Underused baby names due for a come back?

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Anonymous wrote:Frieda
Tori
Opal
Ova
Ruby
Amber
Ada
Natalie
Kathleen
Barbara
Frances
Francesca
Maureen
Maura
Mayra
Maya
Marisol
Krista
Bridgette

I was looking for Amber. that my name, and I haven't heard a baby named Amber in a while. With the current trends of hippy names you would think it would come back. Even the song Amber is trending on TikTok as a sound.

I like Amber I also like Jade.

I think some have a stripper association with these 2, for whatever reason

Stripper don't use just those two names.

They intentionally pick feminine sounding name that are derived from crystals & gems, because they associating them with beautiful, sparkly, expensive, exotic, glimmering, shimmery, glitzy looking gemstones & crystals.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those names sound cheap & trashy, as opposed to associating them with class & elegance.

Here are some examples...

Amber
Jade
Amethyst
Jem/Jemma
Crystal
Topaz
Diamond /Diamante
Sapphire
Jewel
Coral
Emerald
Ivory
Onyx
Ruby
Aquamarine
Shale

I'm with you though, I really do love the name Jade, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ruth

Does little baby Ruth also carry Werthers Originals in her purses and used tissues in every pocket of every coat she owns?

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Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I went to school with a kid named James.
Every single school year, some teacher would try calling him Jim or Jimmy, and he was ALWAYS quick to remind them "It's James".
He always said it very authoritatively, so they'd know never to try it again.

I remember him saying it to our kindergarten teacher, because I was so shocked that he corrected not simply a grown-up, but a teacher too... and he did it with such authority.

I remember thinking how bold/ballsy it was of him to correct a teacher at just 5 years old, lol. I figured it was from his parents drilling it into his head.

Just checked Facebook: yup, still James. ✅️

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Anonymous wrote:Frieda
Tori
Opal
Ova
Ruby
Amber
Ada
Natalie
Kathleen
Barbara
Frances
Francesca
Maureen
Maura
Mayra
Maya
Marisol
Krista
Bridgette

I was looking for Amber. that my name, and I haven't heard a baby named Amber in a while. With the current trends of hippy names you would think it would come back. Even the song Amber is trending on TikTok as a sound.

I like Amber I also like Jade.

I think some have a stripper association with these 2, for whatever reason

Stripper don't use just those two names.

They intentionally pick feminine sounding name that are derived from crystals & gems, because they associating them with beautiful, sparkly, expensive, exotic, glimmering, shimmery, glitzy looking gemstones & crystals.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those names sound cheap & trashy, as opposed to associating them with class & elegance.

Here are some examples...

Amber
Jade
Amethyst
Jem/Jemma
Crystal
Topaz
Diamond /Diamante
Sapphire
Jewel
Coral
Emerald
Ivory
Onyx
Ruby
Aquamarine
Shale

I'm with you though, I really do love the name Jade, though.

These are ALL strippers names.

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Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I don't call Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better. It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.

The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.

Whatever. Speaking of strawmen, you made up a scenario and based on it called me insufferable and controlling.

FWIW, the only person who I insisted called my kid Daniel is my DH. Lucky for me, Daniel in question (who is in HS), uses his full name as do his friends.

I’m not the PP who called you insufferable, but I see it’s a sensitive issue for you.

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Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

I LOVE the name Liam, and have never heard of it being used as a nickname (or rather to shorten) the name William.... how lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:Frieda
Tori
Opal
Ova
Ruby
Amber
Ada
Natalie
Kathleen
Barbara
Frances
Francesca
Maureen
Maura
Mayra
Maya
Marisol
Krista
Bridgette

I was looking for Amber. that my name, and I haven't heard a baby named Amber in a while. With the current trends of hippy names you would think it would come back. Even the song Amber is trending on TikTok as a sound.

I like Amber I also like Jade.

I think some have a stripper association with these 2, for whatever reason

Stripper don't use just those two names.

They intentionally pick feminine sounding name that are derived from crystals & gems, because they associating them with beautiful, sparkly, expensive, exotic, glimmering, shimmery, glitzy looking gemstones & crystals.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those names sound cheap & trashy, as opposed to associating them with class & elegance.

Here are some examples...

Amber
Jade
Amethyst
Jem/Jemma
Crystal
Topaz
Diamond /Diamante
Sapphire
Jewel
Coral
Emerald
Ivory
Onyx
Ruby
Aquamarine
Shale

I'm with you though, I really do love the name Jade, though.

These are ALL strippers names.

Uhhh, yeah... that's exactly the PP's point.

What was your point exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I don't call Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better. It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.

The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.

Whatever. Speaking of strawmen, you made up a scenario and based on it called me insufferable and controlling.

FWIW, the only person who I insisted called my kid Daniel is my DH. Lucky for me, Daniel in question (who is in HS), uses his full name as do his friends.

