My Ideals: A name should be gender-specific, spelled correctly, and legitimate. For me, it should also be a little unusual, off-beat, or underused while remaining inside the bounds of these categories. In short: it should be interesting, but not dumb. No one should have a boring name---but no one should have a stupid name, either.
Ideals: Plain, Simple, Spelled right. Common but not over popular. Basically something every recognizes and will age well. No boys names on girls. We're okay with unisex names for the most part.
Re: your name ideals?
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I guess I'll do what everyone else did...
My Ideals: A name should be gender-specific, spelled correctly, and legitimate. For me, it should also be a little unusual, off-beat, or underused while remaining inside the bounds of these categories. In short: it should be interesting, but not dumb. No one should have a boring name---but no one should have a stupid name, either.
Examples
Girls: Scarlett, Georgia, Eloise, Clementine, Estelle, Talulla
Boys: Atticus, Byron, Ambrose, Lucian, Theodore, George, Henry
My Name Ideals
Must not be made up
Should have some personal meaning to me
Should indicate sex of the owner
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personally, i like unisex names for boys [adrian, jude, schuyler...]
and more masculine type names for girls [brody, micah, kye...]
i like the name julianna, by the way.
just not too crazy about jory....
Ideals: Plain, Simple, Spelled right. Common but not over popular. Basically something every recognizes and will age well. No boys names on girls. We're okay with unisex names for the most part.
Girls: Holly, Elizabeth, Erica, Ruby, Amy, Melissa
Boys: Jared, Nathan, Ryan, Blake, Adam.
1) Not made up
2) Spelled correctly
3) Uncommon (but rule #1 still applies)
4) Gender appropriate
5) Has an interesting history or origin
1) Gender discriminate (No daughter of mine will be named Charlie)
2) Correct Spelling (Madisyn?)
3) I like seasonal names. (Noelle or Holly for a Christmas baby, April for an April baby, Liberty for a 4th of July baby)
This. Though I would say "not overpopular" rather than uncommon. Some names I love are fairly common, just ideally not overused.
FWIW, two of your choices are NMS but I love Julianne - beautiful!
That's what I was wondering!
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