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more like anal

>>12681894
I dont know but I also like it a lot. I like most names with l or r like alice or katerina

Eva is the best female name.

>>12681923
Anya and Alexandra are also god tier names. I've never seen an Anya that wasn't at least 8/10

I like Margaret.

>>12681894
Your son will be gay

>>12681945
Margaret is literally grandma name

>>12681936
Those are good tranny names

>>12681894
How do names acquire character? Is it merely in the sound and appearance, or something more to that? Shakespeare used the most beautiful names, for example. Is this due to the name-properties themselves, or partially because we associate them with such beautiful writing like Shakespeares? Can names change their essence over time? Could today's beautiful name become an ugly one tomorrow?

Why is Gertrude an "old" person name? Only because old people have it, or became associated with it? Or is it something intrinsic to the name itself?

I find this stuff really interesting. Help me, bros

>>12681954
A traditional Ukrainian name is a tranny name?

>>12681894
Serious poster here.
Elena means "the greek". Which is cool and /lit/ approved.
But you should call her "Anonine".

>>12681961
Tranny name now, kiddo

>>12681961
>Alexandra
>Ukrainian

Lmao

>>12681961
Yep, or a prostitute or a tranny prostitute

>>12681950
yeah maybe that way she wouldnt turn out to be dirty degenerate whore

For me, it's:
>Audrey
>Sophia
>Monica
>Daphne

>>12681936
Knew an anya and she was ugly as fuck. She had a MASSIVE schnoz that made her voice nasallyo

>>12682103
Audrey and Daphne are best in thread so far

>>12681894
Esther

>>12681894
I prefer Estella

Kalliope
Ariadne
Arrietty
Eleuthera
Pieta
Isa
Eunike

>>12682181
The Isle of Lesbos

>>12682181
>Kalliope
sounds like the homoerotic green-hair NPC from some generic JRPG
>Ariadne
nice
>Arrietty
terrible. anglo/hick tier.
>Eleuthera
sounds like a veneral disease
>Pieta
sounds like the slang word for dick in romance tongue
>Isa
minimalist but without personality
>Eunike
sounds like your polish/german uncle's real name before being anglicized into Henry or something

>>12682181
>Kalliope
sounds like the homoerotic green-haired NPC from some generic JRPG
>Ariadne
nice
>Arrietty
terrible. anglo/hick tier.
>Eleuthera
sounds like a veneral disease
>Pieta
sounds like the slang word for dick in some romance tongue
>Isa
minimalist but without personality
>Eunike
sounds like your polish/german uncle's real name before being anglicized into Henry or something

>>12681894
Just remember that when she gets to middle-school all the kids will start calling her Enema.

>>12681961
Ukrainians are all used hookers or trannies anyways

>like the names elise and naomi
>both jew names

Ebba is my favorite female name

>>12682212
Kalliope is the muse of epic poetry
Arrietty I believe is made up. Nice Studio Ghibli film
Isa is minimalist for Isabel
Eunike is on earth of the Nereids. Greek mythology

>>12682338
On earth=one of

>>12682338
yeah that's their meaning alright, but I was merely describing my visceral reactions to them. nothing personnel kid

>>12682404
>teleports behind you
>stabs
No offense taken

>>12682181
Kalliope and Eleuthera are terrible. Apply yourself.

>>12681894
I'm naming mine Penelope. Rolls off the tongue well, can call her Penny for short, or Sweet Pea for endearment. I like Persephone as well, beautiful name, and the mythical version brings life with her wherever she goes, which is a beautiful concept

>>12682630
She’ll get blacked before you know it

For me

>Giulia
>Natalia
>Juliette
>Alejandra
>Sofía/Sophia
>Kassandra
>Deni

Forma me, Its Sophia

>>12682620
Perhaps you're pronouncing it wrong.

Kal-ee-oh-pee
El-ee-u-þair-a

They're beautiful names

>>12682639
>obsessed with black dicks

you're gay, son

>>12682651

>>12682644
Cassandra > Kassandra. As a rule, names with a C look better than Ks. Like Catherine.
>>12682648
Nope. Still ugly.

>>12682630
>Persephone
>brings life
Is this irony?
Also lovey DCD song attached to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku1HJ2DI7Xk

>>12682668
Oh but "C" is pronounced "ch"
Apply yourself

>>12682670
No, when she emerges in Spring, she brings the world back to life

Chloe is quite nice.
Danielle is great for being a less popular feminine version of a vastly more popular male name.

