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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Atticus
August
Hazel
Matilda

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We moved here from Brooklyn, and I know at least one kid under five with each of there names.[/quote]

The only one of these names that screams Hipster is Atticus, mainly because it has never been a popular name and the only reference anybody has to it is from Atticus Finch. August, Hazel and Matilda, on the other hand, could be family names (probably aren't, but more likely than Atticus) and just seem more widely used throughout history.

Full disclosure: one of these names was the top contender for my child's first name, but dh could never quite commit. So it's DC's middle name :) [/quote]

[b]Those names made PPs list because "hipsters" are the folks bringing old names back into fashion.[/b][/quote]

I disagree. Were the moms of Sophie and Isabella hipsters a few years back when those names were crazy popular? I think there's a general trend among all parents bringing back older names. But I do agree that "hipsters" are bringing back a certain type of older and quirky name. Maude, Otis, Felix. These names are old and kind of ugly (yet obviously endearing to some), as opposed to old and solid (Henry) or old and pretty/flowy/girly (Lillian, Isabella).  [/quote]

The funny thing is that those of us "early adopters" of the Henry trend (my own Henry is graduating from high school) picked it precisely because it was old and kind of ugly. I cannot begin to describe the looks I got from people when I said I had named my son Henry, not unlike the reaction today's Felix or Otis would get in certain crowds. For the record, I am over 50, my children are all teenagers and young adults, and I am no one's idea of a hipster. Two of my four children have names on this nameberry hipster list and another has a name that I am surprised isn't on this list (it's very similar in flavor). I liked old-fashioned, nerdy names. I think these names are just coming around to be trendy now. [/quote]

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