When everyone tells you your forever favorite name is dated.

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Anonymous wrote:In answer to your question, yes. Your daughter will get the same comments. You just have to decide whether you care.

Really? I’m a 42 year old Susan and never got any comments. My mom did however.

I have a little Susan and the only comments I ever get are from older Susans who seem quite chuffed to see the name coming round again.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In answer to your question, yes. Your daughter will get the same comments. You just have to decide whether you care.

Really? I’m a 42 year old Susan and never got any comments. My mom did however.

I have a little Susan and the only comments I ever get are from older Susans who seem quite chuffed to see the name coming round again.

I love the name Susan!

Are you British, PP? I haven’t heard “chuffed” since I left England!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In answer to your question, yes. Your daughter will get the same comments. You just have to decide whether you care.

Really? I’m a 42 year old Susan and never got any comments. My mom did however.

I have a little Susan and the only comments I ever get are from older Susans who seem quite chuffed to see the name coming round again.

I love the name Susan!

Are you British, PP? I haven’t heard “chuffed” since I left England!

Only half, but my mom was very homesick and went back to the UK with us every other summer and always brought back a crap-ton of stuff and Nan was always sending care packages. So I learned to read on Ladybird books and back issues of the Beano and Dandy, and watched far too many episodes of Rainbow.

And if you haven’t been to Lidl yet, they do knock-off digestives, hobnobs and Jaffa cakes for very good prices.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In answer to your question, yes. Your daughter will get the same comments. You just have to decide whether you care.

Really? I’m a 42 year old Susan and never got any comments. My mom did however.

I have a little Susan and the only comments I ever get are from older Susans who seem quite chuffed to see the name coming round again.

I love the name Susan!

Are you British, PP? I haven’t heard “chuffed” since I left England!

Only half, but my mom was very homesick and went back to the UK with us every other summer and always brought back a crap-ton of stuff and Nan was always sending care packages. So I learned to read on Ladybird books and back issues of the Beano and Dandy, and watched far too many episodes of Rainbow.

And if you haven’t been to Lidl yet, they do knock-off digestives, hobnobs and Jaffa cakes for very good prices.

Cheers!

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I’m 31 and Heather sounds cool and modern to me actually.

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I love it! And 70s names are making a comeback - I know a little Sarah, Jennifer, and Jessica.

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DC2 had a girl named Victoria in preK and I love the name so much - it's my mom's name. Heather is beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an "old lady" name when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. People would tell me the only person that they knew with the name was their 90 year old maiden aunt. It's not a big deal- it never bothered me except for a phase when I was 11-13.

Cut to now- I hear the name being called out to toddlers in Target. Things come and go in cycles.

And to be clear -- everyone hates their name 11-13-ish. I hated mine because it was boring, my one sister hated hers because it was weird, my other sister hated hers because people always spelled it wrong. I'm sure my kids will hate the names I saddled them with in 10 years or so.

So true. It's really normal to go through a phase of disliking your name in adolescence, because you are transitioning from being your parent's child to being your own adult person. Even if you give your child the *perfect* name, odds are good they will still feel this at some point.

Ha ha yes! This is PP with the maiden aunt name. I absolutely love it now despite a rocky adolescence.

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It’s very 1970

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In answer to your question, yes. Your daughter will get the same comments. You just have to decide whether you care.

Really? I’m a 42 year old Susan and never got any comments. My mom did however.

I have a little Susan and the only comments I ever get are from older Susans who seem quite chuffed to see the name coming round again.

Well at least Heather is better than Susan

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Anonymous wrote:Well, it peaked in 1975 at #3 and has now fallento #977. On the other hand, grandma names are often popular. Give it a few more years and there might be lots of baby Heathers named for their grandmothers!

Agree, OP. I think you're just ahead of the curve! It's a beautiful name.

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Nature names are typically classic and cyclical so they will come in and out of fashion but have some evergreen (pun intended) tendencies. I say go for it. Other nature names that were popular 40 years ago are cycling back in popularity now: Fern, Ivy, Jade, etc

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Anonymous wrote:There is a movie about Heather/s!

Who in America doesn’t know that, PP?

Anyone younger than GenX. They didn’t really know who Winona was until Stranger Things and have no idea who Slater was.

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Name your kid whatever you want. No matter what name you choose, people will have a problem with it.

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It's such a sweet name. I know a couple of teens named Heather. It's not THAT "out there." Go for it!