Not a name take but out of interest is anyone else finding the mobile version of Nameberry has become pretty difficult to use in recent months due to the pop up ads & videos? I find they stop me being able to actually read/interact with anything 
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[name_m]Hi[/name_m] Bluey,
We have noticed this too and are working with our ad partners to fix this! There are a number of issues with the ads right now we are addressing.
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@Kipperbo1 Oh brilliant! Glad to hear you guys are on it 
I do not like [name_f]Darcy[/name_f] on a girl. Itās 100% Mr. [name_f]Darcy[/name_f] (Pride and Prejudice) to me (and many other people) and since thatās what heās referred to in the book, it just feels like a very masculine name. I wouldnāt use it on a boy either since it is used on girls. I just canāt picture a little girl bearing Mr. Darcyās name
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Iām not sure if this is really a hot take but it feels like there are loads more girl names out there to experiment with than boys names. Thereās more of a happy medium with girl names, where you can be a bit more fancy but not too out there.
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I agree. I look at my girls GP list and think āhonestly, Iād consider using theseā but my boys GPs are not names I can truly imagine a person wearing in their day to day life without being mercilessly mocked 
I guess fanciful names are culturally perceived as feminine somehow?
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I donāt understand the hype behind [name_f]Delphine[/name_f], to me it just sounds way too much like dolphin 
Clearly a lot of people donāt hear it/donāt care but itās all I can think about when I see the name!
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I need to preface this by saying that this is just my personal opinion, and itās fine if you like this approach to names! But wow, I really donāt like when charactersā names are chosen based on the meanings [name_f][/name_f] Like, I donāt like it when the wise character is named [name_f]Sofia[/name_f], or when the moon witch is named [name_f]Selene[/name_f]! I think [name_m]Remus[/name_m] [name_m]Lupin[/name_m] was an embarrassing name for a werewolf character [name_f][/name_f] To me it just feels cheesy, Iād rather if the name just fit their vibe and background! Plus, I think it can reveal too much about a character sometimes. If you know this author likes to give characters names based on their meanings, you can easily figure out that oh, this new character named [name_m]Emil[/name_m], which means ārivalā, will probably end up being the MCās rival!
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That makes sense to me. In fiction, I mostly care if the names make sense given who the (in-universe) giver(s) of the name is/are. What is their background? Why would they actually have been given that name? Is the moon witch [name_f]Selene[/name_f] because her parents expected her to be a moon witch? Did she give it to herself because she felt an affinity with the moon? Is this a world in which nominative determinism is actually real? Those reasons are fine for me! But if she just happened to have a name that represents something the namer(s) couldnāt know ahead of time, that takes me out of things because it feels like too big a coincidence.
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People always talk about her being timelessā¦but [name_f]Emily[/name_f] will always be a mom name to me
[name_f][/name_f](a lovely mom name though)
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Oh no, that makes me feel old! 
[name_f][/name_f] I was born in the era of Emilys, and I feel too young for it to already be a mom name! But I do agree that it doesnāt feel timeless because it had such a surge. [name_f]Samantha[/name_f] and [name_f]Amanda[/name_f] are similar to me in that regard
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Iāve always had a strongly disliked the name [name_f]Penelope[/name_f], I feel bad about it since so many people love it. But I just canāt stand it!
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[name_m]Jude[/name_m][name_f][/name_f] is so exhaustingly overused, itās a boyās name thatās always made my skin crawl from cringing. I just despise the name and think itās so unfortunate when people name their poor little boys this name.
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I always see people around naming forums (less so name nerds but more casual posters) talk about one of the drawbacks of having an uncommon name or spelling being that you canāt find trinkets with your name on them (think the little bicycle license plates, etc.)
[name_f][/name_f]Is it just me or is that just soā¦ inconsequential? Like were you really traumatized as a child because your name wasnāt on a trinket at the gift shop? Especially nowadays, in the world of global consumerism and quick shipping, you can get almost anything customized. I dunno, I just see this mentioned pretty frequently as a drawback and I just canāt imagine that it actually matters enough in the grand scheme of oneās life to even bring up.
[name_f][/name_f]Iāll say that Iām fortunate my name was common enough (Bryan) that growing up I was able to find it on the trinkets sometimes, but not all the time, and I donāt remember being, like, super upset about it lol.
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I had no idea what these even were before name forumsā¦ I have a ānormalā name and have never owned any of those kinds of items or seen them anywhere 
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I do remember those from when I was a kid but I canāt say I ever cared about my name not being on them [name_f][/name_f] Itās something you see at touristy shops and actively avoid buying lol. I will say the one time they did[name_f][/name_f] have my name I got a bit excited, but it was more soā¦ the novelty of my name being there? Like, if I saw my name at those shops all the time I wouldnāt care about it at all, I only cared because I didnāt normally[name_f][/name_f] see it. And I still didnāt care enough to ask my parents to buy it, it was more of an, āoh, cool!ā
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I could never get into Penelope either. I really dislike the whole sound, mainly the nel + lope, and itās always given off a sickly sweet vibe to me. Itās such a shame since itās very much my style and there are some cool namesakes.
And on the subject of personalised souvenirs, I very much enjoyed and felt special not finding my name .
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They either didnāt have mine or it was in the boyās section with the wrong spelling, they definitely never had my brotherās, & of course, they always had my second youngest sisterās, probably the middle & youngest oneās too, & I just never bothered to look for theirs.
[name_f][/name_f]None of us are talking about gas station trinkets or lack therefore in therapy as a primary reason for childhood traumatization & by the time we all have children, weāll be able buy to personalize things for them anyways, so it doesnāt matter.
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Iāve always found this to be a weird argument against unusual names! How much does anyone actually care about those little trinkets? No one ever buys them, even people who have names that are on them! There are a lot of valid concerns regarding unusual names, but this isnāt one of them. I canāt imagine a child feeling crushed or inconsequential or alienated because they canāt find their name on those things, especially because less and less kids are being given the most popular names, and the names on those little gifts are usually limited to the Emma-Liam-Aidan variety. [name_m]Evan[/name_m] a little [name_f]Luna[/name_f], which is in the top ten, might not be able to find her name on one of those!
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When I was a little kid I used to be very sad that my name was never on those things (or if it was it was spelled wrong) But I donāt really care anymore and take it to be more of a positive thing, it certainly wasnāt traumatizing, now I think being [name_f]Ava[/name_f] L. would have been much more so
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