Nomina

[porphyry]

[Poll #1605142]

Comments

[majolika.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING BUT FELIX OMG!

[majolika.livejournal.com]

Who has voted for Felix? Go away, terrible voter from hell!

[vonjunzt.livejournal.com]

I almost picked Assurbanipal but, despite the fact that he basically drove the Empire into the ground due to his bizarre religious predilictions, I still prefer the Neo-Babylonian Nabonidus to the Neo-Assyrian.

Of course, why Zoroaster didn't make the list, I'll never know.

Incidentally, I already know a man who named his son Gilgamesh. He's also coauthor of The Bible for Dummies.

[filialucis]

Please, please tell me you aren't actually serious... :P

[clodia-metelli.livejournal.com]

So... is this my hypothetical offspring or someone else's? Because if mine, I would totally be voting for Drusus or Mithridates (Assurbanipal is rather outside my usual sphere of operation), but somehow I feel I should be more responsible with other people's.

On the other hand, have you considered Globulus? Or Hildebrand?

[med_cat]

None of the above! And certainly not "Shaloski" :P

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Being innocent when it comes to the "Felix" lapse above I hereby admit Assurbanipal having been not entirely serious a suggestion. Here in Bordeaux I know both a Washington (from Brazil) and a much more common but in french pronounciation lovely (I find) Davide.
I think, having gotten a more than old-fashioned (not even popular in the middle ages and no, I won´t admit what it is, though one or the other reader might already know) first name by my parents (got myself another one; lent from my nickname at age 16), I am all on your line and for a practical, child-friendly first variety and then; do have a ball with Zoroaster and/or Mithridates as second name, how about that to restore peace at home?

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Ex has seven first names all causing comments of anything from spite to amusement at borders where passports are shown and one of them is Nepomuk.

[lapidus-93.livejournal.com]

Felix is happy...

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

I suspect Felix is only doing so well because of the alternatives. I would be curious to see what the survey would look like with some more traditional names on them...like Daniel, or Anthony. ;)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I wonder why you didn't include Napoleon in your poll?