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1) Do you change your favorite names often, or have you loved certain names for a long time?
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
"Thank you!" in advance.
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
"Thank you!" in advance.
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1. The same group of names go back and forth for me but they generally stay the same for a few years.
2. I won't be using Max, my top boys name because SO doesn't like it. But my lists I have only have names I would actually use, yes. I've removed the ones SO doesn't like, but they're still favourites. Luckily I can use them on dogs.
3. Juliet and Max
4. No idea
2. I won't be using Max, my top boys name because SO doesn't like it. But my lists I have only have names I would actually use, yes. I've removed the ones SO doesn't like, but they're still favourites. Luckily I can use them on dogs.
3. Juliet and Max
4. No idea
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1) I love all sorts of names, but what I would actually want to use changes all the time. I go from adoring the long forgotten names to names now seen as feminine for boys. Very rarely do I stop liking a name though, it just becomes one I wouldn't want to use.
2) Most of them I would probably use if my hubby wanted to. The only thing that really turns me off from a name is too popular, because its hard when you have 5 Joe's and 6 Sara's in a class.
3) I don't know, but I think the two names I've the longest are Julius and Anita.
4) Julius is a family name I fell in love with once I heard it. Ever since I wanted to use it. Anita I'm not really sure. Girl names are harder for me, especially to pinpoint reasons why I like or dislike a name.
2) Most of them I would probably use if my hubby wanted to. The only thing that really turns me off from a name is too popular, because its hard when you have 5 Joe's and 6 Sara's in a class.
3) I don't know, but I think the two names I've the longest are Julius and Anita.
4) Julius is a family name I fell in love with once I heard it. Ever since I wanted to use it. Anita I'm not really sure. Girl names are harder for me, especially to pinpoint reasons why I like or dislike a name.
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1) Do you change your favorite names often, or have you loved certain names for a long time?
Maybe a few will move up and down and there may be a few additions, but it'd take a lot for me to remove a favorite from my most favorite list. Most my favorites have been favorites for a long time.
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
My most favorites are ones I'd absolutely use.
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
top 25 girls: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275/84764
top 25 boys: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275/84765
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
I don't think I have any real reasons for most of them. They're either just names I saw and thought looked and sounded incredibly pleasant, or were attached to people/characters I like a lot, or just grew on me over time the more and more I heard them.
Maybe a few will move up and down and there may be a few additions, but it'd take a lot for me to remove a favorite from my most favorite list. Most my favorites have been favorites for a long time.
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
My most favorites are ones I'd absolutely use.
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
top 25 girls: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275/84764
top 25 boys: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275/84765
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
I don't think I have any real reasons for most of them. They're either just names I saw and thought looked and sounded incredibly pleasant, or were attached to people/characters I like a lot, or just grew on me over time the more and more I heard them.
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1) Do you change your favorite names often, or have you loved certain names for a long time?
Have loved certain ones for a long time. Some long-time loves have fallen out of favor: Max, Charlie, George, Marianne
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
There are some of both!
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
Elizabeth, Jane, Camille, Imogen, Anabelle, Nathan, Noah, William, Imani, Kirby & Cotton
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
Good question...All of them have a connection to someone or something I saw, read, heard about that I liked. I don't know why I continue to like them, I just do!
Have loved certain ones for a long time. Some long-time loves have fallen out of favor: Max, Charlie, George, Marianne
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
There are some of both!
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
Elizabeth, Jane, Camille, Imogen, Anabelle, Nathan, Noah, William, Imani, Kirby & Cotton
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
Good question...All of them have a connection to someone or something I saw, read, heard about that I liked. I don't know why I continue to like them, I just do!
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1.) Annika has been my number one favorite girl name for years and years and years. I enjoy boy names less so while I have favorites, I'm not attached to them like I am Annika.
2.) I'd use them. That's why they're favorites.
3.) I'm a sucker for mythology names, especially Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman.
4.) I like names for different reasons. Sound is number 1 with look being a close second. Meaning is cool if it's something I like but if it's something negative it doesn't bother me. If I continue to like a name, it's because I have tired or changed my mind about the sound and look of it.
2.) I'd use them. That's why they're favorites.
3.) I'm a sucker for mythology names, especially Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman.
4.) I like names for different reasons. Sound is number 1 with look being a close second. Meaning is cool if it's something I like but if it's something negative it doesn't bother me. If I continue to like a name, it's because I have tired or changed my mind about the sound and look of it.
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1) Do you change your favorite names often, or have you loved certain names for a long time?
There are names that stayed on my favourite list since I started thinking about names, but there are also some that I love for a few months and then thelove tends to fade away...
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
A lot of names that I love are from very different languages/backgrounds and I think I wouldn't use a name that is very strange to where I'm from even if I love it (maybe maybe as a middle name)
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
Karl, Björn
girls name is not that easy but probably Frieda, Klara, Morgan
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
Karl is a name that was very common in my family but hasn't been used in the last decades and I just fell in love with the name.
