Girls name feedback (our list)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are some gorgeous names: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9NfpdEBCIl/

Just to humor you:

Annabel - a bit boring, but pretty
Cadence - it's okay, I like it more than some of the other super weird names on this list, but would never use it
Celine - fine if you are French, sounds kind of ridiculous if you are not
Athena - like as name but has some weird connotations (you have to be very, very careful with those Greek goddess names)
Elizabeth - boring, don't need a "name expert" to identify this, lol
Amalia - too overwrought, prefer Amal
Beatrice - nice, while not traditional, I like the nn Betty for Beatrice
Octavia - great connotation, bit of a mouthful, Tavi could be cute
Rose - boring, pretty
Carolina - boring, pretty, would probably just go with Caroline
Bartholoméa - is this a joke
Francesca - sounds like a name I would have given one of my dolls when I was in 1st grade
Viera - makes me think of the retirement community in Florida
Nazarene - very bible-y?
Harper - again, who needs a baby naming expert to recommend a top ten name
Lively - why not just name her Pretty or Smart or Interesting?
Simone - another one that is great if you are French and sounds pretentious AF if you are not
Electra - honey, no
Valentina - this name is getting very popular and it's just so much name, I think all these girls are going to go by Val later
Marie - pretty, simple, boring
Hillary - nope, too soon
Astoria - like the neighborhood in Queens? what?
Margot - pretty, boring, the "t" makes it pretentious
Marla - Maples? Come on.
Geneva - What is with the place names? Just use Genevieve like a normal person.
Noelle - Pretty, very Christmas-y
Theodora - okay
Felicity - better than a lot of the names on this list
Cosette - stoooooop with the French fetish, are you French
Vivienne - pretty, also one of the better names
Eloise - cute but who be a no for me because her whole childhood people will be saying "like at the plaza?" -- she will get sick of it
Harlow - pretty, I like
Zuri, pretty, I like
Olympia - beautiful but tough for a little kid I think, not great nn potential
Delphine - omg just move to France, we get it you think French names sound "aristocratic"

Sounds like you are wild about any of these. Are there any other names you do love? Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

I am an older mom with older kids, just offering what might be a different perspective, farther from being expectant or post parting. Feel free to disregard, of course.

Your names seem focused on you and your husband like, not who your kid might be. Rhiannon is a mouthful for a little girl and her little classmates. It seems to be overly different and maybe sets the expectation that your daughter is going to be unique or quirky or otherwise non traditional. That may be true, of course, but it may be a lot to put on a kid. I’m NOT saying that everyone has to name kids Emily and Michael. I just wish more parents would consider how a future kid might feel about having SUCH a unique, hard to spell, or hard to pronounce name.

[Anonymous]

These are all nice names. The associations:l that come to mind for me:

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac song
Daisy - Katy Perry named her daughter this. Margaret is classic (Princess Margaret)
Maxine - character from stranger things
Molly - very cute, sometimes a nickname, but also associated with drugs
Daphne - scooby doo character
Thea - no associations come to mind
Calliope - the novel Middlesex
Miranda - sex and the city character
Michaela - tv show Manifest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a rough list of names we've come up with that neither person has vetoed. It's kind of all over the map. Would like feedback (associations, like/dislike, etc.) just to get a sense of how these names might be received. We don't want to tell friends or family about names we're considering because we made that mistake last time and people were really annoying about it. So trying to use DCUM to get that same kind of feedback, but from strangers instead of my mom or our friends, who were sometimes hypercritical or kept trying to push certain names/nicknames on us and just pestered us too much. TIA!

The list:

Rhiannon gross. Feels like an Irish setter’s name. And I knew a human one IRL
Daisy (maybe on its own, maybe as nickname for Margaret) fine as a nickname for Margaret
Maxine try hard
Molly I had the doll in the 80s, like the name, but it feels like a nickname
Virginia, nn Ginny meh
Daphne I like it
Thea, maybe Theodora as a full name I hate this
Calliope, nn Callie lots of fart jokes here
Miranda (no nickname, and we actively dislike Randy as a nn so nervous about this one though we really like it) I went to elementary with a Miranda; no one ever nicknamed her. SATC really did a number on this name. I now see an emotionally stunted redhead.
Michaela yuck

Also open to suggestions. Only parameters are: no names that start with a vowel, the first initial "M" would be nice but we aren't restricting ourselves to that. Also open to middle name suggestions because we have absolutely no idea!

