SGA genderswap thoughts again: Lorne's name

[eliyes]

Okay, so I have this AU where Lorne's a woman and Cadman's a man. Cadman's name is easy enough to parse: Laura = Laurence. Larry. (Ronon is a woman, but since, according the character in the show, Ronon works as a name for a boy or a girl, I'm not changing it. *laziness vindicated!*)

I am waffling about Lorne's first name. Canonical male Lorne is named Evan. Now, there's a variety of female names I can get by extrapolating off that (I've even seen some people claim Evan is a perfectly fine name for a girl.) I've been defaulting to Evangelica (sometimes Evangeline) with Eva as a pet form. The thing is, Evan has been in the top 100 names for boys in the US for a few decades and has been in the top 600 since 1900, whereas neither of those girls' names are nearly so common as that. Hence the waffling. Evelyn has been even more common than Evan, and Eva has stayed in the top 400. I've also seen Evania listed as a feminized form of Evan.

And thus, a poll:
[Poll #1252624]

Addendum the first! madripoor_rose has suggested Yvonne. If you would like to vote for that, post agreement under her comment, I guess. (If there's a way to edit a poll after it's posted, I haven't found it yet.)

Addendum the second! If there's a particular reason why you pick a name, feel free to tell me what it is. :3

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Yvonne?

Sound off people who vote for Yvonne

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I have seen Evonne when I was looking for Ev- lists but yeah, Yvonne might work.

Dammit, I wish I could edit polls. X3

for my own infos

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

"polling" people in AIM
ed- Eva
wolf- Evelyn
syv- Evelyn
ani- Evelyn

[starwatcher]

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I 'hear' voices in my head when I read, and 'Evelyn' *sounds* most like 'Evan'.
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[eliyes.livejournal.com]

You're the third person to tell me that. It's looking like 'Evelyn' is the definite favourite! ;D

Also, actually, interesting anecdote:

I took a class a couple of years ago and someone somehow brought up that when they read they basically 'hear' the words. The prof thought that was very strange, and because she was a bitch who seemed to like to alienate her students* she said that was very weird and asked if anyone else did that. Everyone present raised their hands to show they did. She was somewhat taken aback.


* And an incredibly offensive sexist at times, too! I still regret not walking right out of that class the first time this was evident, but I was too shocked. And after that I stayed in basically because me and my friend were the only ones challenging her on anything, and figured that the rest of our classmates would become pretty warped if no one ever spoke out in argument with some of what she said. (Reactions among our classmates were varied. Some seemed to want us to shut up, 2 or 3 actually approached us out of class in a sort of awe, and the rest... I have no idea. Meanwhile, the prof seemed to half-ways approve of signs that we were thinking for ourselves, even as she penalized us for handing in material that contradicted her. It became a point of pride to do so anyway. What can I say, I'm really frickin' stubborn.)