ordinary names you ascribe inscrutably harmoniious qualities to

what ordinary names just somehow ring right for you - make you well-disposed to the people who bear them?

when i was a kid i had crushes on girls named both sara, and sarah, and somehow the possibility of spelling the name without an h or with an h enhanced their respective mysterious attractiveness.

omg i .. feel the same way about sarah

lots of biblical names tbh :/

i also had crushes on two different stephs, who were partners or counterparts in so many things that everyone knew them as 'the two stephs'. stephs always seem to me like they relate more to the people around them.

Jasons. Daniels. Davids. 2-syllable boys' names with the accent on the first, especially with a long A.

The Jason thing might be down either to G-Force or the Argonauts. I've loved that name a long, long time and even an arsehole at school couldn't spoil it for me.

this is really gay lumberjack of me but bruce. xp oh i just dissed jason on the other thread, lol ;-)

jacks have always seemed to be somewhat fortunate to me.

maybe that's down to all the card-playing my family did when i was a kid. a jack of the color of the trump suit is the right or left bower in euchre!

that's why i thought 'jack' seemed dangerous and cool, the cards and booze association. also irishness was close by as far as ethnic identities went that weren't scandinavian/english mormon settlers.

Jack the default name for action-movie heroes in the '80s-90s

All Irish names, especially Oisin, all Russian names, especially Dimitri, and the Spanish pronunciation of Jaime.

Oh, "ordinary names", whoops. I like the name Jane. Sounds like braids.

Jack is just one of those names where it's like, come on, your parents weren't even trying. Worse than Joes.

hey, take it to the other thread

i want to hear about your mysterious associations, not about why you're wrong about why mine are wrong

there were three erics in my school just like the three erics in sideways stories from wayside school by louis sachar. all three erics were really cool about it. that was a good book.

Graciella. It was the name of Perry Farrell ' s chicken in that janes addiction movie. Heck, maybe that was his chicken in real life too. I'm not sure.

I was going to attribute my love of Davids and Daniels to my teenage Bauhaus-loving ways but I think it was actually formed earlier, going to middle school with adorable curly-haired prepubescents with those names. I am easily swayed by crushes.

Autumn has a strong resonance for me. I think I've only known one Autumn, a girl who lived up the street from me when I was six and I somehow got invited to her birthday party. Little Red haired girl, which they couldn't have known that when they named her right? We watched Last Unicorn. I mean, obviously is a name that's derived from a word, so maybe if shouldn't count as much, but the vowel sounds are great.

and the Spanish pronunciation of Jaime.

Agreed.

I met a beautiful woman in Barcelona who introduced me to her young son and said "his name is Jaime" and I gasped at how beautiful a name it was

Are there any bad Kierans/Ciarans? Are they all not hott & super talented or what?

I can only think of hebden & culkin

Oh and there was a Kieran at my school maybe I think

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Prendiville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciar%C3%A1n_Hinds

Hebden, Gillen, Murphy... a veritable triumvirate of hott

Linda, I guess because of its literal meaning and from knowing a series of nice Lindas.

I'll second Jane, which suggests toughness and independence, as in Calamity Jane.

Barbara has a distantly romantic air to it, moreso now since it's fading and Barbaras are predominantly old ladies.

Emma. The only Emmas in my life haven't/don't really justify it, but I crush on that name

I love antiquated unisex-but-female-ish names for men: Leslie, Marion, Beverly, Ashley, Evelyn, Vivian. I weirdly don't like the opposite, contemporary unisex-but-male-ish names for women: Sydney, Reese, Cody, Alex, Dylan, Quinn.