Sep
28
Friday again! And not a minute too soon, either… although my cleaning frenzy will come screeching to a halt (especially with BDH home for 2 full days). But I am tired, so it’s going to be a nice easy one today.
I’ve been pondering a lot of names recently. Just trying them on for size. But, since we are firm believers in waiting until we see Mystery Baby before we name him or her, we haven’t seriously got anything in mind. Also, we have to wait and see what name was given to Mystery Baby and by who — we will probably want to keep that in some respect, too.
But people have such strong opinions of names and what they like and what they don’t like, so I always like to see what people like in a name. So here’s a list of old and new, popular and not-so-much, Biblical and traditional Ethiopian (because both are a possibility for Mystery Baby’s birth name)… let’s see what you come up with!
The list goes in pairs of boys, girls, boys, girls… So, choose:
- Daniel or Gabriel?
- Kalkidan or Emnet?
- James or William?
- Natalie or Molly?
- Samuel or Gideon?
- Zahra or Amara?
- Bereket or Dawit?
- Helen or Abigail?
- Simon or Adam?
- Georgia or Susannah?
- Solomon or Ezekiel?
- Miranda or Meredith?
- Mekonnen or Tesfaye?
- Daisy or Rose?
- Henry or Elliot?
- Elshaday or Rohama?
- Oliver or Dominic?
- Rowena or Amelia?
- Mikias or Abebe?
- Charlotte or Matilda?
Don’t panic. Relax. Some of these I would not even consider; others, maybe so. Either way, it’s fun to talk about names, isn’t it?
Ed: Because Mom was wondering where I got some of the names from, I am including a link to “My Ethiopian Name” if you’re interested in having a look around there. Ethiopian names come in all sorts: from Amharic names (which is the official language of Ethiopia) to names from other cultural groups in Ethiopia; from Muslim names to very traditional Biblical names. So there’s wonderful variety, and so it’s going to be fun to see what name Mystery Baby comes to us with!
