This was the issue I ran into, as well as names being used already in his family! I was so set on Amy/Aimee, and then had three partners in a row with relatives named Amy/Aimee 
I do understand wanting to have a perfect list of names youād love for future children though, because I was the same way 
I agree but Iām biased of course 
I love writing a big loop in the āLā of my name! J names are also divine 
I worry about my combos because I may be having kids on my own in the somewhat near future. If I end up having kids with someone I have fallen in love with and chosen to have a family with, I realise my combos will probably change. But as Iām a bit older than many doing this, and Iām looking at having kids without a SO at this point, yes I do worry.
I donāt ever worry about usability, per se. I mostly wonder about usability. as in, could indiana ever be a wearable first name ?? which Iāve definitely polled before, just because I wonder 
I scarily realized that I may no longer be looking at names 10 years in the future anymore (if Iām waiting until Iām 30 which who knows may change) but this still kind of applies to me. Names, for me, are fun because theyāre imagining this happy future with a little family. Some people may like names for characters or plants or what have you but Iām specifically looking for names that I can imagine myself using because itās just not fun for me to ponder names that are completely unusable. Being able to create a concrete (even if itās nowhere near concrete in actuality) list of names for my future children makes it feel like the happy future Iām dreaming of is close and real rather than entirely hypothetical.
If I got married and my partner said āhereās the thing I really donāt like all of your names and I really want to use x name that youāve never shown any interest in beforeā I donāt think I would be heartbroken/super upset because we could go through at that point what I go through by myself now which is dreaming up who the name could become. Weāll see though:)
I love how other people have so many names blocked off from them due to family members.
[name_f]My[/name_f] entire list of first names Iām willing to use completely doesnāt show up in my fiancĆ©ās family, and my family arenāt the type who worry about using a name because someone else already has it. Middle names are going to be honours anyway.
I have as much freedom in names as I allow myself to have! evil laugh
Sometimes Iām a little sad that outside the active and prolific Teenberries thread thereās not really a lot of community chat. We have a few different groupings but the majority of activity seems to be in that thread. Iām an older member of [name_f]Gen[/name_f] Z and I sometimes feel a bit odd/unsure of how I fit in here lol. Not that Iām saying there shouldnāt be a Teenberries chat or that I donāt understand why it is the way it is (of course itās great that you guys have found a place to thrive). And Iām not saying I would ever want to entrude on that seeing as my experience is very different to, say, a 14 year olds. What Iām saying is I just wish that threadās energy could be replicated in some other way, I guess!
Hm I actually thought about this before. Like, why is Teenberries so successful?!? I think itās that when you are young you have somehow similar lives - school, crushes, living with parents, siblings etc. But in adulthood everyone is in very different stages so thereās not much in common to talk about.
Iām glad to be a teen but I also wish there was something for you too 
Hmmā¦ if I remember, there used to be a sort of āBerry Chatā in the Everything-But-Names Categoryā¦ perhaps we could revive it?
Sara>>>>>>>>Sarah
There were 20something-threads in the past, I donāt know why they never last long. Itās true to some extend that they (we?) donāt have as much in common as most teens do, but I actually loved it how someone my age was having their 4th kid while others were overwhelmed by too many college majors to pick from or currently traveling the world. (And at the same time itās sometimes surprising how much you turn out to have in common with someone you might never have looked at twice if you met irl.)
Maybe itās because some of us have connected on others platforms as well, so thereās no need to do it here? Like @SparkleNinja18 and I are also buddies on NaNoWriMo.
Iād be all up for another thread like that though, so the experience isnāt āoverā when you get to old. Like I remember [name_u]Abby[/name_u] literally graduating from Teenberry to our thread back then
Felt this.
This is a really interesting question! I was a frequent teenberry-thread poster (although our thread didnāt see nearly the amount of traffic as the teenberry thread does now, probably because without notifications on the old platform, it was up to you to remember to check it and keep the conversation going) from age 14 to around 20 so Iāll rewind the clock here!
I definitely think you hit a lot of it with your answer. I also remember having a great group of teenberries around my age for a lot of the time (@coffeeorangecats, @Myosotis, and @Theodora_Phoenix come to mind for shoutouts), and we also had a couple members a couple years older (shoutout to @eireann and @bellerose!) who I definitely looked up to. I remember we had a couple teen moms in the chat at one point but I know they expressed feeling a bit left out because they were obviously experiencing teendom much differently than we were.
I really thought I would be in teenberries a lot longer than I was because we did have people stay until they were 22/23 or so when I was there. However, when I reached college, there was an influx of younger (and sometimes much younger) membersā13, and even 12 and 11yos. At 19, as I navigated college life, I didnāt have much in common with an 11yo. So I kinda phased myself out, and donāt think I posted much at all since turning 20. I feel like the thread really picked up again since the platform switch (was nearly 21 at the time), and I do get FOMO sometimes lol, but I couldnāt justify getting back into it when I was no longer a teen, and I did appreciate at the time having a place free of adults 
. Plus, I figure if anyone needs me (or people like me), thereās always the Lounge chat.
I actually think I got a similar replacement with the Lounge chat and the NB discord. And like @Wandarine said, many of us have connected on other platforms as well. I know a lot of people here have my Instagram! I also just have to imagine that the TTC and due date threads are going to be popping in a few years when Iām in a position to join them 
I always feel left out because Iām too old for Teen berries, but I have nothing in common with the others my age. Iām 22 now, but I never went to college and I still live with my parents. Plus, Iāve been told that Iām about 14 mentally (probably due to the fact that I have autism). Iāve really stagnated in life and thereās nothing much to talk about anymore. I wish there was a better place for me to hang out, but it is what it is.
Well, at least I can still make name games for everyone.
More free time!
Iām mostly joking (and certainly not trying to take your responsibilities lightly; I know teenagers often have lots on their plates), but it does make it easier to be a frequent poster in an Internet community if you donāt have dependents or a full time
job.
Thatās probably part of it for many people!
There was another group for those too old for Teenberries, maybe called twenty-something berries (I forgot the actual name of the thread) and it got popular but then it vanished one day and I have no idea why! It was a few years ago now, before it switched. It worked so Iām hoping to see something return as I love using this site and made good friends from it!
Haha, this made me laugh because I WAS one of those teenberries. Itās so true, though. I, for some reason, thought I needed to have my kids names picked out by the time I was 18 just in case I met my husband in college ( I guess I was super confident that my future hubby would agree to them. lol). Iām getting ready to turn 30, single, and only one of the names I thought was āthe nameā for a girl is on my list and the boy name is no longer on my boy list. Tastes change over time and Iām certainly glad mine has. haha
I told my mom I liked Ezra and she scrunched up her nose and said, āthatās an old man name.ā I knew it was a biblical name, but I had never met an Ezra until a classmate named her son that. I donāt see it as old-manish or dated at all. I think itās handsome and classic.
iām so sorry, friend, that sounds tough 
i think i speak for everyone here when i say that the berries are always here for you, even if we canāt know each other in real life! and there is hope.
old men names are generally adorable 
arnold, norman, chester, walter, silas, clyde, alfred ?? sign me up 