Help! Which name do you like?
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Help! Which name do you like?
| Fri, 03-16-2007 - 9:47pm |
Help! Which name do you like?
- Benna Ashling Rosario
- Kennedy Taylor Rosario
- Blair Ashling Rosario
You will be able to change your vote.

It would be nice to have a name...or version ...that stated gender clearly...or the child might have people wondering if they are a boy or girl....
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Assuming Benna should be Brenna, I rather like that and only that. Blair is okay but at the present time seems very 1980s-dated (and so too is Taylor, which I like even less), Kennedy I find far too trendy and almost patronizing to the child... it's hard to imagine an adult Kennedy in a position of power or prominence. What I'm really wondering, though, is why Ashling rather than Aislinn? I have a very strong preference for using Gaelic spellings for Gaelic names. I see no need to resort to a flimsy Anglicized form, especially for a middle name where confusion over pronunciation will rarely be a problem. My vote would be for Brenna Aislinn Rosario, which I think is lovely, if that were an option. The others are all thumbs-down from me.
A few other ideas along similar lines:
Kenna (a modern feminine form of Kenneth, much less likely than Kennedy or similar trendy names like Kendall to sound dated in a few years, and shares an Irish Gaelic origin with several of your choices, meaning 'handsome')
Kendra (origin uncertain, possibly a feminine form of Kendrick, either from Welsh 'head' or 'top' or Old English 'royal ruler.')
Kerensa (Cornish, meaning 'love,' a very uncommon name, but then Jennifer was an obscure Cornish name once, too)
Brynn/Brynne ('hill' in Welsh, similar in sound to Brenna, with the unisex quality of Blair, minus the dated feel)
Blythe ('cheerful' in Old English, similar in sound and unisex appeal to Blair, but, again, without the dated feel)
Bryony (bree-uh-nee, the name of a plant, from Greek originally but with a very British feel, shares sounds with Brenna and Kennedy without the problems of the latter.)