You Can't Choose Your Parents


The online photo journal of Pippa Hope Davies, age 6 months

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Name

Ok, you've got to help me out here. 8 weeks to go and Mum and Dad STILL haven't got me a name. What am I supposed to do without a name? Fair enough, they don't know whether I'm a boy or a girl, but the least they could do is give me a couple of options. So, it's down to you guys - suggestions please!

posted by Jamie at 11:00 AM

20 Comments:

  • egbert

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Wednesday, May 31, 2006  

  • elsie

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Thursday, June 01, 2006  

  • Engelbert

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, June 02, 2006  

  • Heathcliffe,
    Marmaduke

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Saturday, June 03, 2006  

  • I don't think you guys understand the seriousness of the situation. Imagine if YOU didn't have a name. Honestly, who calls a baby Marmaduke??

    By Blogger Jamie, at Sunday, June 04, 2006  

  • you asked - crikey, bit feisty for someone as yet unborn.

    How about Merlin? Merlin Davies - sounds jazzy.

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Tuesday, June 06, 2006  

  • Merlin I like! Not Marvin though. Too Hitchhiker's-Guide-depressed-robot. Merlin Davies. Very snazzy.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Saturday, June 17, 2006  

  • If you're a girl you could be Zafirah. It means "She who wins" apparently, though if I'm wrong I'm sure Boxthejack will correct me. Anyway, I kinda like it.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sunday, June 18, 2006  

  • Or you could be Azriel - "God is my aid"; good for a pastor's offspring - and that's ok whether you're a boy or a girl..! Kind of angelic don'tcha think?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sunday, June 18, 2006  

  • Dan? Gideon? Jaden? Jaden's ok if your a boy or a girl, too. Mind you, if your mum and dad call you Jaden, they might have to put up with me calling a furture Bump of my own by the same name!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sunday, June 18, 2006  

  • It's funny that it is pronounced Zafirah. The most obvious root would be زفر i.e.Z F R.

    زفيرة could either be from a root which means to sigh or moan, or, from Zephyr.

    Meanwhile, ظفيرة, which would, in Modern Standard Arabic, be pronounced THafira, with a hard TH rather than a Z, indeed derives from to succeed or be victorious.

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Monday, June 19, 2006  

  • Ante-natal and multi-lingual... must take after dad I suppose? May be mum too? I wouldn't know! Are you a linguist, Mum?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, June 19, 2006  

  • I quite like the name Jared. Not as good as Merlin but good nonetheless.

    How about some Shakespearean names? Titania? Ophelia? MacDuff?

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Tuesday, June 20, 2006  

  • Jared I like a lot. Ophelia's lovely but... MacDuff? It sounds as though Homer's favourite beverage has sold out to America's most hideous caterer. I mean, I love that play and all things being considered, MacDuff is a better namesake than MacBeth, partly because MacDuff was still alive at the end of the story, but even so... Titania hmmmmm. She'd get teased at school, particularly from around about year 5 or so. Sorry Bump, we seem to be discussing you as though you weren't listening. What do you think about being called MacDuff?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, June 20, 2006  

  • umm... I'm not sure I'm the biggest fan of MacDuff Davies. Davis MacDuff would work, but I'd have to have been born to different parents. Too late for that now I reckon, unless there's a mix-up at the hospital. Here's hoping...

    By Blogger Jamie, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006  

  • Puck?

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Monday, June 26, 2006  

  • Henry V?

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Monday, June 26, 2006  

  • Lear. Quite like Lear - I wonder if people would think you'd been called Leah, and you'd end up getting picked on? From the same play, you could be called Albany or Gloucester. Like any of those? What's Lear's youngest daughter called again? The nice one.

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Monday, June 26, 2006  

  • You could always go for a number. If it was from a different language no-one would ever need to know.

    By Blogger boxthejack, at Monday, June 26, 2006  

  • Thanks for all your -ahem- helpful suggestions. In the end, Mum and Dad found a name they both really liked: Pippa Hope. The Pippa part is actually inspired by a very cool young lady they know (see www.theyoungpages.com)

    By Blogger Jamie, at Saturday, August 05, 2006  

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