>>12682902
Chloe is awful. I've known like 15 chloes.

>>12682894
By making her momma happy

>>12682902
Both are good pornstar names

Anna and Katie for me.

I like Helen because my name is Helen, named after Helen of Troy that is.

>>12682946
Nice

>>12681894
I have met a lot of Elenas and none of them I would call a nice person. I would name my daughter Tamara or Kateryna.

>>12682968
Sound like nigress names

>>12682978
These names are popular in Slavic countries.

>>12682930
I'll make your momma happy

>>12682968
I know a Tamar and an Ekatarina

>>12682998
Muh elephantiasis

>>12683007
You mad jelly of these bigass balls, sonny? U mad brah? U irate? Yeah, you mad

Armine
The Armenia version of Harmony

>all these high price escort names

Just name your kid Tatyanna and let her be a mockery for life.

Astoria or Dolores.

Camille (not kuh-MEEL)

If I had a daughter I would name her Vivian.

>>12681957
Anyone...

>>12681894
Victoria is a stacy tier name

>>12683150
Every Victoria I've met has been a stuck-up bitch.

Eglė

>>12682142
>>12682181
>>12682630
>>12682668
>>12682902
>>12683091
>>12683150

>murican naming traditions
So fucking trashy. Picking names from other cultures is bad. Picking names from popular culture is worse. But making names up is even worse.

>>12683138
no

Idk, but Forgetting Elena by Edmund White is an excellent a book and a favorite of Nabokov's

>>12683191
What do you expect from a half-Jewish/half-negro culture?

Olesya

Ioanna>>>Elena

for me, it's Agatha

>>12683270
Aggy rehabilitates it somewhat for me

>>12682902
Chloe is very nice, anon

>>12682968
>Tamara
pls lord no

>Kateryna
I can understand this if you're Slavic or something, but to the rest of the world it looks trashy

>>12683191
All names are made up and influenced from other (popular) cultures...

For me, it's Shamela

It's Sophia

Anya, Eva, Sophia, Alice are special to me.

If you aren't naming your daughter Erika you aren't white

My favorite girl name is Boogloshovaska.

>>12681945
Dunno
Problem is as a brit i feel like people will associate it with thatcher

What do you guys think of the name Elias?

>>12681957
I find it interesting too but dont have anything to contribute sorry

>Elena
ah, man of culture

>>12683091
Light of my life, fire of my loins

>>12681894
What is it about Greek names, especially female, that makes them so good?
>Elena
>Sophia
>Ariadne
>Persephone
And my personal favourite:
>Elysia

>>12683421
don't test me or I will violently succumb

Felicity
Eilis
Violette
Cecilia

>>12683421
Who is this

Am I basic for liking the name Mia?

>>12682946
Italy?

>>12683191
this

all of these names are snowflake tier

>>12683427
>>12681894
Nothing short of Clitemnestra would do (Clitty, for daddy).

>>12681894
>losers on a hindu image board having children

>>12683442
Elena Koshka
she fucks black guys

What are some Anglo/Christian traditional names that are also uncommon or interesting?

>>12681894
u sound liek a fag

>>12683481
I wish I had a child so I could beat the shit out of it.

Georgina is CUTE

>>12681894
i'm naming my daughter sara

I have had a thing for Vasilisa since I was very little and saw Vasilisa The Beautiful, all I remember from it is the name, really stuck with me.

What is wrong with you people? Most of these names are trying si hard, such bad taste.

>Mary
Today it's an uncommon name. And it's a beautiful and simple name.

Honourable mention to my dead grandmother named Gvozdenka/Гвoздeнкa, it's a Serbian name. A female version of the name Gvozden, derived from the word for iron, gvožđe/гвoжђe. My grandmothers name literally translated into English would be Ironwoman. It's very rare nowadays, such names were kind of frequent up to about one hundred years ago; giving your daughter such a tough name would ensure she survives the winter. It's a stereotypical grandma name.

>>12683761
>Today it's an uncommon name
There are 6 Marys in the building I work at, about 100 people in the building, my neighbor is a Mary, I have regular contact with at least 3 other Marys, how is that an uncommon name?

Ok, to be fair a few of them are Maryannes, but they all go by Mary.

Mилицa

>>12683775
So your made up story proves nobody is named Mary - GENIUS

Never understood anglos. Why would a female name end with a consonant?

>>12683787
^brainlet post

>>12683790
Your meme arrow looks broken.

>>12683787
Not at all made up, Mary is a very common name in these parts.