I’m not the PP who called you insufferable, but I see it’s a sensitive issue for you.

Based on the verbiage in her previous posts (her writing style is easily identifiable) it seems like her much bigger gripe is being labeled as "controlling" (although, controlling people ARE insufferable & exhausting, so they always go hand-in-hand 😁).

[Anonymous]

Blair.

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Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I don't call Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better. It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.

The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.

Whatever. Speaking of strawmen, you made up a scenario and based on it called me insufferable and controlling.

FWIW, the only person who I insisted called my kid Daniel is my DH. Lucky for me, Daniel in question (who is in HS), uses his full name as do his friends.

I’m not the PP who called you insufferable, but I see it’s a sensitive issue for you.

Based on the verbiage in her previous posts (her writing style is easily identifiable) it seems like her much bigger gripe is being labeled as "controlling" (although, controlling people ARE insufferable & exhausting, so they always go hand-in-hand 😁).

Yeah, I personally would not want to spend my kid’s life worrying that other people might call him by the extremely common nickname associated with his name, so I just wouldn’t call my kid Daniel if I hated the name Dan. 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blair.

It’s funny to me this name didn’t take off after Gossip Girl (the first iteration), though Serena did, I believe. They both have that upper-crust feel (I think if Blair from the Facts of Life) but I think Serena is more bohemian sounding, which was a big trend in baby names (and still is).

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Anonymous wrote:Allison
Daniela
Melissa
Marisa
Dawn
Samantha
Amanda
Kelly

Boy names are so much harder!

Rudy
Dominic
Lawrence
Cody
Cory
Sean
Greg

I like a lot of these! My neighborhood is pretty Irish-American, so there are always a lot of Seans. And actually, more Kellys than you would think, for both boys and girls.

My husband comes from an Irish American family from Chicago. His family and his cousins read like the roll call from an Andrew Greeley novel: Sean, Patrick, Robbie, Danny, Kelly, Molly, Bridget, Kathleen, Eileen, Deirdre, Brendon, Rosie

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Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I don't call Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better. It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.

The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.

Whatever. Speaking of strawmen, you made up a scenario and based on it called me insufferable and controlling.

FWIW, the only person who I insisted called my kid Daniel is my DH. Lucky for me, Daniel in question (who is in HS), uses his full name as do his friends.

I’m not the PP who called you insufferable, but I see it’s a sensitive issue for you.

Based on the verbiage in her previous posts (her writing style is easily identifiable) it seems like her much bigger gripe is being labeled as "controlling" (although, controlling people ARE insufferable & exhausting, so they always go hand-in-hand 😁).

Yeah, I personally would not want to spend my kid’s life worrying that other people might call him by the extremely common nickname associated with his name, so I just wouldn’t call my kid Daniel if I hated the name Dan. 🤷‍♀️

Same. I love the name Nicholas but not fond of Nick. So it came off our list.

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Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I don't call Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better. It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.

The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.

Whatever. Speaking of strawmen, you made up a scenario and based on it called me insufferable and controlling.

FWIW, the only person who I insisted called my kid Daniel is my DH. Lucky for me, Daniel in question (who is in HS), uses his full name as do his friends.

I’m not the PP who called you insufferable, but I see it’s a sensitive issue for you.

Based on the verbiage in her previous posts (her writing style is easily identifiable) it seems like her much bigger gripe is being labeled as "controlling" (although, controlling people ARE insufferable & exhausting, so they always go hand-in-hand 😁).

Oh no, you identified my writing style, William Sherlock! I meant Bill, of course. A day well spent, good job.

Any other insights?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Frieda
Tori
Opal
Ova
Ruby
Amber
Ada
Natalie
Kathleen
Barbara
Frances
Francesca
Maureen
Maura
Mayra
Maya
Marisol
Krista
Bridgette

I was looking for Amber. that my name, and I haven't heard a baby named Amber in a while. With the current trends of hippy names you would think it would come back. Even the song Amber is trending on TikTok as a sound.

I like Amber I also like Jade.

I think some have a stripper association with these 2, for whatever reason

Stripper don't use just those two names.

They intentionally pick feminine sounding name that are derived from crystals & gems, because they associating them with beautiful, sparkly, expensive, exotic, glimmering, shimmery, glitzy looking gemstones & crystals.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those names sound cheap & trashy, as opposed to associating them with class & elegance.

Here are some examples...

Amber
Jade
Amethyst
Jem/Jemma
Crystal
Topaz
Diamond /Diamante
Sapphire
Jewel
Coral
Emerald
Ivory
Onyx
Ruby
Aquamarine
Shale

I'm with you though, I really do love the name Jade, though.

Shale!! Now I want to meet someone named Basalt. Or Scree!

I don't like the name Jade, because a jade is an old, worn-out horse, or an old, worn-out prostitute.