Guilty pleasure baby names

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Anonymous wrote:Love this thread, love to see it pop up. Here are some of mine and the reasons my DH or I shot them down:

Daisy (deemed too cute and not a "real name by DH, I love it)
Marigold (ridiculous to DH, but I adore it)
Summer (too hippy-dippy to DH, I think it's elegant and soothing)
Flora (too old lady to DH, I think it sounds fresh and inviting)
Violetta (we decided too close to Violet, and we know two Violets)

Hugo (too French, we are not French)
King (seemed arrogant, I still love it, my brother and SIL wound up using it as a middle name and I am glad)
Ephram (we are not Jewish)
Mordecai (we are not Jewish)

Love the bolded!

P.s.: Hugo is used in many languages.

[Anonymous]

Kalista Belle Kwan!

Name of Michelle Kwan’s new baby girl.

Don’t particularly care for KK names, but for some reason, I love that name!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Persephone
Xanthe
Thisbe

Perhaps better suited to pets than people, sigh....

I know a Persephone. It suits her beautifully.

I enjoy this name but worried a bit about nicknames. Like I worried if we used it, she'd get called Percy because Persephone is a mouthful and unfamiliar for a lot of people. Or just get called "P" at school or something. Does this happen to the Persephone you know? We are also considering Calliope and Penelope and are comfortable with the common nicknames for both (even though we will mostly use the full name). But Persephone is less common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love this thread, love to see it pop up. Here are some of mine and the reasons my DH or I shot them down:

Daisy (deemed too cute and not a "real name by DH, I love it)
Marigold (ridiculous to DH, but I adore it)
Summer (too hippy-dippy to DH, I think it's elegant and soothing)
Flora (too old lady to DH, I think it sounds fresh and inviting)
Violetta (we decided too close to Violet, and we know two Violets)

Hugo (too French, we are not French)
King (seemed arrogant, I still love it, my brother and SIL wound up using it as a middle name and I am glad)
Ephram (we are not Jewish)
Mordecai (we are not Jewish)

Love the bolded!

P.s.: Hugo is used in many languages.

I know but when we ran it by a couple people, the first thing they both said (separately, on different occasions) was "oh, very French!" and we felt like within our families and social circle it would come off as too pretentious for that reason. We found a name we like more anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kalista Belle Kwan!

Name of Michelle Kwan’s new baby girl.

Don’t particularly care for KK names, but for some reason, I love that name!

I like it but personally prefer it spelled Calista. But I'm sure they had their reasons for using K.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgia
Linnea
Scarlett
Athena
Shoshanna
Seraphina
Mirieille
Gemma
Florence
Zara
Talah

I have a Georgia

Loved, but couldn't quite get there with:
Cosima
Paloma
Ophelia
Iris

Boy names love, but wouldn't use:
Rafferty
Caspian
Remy

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Philippa, with the nickname Pippa or Phil. DH just didn’t like it.

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Mercer

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Valentine for a boy

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Blythe
Bronwyn
Agnes
Maren
Greer

Rhys
Graeme
Teddy
Oliver
Darby

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Amber
Aurora
Autumn
Brooke
Heather

Although we might actually use Brooke. We can’t decide. I don’t know if I’m crazy to love it so much.

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Anonymous wrote:Amber
Aurora
Autumn
Brooke
Heather

Although we might actually use Brooke. We can’t decide. I don’t know if I’m crazy to love it so much.

I love Brooke. Aside from Aurora, I don’t think any of these names are too unusual for a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amber
Aurora
Autumn
Brooke
Heather

Although we might actually use Brooke. We can’t decide. I don’t know if I’m crazy to love it so much.

I love Brooke. Aside from Aurora, I don’t think any of these names are too unusual for a kid.

Aurora is #36. It’s the most popular one.

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Anonymous wrote:So many! I love nature/hippie names and he does not. So, River, Lake, Willow, etc.

Everyone rips on Gwenyth Paltrow but I love Apple as a name.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many! I love nature/hippie names and he does not. So, River, Lake, Willow, etc.

Everyone rips on Gwenyth Paltrow but I love Apple as a name.

Me too but I couldn’t do it because everyone would assume it was out if some weird obsession with her when I am indifferent.

I feel this way about a number of names that I think are inherently beautiful but have a mildly annoying pop culture association I don’t want to deal with. I also have a weirdly encyclopedic memory for pop culture facts so I think I’m more sensitive to this than most people.