Showing posts with label Latin names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin names. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2009

Names for Alison

This is a toughie! Alison and her husband cannot agree on a name for their baby boy. She likes Theodore, Ewan, Luke and Hugh while her husband suggested Edmund, Lawrence, Lee and Keagan--and he would really prefer it to not be in the top 100. They live in the DC area but Alison is from Thailand originally and she would also like a name that Thais can easily pronounce.They have a four year old girl named Maia.

I actually have several lists! First I tried nymbler but the eclectic mix of names from Alison and her husband had nymbler spitting out gems like Clifton, Leonard and Bertram. I did like

Basil
Cole
Eli
Ellis
Leo
Lewis.

Next I did some research on Maia: the name actually stems from three different languages. In Hindi it means 'God's creative power,' in Greek it's 'mother' and in Latin it's 'great.' Of the Sanskrit names I thought Ashwin and Rohan might be good matches with Maia. Then I went on to the Greek names and came up with

Ambrose
Apollo
Damian
Dorian
Jericho
Matthias
Nicholas
Peter
Sebastian
Thad
Theo
Xander.

Of the Latin names I liked

Adrian
August
Bennett (from Benedict)
Calvin
Dante
Dominic
Julian
Levi
Marcus
Maximus (so much cooler than Maxwell)
Miles/Milo
Silas
Victor
Vincent
Xavier.

And one random Japanese name: Kaemon.

Did I help or make it worse? ;)