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and the boys' list
As threatened.Adrian
Angus: I like this only on a bun topped with cheese and bacon and all the trimmings.
Brock: choking on broccoli.
Brody
Connor
Cyrus
Dean
Ethan
Edgar: it's just a very creepy sond, like a hit man who dissolves bodies in tubs of acid while twirling his mustache and charming the ladies with his accordion playing.
Felix: Edgar's silly, grinning, fussy assistant
Garth: like throwing up
Gideon
Harvey
Ian: just a whine.
Julian
Jamie
Keith
Kyler
Leon
Liam
Matthew: the Sarah of boys' names
Martin: No real idea why, but it seems to me I've run across too many "gay best friends" named Martin in books, all of whom seem to be caterers or interior decorators and very Mary Sue-ish.
Neil
Oliver: it slithers in my mouth like liver.
Otis
Percy
Ralph: goes double if somebody insists on saying it Rafe; triple if that person is American.
Ryan
Seth
Scott
Tyler
Tucker
Tanner
Virgil
Wendell
Xander
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Shouldn't Jethro be on this list? I was hoping for a twofer.
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I do like:
JulianI agree with you on:
Angus
Brock - it's SO ugly!!
Brody
Cyrus
Ethan
Edgar - hahaha, I LOVE your description of it!
Garth - agree, it's awful!
Keith
Kyler
Liam
Otis
Percy
Ralph
Tucker
Tanner
Virgil
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I love Adrian and Gideon. I like Garth, Seth and Virgil. I like Jamie on a little boy but don't think it's suitable for a grown man. I dislike most of the rest of your list, though some I'm neutral about.I had a great-uncle by marriage named Edgar. Remember my went-crazy-when-she-hit-menopause Great Aunt Muriel? Uncle Edgar was her husband. He was such a nice, sweet old guy that it's funny to read your impression of Edgar.
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Brock is such an ugly sound. I don't know why anyone would want to use it on a child. I don't care for most of the others either, with the exception of Ethan, Ian, Liam, Matthew, and Oliver. I don't much like for Adrian, Connor, or Martin but I wouldn't say I hate them.
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I like creepyI actually love Edgar cos it sounds like a character Vincent Price would ham up in an old horror film. I love that vibe.I like Felix, but I must agree again. I like Gideon and maybe Cyrus too, although I know a really perverted hillbilly (I live in the home counties in the UK, so that's very odd indeed) type called Cyrus who may have ruined it for me.

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Agree about these:Brock
Ethan
Garth
Keith
Kyler
Neil
Tucker
Virgil
WendellBut I like these:Angus (perfectly acceptable Scottish name)
Edgar
Felix
Gideon
Julian
Oliver
Seth
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Lol againTotally agree with Edgar!! He was the bad guy in the Aristocats too.
There's more names on your boy list that I love then on your girls one.I love Xander, Oliver, Leon and Liam (happy that Leo didn't make the list!) Jamie (like it better on a girl though) Julian, Conner, and Adrian is one of my all-time favourites.
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You know, I've been trying to figure out for a while what puts me off the name Ian, which is considerably more "normal" than many other names I come across on a day-to-day basis. But you're right: it's one giant whine. Same goes for Neil.Brock, to me, has always sounded like a douchey jock pumped full of steroids. I cannot shake that image for the life of me.Garth also does sound like throw-up, and Ralph is a literal synonym for throwing up, so I agree with you on these as well.I would like Felix, if it weren't such a cat name. (Same with Sebastian.)
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I also hate...Xander (though I like Alex/Alexander)
Wendell (this is the carsick kid from "The Simpsons", isn't it?)
Virgil (virgin)
Tanner
Tucker
Tyler
Percy
Kyler
Keith
Gideon (YES. Something about the way it sounds makes me CRINGE.)
Garth (party on, Garth!)
Connor (so boring)
Brody
BrockI agree with you more on the boy's names than the girls'.
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Adrian! I can't stand that name, ugh.I also dislike:Brock
Connor
Dean
Felix
Garth
Gideon
Harvey
Julian
Keith
Kyler
Liam
Ralph
Ryan
Tyler
TuckerThe others I like or am neutral on.

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I like:
Dean
Felix - love it
Gideon
Ian
Julian
Jamie
Kyler
Leon
Liam - love it
Oliver
Seth
Xander - prefer it as a nicknameI'se use Felix or Liam in a heartbeat.
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Ralph-pronounced-Rafe. SO NAUSEATING.
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I like:
Angus
Connor
Felix
Gideon
Julian
Martin
OliverI'm neutral on:
Adrian
Ian
Keith
Leon
Liam
Neil
Otis
Percy
Ryan
Seth
Scott
Virgil
XanderI dislike:
Brock
Brody
Cyrus
Dean
Ethan
Edgar
Garth
Harvey
Jamie
Kyler
Matthew
Ralph
Tyler
Tucker
Tanner
Wendell
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Going with the ones I agree with you on this time. Adrian, Brock, Brody, Connor, Cyrus, Ethan (it's so whiny), Garth, Harvey, Ian, Jamie, Keith (makes me want to vomit, not once, not twice, but at least three times over), Kyler, Leon (yet I love most other Leo- names), Liam (bleurgh), Matthew (a bit of me dies every time I see a new baby named Matthew), Ryan, Seth, Tyler, Tucker, Tanner, Virgil (though it does remind me of Thunderbirds so points for that), Wendell
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