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I really like this name, but, it's getting very popular, and I wonder if that's a good thing.
WDYT? Do you like it? Do you think it's too popular?
WDYT? Do you like it? Do you think it's too popular?
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I do really like Luna, but since I'm sure it'll enter the U.S. Top 10 in the next 5 years (and it's trending in the rest of the Anglophone world, as well as most of Europe) I am dissuaded from using it. :-( At least as a first name. I'm considering it more as a middle now.
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I like Luna, but I also find it a bit quirky-sounding and am not completely in love with it. Some people have agreed that I look like a Luna and that made it grow on me.
If it was not so trendy right now, I might consider it for a daughter. But I worry that it may be seen as a fad name down the road.
If I loved Luna enough I think I would still use it, however. I would still use the name Nora for example, even though it's also very popular.
ETA: My favorite Luna combo is Luna Henrietta.
If it was not so trendy right now, I might consider it for a daughter. But I worry that it may be seen as a fad name down the road.
If I loved Luna enough I think I would still use it, however. I would still use the name Nora for example, even though it's also very popular.
ETA: My favorite Luna combo is Luna Henrietta.
This message was edited 5/9/2021, 3:07 PM
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I do like it. It is gaining popularity but it still feels easy to say & spell while also being a bit unexpected.
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It's REALLY popular on dogs. I like it and I've been charmed (and a little alarmed b/c I'm a hipster) by its rise, but I'm beginning to feel dismay because it's starting to feel kinda basic instead of magical. I like that such a straightforward nature/astral name is so popular though. Maybe Helios will get trendy for boys heh heh
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This is how I feel about it too. I'm happy that so many people like Luna, but I also fret a bit about its delicate beauty. It's starting to feel less like a hidden moonlit grove at midnight and more like that "starter witch kit" from Sephora. I'm torn about that.
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I don't really like it, but I did for a little while.
I don't feel like it's "too" popular. It's just fashionable. A name that is given to 0.5% of girls in a year is really not that frequent, right? One in 200... that's like, one in every 6 classes of 30 kids. It'd be pretty unusual for a Luna born in 2020 to have another Luna in her class at school. There might be two or three other Lunas in the *whole* school. Is that really too popular? ... I personally don't feel like it is.
If I really liked Luna, I wouldn't be really concerned about the popularity, so much as about it being trendy. I'd be thinking about whether or not I mind that it's possible, that nobody will be naming any babies Luna anymore by the time she is twenty. If I did mind - I think the relative popularity of Luna actually helps with that.
If a trendy name is modestly popular for a while, then it becomes familiar to everyone as a name of real people. So as time goes on, it seems more "normal," and less like something remarkable mainly because it is recognizably out of style. Luna's more like a Shelby than like a Kaylin.
I think that names that are popular in the same sort of trendy way that Luna is ... Aria, Mila, Isla, Nova, Everly, Willow, Stella, even Harper ... tend to be used by people who don't want to use very popular names. They're less likely to use them when they see them becoming popular. So I think Luna's not gonna get a lot more frequent. It's not going to be the next Ava. JMO.
I don't feel like it's "too" popular. It's just fashionable. A name that is given to 0.5% of girls in a year is really not that frequent, right? One in 200... that's like, one in every 6 classes of 30 kids. It'd be pretty unusual for a Luna born in 2020 to have another Luna in her class at school. There might be two or three other Lunas in the *whole* school. Is that really too popular? ... I personally don't feel like it is.
If I really liked Luna, I wouldn't be really concerned about the popularity, so much as about it being trendy. I'd be thinking about whether or not I mind that it's possible, that nobody will be naming any babies Luna anymore by the time she is twenty. If I did mind - I think the relative popularity of Luna actually helps with that.
If a trendy name is modestly popular for a while, then it becomes familiar to everyone as a name of real people. So as time goes on, it seems more "normal," and less like something remarkable mainly because it is recognizably out of style. Luna's more like a Shelby than like a Kaylin.
I think that names that are popular in the same sort of trendy way that Luna is ... Aria, Mila, Isla, Nova, Everly, Willow, Stella, even Harper ... tend to be used by people who don't want to use very popular names. They're less likely to use them when they see them becoming popular. So I think Luna's not gonna get a lot more frequent. It's not going to be the next Ava. JMO.
This message was edited 5/9/2021, 10:43 AM
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I've only ever met one, and she must be 60 by now. I don't like the name, but I don't expect to meet a Luna around every corner; perhaps because I'm thinking of UK rather than USA popularity.
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No, it's not a good thing. It went from being cool and mystical to a total fad-name. I would avoid it unless it is your #1 favorite.
I like it but wouldn't use it anymore.
I like it but wouldn't use it anymore.
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I like it too. These days popularity isn’t that big of a deal since there is so much variety in names.
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