KNOCKED UP!!!!!!! w/ONOMASTICUS FŒ‎TALIS

GUYS. Guys. I don't know who-all is still out there, but if you is, please (please) to share in this my BEST NEWS: my girlfriend, Talia, is pregnant, and we are going to have a baby!!!

I think many of you know that I've been waiting for this for a long time (kind of bad at shutting up about it), and so you can imagine how thrilled we are (the relevant quantifier is SO. SO thrilled). But down to business: baby names! I can't handle the naming websites (it's all fourteen-year-olds trading names like Aristasianica and Sir Handsomthorpe for the characters in their fanfics and women who use the abbreviations DH/DS/DD and pick out fake names for imaginary "sibsets" like they're matching the china to the silverware). I know the Salon is sluggish these days (I better email Enrique), but I also happen to know that at least a few of you guys have a history of picking out extremely excellent names for your children, so I put it to you.

My last name is McCarvill, and hers is Showers, which she hates, so it is likely that the children will bear the patriarchal brand. Current hot contenders include:

Sylvie, Azalea, Eleanor, Esmeralda for a girl (I guess they're kind of princessy too)

Milo, Elliott, Theodore, Silas for a boy

Bucbuc for a novelty lighter

Oh, Congratulations!!!!!!!

Call him Ishmael.

Fantastic news !

As an inspiration my three boys names are :

Ulysses
Jason
Tristan

Oh Mazel Tov! Not so great with the baby name thing, but will ruminate on it.

And what is wrong with Bucbuc?

My first thought: toss the girl names out immediately.

Silas is the only possible of the boy names.

So, I also thought, they're still together, good, how was i to know.

Now names: Vito for a boy, Rosa (short for Barbarossa) for a girl.

She or he must visit Slovenia for a naming ceremony, even if others are held elsewhere.

Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo. Or Clarel.

Mac, we've thought about Ulysses; Jason is my least favourite cousin, so that's out; and I like Tristan but does he resent you for naming him "sad"?

Anna, I'm pretty sure you were excellent with the baby name thing. Pretty sure you were.

Queequeg would be cool

Tristan sad ? Introspective maybe and a great lover !

If you could dig out the old thread back when LibraryThing people were offering up names for Abby's baby you might find something interesting.

I am partial to Aelfric for a boy and enamored of Boadicea for a girl.

Robert

Well, it's from triste, right? Though maybe if I think of him as the lover, "Trystin'," it'll change things.

Rick, Talia's an anti-Italian bigot who refuses to consider names like Vito. (Also, Giacomo.) Rosa has potential. Thanks! I actually think we might swing through your zone but details are tbd. Are you around next summerish?

Mr. Durick, I am also partial to Aelfric. Thanks, and thanks for the thread tip. Boadicea--except when it's Boudicca I don't even know how to say it.

I'd say it "Bo McCarvill."

Robert

Margarita, Mabel, Ione or Skye. Harvey or Hans. Or Will. Will McCarvill. Or it's Jill McCarvill. Or Margarita Showers?

Best news I've heard all year. Thanks for making my night!

Congrats.

Meditations sounds as good as anything. I think it would suite a boy or a girl. Med for short and Med Showers has a nice ring to it.

I would recommend Queequeg asva middle name - the Q is key. Dante Q Showers-McCarvill. For a girl, Veda S Showers-McCarvill. S for Shaherazad.

Great news, congratulations! No suggestion for names, but I'm having fun reading those from others.

I like Bo for boy or girl.

next summerish...we hope to have enough money to visit the US (parents, wife's brother) as soon as possible, but....we would try to work it out if there is some chance of seeing you breeders

Vito in slovene is from Vitomil...perhaps Milo?

Is McCarville the last name for sure?

And: why not choose a cool last name too? Not that McCarville isn't but if, say, Agnes Smedley hadn't been used...

Congratulations Martin.

Max McCarvill Showers?

Ludovic
Letitia.

A boy named Sue ?

Boone for a boy. Because it goes with McCarvill.

Rahma was the name I would have given a girl if I had had one. It does not go with the last name though. Marian, perhaps?

