Hot Takes? 🤭

[leafygreens]

Really? I would assume everyone would spell it with the H unless told otherwise, interesting!

[anon75780134]

hot take: I love the nickname addie I know, I’m crazy!!

[anon57824181]

Hot take: the Hot Takes thread has turned into a personal ranking thread

[halinka]

100% Agreed. It’s fun to see people’s rankings, but after a while it gets boring to see and hot takes isn’t really fun to look at anymore since it’s the same thing over and over. That’s just my opinion though!

[eileithyia]

My hot take of the day:

It literally does not matter if someone’s names are of the same style or not. It doesn’t matter if sibling names aren’t cohesive. They’re individuals, and you should use the names you love, not settle for ones that sound good together.

I’ve had people tell me that certain names I like “don’t seem like my style”, which has never really made sense to me. I like what I like! (No harm in saying that, by the way, I just never understood what it meant).

[OpheliaFlora]

Perhaps someone could create a Hot Takes: Rankings Edition?
Edit: Actually, let me just do this right now, we’ll see if people use it.

Name Rankings (Hot Takes Spinoff)

For all your personal name rankings! I’ll start with: [name_m]Caspar[/name_m] > [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] [name_f]Margot[/name_f] > [name_f]Margo[/name_f] > [name_f]Margaux[/name_f] [name_m]Benedict[/name_m] >>> [name_m]Ben[/name_m] > [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] > [name_m]Benny[/name_m]

[anon57824181]

Great idea!

[skylerros]

Good idea!

[skylerros]

Hot take - [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] looks like a "kre8tiv spelling’’ to me. I know it isn’t and as far as I know it may be more traditional than [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], but I just can’t get over it.

Also, [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] with the nn [name_f]Kat[/name_f](e). Why not [name_f]Cat[/name_f](e)? It makes soooooooo much more sense.

[josieaitken]

Same!!

[EllieWilbury]

I completely agree that cohesiveness is unnecessary, especially on here!

However, non-cohesive sibsets do bother me if they are extremely non-cohesive. [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] and [name_f]Fern[/name_f]? Absolutely fine. [name_m]Sylvester[/name_m] and [name_u]James[/name_u]? I don’t think that works (coming from someone who adore both [name_m]Sylvester[/name_m] and [name_u]James[/name_u] and gets upset at least once a week because they can’t be in the same sibset). But just for abstract naming purposes? Have a little fun!

[EllieWilbury]

Hot take: I really like [name_u]Ari[/name_u], but only on a boy— it just seems a bit tired and overdone on a girl.

[kidpix21]

Cassius pronounced [name_u]Cass[/name_u]-ee-us > [name_m]Cassius[/name_m] pronounced [name_m]Cash[/name_m]-us

[the.vintage.scribe]

The name [name_f]Elsbeth[/name_f], and other similar names, just remind me of Elphaba from Wicked for some reason. It’s an association I can’t drop

[ethelmary]

Aliénor is a beautiful name that deserves love, and for some reason “alien” part doesn’t bother me at all?

[hannahhh]

i never used to like it but I’m totally crushing on it now!

[EllieWilbury]

Sage on a boy is superior to Sage on a girl!!

[NameLover2020]

@EllieWilbury I didn’t realize Louisa and Fern didn’t go together! They both have a similar vibe to me.

[itsjustjack]

@new.romantic

Jules (b) >> Juliet >>>> Julia

Agreed! Also going off of this:

Julian/Julien >> Jules (b) > Juliet > Julianne > Julia > Juliana >> Jules (g) > Julienne > Juliette >>> Julius

Giulia > Julia

@EllieWilbury

Sage on a boy is superior to Sage on a girl!!

Agreed! I also feel this way about Rowan, Raven, Indigo, and Astor (all “superior” on boys).

Also, Sage >>>> Saige for any gender imo which is strange because I much prefer Paige to Page.

[rosepip]

iuliet > juliet > guiliet > iulia > giulia > julia

(honestly for me anything that avoids the “j” sound gets a plus)