I was looking at our current top 4 girls names and although I love them I was wondering if they would be perceived as boring, unimaginative etc.? The names are [name]Mary[/name], [name]Jane[/name], [name]Catherine[/name] and [name]Anne[/name] ([name]Jane[/name] being the current favourite). I’ve been considering others which are more frilly but none quite feel as right as them - many I really like in theory ([name]Julia[/name], [name]Victoria[/name], [name]Eleanor[/name], [name]Georgiana[/name] etc.) but just don’t think would ever use up front.
You can’t please everyone with a name you pick. Some people like exotic names, some like classic names, some like it trendy, some like timeless. What matters is - do YOU think the name is boring?
If you do, you can always pick a more lively form of the name ([name]Maria[/name]/[name]Marina[/name] instead [name]Mary[/name], [name]Caterina[/name]/[name]Catherina[/name] instead of [name]Catherine[/name], [name]Anna[/name]/ [name]Anya[/name] instead of [name]Anne[/name]) or you can pick out a more unusual middle name ([name]Catherine[/name] [name]Sidony[/name], [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Ever[/name], [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Georgiana[/name].)
I love your name choices. I really like [name]Jane[/name], and I second amberdaydream’s idea of spicing it up with a more spunky middle name.
Good luck!
I think your name choices are classic and lovely. Think of all the inspiring people that your daughter may be named after - [name]Jane[/name] [name]Austen[/name], [name]Anne[/name] [name]Bronte[/name], etc. Also some of these “classic” names are quite unusual now, particularly [name]Jane[/name] and [name]Mary[/name]. Your daughter may find herself the only [name]Jane[/name] in a class with 5 Sophias, 3 Laylas and 4 Savannahs.
[name]Jane[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] are also on my list - as a pp mentioned I like them with longer or more unusual middle names - [name]Jane[/name] [name]Miranda[/name] is one of my favorites as is [name]Jane[/name] [name]Alexandra[/name], and I like [name]Mary[/name] [name]Hyacinth[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Victoria[/name].
I think your top choices are lovely classics! You can’t go wrong with a name like [name]Jane[/name], [name]Catherine[/name], [name]Anne[/name], or [name]Mary[/name]. They’re all very sweet and all have quite adorable nns. I think it would be nice to use some of the frillier names as MNs, too–I think [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Julia[/name], [name]Jane[/name] [name]Georgiana[/name] (as long as you don’t say [name]Georgiana[/name] as jor-[name]JANE[/name]-ah), [name]Mary[/name] [name]Georgiana[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Julia[/name], [name]Anne[/name] [name]Julia[/name], and [name]Anne[/name] [name]Eleanor[/name] would lovely, refreshing choices. I especially love the idea of [name]Jane[/name] [name]Georgiana[/name]–so pretty and romantically classic!
I much prefer those names over some of the popular ones out there right now, especially the misspelled ones like Ryliegh, [name]Maddison[/name], Mykenzye, etc. They are classic so that means she probably won’t have to spell her name out for people. The worst anyone could really say is that they are boring names - is that really that bad? I strongly prefer boring over misspelled, made up, or names that just don’t make sense (boy names on girls, strange word names, etc).
I’m sorry…I do think thy are boring…and more so, I’m tired of how popular they are. There is 1000’s of possible names…yet people stick with the same 100. Yet, you cannot please everyone.
I’m sorry.
I really like your taste - especially considering that one of my daughters is named [name]Mary[/name] and another is named [name]Jane[/name]. I have yet to meet another baby named [name]Jane[/name]. It’s a well-known name, but it isn’t used all that often anymore. I really like your choices of [name]Catherine[/name] and [name]Anne[/name] as well.
I have heard these names described as boring before, but, if you like them, this shouldn’t stop you from using them. I love the fact that they are not limiting. They can really fit any sort of girl with any sort of personality. They are also historically grounded with a long history of use - classic in every sense.
I don’t find classic, elegant beautiful names such as [name]Jane[/name], [name]Mary[/name], [name]Catherine[/name] or [name]Anne[/name] boring at all! [name]Love[/name] them!
I’m a total fan of classic names! Being classic doesn’t necessarily equate to boring. After all, think how many famous women have done great things with those names? They never really go out of style, they’re easy to recognize and pronounce, and they’re all undeniably feminine. Personally, I’m thinking it’s time for [name]Jane[/name] and [name]June[/name] to have a comeback. So if it feels right for your baby, don’t feel like you have to add something “yooneeq” to give your child a name that will fit in, and if you do, that’s what middle names are for! <3
Boring?! Never! Honestly, I don’t think I’ve met a baby [name]Mary[/name] in a VERY long time, and I’m Catholic! I think you’re smart to want to give your child the gift of a never-faddish, always timeless, truly classic name that will wear well year after year. A baby [name]Anne[/name] will grow into a lovely bride [name]Anne[/name] who will make a fabulous Gran [name]Anne[/name] someday. My mother gave all eight of her children names like that. Strong, solid names from the family tree that none of us will ever be ashamed of. However, my youngest brother is eight and wishes he was named [name]Grayson[/name], and not [name]Matthew[/name].