>11 absurdeist: Enrique, my sister had a persona called "Margarita Palmtree" in her younger days (a kind of Ziggy Stardust character, a bubble of hyperreality granting her license to throw drinks on you and make out with strange boys and tape teakettles to the ceiling in a way that plain Nikky never could). I wonder if she'd take our using the name as a tribute or as, like, trying to annex her soul?

Mabel is a milkmaid, which has its good and bad, Ione and Skye are Ione Skye (I like Iona tho), Harvey is a six-foot rabbit, which is appealing, and Hans is Hansel, which I like a lot but Talia rejects with retching.

>12 baswood: Med is nice. Medellia?

>13 A_musing: I'd better get on reading the Vedas by February then. But Veda Scheherazade is lovely.

>15 RickHarsch: Milovit? Bo is body odour and Bo Jackson and "say, bo" and I dunno, man. We are gonna stay with some friends in Sweden for a bit but my mum's family will be dicks if I don't also go to Austria and you are right adjacent, so I hope paths will cross. You're also very welcome in East Vancouver.

>17 RickHarsch: McCarvill is colourless, but as Talia says, "in elementary school it's 'Never-Showers' and in high school its 'Golden Showers', and she seems pretty adamant that her kid's not gonna go through that.

>18 zenomax: Ludovic and Letitia are both good ones, seem likely to set the kid up for a life of weird happenings. Maxmilian has been mooted as a middle name with Milo. I've also considered Zeno, though I'm more of an Epicurus man.

Any votes on Linnea? Zane? (He'd have to be a Showers.) Saskia?

Anna, I really like Boone for somebody's kid but he sounds too tough to be my son. Like he won't respect me till I beat up or trap and skin the other dads. Marian is nice! Talia is not so sure. She is being difficult.

No shit, she gave Italy the boot.

Zane is a great name. Considered it for my own son, along with Zeno and Xan.

I have known two Vedas, each of them lovely human beings, so I have positive associations with the name. I have always wanted to know a Sheherazad.

I wish deep and long for a blank slate of a surname like Brown or Jones, allowing for more peacocking on the given names. Maybe Rick is right. Maybe we should give the kid his last name. Sheherazade Harsch.

Many, many congratulations!

We strongly considered Chloe and to a lesser degree Phoebe. Went with Hayley.

Boys names always leave me cold. Don't know why. Guess it's good that I never had one.

Again, congrats.

I love persian names like Alizedeh, Shahinaz, Sheherezad, Pakinam, etc. I actually personally am friends with a Shahinaz.

For the record: I like Boone.

ETA--but understand your concerns with it.

I only lurk here, but allow me to make my suggestions.

Tristan for a boy

Blythe for a girl

And may you have boy+girl twins!!

You do realize that whatever you pick the kid will probably dislike?

Call the girl Hermenegilde and she will wish you called her Jane. And the other way round.

Why not simply Rick Harsch. Boy or girl. Maybe the next one will be better? Give Rick a chance.

LOL

I want twins so much! I'm hoping one is hiding behind the other, shadowing it sardonically in the womb as it will certainly do in life. Rick, what would you name your twin given the chance? Hermenegilde Jane?

lqarl.....I suppose Doppelganger is taken. probably Curly McBadnik

MOCTEZUMA!

FEMALE: AXOLOTLA

21> You'd be nincompoops not to name your twins Margarita Palmtrees.

i.e., Moctezuma Margarita Palmatrees McCarville and Axolotla Margarito Palmtrees McCarville

Work nincompoop in and I'm sold. Current frontrunners for the (nonexistent, if they know what's good for them) twins: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Congratulations, Martin! And Talia!

Martini McCarvill sounds like a name begging to happen, just sayin'...

Where's that thread about citybaby? You got a goldmine right there.

Twins: Tosca and Titus

Aha! Yes. Time to stripmine citygirl's discarded names.

And Lola, Tosca is so good, but no one who dies! My kid's gonna buck that trend.

Everyone wants twins so much except the one who must bear them.

Infinitus?

Galactus Infinitus. The Living Tribunal.

