Hot Takes? 🤭

[flowellagrace]

@EllieWilbury

can we all take a minute to appreciate Jude, which I love on a boy but (hot take) also adore on a girl?

yes, jude on a girl is so lovely

[moonwriteen]

I don’t remember a post with which i would agree so much on this thread as this one. Literally 100

[ethelmary]

I love very feminine names on tomboys and rather masculine names on girly girls. Idk, I just like the contrast.

[josieaitken]

Yes I call my dad Papi too so [name_f]Poppy[/name_f] just seems weird too me as a name. But I also think it’s cute

[EllieWilbury]

[name_u]Shane[/name_u] is such an adorable and cosy name and I will never understand the dislike it gets

[oceansea]

the [name_f]Rebekah[/name_f] spelling is elite

[winterara]

@oceansea

the Rebekah spelling is elite

100% agree

[Ameliaanwen]

I feel like this will be controversial because it’s a NB favourite, but I’m really not a fan of [name_u]Elliott[/name_u] (or alternative spellings) for any gender (sorry!)

[OpheliaFlora]

It makes me think of that one awful youtuber, that’s why I dislike it.

[leafsgirl44]

@Inlakesh

That’s a good point! For example, I love the name Heather. I’ve never known one that wasn’t born before 1980, and I’ve always liked it, but my mom doesn’t care for it because she’s known 8+ Heather’s. It’s super common in her generation (1960-1979). I like it more because I’ve never known one in my age group.

This is the same scenario for me! My mom wouldn’t consider any name that was popular when she and my dad were kids when my sister and I were born because they were too common for her - our names ended up being in the top 100s when we were born!

[findemaxa13]

@winterara

@oceansea

the Rebekah spelling is elite

100% agree

I prefer Rebecca to Rebekah, but Bekah is SO much cuter than Becca.

[Ellory]

@oceansea

the Rebekah spelling is elite

Oh, absolutely!
And Bex is the superior nn for all variations of Rebecca.

@Ameliaanwen

I’m really not a fan of Elliott

Me neither!

@EllieWilbury

Shane is such an adorable and cosy name and I will never understand the dislike it gets

I just know to many and all of them are annoying, especially one in particular. He thinks he’s smarter and better than me because he made a 100 on a science assignment last year and I made an 80.
He still holds it against, me, Claudie. You do not understand my frustration.

[ethelmary]

[name_m]Hi[/name_m]. Here’s a reminder:

The world isn’t [name_f]English[/name_f] speaking. People speak a lot of other languages. And we, non-Anglophones, don’t consider how it sounds in [name_f]English[/name_f] when naming our kids. [name_m]Just[/name_m] like you don’t consider how the name sounds in Chinese or Swahili. Would be nice to remember this when making comments.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

[Babies123456]

Fern>Flora

[EllieWilbury]

[name_u]Hendrix[/name_u] >>>> [name_u]Lennon[/name_u] (b) > [name_u]Lennon[/name_u] (g)

[rhodes2nowhere]

[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] is so overrated

[hannahhh]

my lennon loving self has to disagree!!

lennon (g) >>> lennon (b) >>>>>>>> hendrix

[hannahhh]

[name_u]Lennon[/name_u] is such a perfect name! and it means lover, which is the most perfect meaning too. I could talk for so long about how much I love [name_u]Lennon[/name_u].

and [name_u]Lennon[/name_u] & Shepherd!! they’re perfect together!!

[Inlakesh]

If we’re talking about musician names, I’ve always been partial to Lennox, Morrison, and Vaughan.

[GenEric]

I agree. It’s lost any vintage charm due to being so common. People say it won’t be dated due to being a classic, but at least in the US, it never ranked higher than #47 before 2000 (when it started to rise). That doesn’t seem very classic to me in the same sense [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] and [name_f]Mary[/name_f] (despite its recent decline) are.

I prefer [name_f]Carla[/name_f].