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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]

Sophia and Isabella were consistently rising not to mention becoming trendy. Sophia became a child on MTV's teen mom/16 & Pregnant on every tabloid name when Farrah was at the peak of her tv fame. Twilight certainly helped Isabella. Just as Kourtney Kardashian using Mason propelled it into trendy. Deny as many will, without these names making it into pop culture, they would not be as popular in the large number of social circles that they currently are. When you look for names a hipster would select you have to go opposite of trendy in the effort to be "unique" but with doing that you end up with stereotypical hipster names. This group is looking for names that fell off the charts but because of group thinking the names start to enter the charts again.[/quote]

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