See the results of this poll: How did you find "THE" name?
Respondents: 16 (This poll is closed)
- Loved it forever : 6 (18%)
- Saw it on nameberry : 2 (6%)
- It hit me like a bolt of lightning : 10 (30%)
- It grew on me slowly : 6 (18%)
- I read it : 5 (15%)
- I heard it : 2 (6%)
- I caved into my spouse/partner/family : 0 (0%)
- Hated it until I began to love it : 1 (3%)
- Met someone named it : 0 (0%)
- Someone suggested it: 1 (3%)
The names I love, and know I would use/have used on a child and love for the 60, 70 plus years I am in that child’s life, have been discovered different ways. Some have been loved for a long while, others I was slow to warm-up to, and others I fell for as soon as a heard or saw the name.
All names I truly love have the following in common:
I initially encountered the name in a way/circumstance I considered positive - whether that be on Nameberry, in a book, or in a hero/ine.
The name sounded better the more I hear(d) it.
None of the negatives thought of by me or pointed out by others changed my feeling about the name. [name_m]Even[/name_m] if I had temporary doubts, I always came back to the name in the end.