Random thought: Kris and variants

[pne]

I think that the spellings "Kristina" / "Kristopher" / "Kris" with initial K- look ugly. As in, icky icky "who would want to call their child that, that's just Wrong" ugly.

Oddly enough, perhaps, I'm fine with "Kristen", "Kristin", and "Kirsten" (and "Kerstin", which I haven't seen on a native English speaker)—possibly because I haven't seen those names spelled with Chr-.

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Re: Welsh names

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

"Meredith" is lovely. I really like it, and it's common enough for people to have heard of it (unlike "Gareth," which is funny because it's *so* common in the UK) but not so common that there's one in every family.

G's sister is named Bronwen. The only other Welsh names I know off the top of my head are Gwyneth and Megan (quoth my [US/UK dual citizen] friend Megan: "I get really tired of everyone assuming it's Irish. It's Welsh! Welsh!").

Names are such funny things, especially when you consider all the names in a family. Gareth's [Scottish] mum's brothers are Bruce, Iain and Hamish (he doesn't find this as amusing as I do); his [Welsh] dad's brother and sister are Glyn and Carys. Lots of pride in one's heritage going on there!

Then there's me and my sister, Bethany and Susanna. (My mom says it's 'cause our last name was so short.)