On girls I don’t like nicknames as first names but [name_u]Alfie[/name_u] is in my boys top 10, I also hate the name [name_m]Alfred[/name_m].
I’m also not a big fan of unpronounceable names but I love [name_f]Roisin[/name_f] and [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f]
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I dislike the trendy -in/-en endings for boys but I love Hollin and [name_u]Linden[/name_u]
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I don’t like the surnames as first names trend, but I do love [name_u]Hollis[/name_u] and Hollin
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I don’t like “English” spellings of Gaelic names, but I’m named [name_f]Sheena[/name_f], not Sini, and I love it.
That’s how I feel about it too. Neither feel like they fall in the same category. I figured it belonged here because it was on nameberry that I was called a hypocrite for not liking virtue names and liking [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] 
Another one I thought of, I’m not big on nickname-y names (or ones that sound like it) on girls, especially ones that end in the E sound. However, I love [name_f]Tessa[/name_f], [name_f]Mina[/name_f], [name_f]Leonie[/name_f], [name_f]Sophie[/name_f], and a couple more on their own. I don’t know if I could actually go through with it.
I prefer more formal names ([name_m]Theodore[/name_m] over [name_u]Theo[/name_u], [name_f]Susanna[/name_f] over [name_f]Susie[/name_f]), however I am in [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] with the names [name_u]Kit[/name_u], [name_f]Millie[/name_f], and [name_f]Liv[/name_f].
[name_m]Don[/name_m]'t love the use of random words/titles/numbers as names (like [name_f]Meadow[/name_f], [name_u]Seven[/name_u], [name_m]Chance[/name_m], [name_m]Arrow[/name_m], [name_f]Sonnet[/name_f], etc) but I love the names [name_m]Duke[/name_m], [name_f]Holliday[/name_f], [name_f]Snow[/name_f], [name_u]Ever/name_u, [name_u]Haven[/name_u], [name_u]Sailor[/name_u], [name_u]West[/name_u], [name_m]Crew[/name_m], [name_m]Gage[/name_m], [name_f]Reverie[/name_f], and [name_u]Winter[/name_u] (some as first, some as middles).
Not usually a fan of animals as given names (i.e. [name_m]Bear[/name_m]) but I love the name [name_m]Fox[/name_m] (as a middle only)!
I dislike uniquely distinct names who have one infamous person associated with it (i.e. [name_f]Cinderella[/name_f], [name_m]Napoleon[/name_m], [name_f]Cleopatra[/name_f], [name_m]Michelangelo[/name_m], [name_m]Elvis[/name_m], etc) however I love the idea of a [name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m] ([name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m] [name_m]Mozart[/name_m]) and [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m] (as in [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]).
I truly hate it when families use the same letter for all of their kids (mine being one of them, haha), but I wouldn’t mind meeting siblings/ twins named: [name_m]Heath[/name_m] and [name_m]Holden[/name_m], [name_u]Owen[/name_u] & [name_f]Olive/name_f, [name_m]Wesley[/name_m], [name_m]Wyatt[/name_m] & [name_f]Willa[/name_f], and [name_u]Flynn[/name_u], [name_f]Fiona[/name_f] & [name_f]Faye[/name_f].
Unisex names are totally not my style, but I do have a soft spot for [name_u]Riley[/name_u], [name_u]Finley[/name_u], and especially [name_u]Rowan[/name_u].
And judging from your signature, also [name_u]Ashby[/name_u], [name_u]Aspen[/name_u], [name_u]Delaney[/name_u], [name_u]Quinn[/name_u], and [name_u]Reece[/name_u]! Are you sure unisex names aren’t your style? 
“Girl names should be girly” -
I subscribe to that mentality, 100%. To me, if it isn’t fussy, frilly and so unmistakably feminine that it’s almost exaggerated, then I won’t consider it to be a valid option for girls. However, there is one exception: [name_f]Gertrude[/name_f]. I don’t know why I like it so much, especially since it sticks out like a sore thumb in amongst the likes of [name_f]Valentina[/name_f] and [name_f]Theodosia[/name_f], but I do. And the fact that I personally feel as if [name_u]Artemis[/name_u] is too masculine for a girl, and yet [name_f]Gertrude[/name_f] is just fine, makes me a HUGE hypocrite. But that’s not all…
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I HATE this mentality, 1000%! To me, this is offensive. Because, before a boy is even out of the womb (or even conceived, in some cases), society is already pressuring him to be butch, to be tough, to be alpha-dog-dominant in every single way. The last time I checked, a name was meant to give an identity and to advertise a sex, not to prove what level of manliness a little boy is at. And yet, everywhere I go, especially with my taste in boy names, all I see is: “That’s too girly!”, “[name_m]Don[/name_m]'t use that for a boy, it’s used for girls!”, “That’s way too weak for a boy!”, “You need to find a manlier name than that!”, “If you use that, he’ll turn gay!”, “[name_f]Do[/name_f] you want him to be a sissy and get bullied?!”. So wrong on so many levels.