How about Tom. Girl, maybe Laura.

Laura's more of a boy's name. And Tom of course only appropriate for a pet turkey.

I just thought you need some more standard suggestions for perspective: Pete, Margie...Elephantiasis, Tsetse...

Bruce and Brucella. Or Candide and Candida(iasis).

I have a novel with a woman named Candida Sickles--avoid anything close.

A data point here and that is all... My grandchildren are named August (boy) and Aziza (girl)

I have always liked Emma (my sister's name) but now it is the most popular baby name I do not think I'd choose it...

I think I told you guys that Chris' sons are both named variants on "John," Jack and Sean. We joke about what he would have named a third kid, Johann or Joanna perhaps!

I loved Emma, and Lily, and Sophia ... each time, my dreams were dashed. Now it's my turn to ruin someone else's dream.

But those are excellent grandchildren, Anna. Twins? The names suit it. What does Aziza mean?

My dear sweet mum suggested Rosie with such sweet dearness that I think we've become quite taken by it, but what might it be short for? I liked Rosa, but Talia thinks it's too Hispanic (bigot; see above). Rosemary is too herbal, Rosalind is Roz, Roswitha is obviously amazing, if only I could convince anyone else of that fact; any other possibilities for a little girl nicknamed Rosie, sadly bereft of a long-form name?

Roseanne

A taste of the Bright Light Quartet singing Sweet Roseanne (USians can hear the whole song free on Pandora).

I don't think there's a hard and fast rule about nicknames... If you start using Rosie--even for Violet--it will catch on.

Rosamund. And what's wrong with Rose? Too obvious?

51: Aziza means dear, in both senses... Cherished but also expensive :)

No they are not twins. They are a year apart. Aziza (the nickname is Ziza) is the oldest. I saw her just yesterday. She is 18 months.

I love Rosamund!

I like Rosamund too! What about Rosalie?

>55 MeditationesMartini: Oooo. I love both.

Yes!!!

Happy first, second, third, fourth and fifth birthday, Martin's baby!

>58 LolaWalser: Aw, thank you so much, Lola! I'll pass them on :). He's almost 10 now and his main interests are, let's see,

Austria (especially Fasching and Perchten)
animals (all kinds)
swimming, tree climbing, wrestling
bikes
transforming robots
"the elements" (Greek 4, Chinese 5, periodic table, etc.)
trashy app-based games
anime
fairies
singing, dancing, choreography
origami
yelling "fuck the police!" at the police (this will of course end poorly)
etymology
farts
pronunciation/accents/dialects
stop motion
the 80s
being a dick about not eating meat
gay rights being human rights
housing being a human right
how kids should have the right to vote
sticking his finger in his dad's belly button even though he knows I hate it (he still has a ways to go on other people's bodily autonomy)
preemptively mocking the other boys in his class ("all they care about is Lambos, guns, pepperoni, Lionel Messi, and picking on kids whose parents aren't married. And they loOooOve the police")
mocking people who don't know that dinosaurs had feathers (I told him only some of them had feathers, he didn't care)
anarchism generally
the boundary between the human world and the magic world
manifesting his dragon energy (but not in the Kanye/Trump way)

I wish he was more of a reader but overall I'm very pleased, 12/10.

yelling "fuck the police!" at the police (this will of course end poorly)

Hahahahahaaa! Don't worry, Old Papa, we'll organise a prison university and make a reader of him yet. :)

Thanks so much for this update, dear Martinus. Been a long time, but some of us don't forget. :)

So what's his name?

>60 LolaWalser: Awww, thanks Lola, that means a lot. I think of you all often :).

He's reading graphic novels ("Nimona," "Witch Boy") by himself readily now so there's still hope!

>61 Meredy: Emmett Milo Corwyn McCarvill--hammered out with much storm and strain between me and his mother (strain for a number of reasons--we weren't getting along, and also she's a pediatric nurse--NICU then, palliative now--and every name I liked reminded her of a dead kid). It's served him well enough, though I still wish I'd been able to sell her on Sacheverell.

Sacheverell

LOL you monster! :D That's a gorgeous triple handle on the boy.