I wanted to start a thread on baby names you love but others seem to dislike.
I love [name_f]Yasmin[/name_f] but when I mention it to my friends or family they all seem to dislike it.
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Names that berries don’t like very much:
[name_f]Mia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lily[/name_f]
[name_u]Tate[/name_u] (boy)
[name_f]Laura[/name_f]
[name_f]Carrie[/name_f]
Names people irl don’t like:
[name_u]Willow[/name_u]
[name_u]Kit[/name_u] (boy)
[name_u]June[/name_u]
[name_f]Joy[/name_f]
[name_u]Skye[/name_u]
[name_u]Marie[/name_u]
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I love [name_f]Mia[/name_f] & [name_u]Tate[/name_u]! I love [name_f]Lily[/name_f] as nn.
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Yasmin is so pretty! So much better than Jasmine imo!
[name_f]My[/name_f] list could be VERY long but I’ll try to narrow it down 
These are names I usually don’t get good reactions toward irl or on Nameberry, but I still love them!
[name_m]Arcturus[/name_m]
[name_m]Crispin[/name_m]
[name_m]Enoch[/name_m]
[name_m]Hezekiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Huckleberry[/name_m] “[name_m]Huck[/name_m]”
[name_m]Judson[/name_m]
[name_m]Jupiter[/name_m]
Lysias
[name_u]Rye[/name_u]
[name_m]Warrick[/name_m]
Wrangler
Jemison “[name_u]Jemmy[/name_u]”
Arianelle “[name_f]Aria[/name_f]”
[name_f]Dinah[/name_f]
[name_f]Katniss[/name_f]
[name_f]Simonetta[/name_f]
Tenley
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I think [name_f]Yasmin[/name_f] is pretty! And LOVE [name_f]Mia[/name_f] & [name_f]Lily[/name_f] @may.rose! [name_f]Laura[/name_f], too, is so underrated.
Ella
[name_f]Emma[/name_f]
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f]
[name_f]Isabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
[name_f]Sophia[/name_f]/Sophie
All of the above are pretty much disliked on NB because they are so popular irl, which I get.
Millicent
[name_f]Petra[/name_f]
[name_f]Vashti[/name_f]
Hadley (b)
[name_m]Roger[/name_m]
[name_m]Philip[/name_m]
[name_u]Gus[/name_u]
[name_m]Merrick[/name_m]
And the rest are either too old-fashioned or too out-there, I suppose.
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I feel like [name_m]Kerrigan[/name_m], [name_u]Glow[/name_u] and [name_m]Sholto[/name_m] divide people. I also kind of like [name_f]Nevaeh[/name_f]
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For me it’s [name_m]Lorcan[/name_m], [name_m]Lysander[/name_m] and [name_f]Saskia[/name_f].
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Lots of “hippie” nature/word names tbh. [name_f]Apple[/name_f], [name_f]Plum[/name_f], [name_f]Tulip[/name_f], [name_u]Sparrow[/name_u], [name_f]Topaz[/name_f], [name_f]Saffron[/name_f], [name_u]Lyric[/name_u], [name_u]Story[/name_u], [name_u]Fable[/name_u], [name_u]Snow[/name_u], [name_u]Storm[/name_u], [name_u]Cove[/name_u], [name_u]Ocean[/name_u], [name_u]River[/name_u], [name_u]Lake[/name_u], [name_u]Skye[/name_u] (probably the most mainstream of the bunch but I’ve heard comments that it sounds “like a teen mom name”, whatever that means). [name_f]My[/name_f] partner is up for most of these (though strictly in the middle spot), but my family and friends less so.
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I like [name_f]Nevaeh[/name_f], but everyone on here seems to hate it. [name_f]My[/name_f] all time favourite is Addiena, but nobody ever seems to like it. I don’t really talk about names irl as I don’t have anyone to talk to, so not really sure what people think of my favourites.
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Another one here who loves [name_f]Nevaeh[/name_f]! In real life, when I mentioned [name_m]Aurelius[/name_m], I got some strange faces. Now I know that if I’m going to use it… I have to be very brave.
