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Dallas, Damian, Darwin
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Damian, it's pretentious in just the way I like. Darwin is too much and Dallas is NMS.
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Damian. I'd prefer Damien, but oh well. I like the sound.In my mind...
Darwin is a Westie, and Dallas is a football team that I've inherited an irrational hatred for.

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Dallas, easily!I'm off and on about Damian (currently off), and Darwin makes my eyes roll.
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Love Damian, like Darwin, dislike Dallas. I'd probably use Damian as a first or middle name and Darwin as a middle name, but I could not be persuaded to use Dallas.
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Damian, definitely. Thought I do prefer Damon (of the legend 'Damon & Pythias').
Dallas was on 1980s soap opera.
Apart from the obvious, Darwin sounds like Irwin.
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Damian. I love the sound and the sweetest boy I ever babysat was named Damian. I wanted to name my son Damian, but my husband was still traumatized from watching "The Omen".

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I guess Damian. It's not a bad name. Dallas is just okay but a bit too phony cowboy. Darwin just sounds like a chump.
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Ooh! This one is hard.I really like Dallas. It was a originally a surname, but it has been in regular use as a first name since the 1800s. The meaning "meadow dwelling" is soothing. It makes me picture a little cottage nestled among the rolling hills with smoke coming out of the chimney, a dog on the porch, and deer grazing in the glen. I'm ambivalent toward the Texas association. Damian - I love the sound and meaning "tamer or soother." Damian is one of the patron saints of physicians, which lends the name a healing quality. Despite its taming and healing associations, there is something a little spicier and edgier about Damian, which adds interest. Darwin - I love the meaning of Darwin, but the name is too associated with Charles Darwin. The use of Social Darwinism to justify the Nazi regime gives it a negative connotation, and some of Darwin's views were definitely racist. If there was another Darwin famous enough to give the name another prominent association other than Charles Darwin, then I would feel more comfortable using it. It would be fun to name a chimp Darwin. I will go with Damian although Dallas is a close second.
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Ooh, definitely Dallas. I would have used it in real life for one of my twins, but my husband didn’t care as much for it as the names we did pick.
Darwin is hideous.
Damian isn’t so bad, but I prefer Damon.
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Not Dallas: too geographical, and not a town I'd ever expect to want to visit. And not Darwin either, though a friend of mine did give it to one of her sons as his third mn because of her admiration for Charles Darwin! Damian is a clear winner. I like the association with medicine, though just as an anecdote, not because I'm even remotely religious and it's highly likely that Damian and Cosmo didn't exist in the first place. But it looks and sounds distinguished, and the two Damian people I know - give or take a French spelling - are excellent men, which helps, though the name doesn't need help. Some people who posted their opinions of it based on some movie or other seem to need help, though!
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I've never watched "The Omen" movies with the villain named Damian, but it does seem to have traumatized a few members of the audience. Thankfully there are plenty of more enduring positive associations to counteract it.
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Easy - Darwin's been at the top of my list for over a year now. I love the sound, the cute vintagey vibe, and the meaning "dear friend". The only thing that makes me hesitate is that it's very associated with Charles Darwin, but that's not a deal breaker.I like Damian too but it has this pretentious feel that I can't shake. Dallas is unattractive, reminds me of lettuce and the Texas city, and is a quintessential troublemaker name.
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I like the name Dallas, but hate the city. Damian has an evil vibe to me. I'd go with Darwin. It sounds kind of nerdy, but on the other hand, it could be a way of announcing to the world my rejection of creationism. I'd feel more comfortable doing that than using the name of a city that I hate, no matter how I like the sound. Darwin it is.
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Damian - attractive name that sounds timeless I like Dallas, just not as much as Damian. Darwin makes me think of Charles Darwin and I’m just not a fan of the sound.
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Damian. Nice way to honor my horror obsession without embarrassing the child ;)Darwin is cute but a little too nerdy-sounding and Dallas is very Fake Cowboy
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Damian - it's a nice, solid name.Dallas is too much of a place name, especially for someone with no connections to the city.Darwin is too nerdy and pretentious.
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This one's easy. (:
Damian. I simply love it. It sounds very decent and handsome. Very appealing.
I like Dallas as well but not to the extend of Damian and feel that it doesn't age as well.
Darwin: Nope. Too awkward and geeky and Charles Darwin.
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