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Daenerys. Unusual but pretty or just weird?

118 replies

lisa2104 · 26/09/2012 22:27

This is the name of a character in tv programme/book Game of Thrones. She is a strong beautiful woman and I love the name but I am not sure whether it is just too weird. Please can I get your opinions?

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Uppercut · 30/09/2012 18:59

Reminds me of a woman I once knew who named her son Frodo.

She more or less single-handedly convinced me that giving children names of popular fanatasy fiction characters should be a criminal offence.

amandine07 · 30/09/2012 18:17

Not heard of tho name before- seems utterly bizarre to me, as if it's an anagram or something. Sorry, I don't really have anything helpful to add!

bigmouthstrikesagain · 28/09/2012 13:44

If I heard the name 'Arya' - it would be pronounced 'aria' and so make me think of opera and there is a character in US teen melodrama pretty little liars called Aria

bigmouthstrikesagain · 28/09/2012 13:40

Yes Seeker my children's names are not fictional creations - I suppose every name has been 'created' made-up I do prefer a longer history behind the names I choose. Tried and tested. Family names are good to create/ maintain links with earlier generations but I am wandering OT here - sorry.

TheMightyMojoceratops · 28/09/2012 13:39

If I met a girl called Arya I would think of "Aryan" and suspect the parents of having unpleasant views. Sorry.

BrittaPerry · 28/09/2012 13:36

I want loads of cats named after got charecters :-)

I think it is a very pretty name, but maybe as a middle name?

Grace Rose ok, but both too popukar for my liking.

Arya Daenerys?

Trills · 28/09/2012 13:36

GRRM is nobody's bitch. Sadly.

ItMustBeSaturday · 28/09/2012 13:29

I prefer it to Khaleesi and actually like the short 'Dany' but like Arya even more. I know a little Arwen. It suits her.

NimChimpsky · 28/09/2012 13:24

I loved Kitiara.

Ephiny · 28/09/2012 13:08

Trills I was hoping the relentless advance of the TV series might hurry him up to write a bit faster...

But then GRRM is not our bitch. Or HBO's, presumably.

seeker · 28/09/2012 12:55

But presumably not a name made up specifically for the playwright/novelist?

bigmouthstrikesagain · 28/09/2012 12:51

I have used singers and song titles for my daughters names and ds is named after a victorian playwright/ novellist

Trills · 28/09/2012 12:51

We'll probably still be waiting for the next book by the time OP's daughter is in school

I agree.

I do worry what will happen when all of the existing books have been made into TV but the next book is not written.

bigmouthstrikesagain · 28/09/2012 12:50

Hmm - but you would have to use 'storm born' as her middle name and marry her off to her brother as is the family tradition - Arya - much better. Wink

Ephiny · 28/09/2012 12:49

And I was named after a Dr Who assistant Hmm. I got over it!

Ephiny · 28/09/2012 12:48

Forgotten about in a couple of years?! Shock Angry

We'll probably still be waiting for the next book by the time OP's daughter is in school :)

But personally, no, I wouldn't name my child after a fantasy character (though I would secretly like to use Kitiara or Elora)

seeker · 28/09/2012 12:45

I just think I would like to be able to tell my child more about their name than "oh, she was a character on the telly".

NimChimpsky · 28/09/2012 12:43

Why not seeker. I'm named after an obscure song nobody sings anymore.

seeker · 28/09/2012 12:40

Are you all absolutley sure you want to name your baby after a character in a series of fashionable books\TV programmes that will be forgotten about in a couple of years?

misscomanche · 28/09/2012 12:34

I love it. And I haven't seen/read GoT, just thought it was a pretty name and wondered if it was Welsh!

evilgiraffe · 28/09/2012 11:41

I love the character, but wouldn't call a child this name. How about Sansa? I know she's a bit wet, but it's a lovely name.

PeshwariNaan · 28/09/2012 05:36

Arya's good though - a great, strong character and a nice name!

PeshwariNaan · 28/09/2012 05:35

Dany is a character who gets more and more pathetic with each new GoT installment. Don't do it!!!

OTheHugeManatee · 28/09/2012 00:42

I knew an Eowyn at school. She was forever marked as someone whose parents really loved The Lord Of The Rings Hmm

Think this might be a bit like that, sorry.

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 28/09/2012 00:29

Arya has a meaning in Sanskrit- it's not a George RR Martin original. And Italian if you spell it Aria of course