emerald amethyst

[mumofsevenplusfour]

5 weeks to go dont know whether its addled baby brain /insomnia but these names suddenly came to mind last night
opinions please

liking emer do you nknow what it means will run it past dh

I like Emerald and think your reasoning is cogent. Esmeralda is Spanish for emerald and is more recognisably a name.

Glad you liked them . Pronunciation is difficult to explain in words but I would say

Eira - Ay (as in hay) ra (as in rabbit) but I have come across it pronounced Eye-ra too
Eirawen - Ay-ra-when
Eirlys - Eye-r-liss
Enfys - Env (as in envy) iss
Bronwen is much as it looks, hence translates to English pretty well

If you are looking for wintry names how about Nieve or Neve, meaning snow (and could be anglicised forms of Niamh)

Emer was the wife of Cuchulainn, a mythological Irish hero. Some of the legendabout them. She was said to possess the six gifts of womanhood: beauty, a gentle voice, sweet words, wisdom, skill at needlework and chastity.

Good joke

Not keen on Amethyst but Emerald is very nice. Don't let the scoffers sway you...

Well blow me down I am normally very conservative with bnames, but I like these.

I thought originally that you were going to use them together, now that would be insane beyond belief, but seperately Emerald or Amnethyst are very nice names, albeit slghtly twee/Colbys.

If you like them, I would go for them tbh.

thank you lady thompson and telsa beginning to feel i was in a minority of one and was completely loosing it . i just dont see why if ruby violet etc are making comebacks emrald is so frowned upon agree with you abput amethyst
but emer is really appealing

Furthermore, no one has the Victorian vapours when the name 'Ruby' is mentioned (is it the second most popular name in Britain or something?) so don't see why other gemstone names cause a kerfuffle...

Emerald
Topaz
Garnet

and so on, all nice in my view.

I like Emerald as a name, I would use Emmy as NN (I know an Emmie age 10yo).

lady thompson know where you are coming from thought i might get some negative comments but really surprised by how many and how vehement they are

Emer is nice; it's pronounced EE-mer. So Emmy wouldn't really be a nn for Emer...

Actually, thinking about Emerald, I like it too. Also Esmerelda. I know it's a different name entirely, but it got me thinking about Esperanza too (hope).

Welsh names -- Angharad (beloved) is fab, imo, also Kerenza (Cornish 'love'))

dh is beginning to like emerald as are some of the older dcs so there is hope

I like Emerald - its different - grannyish in a cool way imo. But I'm not Irish so not sure how its viewed there.

AMethyst - ok - maybe it could be nn Ammie.

Another vote for Emerald. I think it's pretty, unusual and I like the reasoning behind it 'Emerald Isle' etc. Emmie is a lovely nn too. Also I'm with LadyThompson - just because it's more unusual, why is Emerald being scoffed at when Ruby is currently one of the most popular girls names?... it maketh no sense to me! Ruby is a nice name but why not go for something more original?

Now i may be wrong but didn't an ex-boy-band member (Lee Ryan??) call his son Amethyst?

Ah yes, Googled it now - Rayn Amethyst Ryan.

So there you have it. It's a boy's name.

I don't like 'EEmer' as NN, it sounds quite ugly to me, I'm afraid! Almost but not quite Elmer the Elephant...

Emmer (if it were pronounced the way it's written) is the derisive NN used by Archers fans for the Emma character in the Radio Soap (as pronounced by William). So I wouldn't go for that one either, personally!!

Topaz sounds cool, though -- imvho.

Isla?
Amber?

I know an Emer, I like it.
Emerald sort of growing on me the more i say it.

LOL at Rayn Ryan....

i am the same the more i say it the more it grows on me up until yesterday when emerald came to mind i had loved cecily but dh had vetoed it as weird etc so ikept trawling the namebooks for something i loved as much and the more i say emerald the more i love it .however dh has now asked mil and fil their opinions and they love cecily so now so does he for the last 6 weeks i would have been delighted and would have given up name hunting but now its no please let me have emerald . its not that i dont love cecily its just i prefer emerald