My favourite singer in my teenage years is calles Björn, I'm not so sure about the girls' names tbh
There are names that stayed on my favourite list since I started thinking about names, but there are also some that I love for a few months and then thelove tends to fade away...
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
A lot of names that I love are from very different languages/backgrounds and I think I wouldn't use a name that is very strange to where I'm from even if I love it (maybe maybe as a middle name)
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
Karl, Björn
girls name is not that easy but probably Frieda, Klara, Morgan
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
Karl is a name that was very common in my family but hasn't been used in the last decades and I just fell in love with the name.
My favourite singer in my teenage years is calles Björn, I'm not so sure about the girls' names tbh
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1) Do you change your favorite names often, or have you loved certain names for a long time?
My very most loved favorites tend to stay favorites. Charlotte and Merrick have been my favorite names basically since I had favorite names. Other favorites shift gradually, usually over years of thinking about them, but sometimes when I run across an instance of a name I hadn't thought much about it'll suddenly become a favorite.
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
I kinda have two favorites lists (not exactly the lists I have on this site - I don't maintain them because I'm no longer having kids). One list has the ones I would really use - not just the ones I'd be willing to use in theory, but the ones that I would truly want to use, which I think my husband would also be willing to use. The ones that are realistically my style. The other list is favorite names that I would not personally be likely to use, but I like to see them on other people, babies, or characters.
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
Favorites generally: Merrick and Charlotte
Favorites that I would use for my own child: Damon and Julia
I don't necessarily like Merrick and Charlotte more or less than Damon and Julia.
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
I don't know why I started liking Merrick and Charlotte. I've liked Charlotte since I had a classmate in fourth grade named that. The name seemed so unusual (in 1980) and so lovely. I was struck by the name Merrick the first time I heard it, which was in high school. It just resonates somehow, like a piece of art or something? lol. I started liking Julia when I started reading about names and thinking about names for future kids - it's ageless to me, and memorable, and smooth and smart sounding, and yet totally classic. and I started liking Damon more recently, after my kids were born. It just seems modest and manly to me, classic but not too conservative.
My very most loved favorites tend to stay favorites. Charlotte and Merrick have been my favorite names basically since I had favorite names. Other favorites shift gradually, usually over years of thinking about them, but sometimes when I run across an instance of a name I hadn't thought much about it'll suddenly become a favorite.
2) Would you actually use your favorite names, or do you just love them but would never use them?
I kinda have two favorites lists (not exactly the lists I have on this site - I don't maintain them because I'm no longer having kids). One list has the ones I would really use - not just the ones I'd be willing to use in theory, but the ones that I would truly want to use, which I think my husband would also be willing to use. The ones that are realistically my style. The other list is favorite names that I would not personally be likely to use, but I like to see them on other people, babies, or characters.
3) What are your absolute-favorite names?
Favorites generally: Merrick and Charlotte
Favorites that I would use for my own child: Damon and Julia
I don't necessarily like Merrick and Charlotte more or less than Damon and Julia.
4) Do you know why you started liking them in the first place, and why you continue to like them?
I don't know why I started liking Merrick and Charlotte. I've liked Charlotte since I had a classmate in fourth grade named that. The name seemed so unusual (in 1980) and so lovely. I was struck by the name Merrick the first time I heard it, which was in high school. It just resonates somehow, like a piece of art or something? lol. I started liking Julia when I started reading about names and thinking about names for future kids - it's ageless to me, and memorable, and smooth and smart sounding, and yet totally classic. and I started liking Damon more recently, after my kids were born. It just seems modest and manly to me, classic but not too conservative.
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My favorites stay the same.
Yes, I sure would use a favorite. If I consider a name a "favorite" that means I would want to use it. I have lots of names I like but not all of them I'd want to use.
Favorite names are Valerie (which we did use) Ashley, Jessica, Christina, Stephanie and Maria for girls. James, Michael, Benjamin, Jonathan, David, and Robert for boys. I'd use all them too except for Robert because I now have a nephew named Robert.
Yes, I sure would use a favorite. If I consider a name a "favorite" that means I would want to use it. I have lots of names I like but not all of them I'd want to use.
Favorite names are Valerie (which we did use) Ashley, Jessica, Christina, Stephanie and Maria for girls. James, Michael, Benjamin, Jonathan, David, and Robert for boys. I'd use all them too except for Robert because I now have a nephew named Robert.
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1. I tend to love names for a long time. It's hard for a new name to make it into my top 5.
2. I'd actually use them. There are some guilty pleasure names I really like but would never use. Not actually wanting to use a name keep it out of my top choices.
3. Currently my top names are: Zella, Aleida and Seraphina for a girl and Abram, Elias and Alaric for a boy.
4. For my current favorites, I fell in love with a certain style name (old fashion, uncommon, usually of German or English decent), and then found favoites within that style.
The 2 children I already have were given family names with special meaning for me. Amalia is definitely my style and was an easy choice. Jon was a bit harder, it's not typically my style (but it is my husband's who loves classic boy names) and it is my dad's name so I had a reason to love it.
