Working at WIC has introduced me to a whole range of names that I never would have imagined existed as names.<\/p>\n
I have lived my entire life believing the Bible to be the best source for ideas in naming children.<\/p>\n
After all, my siblings are Anna, Joshua, Daniel, John, Timothy, and Grace. <\/p>\n
\/\/On a side note, the boys in my family appear in Biblical order of appearance: Joshua comes before Daniel who comes before John who comes before Timothy–while the girls in my family appear in reverse order of appearance: Anna comes after Rebekah who comes after the first appearance of Grace. This was NOT planned.<\/em>\/\/<\/p>\n When trying to be unique, I still relied on Scripture for my names. I imagined daughters with Biblical place names as their first names: Bethel, Tirzah, Shiloh. (Davene<\/a> has a beautiful Moriah.)<\/p>\n My second source of ideas for names was books, namely literature. Many of these names, of course, coincided with the Biblical names.<\/p>\n I could have a Jane, an Elizabeth, a William (I’m not pretentious enough to add the Fitz–and woe on the daughter named Kitty or Lydia.) I could have a Nancy, a Frank, or a Joe. I could have a Caroline, a Charles, a Laura, a Mary, or a Carrie. I could have Anne or Gilbert or Blythe (did you see what I just did there?)<\/p>\n The one book I never imagined getting names from was the thesaurus. But apparently, that is THE baby naming book of the decade.<\/p>\n Let’s give it a try. Start with a word, any word, and get looking.<\/p>\n I’ll start with HAPPY.<\/p>\n Thesaurus.com suggests “blessed, blest, blissful, blithe, can’t complain, captivated, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, content, contented, convivial, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exultant, flying high, gay, glad, gleeful, gratified, intoxicated, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, light, lively, looking good, merry, mirthful, on cloud nine, overjoyed, peaceful, peppy, perky, playful, pleasant, pleased, sparkling, sunny, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, up, upbeat, walking on air”.<\/p>\n Let’s get busy making naming trees now. <\/p>\n Blest<\/b> would be a good name–but it would be even better if spelled B’lest<\/b>. And its synonyms suggest: Adored<\/b> (probably pronounced Uh-Door-AY-d), Divine<\/b> (possibly spelled D’vine<\/b>), and Celebrate<\/b>.<\/p>\n Blissful’s synonyms are rich in possibility: Delighted<\/b> (clearly the best way to spell this would be DeeLyte<\/b>), Ecstatic<\/b> (spell this Xtatik<\/b>), Enchanted<\/b> (probably pronounced “EN-shahn-T” with a silent “ed”), Heavenly<\/b> (but this is too straightforward–best to spell it backwards as Yl-Neveah<\/b>, pronounced “I-ul-Nuh-VAY-ah” or “Ill-Nuh-VAY-ah”), Rapturous<\/b> (pronounced “Rap-TWO-russ”, of course.)<\/p>\n Give it a try. What names can YOU come up with?<\/p>\n Please note that all names are fictionalized. Any resemblance with actual WIC client names is entirely accidental. :-)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working at WIC has introduced me to a whole range of names that I never would have imagined existed as names. I have lived my entire life believing the Bible to be the best source for ideas in naming children. After all, my siblings are Anna, Joshua, Daniel, John, Timothy, and Grace. \/\/On a side … Read more A Naming Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11102,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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