Any name that starts with an E and has 3 syllables is beautiful for a woman. But this might be because I'm still in love with an Emily

Claire

What about names for males?

>>12684051
Damn, what a sad boy.

Classics:
>Peter
>John

I also like:
>Maximillian

But people tell me it's megalomaniac, and it kind of is. I like it though.

Héloïse


Vos vieux prénoms font pas le poids

>>12684051
Faust

Layla is such a gorgeous name, it falls off the tongue so easily. Why'd it have to be Arabic?

Aoife is a nice name

>>12681923
Best in thread
I like Lydia and Lauren also

>>12681894
Helena is better.
I personally like Acácia
I prefer short names like Olga, Eva, Ilha, Isla, Abe, Maria, Maitê
But i also like Paraguaçú(u), Orlando, Gabriel(a)

I also like names that comes with diacritics (they're present in my mother thong)

We named our daughter Cellardoor. It's the most beautiful word, so it's the most beautiful name.

>>12684203
also Francisco, Jesuíta, Eloá, Arcádio
Biblical names are nice, not because they're biblical, just because they're classic in my country

>>12684213
also Juno, Júlia, Agnes, Clarice, Flor, Marcelo, Mariano, Teresa, Zélia
>>12684110
Heloísa is a great name (translation to my language)

>>12682902
>Chloe
Doughy
>Danielle
Fannyelle
>>12682941
>Anna
Danna
>Katie
Gaytie
>>12682946
>Helen
Melon
>>12683091
>Astoria
Asboria
>Dolores
Calories
>>12683122
>Camille
Bum mill
>Vivian
Shittyan
>>12683270
>Agatha
Fagatha
>>12683361
>Anya
Fanya
>Eva
Beaver
>Sophia
Doughphia
>Alice
Phallus
>>12683370
>Erika
Der-rika
>>12683679
>Georgina
Mangina
>>12683728
>Valsilisa
Vasoline
>>12683761
>Mary
Bear-y
>>12683821
>Emily
Femily
>>12683927
>Claire
Stupid hair
>>12684139
>Layla
Gayla
>>12684197
>Lydia
Clamydia
>Lauren
Okayish

>>12684051
Men don't need pretty names, they need functional names that don't outcast him or make him look ridiculous.

>On a side note, names like "Brodie" are stupid and shortsighted. What kind of 85 y/o man is called "Brody"? He'd have to be called Broderick to save the shame of having a quintessentially childish name. Parents who name their children with 'kiddy' names should have serious reflections on whether that name would still be appropriate for their child once it is an old man/woman.

>>12684249
based

>>12683191
ancient greek names are american now retard?

>>12681894
More like Helena you nigger
I like Carmen, naming my daughter Carmen

>>12681894
If you aren't Russian this name literally means nothing for you.

Ragnhild and Siv are queen tier names.

>>12681894
yes, its greek

If I ever had a daughter I would name her Minea from Waltari’s the Egyptian. Kino character, kino book, kino name.

>>12684727
i believe he means its an american tradition to arbitrarily pick random names from (in this case) greek myths. ancient greek tradition would be to name the kid after some circumstance of her birth

*hits pipe*

>>12681957
Most names become popular for a certain amount of time. Beautifully-sounding or not these names become 'of an era': Gertrude, Aethelraed, Valerie etc. I think some names are just more future-proof than others. Oliver is always popular in England and still doesn't sound outdated.
A quick look at a generic "most popular baby names 2019" article will give you an insight into a lot of names that won't stand the test of time and will become "old-sounding" in 60 years.
Dax, Xavier, Axel, Briar, Campbell, Finley, Journey, Justice, Laken, Revel, Royal, and Story
a lot of these names sound stupid right now to me though.
Fucking Story? Jesus.
To wrap up my pointless and surface-level post, when it comes to names: VOWELS GOOD; GERTRUDE BAD

>>12681957
it's entirely cultural. my aunt had a baby gertrude and these days i see it as a little girl name.
& the american accent makes it sound a lot worse

>>12684249
Eva and Beaver doesn't even make sense desu ne wa ching chong

Nothing beats Biblical names. The theophory is especially cool.

>Rachel
>Gabriel
>Ramiel
>Samuel

Natasha
Lily
Tamara
Eva
These sound the most beautiful to me.

Anna, Maria, Teresa, Eleonora, Lucrezia, Artemisia

>>12684051
Tyrone

>>12686123
Not till the Brits give County Tyrone back.