I don't know how it started but my fascination with making names is not only focused on the characters of the stories I write, but also with my cousins or my friends kids to my gadgets. Yes, I do name my gadgets. I have this belief that once you name your gadgets, you treat them with more care so there's less chance of them getting "destroyed" easily.
The very first name that I created was for the doll my mom gave me when I was in 5th grade. It was given to her by a foreigner she worked with. The name was a really long one and I don't know how I came up with it. "Maria Carmen Lainne Anne Dianne Marie Kirsten". Don't ask me how I call her coz I don't remember myself. Next was the "hotdog" body pillow my aunt made for me. "G-force". And no it wasn't shaped as a guinea pig. I loved watching the anime G-force.
The very first person I named was my cousin. She was the second "girl" in the family after me. I'm the eldest of 18 cousins and she was born 12/13 years after me so I was excited to finally have someone on my side. Her name's quite long and believe it or not she hates me for naming her. Hahaha. "Therese Georgene Rapunzel". The first one was after the saint, which was featured on a magazine I was reading when she was born. The second name is the combination of her father & mother's name. The last one was supposed to be a joke. I did not know that my aunt included it until we saw her birth certificate.
After that, I made a few more names, for my stories that is. In college, my name making "intensified" coz I would make names of my "future kids" with my crushes. Other girls would write their names with the crushes family names, me I write my kids names. I also made a name for my bestfriend's "imaginary kid". "Rae Nickole" nicknamed "Raene".
I have made quite a few names for my "kids" as well. I f you count it, it might be more than 20. However whenever I make names for my "imaginary kids", you would always find two names that I use frequently. Isabel & Gabriel. I love these names. I've settled that one day, when I have my own kids, they will definitely have these names.
The most recent names I made was for my goddaughter and my baby cousin. My goddaughter's name was made way back in college when her mom was having a MAJOR crush on her dad. "Francine Christianne". My cousin's name I got from the Internet and from a Japanese drama I was watching at that time. "Aalliyah Reika".
I started naming my gadgets just recently. Most of my fangirl friends give names to their gadgets. At first I find it funny to name gadgets but when my laptop and Ipod video "died", I realized I have to name them so I would take care of them more. So now, my gadgets have names. My laptop's "Kin" because he's silver and kin is silver in Japanese. My ipod shuffle's "Sakura" coz she's pink and pink reminds me of cherry blossoms. My camera's "Sashii"coz shashin is picture in Japanese. My cellphone's "Kagami-chan", kagami is mirror in Japanese. My External HD is "Chiisa", chiisa is small in Japanese, my e-reader's "Yon-kun", it comes from the word yonde, meaning read, and my ipad's "Mado-chan", which means window.
Right now, I have two new Cabbage Patch dolls, well three actually but I gave the smallest one to my niece. And they have the names of my "future" kids... "Shinichi Gabriel & Risako Isabel". I don't think I'll ever stop making names. Making names kinda makes me happy. What about you? What is your favorite name?
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