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How would you rate your parents' taste in names?
I'm just wondering how you would rate your parents' name choices. Do you like your name? Would you say you and your parents have a similar naming style?
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Re: How would you rate your parents' taste in names?
my parents' tastes are okay.
my name is okay - i don't love it, but i don't hate it.
i think my parents and i all err on the side of classic.
My sister was Annette, and I'm Emily. I believe Jeremiah was their top choice for a boy name, but we never had a brother.
I like their choices, overall. Though Emily got pretty popular a few years after I was born, I think it's still a very decent name. I also always liked how Annette and Emily sounded together.
I wouldn't say that my parents and I have the exact same naming style, but we seem to have similar tastes in names in general.
I think my name is great, classic and although it was supposedly very popular I did not know another Elizabeth growing up.
My sisters are Christine Lauren and Diana...so Id say they had classic style..i have similae but not exact taste.
My parents leaned more toward trendy, while I prefer more classic names.
DH, on the other hand has a very "classic" name and likes trendy names.
Hmmmm...
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I'd say overall I like their choices in names, with a few wild cards I just don't understand on their end.
My mom loves spunkier, original names like Margot, Eve (back when Eve wasn't so popular), and Carly (again, before it was popular). The one name she loves that I just don't get is "Carl" for a boy, lolol.
Dad's taste is very classic/old lady: He nixed Mom's Margot for Margaret (which she then nixed), her Eve for Elizabeth, and he loved Charlotte long before it was in vogue.
I like my name. The thing that bothers me is that my Mom really wanted to name me her maiden name, but she was afraid that my aunt would be mad if I wasn't named after her. I hate that she gave in.
I also wish she would have gone with naming me her maiden name. Her generation was the last in her family to have it as their last name and she has all sisters, so the name has died out. I planned on naming my child (boy or girl) the name, but then my H's cousin used it for their child. I hope my bro and his wife use it so the name kind of lives on in our family.
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I love my parents' naming style!
My sister is Erin Colleen, but their boy name was Gary Francis
My brother is Patrick Russell, but their girl name was Kelly Elizabeth (I THINK that was the mn they had picked)
I am Megan Marie and I would have been Sean William if I were a boy.
I would have to say they did pretty well. My siblings and I came out with strong names, that don't sound like they're from the 80's and were several years old before we met another! Philip ('79), Leah ('83), and Levi ('85).
We do have similar taste.
My parents' style was very classic, and pretty similar to mine. It was heavily influenced by people they knew/characters from stories that they admired. The names they had picked out were:
Emily/Joshua (83')
Hannah/Jacob (87')
Rose/Andrew (89')
I think my parents did great. My name is Alexis Anna (if you couldn't tell). I was born in 1983 so it was incredibly rare growing up to find another Alexis at the time. I love my name.
My sister's name is Amy Marie (born in 1981). I like her name just as well. A bit more popular for the time, but still very pretty.
ETA: I am glad we weren't boys. We would have been Travis and Brandon which are just NMS.
My mom...not so good. My dad, pretty good. She wanted to name me something that was super BLAH (not gonna say it because I'm sure someone's bound to have the name), but my dad fought her on it and won. I'm Allison, and I've always liked my name a lot. It was nice because there was never a ton of us in one class or grade for that matter. I only knew a couple others growing up but we were different ages.
They divorced and my 1/2 sibs (from my dad and stepmom) are John and Kelsie (who was almost Emily).
I do not have the same taste in names at all, but over all, think they did a pretty decent job
10/10
Tess, Nell, and Kitt - we each LOVE our names!
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I like it. I love my name. It suits me a lot. My brother and sister fits with it as well. I don't think we have similiar styles though.
My parents did ok. We are all girls but I included what our boy names would have been. Out of all their names I really like Daniel.
Nicole/Daniel
Kristin/Steven
Karlie/Kevin
I have a half sister from my Mom who is 12 years younger than me and her name is Daneka. If she were a boy her name would be Kurt.
I have mixed feelings:
I'm Amber Ann
>I like my first name, but I hate the ANN, I always felt it should have been spelled with an "e" as in: Amber Anne, but either way, not fond of the Ann/Anne in general.
My older Brother is: Dusty James
> I think my parents were crazy to name my brother "Dusty" (after Dusty Rhodes, the famous wrestler). It has to do with my mom and grandma bonding over wrestling (??) when she was young. He has been picked on fiercely because of it (including from me when I was younger >.>).James is a family name, so I won't really argue with it.
In general, I don't think my parents and I like the same names, but I get them not wanting us to be more Jessica's and Michael's. I don't like traditional names either.
This but safe...
Danielle, Spencer and Austin To which I changed it to Daniela and Aist changed his name to Agustine. I guess we were more Mexican than she planned! lol
My mothers tastes are generally all top 10 names of the years we were born. So I guess most would consider her to have good taste. I myself prefer names that are not THAT popular, but do not hate my name.
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I respect my parent's naming style - it was all family names.
My first name is my maternal grandmother's first name (Jill) and my middle name was my paternal grandmother's maiden name (now my mn is my maiden name).
My sister's name is my paternal great-grandmother's name (Joanna). Her middle name is my maternal grandmother's maiden name.
Do I LOOOVE my name? No. I actually really hated having a last name for a middle name growing up. My grandmother was Danish and the name isn't exactly pretty to the ears. But as I get older I have learned to appreciate my name even if it isn't exactly what I would choose for myself given the choice.
For our kids we actually avoided family names. We just didn't feel compelled to use something we didn't love just to "keep it in the family".
Great! I actually love my name it is Courtney Brynne, I know Brynne is getting super common now, but when my mom used it no one had ever heard of it. She has had some great suggestions for this LO's name as well.
Horrible, I have a horrible name! No one says it correctly, and it just isn't a pretty name!
No, I would say we do not have similar tastes. I love DD's name and I think it is very pretty, mine and my sisters names...not so much
I actually really like my parents taste in names.I don't think we really have the same taste in naming styles, but I do like my name and my siblings names. I think all our names really fit us.
My brother was to be Keith until our neighbors son was Keith and 2 weeks before my brother was due he died from SIDS. So my brother was named Craig Scott.
My sister is Tracy Lynn and I am Kelly Lynn. My father named me as they thought I was going to be a boy and if I was my name would have been Ryan Albert. I have no idea where my brothers middle name comes from, but Lynn is a family name and Albert is my fathers name.
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My best friend growing up had this name, spelled that way, but pronounced Marisa...even as a kids I was like, did her mom not know how to spell?