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Post by Joe Shmoe on Sept 8, 2007 21:13:58 GMT -5
Wtf, your kids are all gonna hate you. Those names are either 7823457354 years old, ripped out of cheap fantasy novels, or stupid. D'= [edit]: Except Gabriel, that's a cute name. =o Quoted for truth. Not that I am any better, I'd like to name any sons Lyle or Leland, or a for a girl, Laramie or Geneva. I'd treat Gabriel as a unisex name, poor male kid .
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 8, 2007 22:00:15 GMT -5
I just assumed the name Gabriel was for a boy... I'd forgotten it could be a girls name... too many fantasy books for me...
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Sept 8, 2007 22:26:50 GMT -5
Yeah. It's unisex, but it can be easy to tease a boy with it, just change Gabe to Gabby.
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 9, 2007 11:48:34 GMT -5
yeah.... naming after angels who have no sex could make things confusing
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 9, 2007 21:54:19 GMT -5
*Nods* Exactly... I have a stupid unisex name... it's annoying... try to avoid it when naming children...
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Post by Clover on Sept 10, 2007 15:49:26 GMT -5
Technically, ALL angels are sexless, which means that the names Michael, Micheal, Uriel, Raphael and a whole host of others are all technically agendered. Gabriel is either/or...
and hey! Was that crack about babynames aimed at me, earlier?
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Post by Aindel on Sept 10, 2007 15:52:12 GMT -5
Possibly me as well. I mean, Constantine isn't exactly the top of popular baby names....
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 10, 2007 16:07:03 GMT -5
better than naming a dude Uriel
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Post by bubbles on Sept 10, 2007 17:23:32 GMT -5
Possibly me as well. I mean, Constantine isn't exactly the top of popular baby names.... or a guy's name. D'=
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 10, 2007 22:19:18 GMT -5
I'm sorry, if I found an actual baby like that that wasn't in a fantasy novel... I'd have to make at least one remark about history...
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Sept 11, 2007 13:12:00 GMT -5
Howell Male Welsh Alert One
Welsh names, much like the language itself, can be pretty cracked. But I wub dems. Though I admit I found it in cute cute fiction. (At least I've let go of Jareth- though it pains me)
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Post by Aindel on Sept 11, 2007 13:54:13 GMT -5
Possibly me as well. I mean, Constantine isn't exactly the top of popular baby names.... or a guy's name. D'= That is too a guy's name! He was the Emperor who converted the majority of Rome to Christianity (or at least Christian tolerance). CONSTANCE is a girl's name. But I'm not naming my hypothetical daughter Constance.
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 11, 2007 14:30:55 GMT -5
Yeah I must agree Aindel Constantine is a guy....
I kinda like the name Broderick You could always shorten it to Brodie Or Cyrus and call him Cy I like Leo too
I'll have to think on girls
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Post by bubbles on Sept 11, 2007 22:11:41 GMT -5
First off, Constantine was the guy's last name, anglicized. The full thing was Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus.
Also, it's not because a guy was called Constantine that it's a manly name. The guy had a girly name. D=
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Post by Clover on Sept 11, 2007 23:25:20 GMT -5
Are we talking historically? Since I'm pretty sure that the feminized version of Constantine is 'Constantina', which I know is a rather popular Spanish name. If it was female, the odds are that it would have ended in 'a', ESPECIALLY if it was a Roman name. That's why we get names like Julia ['daughter of Julius']. A daughter's name was basically her father's, with the feminine 'a' added.
So Constantine is a male name. It's just considered girly NOW.
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