Spin Off: interesting baby names

[Liberty Belle]

It is almost the same as you do then The accent is on the middle syllable (I can't tell if you accent the middle or last). We tell people to think Maria with a K in it. It is the more Scandinavian pronunciation.

In Eastern Europe (Hungry in particular) it is fairly common but pronounces as Ma-RYE-Ka. Most Germans assume the Hungarian pronunciation but are able to easily adjust in.

In the US people tended to want to pronounce it like the last three syllables of America. Again, the adjusted easily though.


That is always who I think of when I hear the name.


Funny--I do not know any German Marika's--I am always told it is a Hungarian name (which we did not know when we chose it; we were thinking of it as Dutch--which it also is).
SO how does the restaurant name get pronounced?

Muh-REE-kuh's. At least that's how I, and all my friends pronounce it. Hmm...I'm sure if it were officially pronounced differently we would have heard, so I'm guessing she/they (the owner is either named Marika or has a daughter named Marika - can't remember) pronounce it as we are.

 

[Basil of Baker St]

I guess I like the older names....two of my favorite girl's names are

Irene
and
Camille

For boys I like

Aidian (yes, like the little boy in The Ring )

My daughter's middle name is Camille. We named her after my MIL. I agree, it's a very pretty name

I'm a little distressed about all the Maxwells. We named our son Maxwell in 2007 and we call him Max for short. Now it's a super popular name. I blame Christina Aguilera and JLo

 

[coneygoil]

Poor little Eugene, Gloria, and Mable - nineteenth century names in a 21st century classrooom.

My husband and I are having our first child. When we were picking out names, I wanted "Lida" so bad! I adore that name. It's a really old name, and has rarely been used since the 1930's. Well, my husband freaked out saying he "hates the name, and will never call the baby by that name". How horrified I was! I was persistant. This was the name I wanted and I was gonna get it! We finally settled as having it for a middle name. He still dislikes it, but I guess has gotten a little used to it...maybe. I see nothing wrong with old names. Look how old Sarah, John, Rebecca, Michael, etc. are. I wouldn't mind seeing some Bernadettes or Phyllises running around nowadays.

 

[Basil of Baker St]

My husband and I are having our first child. When we were picking out names, I wanted "Lida" so bad! I adore that name. It's a really old name, and has rarely been used since the 1930's. Well, my husband freaked out saying he "hates the name, and will never call the baby by that name". How horrified I was! I was persistant. This was the name I wanted and I was gonna get it! We finally settled as having it for a middle name. He still dislikes it, but I guess has gotten a little used to it...maybe. I see nothing wrong with old names. Look how old Sarah, John, Rebecca, Michael, etc. are. I wouldn't mind seeing some Bernadettes or Phyllises running around nowadays.

Lida is a pretty name. I like old-fashioned names, too. I campaigned hard to name my daughter Cora but my husband hated it. I also love Ella; again my husband was not a fan. We agreed on Anna - I love it but it is really popular right now. She can always go by her middle name if there are a bunch of Annas in her class

 

[MELSMICE]

Wow on some (most) of those names that the OP posted. Some of them I can't even pronounce. I thought my daughters name was unique & a little odd...............Ashlyn. Guess not!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Some more. These are from Arizona:

Miklos (b)
Augustin (b)
Judge (b)
Augustus (b)
Keesaun (b)
Toraylan (b)
Kylon (b)
Beverly(g)
Messiah(b)
Murphy (b)
Ta'Miya (g)
Bowen (g)
Titus (b)
Honesty (g)
Axavier (b)
Westyn (g)
Lawrence (b)
Sullivan (b)
Micka (g)
D'Nyiah (g)
Frances (g)
Darcell (b)
Syncere (g)
Jerymhi (b) - I guess that's supposed to be Jeremy??
Journei'(g)
McCurry (b)
Daphne (g) - ok, I know it's not all that unusual, but it's one of my favorite names, so I included it.
Adele (g) - see Daphne


Oh man, there are lots of cute babies out there!

 

[FINFAN]

Just jumping in to add the names of twins who were born a few days ahead of my DD. I was delayed being moved into my own room and hte nurse apologized saying they prior mom simply could not name her twins and she was leaving the hospital until she had them named. Well, day 5 of her insurance came and she had to name them. According to the nurse, lunch was served and right after that the mom named her boy twins.. Lem'onjelo and Or'angelo..or lemon and orange jello. I was stunned! I asked if she was messing with me, because the day my DD was born there was a run of "A" names, Allyssa, Allison, Amie etc., but she swore it was no joke, that she was just shocked to have 2 beautiful children and name them after jello was, well, sad.

 

[ryka]

I am glad you like it I am surprised you had so much trouble getting people to pronounce it correctly though. I don't think my Marika has ever had to correct someone twice. Then again, I grew up with a bevy of people trying to get three syllables out of my name (making it rhyme with Natallie)--my third grade teacher never did get it right

I gave both of my kids normal middle names and have always said it is so if they dislike the unusual names they have a fall back. SO far they both really like their names. We are lucky that both are easy for Germans to pronounce (since we live in Germany now). I ended up going by my middle name in Spain as a teen because Spaniards tended to massacre the pronunciation of Hadley

ETA--there used to be a Marika Partridge on NPR as well. Maybe enough people heard it there and from the sportswear company that is out now that the name is starting to sound more "normal" to people than it did when you were younger.

I was always Markie, Marykey,Mar rye key,anything they could come up with but the real thing lol

 

[lemondog]

Poor little Eugene, Gloria, and Mable - nineteenth century names in a 21st century classrooom.

