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Artemis?
What do you think of Artemis?
(I loved this name as a kid, it was a favourite book character of mine!)
Edit: For a boy.
Cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, breast-feeding, C-section Mama
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Re: Artemis?
Where I live in Southern Ohio, the Artemis Center is for abused women and children. So I think of that instantly. But I doubt that would carry where you are.
Otherwise I like it for a boy.
I like it for a girl, because of the connection to the goddess.
Post edited based on reading more about the subject.
haha that's exactly what I was thinking!
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This. Sorry--I totally get loving a literary name.
Wait, Artemis Fowl is a male character? WTF?! It's the name of a Greek goddess and it's been feminine for like 2500 years. I don't care how popular Artemis Fowl is, for the love of western civilization please only use it for a girl.
ETA: I actually really love it *for a girl*. But not a boy. I can't emphasize how strongly I feel about that.
It's actually not the first time I've heard it for a boy. There's a famous local revolutionary buried in the Minorcan cemetary named General Artemis Something, there's Artimus from Lynyrd Skynyrd...honest to God, I thought the name was unisex, what with the amount of times I've heard it for both sexes!!
:shrug: All I can say is how I feel about it. I haven't ever heard of it as a male name, and considering how strong an influence Greek mythology has always had on western culture, it just seems really bizarre to me, like naming your daughter Zeus or Apollo. I'm just sayin', I think most people who hear the name will think your DS is a girl, especially if you spell it as Artemis (a lot of the male versions seem to be different spellings and might have different origins). Or maybe I'm wrong. I learned about Greek mythology in elementary school, but it's been 25 years and maybe nobody thinks it's important anymore. (My dad read Greek myths to me at a young age, and I majored in classics, so this is really a passion of mine, if you couldn't tell.)