Comments on: Green Day

By: Mookie

Mookie — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:19:20 +0000

I’m definitely warming up to the idea of a little Clover with a nickname of Cleo!

By: Emmy Jo

Emmy Jo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:57:55 +0000

I love Ivy, and I think Clover has potential to be a fascinating middle name. (It’s a little too hippie up front, at least for my tastes, but I might not mind it as a first name on someone else’s child.)

Yara is neat — I’d never heard that one before.

And I’m trying to like Basil. It’s a name I respect, but I can’t yet bring myself to really like it.

By: Bizzy

Bizzy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:46:36 +0000

Forgot Ivy! I adore Ivy, too.

By: Bizzy

Bizzy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:45:46 +0000

How refreshing! I love it. Green is my second favorite color, after purple.

I’m intrigued by Apple (I don’t see what all the fuss is about…), Fern, Kelly for a boy, Pthalo, Spring, and Yara.

I also think Clover may just be going on my list somewhere (you’re not alone, Bek)!

By: Bek

Bek — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:12:23 +0000

Oh, and Ivy gets a big thumbs up too. Love Ivy.

By: Bek

Bek — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:12:02 +0000

I think that Leif, while properly pronounced LAY not LEE, is easily Americanized and recognizably accepted as such. One of my favorites…

Fern, of course, is a dear love. And I admit that Clover has been growing on me (blush)

Perhaps I should see if the husband would be inspired by his favorite color (though he wears orange for St. Paddy’s Day)

By: youcantcallitit

youcantcallitit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:44:12 +0000

Jessica, it could easily be that the ones I’ve known are incorrectly Americanizing Leif, and so too now am I. Thanks for that.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:32:40 +0000

Leif “sounds just like one”? Really?? Cause every Leif I know pronounces it like LAY-if. (ages 8, 12 and 35-ish)

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:46:23 +0000

Oh green is such a peaceful color, I can see why little Hoolie prefers it!

I know a Viridia, she was in several of my art classes in college. Nasty girl but pretty name!
From the rest of the list, Beryl’s sweet, Esmeralda was a great aunt of mine (and I’d kill to use it, but Esmeralda MacK-? too clashy!) and Kelly is one I’d LOVE on a boy!
I’d name a blueish cat Verde, for the Opera more than the color but still…
And Pthalo? Awesome sound.

A Spring in my house would get “Boing” sounds following her around all the time!) Sad, but true.

Neat post, Elisabeth, I’m already tired of ‘All things Irish’ (I’m Scottish!) So colors were just what my battered soul needed today, Thanks!