I really love names like [name]Mary[/name], [name]Jane[/name], [name]Catherine[/name] and [name]Anne[/name] (Okay, I would bump [name]Anne[/name] for [name]Elizabeth[/name] if constructing a top four… but that’s hardly a huge leap of style…) because they transcend trends.
That said, my rule is one of these to a child. [name]Mary[/name] [name]Marguerite[/name], for example? Gorgeous. [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Julia[/name]? Great. [name]Mary[/name] [name]Catherine[/name], however, takes me in a very parochial school direction and I don’t care for it.
Possibly that’s odd of me, but it’s how I feel.
Besides - you can’t afford to spend any two of these on a single girl lest you have another daughter later. Nothing else will approach them feel, and there’s only about a half dozen of these.
I’ve been kinda having the same issues with my names. [name]Maria[/name] and [name]Katherine[/name] are a couple of mine. So what I did to solve it was to “exoticise” and add a second more interesting middle name. I haven’t been open to two middle names until now. For example, [name]Katherine[/name] is now [name]Katerina[/name]. SO if I were you Id either keep one name, either first or middle as one of your favorite classics then spice it up with a more exotic and interesting version of one of your other classic favorites.
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Julietta[/name]
[name]Catherine[/name] [name]Vivien[/name]
[name]Jane[/name] [name]Eloise[/name]
[name]Julianna[/name] [name]Eugenie[/name]
[name]Cecilia[/name] [name]Anne[/name]
Other than Jane (lovely name, but maybe you are getting the “boring” association because of the phrase “Plain Jane”) and Mary (just because it was so common for so long), I don’t think they are boring names at all. Catherine is too long and too beautiful to ever be boring. Anne is lovely, the alt Anna is something you may also consider to spice it up a bit. Also Marie for Mary, very pretty.
The only thing with [name]Catherine[/name] is the amount of [name]Kate[/name]'s and [name]Katie[/name]'s out there. [name]Mary[/name], [name]Jane[/name] and [name]Anne[/name] are extremely familiar and classic, but not actually used all that much anymore. I personally love [name]Anne[/name] (and [name]Anna[/name]) and [name]Jane[/name].
I’ve never liked [name]Jane[/name], I know too many people with it as a filler middle name, and I prefer [name]Anna[/name] to [name]Anne[/name]. [name]Catherine[/name]'s lovely, as is [name]Mary[/name], and I’ve got variants [name]Katherine[/name] and [name]Maria[/name] on my longlist. And [name]Anna[/name] too, actually. I don’t think they’re too plain, in fact it would make a refreshing choice from Mykynzai etc.
Thanks. I’m really glad I’m not the only one who likes the classy simplicity of the names - the reactions we get from family and friends are ones of indifference and some of them stating that they are boring (I had a cousin suggest that [name]Jaiden[/name] would be “much better”). I’ve never liked the “spiced up” versions quite as much - [name]Anna[/name] just sounds so much more cutsey to me than the classiness of [name]Anne[/name] - and ee-a ending names I find too frilly: that make sense?! stripedsocks: [name]Elizabeth[/name] is actually my name and my daughters middle name so already taken! Our children are [name]Timothy[/name], [name]Peter[/name] and [name]Rose[/name] and this is thinking about a number 4.
Clendons, I could have written your post: I started off with [name]Anna[/name], [name]Katherine[/name] & [name]Elizabeth[/name]. I, too, felt these names were a bit, ummm… safe? The thing is, they are lovely classics, as are your first choices. [name]Mary[/name] and [name]Jane[/name], especially, are really not registering very high on the popularity indices. So, in that respect, a seemingly ‘dull’ or ‘safe’ choice is actually going to be very refreshing for your little one. [name]Jane[/name], especially, is so fresh and pretty! I completely understand your post, believe me…
I do feel, however, that [name]Julia[/name] & [name]Victoria[/name] are almost on the same level as [name]Mary[/name], [name]Jane[/name] & [name]Catherine[/name] as they, too, are solid classics.
Hey – there’s a lot of Avas (and Jaidens) out there.[name]Mary[/name], [name]Jane[/name], [name]Catherine[/name] – these are going to be fresh as a daisy in comparison to some of the more popular names. When is the last time you met a baby [name]Mary[/name] or [name]Catherine[/name]? Instead of looking at these names from your generational perspective, look at it from the perspective of your baby’s peers (hard to do!)… your daughter will know very few Catherines, whereas we may know several.