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HelpRe: 4 Questions
in reply to a message by T_E_T
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.
- mirfak
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.
- mirfak
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