2. I'd actually use them. There are some guilty pleasure names I really like but would never use. Not actually wanting to use a name keep it out of my top choices.
3. Currently my top names are: Zella, Aleida and Seraphina for a girl and Abram, Elias and Alaric for a boy.
4. For my current favorites, I fell in love with a certain style name (old fashion, uncommon, usually of German or English decent), and then found favoites within that style.
The 2 children I already have were given family names with special meaning for me. Amalia is definitely my style and was an easy choice. Jon was a bit harder, it's not typically my style (but it is my husband's who loves classic boy names) and it is my dad's name so I had a reason to love it.
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1) They tend to stay for a while - like a few years for sure.
2) I'd use them in a heartbeat.
3) Mattea for a girl. Boy is less certain, but the top three remain Rafferty, Cadell, and Whitaker.
4) Whitaker was from Adventures in Odyssey which was hugely formative for me as a kid. I just love the sound of Cadell and Rafferty. My husband wanted a Taya and then I found Mattea which just looked and sounded so beautiful to me.
2) I'd use them in a heartbeat.
3) Mattea for a girl. Boy is less certain, but the top three remain Rafferty, Cadell, and Whitaker.
4) Whitaker was from Adventures in Odyssey which was hugely formative for me as a kid. I just love the sound of Cadell and Rafferty. My husband wanted a Taya and then I found Mattea which just looked and sounded so beautiful to me.
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1) My top two boys names haven't changed in years, but I've always struggled maintaining girls names. The top few have changed within the last few months but I feel content with them now.
2) I hope so. When I was younger I was in love with the name Kimberly, so much so that I could no longer picture it on my child, which really upset me. Nowadays I try not to think too hard about the names I love in order to "preserve" them.
3) My four favourite names at this second are; Tobias, Sebastian, Rose and Elsa. These are closely followed by Jeremy, Phoenix, and Alexandra.
4) Elsa is because of Frozen, Jeremy is a mixture of the programme the Vampire Diaries and the book How to Kill a Mockingbird (I love the nickname Jem!) As for the others, I've no idea how or when I found them and feel in love with them, or really why I continue to hold them so highly. :)
2) I hope so. When I was younger I was in love with the name Kimberly, so much so that I could no longer picture it on my child, which really upset me. Nowadays I try not to think too hard about the names I love in order to "preserve" them.
3) My four favourite names at this second are; Tobias, Sebastian, Rose and Elsa. These are closely followed by Jeremy, Phoenix, and Alexandra.
4) Elsa is because of Frozen, Jeremy is a mixture of the programme the Vampire Diaries and the book How to Kill a Mockingbird (I love the nickname Jem!) As for the others, I've no idea how or when I found them and feel in love with them, or really why I continue to hold them so highly. :)
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I've loved certain names for a long tine. Sometimes I add a couple of new names to my favourites, but the top 5 or so for each gender is pretty constant.
I would use my favourite names. I don't tend to like names I find unusable in real life, apart from one or two guilty pleasure names.
For a girl, Eve Hermione. For a boy, George Arthur.
I don't remember when I started liking these names. The reason they are my top 2 is that they are simple and classic, they suit anyone of any age, people can spell them and there aren't a lot of trendy alternative spellings, they go well with our last name, they are clearly feminine and masculine (i.e. There are no male Eves).
The middle names are meaningful as Hermione is a name from the books we both love and Arthur is a family name. George if also a family name, the middle name of my brother, cousin, Grandad and great Grandad.
Other favourites on my list are in my signature below.
I would use my favourite names. I don't tend to like names I find unusable in real life, apart from one or two guilty pleasure names.
For a girl, Eve Hermione. For a boy, George Arthur.
I don't remember when I started liking these names. The reason they are my top 2 is that they are simple and classic, they suit anyone of any age, people can spell them and there aren't a lot of trendy alternative spellings, they go well with our last name, they are clearly feminine and masculine (i.e. There are no male Eves).
The middle names are meaningful as Hermione is a name from the books we both love and Arthur is a family name. George if also a family name, the middle name of my brother, cousin, Grandad and great Grandad.
Other favourites on my list are in my signature below.
This message was edited 4/20/2014, 11:46 PM
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Thanks :)
I'd love to use Arthur as a first name but my partner pronounces "th" like "f" so it comes out like Arfur, and that would annoy me too much! We can't use any names with a "th" sound in!
What are your girls called?
I'd love to use Arthur as a first name but my partner pronounces "th" like "f" so it comes out like Arfur, and that would annoy me too much! We can't use any names with a "th" sound in!
What are your girls called?
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Thank you! I'm glad you like them. They were met with mixed reviews, Cecily's name in particular; my mum's initial reaction to Cecily Winifred was: "She sounds about 90!". But she grew to love it!
Well, I sure hope you end up having girls, because those are beautiful names! I seriously considered Eve and Katherine for Cecily, and Nora for Frances! Gorgeous xx
Well, I sure hope you end up having girls, because those are beautiful names! I seriously considered Eve and Katherine for Cecily, and Nora for Frances! Gorgeous xx
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