It's interesting to me that after a year of following BtN almost daily, I know longer seem to know what I love or hate. Seeing all the names, and reading all the various defenses of them, has really moderated my opinions. In fact this whole question has shifted to "Names I like or dislike."
My throwback rubric, though, when analyzing names is: Could I stand to have it? I've always loved my name, which is the same as my user name, and, initially it came as a big surprise that there was so much hate out there for Gail. Now I find that funny, particularly given the popularity of Abigail. (Does anyone really think with a straight face that none of the little Abby's out there aren't going to rebel as teenagers and revert to Gail the same way that a dozen years ago all the little Andy's did the same and became Drew's at college?) Miraculously, I still really like my name. I even still really like my dh's name, which is Richard, nn'd Dick. Yes, I like the name Dick.
Generally, though, I've always and still do hate creative spellings. I think it just screams uneducated. Though even here, I've come to have some appreciation for the defense of "when googling, I don't want her/him to be one of many thousands....
The only girl's name I'm really disliking at this point is Sloane. I just hate the way it rhymes with moan. It reminds me of slicing moans. As I'm typing, I cannot really think of a boy's name I dislike terribly. I really like Norman, Howard, and Hugh.....
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