There is a little girl named Gloria in first grade with my twins. Very old fashioned but I like old fashioned! All 3 of my DD's names were very popular in the 1800s and early 1900s.

 

[lemondog]

Some of the more unusual ones we've come across (mostly other students in my kids classes) are:
Glycerine (Glyce)

I'm sorry, but all I can think of is a suppository!

 

[lemondog]

If I ever have kids I like Aislinn [pronounced Ace Lynn] I used to like Alice but it is so common now that Twilight is around Aislinn and Charlotte
for guys I like Jack

Funny how people prounounce things so differently. If I saw the name Aislinn i would pronounce it "Ash-lyn". Had a girl at my high school named Aisling, and it was pronounced Ash-lyn.

 

[bethbuchall]

I so badly wanted to name my DD (who's 7) Nora Marilyn. DH was adamently against it, since he thought it sounded like an old woman's name.

She ended up Juliana Marilyn, and the name really suits her. Her middle name is for DH's mom, who passed a few years prior to DD's birth. I really think that I blessed DD with MIL's personality when I gave her the name since she acts just like her most of the time.

I also wanted to use Nora, but it was dh's grandmother's name, and we didn't want to hurt others' feelings even though I didn't choose it for that reason. We went with Laura (around here it rhymes with Nora, not Law-ra). I still love the name Nora, though.

 

[bethbuchall]

Funny--I do not know any German Marika's--I am always told it is a Hungarian name (which we did not know when we chose it; we were thinking of it as Dutch--which it also is).
SO how does the restaurant name get pronounced?

The only Marika that I know has German-born parents, so I always thought it was a German name. Guess that shows how much I know.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Its really not a modern thing having daft names. I have been researching the family tree and off my head remember two names in 1796 a family by the name of smith babtised their baby daughter Lynamonda. In 1830 in Northamptonshire a woman by the name of Tryphenia got married.

 

[southern_belle21]

"Jerymhi (b) - I guess that's supposed to be Jeremy??"

Sounds like it is supposed to be "Jeremih"? Or very close to "Jeremiah" (which is a name I happen to like) just spelled VERY oddly.

At least no one YET has gone so far to actually name their child "Renesmee". Just a thought for all of you Twilighters out there

 

[NotUrsula]

At least no one YET has gone so far to actually name their child "Renesmee". Just a thought for all of you Twilighters out there

No one HERE maybe, but according to the SSA list, it's now the 58th most popular girl's name in the US. <sigh>

 

[NHdisneylover]

If it's the name I suspect it is, I think there's one than one acceptable pronunciation, isn't there? I know I've heard it pronounced three different ways. But maybe those are fairly recent developments in the name. I do know that it is legitimately pronounced two different ways depending on the language/country.

Btw, I don't really like the way the actress pronounces it. If that pronunciation is used, I prefer the simpler form.

Helena? That is all I am coming up with and i have always thought that had two acceptable pronunciations.

Muh-REE-kuh's. At least that's how I, and all my friends pronounce it. Hmm...I'm sure if it were officially pronounced differently we would have heard, so I'm guessing she/they (the owner is either named Marika or has a daughter named Marika - can't remember) pronounce it as we are.

Good--that is the RIGHT way

I was always Markie, Marykey,Mar rye key,anything they could come up with but the real thing lol

Must have been frustrtating

The only Marika that I know has German-born parents, so I always thought it was a German name. Guess that shows how much I know.

Maybe Eastern Europe uses it? Don't know Around here everyine says they know the name because it is Hungarian and then when we correct the pronounciation they "oh the Dutch version" but we have only been in this one part of Germany and only for a year and a half so who knows really. Maybe a real German will post and clear it up (We are going to a family birthday party tomorrow, I'll ask--I am curious now)

 

[Jaime4004]

My husband and I are having our first child. When we were picking out names, I wanted "Lida" so bad! I adore that name. It's a really old name, and has rarely been used since the 1930's. Well, my husband freaked out saying he "hates the name, and will never call the baby by that name". How horrified I was! I was persistant. This was the name I wanted and I was gonna get it! We finally settled as having it for a middle name. He still dislikes it, but I guess has gotten a little used to it...maybe. I see nothing wrong with old names. Look how old Sarah, John, Rebecca, Michael, etc. are. I wouldn't mind seeing some Bernadettes or Phyllises running around nowadays.

I chose all my kids first names, even though DH wasn't crazy about them. Started using the names in utero and soon enough everyone started using them too. I figure the kids already get his last name!! To be nice, I did let him pick the middle names.

 

[NotUrsula]

Funny how people prounounce things so differently. If I saw the name Aislinn i would pronounce it "Ash-lyn". Had a girl at my high school named Aisling, and it was pronounced Ash-lyn.

And you would be correct, at least if the name was meant to be Irish.
In the Irish language, the letter combination "is" is pronounced like the English "sh". As another example, the Irish variant of Alice, Ailis, is pronounced "AY-leesh"

re: Marika, I've never encountered it spelled that way, but my sister's best friend growing up was part of a very large Dutch family. They had more than one Marijke on the family tree, and that is how they pronounced it. (I understand that there is some variation in the Netherlands on the pronunciation, as there is with Aisling in Ireland -- people in some areas pronounce the "g" while in others they do not.)

 

[mytripsandraces]

Just looked the OP's list over... What the heck is wrong with Robert and George? Kidding, kinda sorta.

I know at least two women who've named their daughters George.