Obviously, there are loads of issues that come hand in hand with all this and, in the long-run, I do feel that my hatred for the push of ‘manly’ names is justified. But, purely on a surface level, if I’m on board girly girl names, but adamently oppose manly boy names, then technically I am a hypocrite. But, oh well. I’ll take my [name_u]Joyce[/name_u] and [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] over [name_m]Josh[/name_m] and [name_u]Evan[/name_u] and be much happier for it.
I don’t like the spelling “ph” in names because to me, it seems strange that ph can make the sound of f. But, if we have a boy, his middle name will most likely be [name_m]Joseph[/name_m] after my grandfather who is sick.
I don’t like surnames as names, but I like [name_m]Santiago[/name_m] and [name_u]Owen[/name_u].
I usually prefer full names to nicknames, but [name_f]Eliza[/name_f] is so much nicer than [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]!
I also feel like you should be able to tell a person’s gender by their name, but a few unisex names have a place on my list including [name_u]Harper[/name_u] for a boy.
And I don’t really consider myself a hypocrite for this, but I think if I had 5 girls, 3 and 5 would be [name_f]Eliza[/name_f] [name_f]Juliette[/name_f] and [name_f]Esther[/name_f] [name_f]Josephine[/name_f], even though they share both initials.
I don’t really like surnames or masculine names on girls, yet I really like [name_u]Neely[/name_u] on a girl for some reason!
I usually hate when parents name there kid something like Hashtag, [name_f]Rainbow[/name_f], [name_u]Poet[/name_u] or any really weird name like that. But there are several names like that that I really like. For example I love the names [name_f]Silence[/name_f], Jaggar, [name_f]Charisma[/name_f], [name_m]Thaddeus[/name_m], [name_u]Lennox[/name_u], [name_u]Vesper[/name_u], and [name_m]Casper[/name_m]. Those names aren’t weird for people on nameberry, but for the real world that are very strange.
I thought of another one! In general I think that if you want to call a kid by a particular nickname, you should just name the kid the nickname you want instead of choosing a different name that would serve as the more formal, official name. And yet I am considering naming a kid [name_u]James[/name_u] [name_u]Dorian[/name_u] and calling him [name_u]Jody[/name_u] (JD–>[name_u]Jody[/name_u])! In this case it’s less that what we really want is [name_u]Jody[/name_u] and more that we love [name_u]James[/name_u] [name_u]Dorian[/name_u] (and [name_u]James[/name_u] is a family name) as well as [name_u]Jody[/name_u], but think that because [name_u]James[/name_u] is so common (even just within the family) that he’d need a nickname, and see making one of our other favorite boy names as a way of getting the best of both worlds. I still go back and forth about whether it’s too much of a stretch, though: half the time I think that with a name as common as [name_u]James[/name_u] just about any J- nickname goes, sometimes I think we should name him [name_u]Jody[/name_u], and the rest of the time I wonder if making it a [name_u]Jo[/name_u]- name like [name_m]Jonah[/name_m] instead of [name_u]James[/name_u] would make it more justifiable (although then the justification of a family name is gone). So I’m not solid on my hypocrisy for that one yet. 
I was just thinking of this one after I found out about one of my names. I try to avoid names that can have vulgar or unflattering meanings in other countries: [name_f]Pippa[/name_f], [name_f]Gigi[/name_f], [name_f]Fanny[/name_f], [name_u]Randy[/name_u], [name_f]Viola[/name_f], etc. However, I like [name_f]Tessa[/name_f] and [name_f]Saskia[/name_f]. I’ve heard [name_f]Tessa[/name_f] sounds similar to the Danish word/verb “to urinate”, while the kia part of [name_f]Saskia[/name_f] is apparently a hebrew word for vomit. Although, I doubt any names are truly safe.
Great topic!
- I usually strongly dislike boy names on girls, but I like [name_u]Wren[/name_u], [name_u]Kendall[/name_u] and [name_u]Spencer[/name_u] on girls.
- I don’t like unisex names, but [name_u]Indigo[/name_u] and [name_u]River[/name_u] (only for boys!) are two of my absolute favourite names! I also like [name_u]Aspen[/name_u], [name_u]Ever[/name_u] and [name_u]Elliott[/name_u] (also on boys).
- I don’t care for occupational/surname names at all, but I like [name_m]Shepherd[/name_m], [name_m]Fletcher[/name_m], [name_u]Sawyer[/name_u], [name_u]Piper[/name_u] and [name_u]Reeve[/name_u].
- I prefer the more conventional/popular spellings of names but for some reason I prefer “[name_f]Elinor[/name_f]” to “[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]”.
- I don’t like the [name_m]Caden[/name_m]/[name_u]Jayden[/name_u]/[name_u]Brayden[/name_u] names, but I like the sound and look of [name_u]Aidan[/name_u].
- I prefer [name_u]Theo[/name_u], [name_u]Charlie[/name_u], [name_f]Tessa[/name_f] and [name_f]Sylvie[/name_f] on their own, even though I normally don’t like nickname names.