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HelpWhat are your palette cleanser/ breath-of-fresh-air names at the minute?
I feel like in a little bubble of irritatingly sickly sweet names at the moment. For one, my love for Isabelle officially no longer exists. Same goes for Arabella, Daisy, Lucille, and so forth. You know, the sugary, syrupy kind of feminine name. In fact, a whole bunch are going to depart from my PNL the first chance I get to go through it. Argh. I blame my cousin and Bonnie and Essie for this, or the rash of cutsie baby name announcements on my facebook.
What I really want now is something like Ludwig or Ichabod or Otto or Uzma or Alecto. So not twee cutsy cr&p. Something spiky and kinda unwieldy, kinda ugly or uncool and so much more fun for it.
So, what cute names are you really hating at the moment? What are your palette cleansers du jour? What uncool, ugly, weird names (or just, eh, any names) are you finding a breath of fresh air? I know I mentioned mainly female - but either gender works. Or... you know, what name trends are bugging you, and what names seem like a total relief in comparison?
What I really want now is something like Ludwig or Ichabod or Otto or Uzma or Alecto. So not twee cutsy cr&p. Something spiky and kinda unwieldy, kinda ugly or uncool and so much more fun for it.
So, what cute names are you really hating at the moment? What are your palette cleansers du jour? What uncool, ugly, weird names (or just, eh, any names) are you finding a breath of fresh air? I know I mentioned mainly female - but either gender works. Or... you know, what name trends are bugging you, and what names seem like a total relief in comparison?
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Gomer and Galina. Not preciously Germanic or Welsh. Not vintage comeback. Not Hollywood glamour. No way to otherwise market them to simpletons who would otherwise find them ugly. Take 'em or leave 'em, simple as that. I, for one, think they're fabulous - Galina, unfortunately, needs European pronunciation to sound good - gah-lee-na, not our lazy English, vowel reduced guh-lee-na.
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I'm tired of Sofia/Sophia. I'm starting to think Leonor is not so bad.
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I think Leonor is beautiful!
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I recently reread the book Reading Lolita in Tehran and was struck by the Iranian names in the book. Dara, Azar, Nima, Mitra, Mahshid, Nasrin, Manna, Sanaz. I think those completely foreign syllables (to me, at least) are beautiful, and sort of a welcome relief from the Puritanical phase I was in (which probably stemmed from it being Lent, doing a Nathaniel Hawthorne project in English, and watching too much of The Tudors, which is so completely inaccurate it's really enjoyable).
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These are the names I've started to like recently so they seem fresh and new to me right now. They are no long time favorites, but either names I just discovered or names I liked a long time ago that I have rediscovered.
Marlowe
Zelda
Journey
Ottoline
Shiloh
Theo
Henry
Otto
The same thing happened to me, by the way. I used to love really frilly names about a year ago. My favorites were Ariella, Isabella, Estella, Liliana, Arielle, Ariana. They all seem way too sickly sweet to me now, with the exception of Estella which I still like somewhat. But in general I hardly like any names that end in -a anymore, unless they're really old fashioned and unpopular like Zelda and Matilda. I'm getting sick of names that contain popular sounds such as -ella, -ana etc
I'm especially sick of these (no offense to anyone who likes them):
Ariana
Liliana
Isabella
Eliana
Aliana
Ella (this seems so empty to me, it's so bland)
Juliana
Adriana
Ahhhhh I wish this whole -ella, -ana, Ari-, Eli thing would just stop. And in general I hope -a names will be replaced by -e names soon. Diane, Elaine, Louise, Eve, Camille, Briane - they seem like such a breath of fresh air already next to Ella, Ariella and Juliana even though some of them are still a bit dated.
But Lucille isn't cutesy to me at all. I really like it. It's very no-nonsense and down to earth. I've really started to like Otto as well, together with Ottoline.
Marlowe
Zelda
Journey
Ottoline
Shiloh
Theo
Henry
Otto
The same thing happened to me, by the way. I used to love really frilly names about a year ago. My favorites were Ariella, Isabella, Estella, Liliana, Arielle, Ariana. They all seem way too sickly sweet to me now, with the exception of Estella which I still like somewhat. But in general I hardly like any names that end in -a anymore, unless they're really old fashioned and unpopular like Zelda and Matilda. I'm getting sick of names that contain popular sounds such as -ella, -ana etc
I'm especially sick of these (no offense to anyone who likes them):
Ariana
Liliana
Isabella
Eliana
Aliana
Ella (this seems so empty to me, it's so bland)
Juliana
Adriana
Ahhhhh I wish this whole -ella, -ana, Ari-, Eli thing would just stop. And in general I hope -a names will be replaced by -e names soon. Diane, Elaine, Louise, Eve, Camille, Briane - they seem like such a breath of fresh air already next to Ella, Ariella and Juliana even though some of them are still a bit dated.
But Lucille isn't cutesy to me at all. I really like it. It's very no-nonsense and down to earth. I've really started to like Otto as well, together with Ottoline.
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Marlowe is a name that hit me too a few months ago - I usually hate surnames on girls, but Marlowe seems lush and feminine in a completely different way than the more romantic names I tend to like.
Otto and Ottoline are so gorgeous. I'm determined to use either Ottoline or Severine one day, I just can't make up my mind which.
Otto and Ottoline are so gorgeous. I'm determined to use either Ottoline or Severine one day, I just can't make up my mind which.
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