[blparent] names

Mon Apr 30 01:02:24 UTC 2012

It's a beautiful name.  We have a teenager in church named Arionna, and 
she's always having to correct people, but she loves her name because it's 
different.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:59 PM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] names

> I do feel a little bad about giving Oriana her name.  I know she will
> forever be correcting people--as we all ready are...  "It is spelled with 
> an
> O...  Not Ariana or "are re ana" or even Arianna...  She will also never
> find stationery, stickers, etc. with her name on them.  We hope she will
> appreciate her name for its uniqueness, but are preparing ourselves for 
> the
> "Why didn't you just name me Ariana" discussion someday.
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of jan wright
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 4:10 AM
> To: blparent
> Subject: [blparent] names
>
> Melissa, I too, love the name Oriana. I thought of naming my daughter
> Ariana, but was afraid that I would forever be correcting everyone:
> "It is ar not Air."
>
> Our married last name (although I have not changed it in email) is Ahmed.
> People call DH Ahmed or Amod or something similar and don't even use his
> first name.
> In some cultures it is common for the wife and children to use the man's
> first name as their last.
> My husband's name is Imran.
> (My mother use to call him Iran -- and pronounce it like it rhymes with my
> name "jan"). I didn't want to be "Jan Im ran."
> So, I am Jan ahmed.
>
> I love names. I could look up and pour over names for hours.
> From my first marriage, I have four children.
> Dominika was named by   his mother.I didn't have a baby book then.
> And.... ... my family has a habit of changing or shortening names they 
> don't
> like. I liked "Antoinette" or "Antonia," but they would shorten it to 
> Toni.
> "Alexandria," would be shortened to Alex. Myranda would be shortened to
> Randi and so on. " Ashari would be sherry.  My first son was named after 
> his
> father, Demieli, pronounced "Demeal." I don't know what his mother was
> thinking by putting that "i" on the end and honestly, she doesn't remember
> either. But, to have a Junior, you have to keep the spelling.
> LaTroi  Antonio is my third son and Kyler Jovon is my fourth.
> With this baby, I poured over baby books and naming websites. My dh is
> Pakistani and I promised that the baby would have a Pakistani first name. 
> He
> has a common (or not so common, but my choice) kind of american name. DH
> doesn't like the "middle name" concept, but he has to deal with that one.
> For boys, I liked the names:
> Justus, Sabion, DaReece, Zandor, Ajalon, Zion, Asher, Julien, Aithan,
> Jaqeem, Simeon,  Aivrien, ... ... Zariyan, Zayaan/Zayonne, Arsalan,
> Ahsaan/Ehsonne,  maybe Yaqub and Yusef. The last names can be Pakistani
> names, as well, but not the first set of names. Keyaan and Taban were
> reportedly "muslim" names, but DH had not heard of them
> before.   His name is Azaan (pronounced Azon) Gabriel. I love the name
> more and more every day. My family gave me flack for naming him a 
> Pakistani
> name, but I would threaten to name him Osama, just for spite. Now, I would
> never do this, but, come on, Azaan is not bad at all and can be pronounced
> easily.  Actually, Azaan was probably one of the only names that we, DH 
> and
> I,  both liked.  I tease DH and tell him that the next baby will be named
> Sanjay -- a Hindi / Indian name.
> I actually like Sanjay, (As well as Veejay and Aneel)  but DH would never
> name his child something that would make people suspect that he might be
> Hindu.  If I have another boy, my top  names are: Justus, Julion, Simeon 
> and
> Taj.
> For a girl, DH liked Kiran... ... pronounced Keeryn.  If the baby was a
> girl, I would have relented and named her Kiran because it is / was DH's
> first. Actually, I toyed with Kiran Jannae. I like Samiya, Nyasha, Atiya,
> Soraya, Yasmin, Sabriya, Najia [accent on the first
> syllable: Nawjia), Shohana, Zartasha, Rani(pronounced as Jaws
> pronounces it),  Nyaera and Zaara.      (Jayanni, anjali, Shanti,
> Jaydria/Jaydra, Ashtee, Aneela   and Brishti are automatically out
> because, they too are Hindu names, but I like them).  I liked India
> -- or spelled Yndia with a Y (But, Pakistan has a love/hate relationship
> with India and it just would not go over well--- smile),
> and  Pandora (but not since the app).    I liked Khari, Aubrielle,
> Dhanya, Eedyn, Jaicelia, Brishelle, Lucia, Jaqara,  Zola, Ashiyana, but
> those are  not Pakistani, either. Ones that almost made the list
> were:  Aja, Serena, Krysha, Brié,  Kamiel, Aleena, Abriana, Kalindi, 
> Breena,
> chella, Daria and Tamandra.
> I like Jyenne(rhyming with Cheyenne), Brielle(The last part of Gabriele's
> name), Annique and KryShawn for middle names. My mother has fourteen
> grandchildren:
> Joshua, Dominika, Demieli, Latroi, Kyler, Dakota, Darian, Lincoln, Sofia,
> Liam, Langston, Donnavan, Trystian (pronounced Trystin) and Azaan.
> She has a great grandchild (not from any of my children) named Lily.
> If I were going to go with a musical theme, I might do a Dantino, Rondeau,
> Kryshenda or Allegra (although that is a medicine, now). .
> There was a nichelodian show called Allegra's window and I really liked 
> it.
>
> there are lots of websites and you can't always believe what you hear/ 
> read.
> www.babynology.com
> has some names, but not sure if they are correct on origin or meaning.
>
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