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Help[Opinions] Re: Twin girls
in reply to a message by Wordsmith
Yeah, this set looks like Chloe Sophia got the short end of the stick. In theory it works, they're all "simple Greek names that are used easily in English". But in terms of how commonly these names are actually used, Chloe and Sophia are basic while Thea and Selene are nicer and more thought out. In the US, Chloe Sophia could easily be a "careless" name many people would give their baby without thinking about it, but Thea Selene is a name you know they thought about.
(Not that you can't call your kid Chloe Sophia because you thought about it and liked it, but it has the same feel as giving your kid the middle name Marie because of your great-grandmother named Marie -- you had a good reason but it could look careless because tons of people use it just because it's the first thing they thought of that sounded nice. With Thea Selene you can tell that it wasn't just the first nice-sounding name they thought of.)
ETA: okay maybe not all Greek, I guess I confused Thea with Theia
(Not that you can't call your kid Chloe Sophia because you thought about it and liked it, but it has the same feel as giving your kid the middle name Marie because of your great-grandmother named Marie -- you had a good reason but it could look careless because tons of people use it just because it's the first thing they thought of that sounded nice. With Thea Selene you can tell that it wasn't just the first nice-sounding name they thought of.)
ETA: okay maybe not all Greek, I guess I confused Thea with Theia
This message was edited 11/15/2023, 1:07 PM
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Thea could still be Greek couldn’t it, since it’s a diminutive of Greek names Dorothea and Theodora? But yeah, Theia would be more Greek.
Now that I looked into Theia, it says she was the mother of Selene, so the combo Thea Selene is a bit weird to me now, although at first I thought it was stunning.
Now that I looked into Theia, it says she was the mother of Selene, so the combo Thea Selene is a bit weird to me now, although at first I thought it was stunning.
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