View Message

Hebe and Bronagh look really masculine to me. Hebe literally is comprised of "he be," even if that isn't the etymological breakdown. They sound less so. Kinneret does a bit as well.
Françoise and Olga have always sounded really ugly to me. :\
Imelda is really unattractive to me as well.

---

Artemis seems like quite a name to carry. This coming from the person who loved Persephone for a number of years and is still very fond of it. I don't plan on using it but that kind of comes down to the fact that it doesn't go with any of my other favorites. I'm not sure why I see one as usable and the other as not so much.
Holiday I kind of like in a GP sort of way. I feel like it would be really hard to pull off if you weren't some glamorous star in old Hollywood, because that's the image it evokes for me. It could work as a middle name maybe.
Bridie is cute, but I wouldn't want it as my given name. It's more nickname material. That said, I kind of really dislike Bridget, although part of that is down to a personal association.
Tempest is in the GP zone, I think. I kind of want to like it, but I also kind of find it ridiculous. Also, it doesn't really nick very well, and it's got "pest" right in it.
Kinneret has a pretty meaning, but it looks a bit masculine to me, and when you say it quickly, it ends up sounding pretty much like "Ken Rhett."

---

Grace I'm surprised to see on this list! I know lots of people are over it as a middle name, but it's still a classic first name, right?
Dulcie is one I keep meaning to add to my list as a middle name! It's maybe a bit too cute as a first name, but I do really like it. In fact, I came up with a few combos the other day that I still need to post about.
Frances has grown on me some. I've never liked Francis, but it was the name of my boyfriend's grandfather, so I recently suggested that Frances could maybe be used as a middle name for a girl.
Milena is pretty, and Mila or Lena are good nicknames.

---

(m)
Quincey sounds small and nerdy and/or upper crust.
Arlington makes me immediately think of the cemetery, but I'm from the US.
Acton makes me think of the slogan "tough actin' tinactin." It's for a foot powder! It just sounds too much like "acting" with a dropped "g." I imagine there would be puns made.
Albany is too much of a place name.

---

Didier has a neat sound, but I wouldn't use it unless you lived in a French speaking area.
Robert I like for a middle name only. I think it can be a great compliment to other names. As a first, I find it boring and somewhat unattractive.
Audley looks okay in a well-to-do surname sort of way, but as someone pointed out, it sounds like "oddly."

---

Dickon is one I sort of have a soft spot for, but obviously, the "dick" thing is problematic.
Israel I really like, but I have no personal connection to it, nor do I have a lot of knowledge about the place, so it seems like it would be wrong to use it.
Linus is so cute! It's on my list, but I waver because of the Peanuts connection, although I always did like his character, and because it rhymes with "sinus."
Douglas I really like. I just don't like the nickname Doug.
Sparrow I like in a GP sort of way for either a boy OR a girl. There's something that I'm drawn to about it. I could see it as a middle name.
Schuyler - I like it pretty well.

---

-----------------------------------------
Current favorites:
Callum / Tristram / Benedict / Hamish
Cordelia / Winifred / Edith / Margaret

---

Vote on my name list? Pretty, please? http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/114016