Names

[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

I'm a bit hung up on a name. Not that there's a rush.

I'm experimenting with a new, distinctly female name because of how it fit with the following:

1 (history) - my parents could agree on it for a girl - it thus has the feeling of connection and undoing a past error
2 (spelling) - it's easy to spell (contrast: SanDi)
3 (pronunciation) - it's easy to pronounce (contrast: Casidh)
4 (euphony) -  sounds good with my last name - very short
5 (meaning) - it means "beloved" which is acceptable (contrast: "pelagria")
6 (gender) - it's neither androgynous nor ultra-girly (contrast: I'll skip the stories of the names of the transwomen who make up the core referents of point 2 above, but will mention that some have names are more hippie than the authours of bad books on Wicca - yes, this is possible)
7 (short-form) - It's sufficiently short to need no nickname
8 (feeling) - It feels right
9 (social class ) - Some of you way have noticed that I'm glow-in-the-dark-White and from an educated Anglo family (contrast: Zhivankya, Yuriko, Gilpreet, Billy-May, Britny)
10 (reference) - people recognize it as a name

Other names - some good, some... less good:

Cassidy - from "O'Caiside" (descendant of Caiside); "Cas" means a bent, curly or twisted lock - ingeniously clever, while "Cais" means love and esteem. AKA Cass. Similar to Cassandra (an appropriate name for a sci-fi authour; a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot name for a futurist or cultural leader).Sounds like a Cowgirl, also: Cassidy Yates from DS9

Deirdre - Irish princess - "Young Girl" or "Fear," also Deirdre Sky from Alpha Centauri

Greer - from Gregor, "Vigilant, watchful, watchman?"

Joanna - God is gracious

Muriel - "Bright sea?"

Sasha (Russian): One who defends, also: androgynous

Zelda/Salida - Happiness/Joy

 

Locations: Kelowna, America, Vancouver, Gehenna, Ophiuchi,

Nature: Autumn, Helada, Rain, Snow,

Virtues: Compassion, Courtesy, Kindness, Modesty, Vigilance ("Jill"), Irony, Sarcasm,

Historical Figures: Darwin,

Nice Things: Joy, Laughter, Puppy, Eugenics,

 

I dunno. Like I said: no rush.

Or I could just go by "Fox," but that has different connotations by sex. Eh....

 

Comments

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Hon, if you end up with the name 'Zelda'....

[hundun.livejournal.com]

I'll get kidnapped by a laughing pig?

[bthomasac.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I generally envision people changing genders making their new names close to their old ones (Robert becomes "Bobbi", Lawrence becomes Laura, etc.), though my thoughts on the subject are no doubt warped by many of the stuff I read. Which often hinges on various reminders to the reader that the existing person is a transformed version of the previous one, and has very little bearing in real life.

Until a couple of years ago, the name I would have hypothetically chosen for myself would probably have been "Beth," (as "Bevin" would be perhaps be a little too subtle), though the fact that it's now the name of my grand anti-heroine means it's far too tied up with various parts of my psyche to ever be an appropriate name for myself.

"Eugenics" seems very "you," possibly using "Genna" as its nickname, though perhaps not something you want to introduce yourself as. Likewise Irony.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

It's a challenge to find names that don't have some kind of psychological tie to them via a third party or fictional character: it's hard enough for oneself; twice as hard when others are involved.

[rumi-fish.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to Sasha, though I think Amy would also fit.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

Sasha is apparantly a pet form of "Aleksandr/Alexander/Alexandra."

Alexsein: to defend of help; Andro: Man.

The nice thing about Sasha is that it's potentially androgynous. Yeah!

[hundun.livejournal.com]

But then people ask "so Sasha, where in Eastern Europe is your family from?" and I answer "Soviet Scotland."

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I hope you'd choose that moment not to coincide with, say, curry-eating.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

They eat curries in Scotland. They take the curry, boil it, then fry it into a tasteless gray lard.

[no-moon.livejournal.com]

Soviet Scotland is probably the only place that you *could* have come from.