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I really love [name_f]Nancy[/name_f], but a lot of people on here seem to dislike it. I think it has a slightly different image in the UK than in the US
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[name_f]Ella[/name_f] and [name_f]Petra[/name_f] are sooooooo beautiful!! I just know way too many Ellas to use it.( 
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I actuallyhave a really good friend named [name_f]Elle[/name_f] [name_m]Petr[/name_m]@ (symbol for privacy)
@anon68906791 I think [name_f]Albertine[/name_f] is kinda cute! I would prefer [name_f]Josefina[/name_f], maybe you like that ? (the j is pronounced as an h btw)
[name_u]Cove[/name_u], [name_u]Story[/name_u], [name_u]Fable[/name_u], [name_u]Lake[/name_u], Rover, [name_f]Tulip[/name_f], and [name_u]Sparrow[/name_u] are gorgeous @ashley_rose!! And I don’t get what they mean by it sounds like a teen mom name. Teen moms don’t have a specific style (at least not that I know of). And nothing’s really bad about teen moms anyway.
[name_m]Aurelius[/name_m] is sooo handsome @mirais!
[name_f]Grace[/name_f], (@Greyblue) i absolutely love [name_m]Kerrigan[/name_m]!! I agree with you about [name_f]Neveah[/name_f].
[name_f]Nanette[/name_f]
[name_f]Minette[/name_f]
[name_f]Neveah[/name_f]
[name_f]Jeanine[/name_f]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]
[name_u]Vivian[/name_u]
[name_m]Athanasius[/name_m]
[name_m]Varian[/name_m]
[name_u]Sparrow[/name_u]
[name_m]Chester[/name_m] (people seem to love it or hate it)
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Aw, I love [name_f]Mia[/name_f] & [name_f]Lily[/name_f]. 
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I loooove [name_f]Yasmin[/name_f]! Although [name_f]Yasmine[/name_f] is my favourite spelling, just gorgeous! 
[name_f]Merryn[/name_f] and [name_f]Mabli[/name_f] are girls’ names I love that don’t always get rave reviews on here, although I’ve noticed more and more people talking about them lately. I also love [name_f]Morven[/name_f], which a lot of people find “too harsh” and [name_u]Hero[/name_u], which seems to be a very Marmite name.
For boys, I love [name_m]Severin[/name_m] (also “too harsh”), [name_m]Maximilian[/name_m] (“too much”), [name_m]Florin[/name_m]/Florian (“too flowery”) and [name_u]Pippin[/name_u], which I also adore for girls but is often deemed “too cutesy” for either sex.
Lots of people on Nameberry like or appreciate these names, I’m sure, but these are comments I see a fair bit.
By the way, @nylamorgan, thank you for posing the question this way around, for once! I see a lot of “Names people love that you hate”-type threads, but I’m loving this opportunity to wax lyrical about unpopular names I like, for a change! 
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This is fun.
I love for boys…
Artemis
Colm
Shiloh
And really like…
Aidan
Dylan
Dakota
Ira
I love for girls…
Gerty
And I really like…
Hayley
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also piper for a boy. For some reason like nobody likes it.
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I love [name_f]Yasmin[/name_f] when pronounced the same way as [name_f]Yasmeen[/name_f].
I really like [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] and [name_f]Aurora[/name_f], but I think they would be too popular for many on NB.
I like [name_f]Poppy[/name_f] too, which a lot of NB users seem to dislike. Similar to @Mary_Rose, I think this is a case of a name having a different image in the UK compared to the US. In the UK, poppies are very associated with Remembrance [name_u]Day[/name_u] (I think the US equivalent would be Veterans [name_u]Day[/name_u]). And British people don’t call their grandfathers or fathers “poppy”, so that’s just not an association here.
Basically any unisex name people tend to hate on.[name_m]Ive[/name_m] had less problems with boy names I like so that’s good.
Girl-
[name_u]Rowan[/name_u]
[name_u]Jasper[/name_u]
[name_u]Wilder[/name_u]
[name_u]Clarke[/name_u]
[name_u]Teddy[/name_u](full name [name_f]Thea[/name_f]. People don’t like it for some reason)
[name_u]Emerson[/name_u]
I think your names are beautiful!
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One name I love but others don’t seem to like in real life is [name_f]Bianca[/name_f]. I think it is so beautiful and love the meaning/imagery for a baby born in winter!
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Chrysanthemum
[name_f]Tisiphone[/name_f]
[name_m]Thelonious[/name_m]
Ozymandius
[name_u]Tempest[/name_u]
[name_f]Proserpina[/name_f]
…and friends.
Irl I haven’t found many people in favor of many traditional Irish names.
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