Hello! Okay, so I kept rambling about names on my tumblr, which is totally fine and how i want my tumblr to be. butttttt i wanted to condense it a little and also i was maxxing out the tag limit. so here :3

here is my current list of "fav" names, tbh im not super happy w it cuz i love so many others and a lot of these were added like 4 yrs ago lol.

i don't have anything to say about the normal western names. like yeah, everyone loves evelyn. it has many unique nickname options, and imo potential for some completely new nicknames (which is important if ur looking to name ur kid). right now, i'd like to talk about the more eastern european names. mostly slavic, the only eastern european non slavic name up there rn is boglarka i think, which is hungarian. also some jewish names but idk where they would fit into that binary (eastern european vs non eastern european, thoguhts for another day!). i think i generally used the russian spellings above, but i don't really have a preference for spelling, u just usually see russian spellings and also i don't have like, the polish keyboard. idk.

anyway! i would say my top name of all time is oksana, as of right now. it has been a fav of mine for a while to be honest. i just love the way it feels to say. u should try it!!!! in general, i am a big fan of the letter k. it doesn't really change sound much in english (are there actually any alternatives to the way it sounds in, say, kick? not that i can think of, even when combined w n like in plank it is the same sound), which is a virute i think! i am not a fan of the letter c, too fluid and not at all dependable. i feel that c and k are polar opposites in that regard, despite often making the same sound. oksana obviously has a very prominent k sound, which is a large part of why i like it. the letter k doesn't really make many appearances in my list, but idk it is a fav of mine.

now obviously oksana has letters other than k, which contribute to my love as well. i think the other consonants are much softer than the k (or whatever the trait is in the booba vs kiki thing is, ykwim), smoother maybe, which almost soothes your mouth after the k? that is a weird way to describe it, but like i think the letter n has a very similar feel/vibe as butter, or another fat, but specifically butter due to the creaminess (also similar to "thock" in the keyboard world, but idk much abt keyboards and that is probably a more niche reference).