Hot Takes? 🤭

[rosepip]

oh also ! i prefer river on a girl

[rorawhale]

cassidy on a girl:
cassidy on a boy:

all around cassidy is criminally underrated and i would say the same for meredith as well

[halinka]

@Momofplenty

but I prefer Ocean on a girl (:

I prefer Ocean as a girl’s first name, but as a boy’s middle name : )

[crabsandquails]

I was just thinking today that I prefer [name_u]Dove[/name_u] as a girl’s first, but prefer it for a boy’s middle name.

[Babies123456]

Hot take: I’m sorry but I don’t understand the appeal of [name_f]Bloom[/name_f] as a given name

[elanorelle]

@EllieWilbury

would die for the cuddly Roger

Roger! My love!

[Lucie_with_an_IE]

1. I don’t like “nature” names that aren’t classic (like Rosemary, Violet, etc.). I don’t think names like Luna, Fox, and Stella age particularly well.
2. Even though I live in the UK, I really dislike a lot of popular British girls names like Matilda, Poppy, and Beatrice. I don’t know what it is that gets on my nerves about them.
3. I like the name Agnes.
4. I don’t like Ophelia or Cordelia. They seem pretentious to me.
5. I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I CAN’T STAND all those Kirsten, Kirstin, Kristen, etc. variations that were popular in the 80s and 90s. The name is dull and you should stick with ONE spelling! Ugh!

[moonwriteen]

I consider [name_u]Lionel[/name_u] an entirely gender neutral name.

I think spelling it [name_f]Lionelle[/name_f] makes sense if one wants their daughter’s name to be pronounced with emphasis on the second syllabe. [lye-oh-NELL as oposed to LYE-oh-nel]

Also → [name_u]Nelly[/name_u] > [name_f]Nel[/name_f] > [name_f]Nellie[/name_f] > [name_f]Nell[/name_f] . I literally only spell the shorter version of the nickname as [name_f]Nell[/name_f] to conform to [name_u]Berry[/name_u] standards but I find the extra L entirely unecessary, probably due to childhood memories strongly connected to a character named [name_f]Nel[/name_f] with one L.

[ethelmary]

I didn’t know [name_u]Lionel[/name_u] could be unisex

[flowellagrace]

i want to like violet, but i just cannot get behind it

[Paxramena]

[name_f]Fan[/name_f] >>> [name_u]Fran[/name_u] > [name_u]Frankie[/name_u] (as [name_f]Frances[/name_f] nns)

[Lucie_with_an_IE]

I think what turns me off from [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] is the “or” spelling. It makes me think of “corn” or “p*rn”.

[Scottie491]

It’s probably been said before here and I’ve definitely seen it other places, but I can’t stand people butchering pronunciations of names from languages they’re not familiar with and then stubbornly keeping the wrong pronunciation, even after they find out the right one, because they think it “sounds” better. They’re ignoring a whole history of linguistics and culture and it makes me so angry.

[rosepip]

lucie is vastly superior to lucy

[flowellagrace]

true that

[halinka]

@Lucie_with_an_IE

I don’t think names like Luna, Fox, and Stella age particularly well.

I think Stella ages just fine actually. I consider her to also be a more classic nature name— not quite the same vibe as Rosemary, but she ranked in the US top 100 from 1880 - 1923. Although, she fits in with more modern --ella names nowadays though, so that may make Stella seem less classical.

I also know teenage and adult Stella’s who do just fine!

[kasatka]

Agreed! [name_f]Stella[/name_f] feels like simultaneously modern and classic – I’ve heard it described as a “grandma name” and a “trendy name” before. I also think [name_u]Fox[/name_u] and [name_f]Luna[/name_f] age well.

[GenEric]

[name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] nn [name_f]Dori[/name_f] > [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] nn [name_f]Dot[/name_f]

In my dialect, [name_f]Dot[/name_f] is pronounced like dawt (rhymes with ought), which is very deep and doesn’t sound cute. [name_f]Dori[/name_f] is softer and sounds better to me.

[Quentin99]

I do not like names where the nickname is a completly different name on it’s own. It’s confuding and off to me. Like [name_m]Henry[/name_m] nn [name_m]Hank[/name_m]? or johnathan nn [name_m]Jack[/name_m]? just name them hank and jack. or [name_m]Hawthorn[/name_m] nn [name_m]Hawk[/name_m], theres too much going on there. [name_u]Or[/name_u] [name_u]Juniper[/name_u] nn [name_f]Juno[/name_f], closer to a nickname, but to me [name_f]Juno[/name_f] is still too much of it’s own name to be considered a nn. I know it works for some but I do not love this stule of nickname

[firefly305]

Yeah, my issue with people hating on “Kre8iv3” names is that there’s a whole lotta race and class tied up into what we consider “made up” names, even if those names have a long history of their own that we’re too pompous to realize.