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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are all horrid. How about anabella,  michaela, saraphine, kai, ariel,or clementine?[/quote]

Collectively, that is the ugliest group of names I've ever heard. Michaela? Barf. It's almost as bad as Lark.

OP - you've got a tidy little group here, and there's consensus: Lark is pretty bad. Why not Willa as PP suggests? You almost sound like the mother who wanted to name her defenseless child Journey. [u]Both names are hugely conspicuous. Like Holden for a boy[/u].[/quote]

What does this mean?  I know what conspicuous means, it just doesn't make sense in this context.  Holden is a real name, unlike Journey.  ??[/quote]

If you don't personally know any Holdens and you meet one, what's your first thought? Holden Caulfield, right? "The Catcher in the Rye made such a huge impact on my life that I always knew I'd have a son named Holden." It's like the name Atticus, or Rand, for that matter - it's just meant to telegraph, as loudly as possible, the parents' literary pretensions. From a book they read in the tenth grade. [/quote]

Yes, Holden Caulfield comes to mind.  And William Holden.  But since it doesn't necessarily strike me as "pretentious: making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing)".  Perhaps because I don't really think that someone would name their kid that because of the huge impact of the book, but rather just because they like the name.  But I can see where it might seem that way to you.

FWIW, I don't really have a dog in the fight either way.[/quote]

I do think it is sort of an "excessive claim" to name a child after a book that everyone reads and loves (TKAM, not so much TCITR). I don't have a dog in it, either. Just opinions that Hey! OP asked for.  :) [/quote]

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