Message: "Hypatia" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Hypatia

by noel (glaucous)

4/29/2018, 8:28 AM

What would you think if you met someone named Hypatia?
Do you think it'd be a difficult name to have?
Or, what are your thoughts on Hypatia, in general?

Normally, I'd probably say I dislike that it sounds similar to hype and hyper, but it was on someone's list in the naming game thread below, and my eye was drawn to it. I picked it over names that I consider favorites.

#Hypatia

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- Cayden (theparkite)

4/30/2018, 3:25 PM

I actually have met someone named Hypatia. The name suited her — she was intellectual, unconventional, and a bit cynical. I love the name but think it could only work on a certain kind of person.

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- number1212

4/29/2018, 2:54 PM

I don’t think it would be that hard to have but it is unusual. I’m not really into it that much.

- Gracie (YMPvt) +2

4/29/2018, 1:39 PM

I used it also in that thread and am drawn to it, but I'm not sure. I hate the PAYSH part and I'm not sure what I would shorten it to. It embodies everthing to mw for a girl thag Horatio does for a boy.

- noel (glaucous) +1

4/29/2018, 6:47 PM

Interesting...I don't really like Horatio, but it does strike me as charismatic.

- Pie

4/30/2018, 1:04 AM

Same. I think it's the Hurray! part; very cheery

- Mar (X-Mar)

4/29/2018, 11:36 AM

I would pronounced the HY- part in this name as HEE-, so for me it's not similar to Hyper / Hype.

I wouldn't want to have this name. It'd be okay as a MN, but I really wouldn't like it to be my FN.

It's not really my tatse, but I appreciate the history behind the name.

- RoxStar

4/29/2018, 9:35 AM

I'd feel kind of sorry for anybody stuck with Hypatia as a name. It sounds like a disease. Like hypatia of the liver, where your liver bulges out, or hypatia of the eyelids, where your eyelids turn inside out or something unpleasant like that.

- Pie +2

4/29/2018, 9:25 AM

I think it would have major pronunciation problems, and my liking or not would depend on how the person pronounced it. Forvo says it's ippa-tia in Greek, and Hippa Tia in English, but I think that most English speakers would probably guess Hip Aysha or High Paysha or maybe even Hype At Ya. And of those, the Greek version is the only one that sounds okay to me.

Interesting namesake, though!

- Tassiegirl +1

4/29/2018, 1:00 PM

Never having heard it uttered, I would have said High Paysha, guessing.

- noel (glaucous)

4/29/2018, 2:02 PM

That's the only way I've heard it.

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