Catholic naming

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Those holy names have interesting means. Mary just means bitter. Isaac means laughter.
I don’t think names like Dawn, Dove, River, Lily, etc are tacky.
People are named after things in nature or concepts.
Destiny, Faith, Rose, Aurora, Grace, Charity.
I think Chastity is a weird first name though.
 
Rain isn’t that bad. People name their children forest, Hunter, storm, heaven. A lot of names translated mean the same things as river. I believe Layla means dark night
 
Naming children after flowers was common in the Victorian era. That’s where we got Violet, Lily, Rose, Pansy, Daisy, etc.

Names go through fads.
Classic names work best in terms of not getting teased. When my daughter was in CAtholic grade school she had 5 boys named Matt in her class.
They all had to have something attached to their names for the teacher to keep her sanity. Then there was the era of all the Heathers and Madisons.
Rally glad those days are gone. Now it’s all Ansleigh, Hazel, Payton and Liam.

I can’t imagine being an elderly woman in a nursing home and have someone ask if “Tiffany or Chloe is ready for her sponge bath”.

It seems the trend has gone to name your child something that no one else in the world has for a name, So you get some really funky names.
Like A-a, pronounced Adasha.
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Tiffany is still sound like that prissy, preppy high school cheerleader. Cassandra and Melissa are dated, but beautiful names. I love Penelope as well. Greek names are so beautiful.

I think people are trying to keep with the celebrities when it comes to naming.
After Twilight series became a fad, it became more common to name children Bella, Edward and Jacob.
 
Names like Naomi, Sarah, and Rebekah are forever beautiful. I also love Jeremiah, Jedidah, Daniel, David, Elijah
 
I have a Rebecca. But I am sick to death of Sarah and Sara. It must be a rule in the south that every family has to have a daughter named Sarah.:roll_eyes:
 
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Naming a child after a saint gives that child a patron saint in heaven. I remember wanting to know the saint with my name, even though I was also named after a relative.
 
Throughout my education, I’m certain I have always had a Sarah in my class.
 
It is probably a good practice to choose a saints name for the child will have a patron and you choose a confirmation name but you do not need to add it to yours legally. It will be registered on the register.
 
pianistclare said:
It seems the trend has gone to name your child something that no one else in the world has for a name, So you get some really funky names.

Like A-a, pronounced Adasha.
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I always wondered about those. They seemed the sort of names where someone knew someone who was a nurse who worked in the hospital who was told that someone named their kid that. There’s probably a few though, parents are crazy.

Of course, in my work, I deal with a lot of names that aren’t english in origin. Some of them can be very unfortunate when brought into english.
 
MargaretofCortona said:
Tiffany is still sound like that prissy, preppy high school cheerleader. Cassandra and Melissa are dated, but beautiful names. I love Penelope as well. Greek names are so beautiful.

I think people are trying to keep with the celebrities when it comes to naming.
After Twilight series became a fad, it became more common to name children Bella, Edward and Jacob.
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I’m not a fan of the names that forever sound like child names.

Tiffany, Justin, Jessie, Conner, etc. My niece is named Khloe, and I when I heard it, I asked my mother “why did she pick that name?”

I remember a Denis Leary joke (which I’m going to clean up a little here) that went something like this: “Aden, Conner, Taylor will always get bet up on the playground by John, Matthew & Michael.” 😎
 
We named our children with half an eye on not being the same as everyone else. But the other eye was on giving them names with meaning to us. So two have biblical names which are appropriate to them, one has a ‘virtue’ name, and one is named for St Augustine.
 
DignumEtJustum said:
Perhaps not though older generations would not have been likely to name their daughters “Apple” or “Rain.”
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Have you ever seen the names some Puritans gave to their children? Names such as Humiliation, Die-well, Kill-sin Jolly, Happy, Ashes, Praise-God, Wrestling, Anger… and my favorite, Praise-God’s son, If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned.

Millenials don’t have a monopoly on weirdness.
 
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Names like Naomi, Sarah, and Rebekah are forever beautiful. I also love Jeremiah, Jedidah, Daniel, David, Elijah
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Naomi and Elijah are lovely, as is Daniel. And my name is Sarah. 🙂 In all seriousness, there really are some great Old Testament names. I also like Ruth. If God blesses my husband and I with a daughter, I want to name her Lucy (or Lucia) Ruth (my favorite aunt’s name is Ruth). I also like the names of the archangels, with Raphael being my favorite, although I prefer the Spanish version and pronunciation of Rafael.
 
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How does the Spanish pronunciation differ from the English? I know about the different spelling, but aren’t they both pronounced “raf–EE-yel”?
 
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