To wonder who would call a child Elektra?

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Heard this when out yesterday. Didn't the original Elektra want to kill her mother?
Also the mother (real one, not the Greek one) had the table manners of a famished farmhand.

These judgey pants are terribly tight!

Barry Geronimo Smith is brilliant. You'd really warm to his parents.

I like India but it's probably best left to little girls whose great, great grandfathers were the governor general.

Oh and Allegra as in Lord Byron's daughter.

I know an Elektra and I wonder if it is the same child!

It suited her from the moment she was born, and although I did when my sister told me the name (not my sisters child, her friends) at the connotations, in fact I may even have asked if the name for a boy would be Oedipus, it is her now. Same as the little boy called Elvis that lives a couple of streets away and goes to the kids school. We were all a bit eyebrows raised when we first heard his name, but now he is just Elvis, no one gives it a seconds thought.

Sometimes the name is too much for a child to carry, especially if they are not particularly confident or outgoing, but Elektra and Elvis (wouldnt it be great if they got married?! :o) both carry their names well.

I am loving Barry Geronimo Smith!

My sons friend named his son Anakin, which I always felt was a bit .... wet sounding. Maybe because he is in the films, despite supposedly being a bad guy!

I taught a Regan once so that is definitely used.

I love the name Electra

I really like it. Dp wanted to call dd Persephone which I vetoed because everyone would have nicknamed her Percy.

A distant relative of mine is called Jael. I can't imagine what her parents were thinking of. Perhaps they didn't know what the Biblical Jael was famous for:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael

Same kind of people who call their daughter Lola. They don't know the origin of the name so just think it sounds cute or posh.

I do love Greek names, euphonically I think they're wonderful. So for that reason I like Elektra and Phaedre. However because of the distinctly unfortunate connotations I think it would be downright silly to use them.

One of my favourite names is Oenone, however she is another depressing character in Phèdre so I would never use it.

I was nearly called Regan. Not after the character in King Lear but after the girl in the Exorcist. There are some dozy people out there who shouldn't be allowed to name babies. Thankfully I ended up with a normal (albeit horrible) name.

And I had a boyfriend at school called Geronimo.

There was an Electra when I worked in a nursery about 20 years ago, there was also a Butterfly and a boy called BJ - that was his actual name, poor boy.

I know a Persephone and DD has a friend called Kya.

I wanted to call DD2 India-Rose but DH said no. DS2 would like to change his name, to Rex!

Elektra is nice.

While we're on goddesses, perhaps Ananke, the goddess of necessity. Or Nike, once of victory, but ruined by shoes, and gits who pronounce it to rhyme with like.

Re Regan I think I have come across that

I hope not as part of an exorcism.

It's not just greek myths that should be researched

My name is from Greek mythology and was not chosen with the original in mind but because my mum liked the name.

I know a Regan as well. We could almost play name bingo!

I have a Phoebe, Phoebe was the name of an original Titan, i wonder if i have more kids i should carry on down the greek mythology route.

I quite like Phaedra.

At least they will be unique in their class/workplace. Everywhere my DD and DS go there are at least two others with their names.

I wonder who would call a child Elektra?
Mr and Mrs Keel.
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According to one of the midwives when I had ds3, they had to give a lady a biology lesson when she had her first baby, a boy.
The lady had explained that she loved Ancient Greek type names. Had the baby been a girl, they were going to call her Persephone. He was a boy, and they decided to call him.........Oesophagus :o

The midwife explained why this wasn't a good idea, they changed their minds and called him Harry instead.

I would love to post some of the names of children my late mother taught but it would totally out me, her and them.

Pretty much all names with a history will have negative connotations, I really don't see why we should be considered bound by versions of myths. There are likely as many if not more good namesakes with the name than negative. For example, Salome is the name Josephus gave to the unnamed girl in the Christian texts causes the name to be frowned upon, but Queen Salome Alexandra was said to have brokered one of the greatest peace in the area, one of the few to rule by herself, and was said to have caused miracles to occur for the people (and some debate that her name was specifically used by the paid Josephus to tarnish her name).

SomethingkindofOod - The Persephone mythos was quite corrupted by the Romans, tends to leave out that deities don't have to eat and therefore her choosing to eat can be viewed as deliberate act of defiance. In most earlier stories, she is either found and taken care of or deliberately ran to Hades (and in many cases actively wanted to marry him), it's only latter the kidnapping and such appear to have been added to give certain morals to the story.

Oesophagus! That's terrible!!!! Like triplets called Malleus, Incus and Stapes!!!

My next door neighbour years ago called her daughter Nevaeh "because it's heaven but backwards." Gave myself a wedgy with my own judgy pants.

I have a Lilith who we didn't name after Fraiser but as she was a symbol of the Suffragettes and a feminist icon (Lilith Fair, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Lilith magazine etc). She was going to be an only child so DH & I wanted a strong feminine name and Lilith definitely fulfils that brief. She has 3 sisters now though all of whom have equally weird meaningful names

On teaching practice, years and years ago, there was a child named Demi-Adidas.