What do you think are the some of the most popular/talked about girls names on these boards? What do you think of those names? What names do you think may be in the next wave of most popular/talked about names once the current favorites begin to get stale? [name]How[/name] long would you guess the transition will take? And what about the last wave?
I only recently discovered these (fantastic!) boards, but I’ll give it a try-
those are only my FAVORITES. I like almost all of the names on the list! I’d absolutely love to meet a whole school full or town full of nameberry-named kids. It would be so nice to meet a little [name]Maisie[/name] or [name]Phineas[/name] instead of the [name]Sophie[/name]'s and [name]Ben[/name]'s I meet every day (not that [name]Sophie[/name] and [name]Ben[/name] are not nice names- they are, just overused).
The difference with me is (aside from my taste often being about 70 degrees off the norm here) is that I’d be just as tired of a town full of these names as the ones commonest in the actual currently living population. Actually, in a way I already am. I see so many more names here than in real life that these names are the ones I get tired of!
https://nameberry.com/blog/2010-most-popular-names-charlotte-leads-nameberry’s-top-100-for-girls
This list includes some names I like, but more of my least favorites (and generally, those were ones I disliked before I came here). My desire for the rare usually obscures it, but if I were to let my taste run freely, it would be somewhat closer to what’s actually popular. Not systematically, though.
I’ll never use the term “bad taste” to describe someone’s preferences. I’ll only use “no taste” to describe someone who doesn’t have opinions or preferences, not to refer to preferences I disagree with. What I’m trying to say is, I have a style, but it doesn’t consistently align with what’s popular, or “hip”, or “out”. I’m completely not into the century-ago [name]Mae[/name]-[name]Millie[/name]-[name]Nora[/name]-[name]Sadie[/name]-[name]Eliza[/name]-[name]Clara[/name] bunch… but [name]Sophia[/name], [name]Isabella[/name] and [name]Ava[/name] are almost as far down on my list, and that’s since before they topped the charts. To show that my preferences don’t have to make sense to others, I find [name]Ruby[/name] unbearable, [name]Pearl[/name] passable, but the only one of that set I’d want to use is the not-yet-back [name]Coral[/name]. I do dig into “old” names a lot - but not much into Victorian and Edwardian [name]England[/name], more into non-English names.