When everyone tells you your forever favorite name is dated.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like it's about time for 80s names to come back. I wait with bated breath for all the baby Stephanies, Jennifers, and Julies who I haven't met yet.

Those are all 70s names. You mean the Ashley, Jessica, Lindsays of the world.

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Anonymous wrote:I envision Heather as a lower-middle class girl with frosted hair, cruising the mall for blue eyeshadow and Madonna tapes with her friends Tammy and Amber.

You envision that because you're old enough to remember that time.

DP. I wasn’t born and envision the same.

It's sad you know more about blue eyeshadow than you do about horticulture and Scotland.

WTF? Hahaha. You’re ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:I envision Heather as a lower-middle class girl with frosted hair, cruising the mall for blue eyeshadow and Madonna tapes with her friends Tammy and Amber.

You envision that because you're old enough to remember that time.

DP. I wasn’t born and envision the same.

It's sad you know more about blue eyeshadow than you do about horticulture and Scotland.

WTF? Hahaha. You’re ridiculous.

I bet you only think of Hermione as a J.K. Rowling character. (Go ahead and Google the other literary reference. I'll wait.)

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Heather is a great name. Who cares what anyone else thinks of it?

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I think it's cute and certainly preferable to Emerson and Elianna type names.
Boomers are weird about names. I named my first Martin and FIL scoffed and said "we were hoping for a classic name like Liam." They never used his name for the first year of his life, just called him the baby.

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Anonymous wrote:I envision Heather as a lower-middle class girl with frosted hair, cruising the mall for blue eyeshadow and Madonna tapes with her friends Tammy and Amber.

You envision that because you're old enough to remember that time.

DP. I wasn’t born and envision the same.

It's sad you know more about blue eyeshadow than you do about horticulture and Scotland.

Not the person you are responding to in that post, but my DH is Scottish and I’ve spent more time there than you have. I can assure you that I’ve never met any person in Scotland named Heather, and just because the plant by the same name happens to grow there, that doesn’t make the name a tribute to Scotland. No Scottish person considers that name particularly Scottish or would hear the name and conclude that it was a tribute to the country. You sound unsophisticated and absurd, like one of the Americans here who posts asking about what people do “in Europe.”

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Anonymous wrote:I envision Heather as a lower-middle class girl with frosted hair, cruising the mall for blue eyeshadow and Madonna tapes with her friends Tammy and Amber.

You envision that because you're old enough to remember that time.

DP. I wasn’t born and envision the same.

It's sad you know more about blue eyeshadow than you do about horticulture and Scotland.

WTF? Hahaha. You’re ridiculous.

I bet you only think of Hermione as a J.K. Rowling character. (Go ahead and Google the other literary reference. I'll wait.)

No, sweetie. You’re desperate.

The person resorting to "sweetie" calling someone else desperate.

Yes, sweetie. Take a Xanax. 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I envision Heather as a lower-middle class girl with frosted hair, cruising the mall for blue eyeshadow and Madonna tapes with her friends Tammy and Amber.

You envision that because you're old enough to remember that time.

DP. I wasn’t born and envision the same.

It's sad you know more about blue eyeshadow than you do about horticulture and Scotland.

Not the person you are responding to in that post, but my DH is Scottish and I’ve spent more time there than you have. I can assure you that I’ve never met any person in Scotland named Heather, and just because the plant by the same name happens to grow there, that doesn’t make the name a tribute to Scotland. No Scottish person considers that name particularly Scottish or would hear the name and conclude that it was a tribute to the country. You sound unsophisticated and absurd, like one of the Americans here who posts asking about what people do “in Europe.”

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's cute and certainly preferable to Emerson and Elianna type names.
Boomers are weird about names. I named my first Martin and FIL scoffed and said "we were hoping for a classic name like Liam." They never used his name for the first year of his life, just called him the baby.

My mom (a boomer) and I (xennial) called my cousin Molly “the baby” for quite a while because we truly disliked her name

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My children all have "dated" names, as well. I call them classic names, while others may call them antiquated.

Only one child-- Margaret-- gets frequent comments about her name being "old." A few teachers over the past several years have asked her if she'd prefer Meg or Maggie, but she always replies, "No, thank you. I like to be called Margaret."

Our neighbor's toddler is named Jason, which is not a common name in the under-40 crowd.

Name your baby what you love.

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I love the name Heather. I think it's bound to make a comeback. Be a pioneer!

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I like the name Heather.

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While I'm not crazy about the name Heather (I'm in the 'she wears blue frosted eyeshadow' age group), you should use it if you love it OP!

I have a 'dated' name. But in the last few years, I have met a few little girls with it-named after aunties. It sounds much better now than it did then LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like it's about time for 80s names to come back. I wait with bated breath for all the baby Stephanies, Jennifers, and Julies who I haven't met yet.

Those are all 70s names. You mean the Ashley, Jessica, Lindsays of the world.

I am the PP and a firm Gen Xer - and while we were born in the 70s, we are 80s kids. We came of age in the 80s. Those are 80s names. We had a lot of Jessicas, a few Ashleys, and no Lindsays, when I was growing up.

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Anonymous wrote:I got the same thing when I named my DD Kelly (for my sister who passed away). My DD seems to love her name and I’ve noticed people smiling when she tells them.

Heather is a pretty name!

Kelly is such a sweet name and I love the thought of a young person having it.;

Heather, too.