What are the names of the most recent babies that were born in your social world?

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Anonymous wrote:Elodie, one parent is francophone.

Elodie is a very dated name in France. The trend there is towards less florid, feminine names. I wondered if the parents of Clémence up thread were French, that's a popular name there now.

Elodie sounds like Collette to my ear -- a name a non French person would give a French character in a play.

This was my thought, too. Elodie is rare for someone under the age of 40 in France.

Well so was Dorothy and Ruby here, so there you go. What's your point?

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Anonymous wrote:90% of these names are hideous. Clark???

Clark seems fine? Names are cyclical and Clark sounds like someone's grandpa's or great grandpa's name. That's just how baby names work.

I prefer it to a name like Hudson which sounds pretentious to me.

Hudson is my contribution and his mom is mid 30’s first generation Asian American. She’s the least pretentious person I know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elodie, one parent is francophone.

Elodie is a very dated name in France. The trend there is towards less florid, feminine names. I wondered if the parents of Clémence up thread were French, that's a popular name there now.

Elodie sounds like Collette to my ear -- a name a non French person would give a French character in a play.

This was my thought, too. Elodie is rare for someone under the age of 40 in France.

But that’s consistent with the broader trend of UMC Americans giving kids names that remind them of their grandparents.

Most recent baby in my world: Carl. It’s a good name and a good baby.

I hate the name Carl. It should be retired.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elodie, one parent is francophone.

Elodie is a very dated name in France. The trend there is towards less florid, feminine names. I wondered if the parents of Clémence up thread were French, that's a popular name there now.

Elodie sounds like Collette to my ear -- a name a non French person would give a French character in a play.

This was my thought, too. Elodie is rare for someone under the age of 40 in France.

But that’s consistent with the broader trend of UMC Americans giving kids names that remind them of their grandparents.

Most recent baby in my world: Carl. It’s a good name and a good baby.

I hate the name Carl. It should be retired.

I strongly associate that name with the Squishmallow hamburger

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Anonymous wrote:Rebekkah
Charlotte
Clemence
Elton

Is Clemence a boy or a girl?

Girl, why? They're French so I assume they know what they're doing. There's an accent over the e somewhere but I can't type it

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Sienna

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Willow

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Two different Abigails!

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Remi
Wren
Willow
Liam
Noah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elodie, one parent is francophone.

Elodie is a very dated name in France. The trend there is towards less florid, feminine names. I wondered if the parents of Clémence up thread were French, that's a popular name there now.

Elodie sounds like Collette to my ear -- a name a non French person would give a French character in a play.

This was my thought, too. Elodie is rare for someone under the age of 40 in France.

But that’s consistent with the broader trend of UMC Americans giving kids names that remind them of their grandparents.

Most recent baby in my world: Carl. It’s a good name and a good baby.

Yep, or even great-grandparent names. Sophia was an old lady name for while (Remember the golden girls?) as was Rose. Both are now popular again.

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In Judaism custom is to name in honor of dead relatives so makes sense to name for grandparents or great grandparents- our kids will make lots of babies named Susan and Judy

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Anonymous wrote:In Judaism custom is to name in honor of dead relatives so makes sense to name for grandparents or great grandparents- our kids will make lots of babies named Susan and Judy

Don't forget Nancy.

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Mallory, Bailee, and Finn (triplets)
Kyra (Kie-rah)
Thomas
Casper

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Violet

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Anonymous wrote:Two different Abigails!

Were they born in Virginia? Are we seeing a Spanberger effect?!