Margaret, Molly or Daphne

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an older mom with older kids, just offering what might be a different perspective, farther from being expectant or post parting. Feel free to disregard, of course.

Your names seem focused on you and your husband like, not who your kid might be. Rhiannon is a mouthful for a little girl and her little classmates. It seems to be overly different and maybe sets the expectation that your daughter is going to be unique or quirky or otherwise non traditional. That may be true, of course, but it may be a lot to put on a kid. I’m NOT saying that everyone has to name kids Emily and Michael. I just wish more parents would consider how a future kid might feel about having SUCH a unique, hard to spell, or hard to pronounce name.

The hardest of all eye rolls for you, my dear. No, bigger. In the first, even if parents tell themselves they’re picking a name that “fits” their kid, they’re picking a name that they like. That’s how people choose things. In the second, my kids and yours go to school with an international crew these days. One of their classmates was literally named “Yung Dung,” a name his mother was so proud that monks had chosen for her son. No one mocked him.

[Anonymous]

Calliope, nn Callie lots of fart jokes here

Could the PP who wrote this explain it? I do not get it.

[Anonymous]

Rhiannon - like it
Daisy - love it, on its own
Maxine - love it
Molly - like it, kinda retro now
Virginia, nn Ginny - love it (this would be my top choice)
Daphne - like it
Thea, maybe Theodora as a full name - trying too hard
Calliope, nn Callie - trying too hard
Miranda (no nickname, and we actively dislike Randy as a nn so nervous about this one though we really like it) - I just don't think it works on a kid
Michaela - love it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a rough list of names we've come up with that neither person has vetoed. It's kind of all over the map. Would like feedback (associations, like/dislike, etc.) just to get a sense of how these names might be received. We don't want to tell friends or family about names we're considering because we made that mistake last time and people were really annoying about it. So trying to use DCUM to get that same kind of feedback, but from strangers instead of my mom or our friends, who were sometimes hypercritical or kept trying to push certain names/nicknames on us and just pestered us too much. TIA!

The list:

Rhiannon
Daisy (maybe on its own, maybe as nickname for Margaret)
Maxine
Molly
Virginia, nn Ginny
Daphne
Thea, maybe Theodora as a full name
Calliope, nn Callie
Miranda (no nickname, and we actively dislike Randy as a nn so nervous about this one though we really like it)
Michaela

Also open to suggestions. Only parameters are: no names that start with a vowel, the first initial "M" would be nice but we aren't restricting ourselves to that. Also open to middle name suggestions because we have absolutely no idea!

My favorite is Margaret, nn. Daisy.
She could have a younger sister named Virginia, nn. Ginny. Those two were on my short list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a rough list of names we've come up with that neither person has vetoed. It's kind of all over the map. Would like feedback (associations, like/dislike, etc.) just to get a sense of how these names might be received. We don't want to tell friends or family about names we're considering because we made that mistake last time and people were really annoying about it. So trying to use DCUM to get that same kind of feedback, but from strangers instead of my mom or our friends, who were sometimes hypercritical or kept trying to push certain names/nicknames on us and just pestered us too much. TIA!

The list:

Rhiannon
Daisy (maybe on its own, maybe as nickname for Margaret)
Maxine
Molly
Virginia, nn Ginny
Daphne
Thea, maybe Theodora as a full name
Calliope, nn Callie
Miranda (no nickname, and we actively dislike Randy as a nn so nervous about this one though we really like it)
Michaela

Also open to suggestions. Only parameters are: no names that start with a vowel, the first initial "M" would be nice but we aren't restricting ourselves to that. Also open to middle name suggestions because we have absolutely no idea!

The only ones I like are Molly, Daisy and Virginia.

No one call spell the others.

[Anonymous]

You have two of my daughters names on your list. So here is our third

Millicent nn Millie

Others we considered-
Priscilla
Georgia
Beatrice