Your supermodel names

General Name Discussion
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I don’t mean just names models have, which include some very common and approachable ones, or very classic ones.

I mean, you know… those names you love, that you’d use… if only you could guarantee your kid they would have the look to pull them off. Am I the only one with these? Names you find lovely but worry would look funny on a mere-mortal chubby middle-schooler? But I still love them!

Mine are:

[name]Ingrid[/name] - which prompted this thread, someone was talking about naming a daughter [name]Ingrid[/name].
[name]Gisele[/name]/[name]Giselle[/name]
[name]Angelina[/name]
[name]Isis[/name] - my husband said “we’re just too pale and nerdy to have an [name]Isis[/name].”

I have some for guys too. It’s not that being awkward in high school is fun for anyone ever but there’s this special level of hell if you are also named [name]Apollo[/name], I think.

Am I think only one with these sort of unusable-but-great names?

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For girls I like the names [name]Gwendolen[/name] and [name]Branwen[/name], which are unpopular because people say they sound ugly. For boys, [name]Edgar[/name] and [name]Arthur[/name]. They’re old but I think they sound really cool.

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I really like [name]Branwen[/name] and [name]Arthur[/name], I think they could be pretty usable? [name]Arthur[/name] I wouldn’t be that surprised if started to creep back into use.

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[name]Mafalda[/name]
[name]Drusilla[/name]
[name]Griselda[/name]

Devereux
[name]Kermit[/name]

OP- I completely agree with you about [name]Apollo[/name]. Although the US speed-skater does give me hope for [name]Apollo[/name] as a fn

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[name]Rose[/name] -I know there are probably a lot of them out there but I can’t picture an average looking person named [name]Rose[/name]
[name]Georgiana[/name]
[name]India[/name]
[name]Anastasia[/name]
[name]Alexandrina[/name]
[name]Winter[/name]
[name]Pearl[/name]
[name]Isolde[/name]

For boys [name]Theodore[/name]. I love it but it just sounds so soft and nerdy to me I’m afraid he’d be picked on if he were just average.

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lol, [name]Giselle[/name] is on my sister’s list, but she says she’d be worried that her daughter would hate her for naming her after a supermodel. :slight_smile:

[name]Magdalena[/name]'s the only one I can think of that I really love, but I don’t think it’s too supermodel-ey. :slight_smile:

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[name]Alessandra[/name], but I intend to use [name]Alessandra[/name] regardless because I love it that much.

Other ones:
[name]Antoinette[/name]; I will only use this in the middle.
[name]Odette[/name]; ditto.
[name]Allegra[/name]

Boys:
[name]Dimitri[/name]
[name]Eden[/name] (prn Eh-den)

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I expect or at least hope to have some fairly attractive children (but who doesn’t?) so I’m not sure I would worry about the awkward middle school phase but if I had to pick a name I would expect to see on a bombshell beauty and that I’m not sure my genes could pull off it would be Bérengère or Bérangère.

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Most of the names on my list are unusual, long and exotic, but I figure they can go either way - either she’ll be a drop dead gorgeous [name]Domenica[/name], or she won’t be but she’ll have the female version of her great grandfather’s name. Either a beautiful [name]Phaedra[/name] or one that has an ancient name that makes her feel special because she probably won’t meet another. Of course, I guess my plans could always backfire because I’m assuming they would fit the name either way. I just hope I have the foresight to avoid a name the general public thinks is ugly unless it’s on a supermodel. (And I hope she gets our family’s super-tall genes so she could be a supermodel if she wanted to.)