A name you thought you LOVED and now you can't believe you ever liked it

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Anonymous wrote:My first two kids didn’t get names until they were a week old.

For about a day in 2004 I wanted to name DS Braden. Hormones and sleep deprivation can do terrible things to a person.

HAHA they pressured me to name my twins at the hospital. I have them 6 names each. When they ask me I say I was PREGNANT at the time !

Oh, there was pressure. The lady kept saying we couldn’t leave without a name. DH asked who was going to pay for us to stay longer and that put an end to it.

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Anonymous wrote:when I was a teenager I babysat an Abigal/Abby. I thought it was such a beautiful name. So glad I grew out of it (and I wasn't a teen mom - for manyareasons).

Another name was Rachael and Marie and Ariel (yes, after the mermaid).

Nothing wrong with any of those names (well Ariel is lame), but I am glad I didn't saddle my child w/ those names.

Huh? “Saddled”? I don’t get it. With the exception of Ariel, all of those names are so classic, simple, timeless and normal. Heck, even Ariel is a VERY traditional Hebrew name but I get that most people’s association with it is the Little Mermaid.

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Anonymous wrote:Byron.

I came in here to post this. It was almost our younger son’s name. I still like it but glad we didn’t go with it.

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Tiffany and Jessica

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I wanted to name my son Darwin. I still kind of like it but DH was horrified.

I also think Gretel is sorta cute.

When I was younger I loved the name Liliana. Now I think it’s too prissy.

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Kai for our first son. I can't stand it now.

Arthur for our second. Just rubs me the wrong way.

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Anonymous wrote:As a child, I loved the names Kristin, Kristina and Timothy.

My mother, never one to miss an opportunity to dash her daughter's dreams, told me Jewish people don't use those names.

I still love Kristin and Timothy, though my adoration for Kristina has waned.

I watched some mermaid movie as a young kid where there was a black haired and maybe black mermaid named Ebony. I thought it was the most beautiful name I had ever heard and it was my #1 as a child. I'm a blonde haired, Nicole Kidman white, blue eyed WASP so I got this lesson. Even if my child were biracial, "Ebony" would be pushing it.

My daughter met a white Ebony last year. Her parents just liked the name.

Dark hair at least? Seems incongruous otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Shannon as a kid. Now it's not so great. Perfectly fine and I know a few great adult Shannons and a few supreme biotches. But it doesn't have the glamour I associated with it as a kid.

It was the Irish girl name in the late 70s/early 80s. There were more Shannons where I grew up than Stephanies, Amys and Jennifers. I was one of them, and vowed to find names nowhere near the top of popularity lists for my kids.

My teen had a friend named Shannon in her MS classes. She thought that was cool.

I appreciate what my parents were trying to do, and it has a great meaning. But it does seem a bit out of sync in this generation

WOW. PP you responded to and I have never heard it explained so well! It was THE thing.

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Anonymous wrote:when I was a teenager I babysat an Abigal/Abby. I thought it was such a beautiful name. So glad I grew out of it (and I wasn't a teen mom - for manyareasons).

Another name was Rachael and Marie and Ariel (yes, after the mermaid).

Nothing wrong with any of those names (well Ariel is lame), but I am glad I didn't saddle my child w/ those names.

Hate to break it to you but you might have bad taste?
Abigail (that’s how you spell it, btw) and Rachel are classic biblical names...

Yeah. Rachel and Abigail are hardly outlier names. Maybe this person above is from a different country.

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Hudson and Sterling were both on our list 5 years ago - so glad we didn't go for either

DH pushed hard for Aston but it was a hard no from me

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Anonymous wrote:When I was little I wanted a daughter named Cassandra. Seems a little dramatic now.

I also loooooved Cassandra/Cassie.

I named my daughter Cassandra and I still love it, she was born in 1981. I am so glad that my kids weren't the opposite sex, Cassandra Rose would have been Zachary Tomas and Paul Adam would have been Merryn Laurel. Merryn is terrible, so happy he is a Paul. I'm old and when I was little in the 60s I loved the name Tabitha. I thought the daughter on the TV show Bewitched was so cute.

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As a teenager I was fascinated with Scottish culture and history (not a drop of Scottish blood in me!) and wanted to have a son named Hamish Seamus.

I am judging me too.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teenager I was fascinated with Scottish culture and history (not a drop of Scottish blood in me!) and wanted to have a son named Hamish Seamus.

I am judging me too.

It's like "the rural juror"!

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Anonymous wrote:As a teenager I was fascinated with Scottish culture and history (not a drop of Scottish blood in me!) and wanted to have a son named Hamish Seamus.

I am judging me too.

This post made my day!! Love it.

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Anonymous wrote:In high school, I dreamed about having girls and naming them Melody, Harmony, and Allegra (this was before the allergy medicine). I had 3 boys, though. Collin was on my short list for #1 and I am glad we went with our other choice.

When I was very little I very earnestly promised my dad I would name my daughter Walterina, after him.

I was going to name a little girl Dale Junette, after my dad. Helluva cowgirl name.

My best friend wanted to marry a redhead so that she could have a redheaded little girl & name her Paprika.