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I have discovered the most fantastic girls name, it is so cool, I might have to have a baby to call her that.

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Carmenere · 15/08/2008 23:02

Well obviously I won't as I hated all the horrid pregnancy and childbirth nonsense but I heard this name today and after googling it I think it is FABULOUS.

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PoorOldEnid · 16/08/2008 19:23

UnquietDad · 16/08/2008 12:04

Statia sounds like the plural of status.

Blu · 16/08/2008 11:50

Statia is very frequent in S London schools - a popular choice in black families a few years ago - along with Alicia. I know two personally.

Bronze · 16/08/2008 11:42

Jim Decks harridan of a wife who adored Meryon and fed him toffees. I love those books in fact those and the punchbowl ones are my favourite books ever.

RustyBear · 16/08/2008 11:38

Any of the Monica Edwards fans on here remember Stacia Decks, from the Romney Marsh books?

MmeLindt · 16/08/2008 11:15

Forgot to say, I like the sound of Statia, but not the look of it iykwim.

MmeLindt · 16/08/2008 11:14

Some lovely names on this thread.

Expat, I love your DCs names, Struan is a fab strong name.

My DCs have Scottish names too, DD is Catriona and DS Connor.

We live in Germany and new friends sometimes struggle over DD's name at first (the adults not the DCs) but they soon learn the right pronounciation.

PoorOldEnid · 16/08/2008 11:12

statia is horrible

not pretty

sounds like station

mind you I am tempted to have another one and hope its a boy so I can call him Leonard.

PoorOldEnid · 16/08/2008 11:12

statia is horrible

not pretty

sounds like station

mind you I am tempted to have another one and hope its a boy so I can call him Leonard.

DisenchantedPlusBump · 16/08/2008 11:04

How do you pronounce Eilidh?

RnB · 16/08/2008 11:01

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Bronze · 16/08/2008 10:46

Oh I like Naomi. I also like Esther and Miriam. I've noticed more and more people are choosing names related to their roots.
I have a Nia.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:34

That is cool, though, Weegie. My mother is in a Bible study course just now and finding it very interesting.

I like Cicely as a girl's name, too. But so shallow as pinched it from one of Thomas More's daughters.

Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:32

No bother.
I wrote an essay on it recently, so it is still near the top of my mind!

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:32

It's an Old Testament name, IIRC.

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:31

Thanks for the references. Naomi/Mara.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:30

Aha! I knew one of them had also been called Mara. Couldn't remember which, though.

Been a long time since I read the Bible.

But no shortage of good names in there!

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:29

Expat, lovely names.

I chose Naomi because its Hebrew for 'pleasant' which she is.

Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:28

I thought Pear sounded a bit Gwyneth, expat!

See my post below for Naomi/Mara biblical reference!

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:28

I like Levi for a boy's name, too, because I like how Leah thought about her predicament when she named each of her sons. 'God has seen me in my misery and made me fruitful.'

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:27

Pearl. I wanted to call DD1 Pearl.

thankfully, DH vetoed that.

Remotew · 16/08/2008 00:27

Thanks expat glad you like it. But I havent a clue what you are talking about 'Mara' or 'Ruth'. I'm intrigued. Not me! Was it interesting?

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:26

I loves a good story behind a name!

Back when I was in a haze of hormones and DD1 was born with no name, I wanted to call her Pear for Hester Prynn's daughter in 'The Scarlett Letter'. 'Like one bought at great cost'.

But she didn't look it and so she had no name and we were in hospital for days as I had an infection after a traumatic delivery.

The midwives all loved DD1, as she was a good and contented baby, so they were take her away to the nurses station.

As one was putting her back in her cot she said, 'If you ask me, she looks a wee Eilidh'.

She did.

Her name suits her.

Roisin always looked like a Roisin.

Weegiemum · 16/08/2008 00:25

Naomi called herself Mara after her husband died.
It sounds like the Hebrew word for 'bitter', as her life would be bitter without a husband.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2008 00:23

I like Naomi. Wasn't her name 'Mara' before that? I may have that confused with the Ruth story, though. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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