist Stuck on Other Side of Bridge Construction"
*dammit*
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Originally posted by the Pookah:
I actually don't know any witches with witchy names, they're called 'wendy' or 'nancy.'
Hazel?
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Kelly Alves
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Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck...
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Rowan would be a good name for a witch, wouldn't it?
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Originally posted by jlg:
An atheist could go retro to the 60s and 70s: lots of Tiffany, Crystal/Krysyl/Kristel/Crhystal, Britney, etc. for girls.
<naming practice pedant hat ON>
Tiffany actually has a religious origin - it's the anglicization of "Theophanie", which occasionally got given to girls born or baptized on January 6. It apparently morphed into a surname and back into a forename ![[Biased]](wink.gif) .
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But, yeah, that sort of name will fit the bill, although in my opinion anyone who who gets overly kReeAtiV with the spelling should be shot at dawn. (mmm, Dawn, nice name)
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Emma Louise
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Brandy, Sherry, Whisky.... champagne,
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rosamundi
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quote:
Originally posted by Emma.:
Brandy, Sherry, Whisky.... champagne,
Chardonnay. She's a little horror of a child, though, who thought jumping all over the train seats in muddy shoes was appropriate behaviour.
Damien. That's a nice name... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Originally posted by rosamundi:
Damien. That's a nice name...
It's not, believe me, it's not! I know a Damian who worries me lots.
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Beautiful Dreamer
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My real name is Shannon. Some sources say it means 'wise one'. I don't know how true that is, but I don't think it has any religious source. It is the name of a region and river in Ireland and can be used for a male or a female.
My sister's name is Kelly, also an Irish name and also unisex.
My sister in law's name is Raina. Her parents made it up.
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the Pookah
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Not really Beautiful Dreamer;
Kelly isn't unisex, O' Cailleagh for men and something like Nic Cailleagh for women! Real Irish names are tough: Eamonn, Fergal (silent 'g'), Aoife, Oisin, Cian. It's a minefield out there.
Welsh Dragon: I like Rowan, Hazel for witches. There are lots of nice names for non-Christians without sounding creepy or cheap.
I still like the custom of qualities & it works for atheists: Compassion, Sojourner...
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Originally posted by Beautiful_Dreamer:
My sister in law's name is Raina. Her parents made it up.
They may think they did... It is the name of the heroine of Shaw's Arms and the Man .
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
quote:
Originally posted by rosamundi:
Damien. That's a nice name...
It's not, believe me, it's not! I know a Damian who worries me lots.
It's also the name of the child in the film the Omen.
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Originally posted by Callan:
Do atheist babies have rebellious phases as teenagers where they don't want to go to atheist summer camp and decide to join the Society of St Pius X?
My father-in-law is an atheist and was a communist. My wife's teenage rebellion invovled joining the Greek Orthodox church and threatening to become a nun.
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Lithuania has brilliant pre-Christian names in common currency, though the Church requires a Christian baptismal name. Thus, boys are often named after early grand dukes or princes of the realm such as Mindaugas, Ringaudas, Gediminas, etc., whilst nature names are quite popular for girls (this harks back to the pagan Lithuanian religion), e.g. Ruta (rue, as in the herb). Although this trend is to do with a nostalgic attempt at national authenticity, rather than atheism, it seems a good basis for finding analogous pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon-Celtic names as well as employing nature names. Sorry if this isn't very hellish.
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Originally posted by the Pookah:
Welsh Dragon: I like Rowan, Hazel for witches. There are lots of nice names for non-Christians without sounding creepy or cheap.
When I named the Nutter "Hazel" I didn't think of it as being particularly non-Christian, just a family name. I suppose if she ever has a brother, calling him Philbert would be just beyond the pale?
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
quote:
Originally posted by rosamundi:
Damien. That's a nice name...
It's not, believe me, it's not! I know a Damian who worries me lots.
I went to school with a Damian who was a little thug. So much so that over a decade later, when I was leading on a Christian summer camp (the kind teenage atheists go on to rebel against their parents) and one of the kids was a complete dickhead named Todd, I kept calling him Damian by mistake. Which got everyone confused, and I had no way to explain myself; there were no Damian's there to say that I had confused him with.
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Originally posted by Fool of a Took:
quote:
Originally posted by the Pookah:
Welsh Dragon: I like Rowan, Hazel for witches. There are lots of nice names for non-Christians without sounding creepy or cheap.
When I named the Nutter "Hazel" I didn't think of it as being particularly non-Christian, just a family name. I suppose if she ever has a brother, calling him Philbert would be just beyond the pale?
You see, over here that would just be the son of a deluded Leicester City fan who missed his team's old ground
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I went to university with a couple of very nice men named Damien (or Damion, in one case). I'm sure they got picked on in school by people who saw The Omen, but they are very good people.
Leslie is the name of one of my best friends from university, as is Aimee. Another girl I know here is named Promise. Her sister is Amberley.
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Emma Louise
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Leslie and Aimee are quite common here!
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I would love to know where Meri (Egyptian for Beloved) who was my best friend in primary school ended up. Her sister was called Linnet after the bird.
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
well for a girl Belladona should work well.
The genealogies in Lord of the Rings include a hobbit named Belladonna Took.
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