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notkateanymore
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Baby names...
notkateanymore
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Wow there are some REALLY bad names on the Names board.
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I just saw the ones you posted, I like them. Now some of the other ones in that thread are the reason I posted this.
You need a ticker, BTW!
I DONT know how LOL I have tried and has been an epic failure every time
I saw a pretty bad one the other day in a friends baby announcement E mail...
They named their daughter Keaton.... Family Ties much?
I'm guily of hanging out over there at times, only because I have no idea what I will name this baby!
I do completely agree that most posts are the most hideous names. I sometimes think? This is gotta be a joke, right? Unfortunately I think some of the ladies are not joking.
Click through mine, make your own, get the code, go to where you set up signatures, etc. and enter it...when you go to save, save it like 15 times in a row. That should work. You just have to keep hitting save for awhile.
My favorite poster is the one who has all the Name Board stuff in her sig and she has picked this HORRIBLE name for her child. Of course, that's just my opinion...which is name board code for suck it.
The general consensus over there is a strong hate for boy/unisex names for girls.
I like to fuel the fire and post my love for them.
Did it work?
I'm also a name-judger (lol)! If you put your baby name out there for others to judge, what do you expect? Anyway, who cares what some stranger thinks of your baby name anyhow? I love my kid's name and it fits him, what else matters, you know?
It did, it did!!
yay, I am not totally hopeless!
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Some people are really into onomatology <-- the study of names, so it's kind of a hobby to many. I'm actually interested in it. I used to post on a baby name board way back in the 90's on AOL (wow, that makes me feel ancient) and we're all on a FB group now. Names have always been an interest of mine. I don't really participate on the one here, though, because I already have a group I've been in for ages. But I love me some name discussing.
I LOVE BNB!!
Particularly because NOBODY likes my boys' names. But, that doesn't stop me. They have names that are distinctly masculine, spelled correctly and aren't in the top 10. We have really simple naming criteria.
I like a good train wreck post, too.
Bottom line about the boy names on girls is this: Own it. You want to give a girl a typically masculine name? Fine. That's your style. But, don't defend yourself by saying that you heard so and so celebrity used it on their daughter, or I've known 5 adult women with this name. That doesn't change the history or the root of the name. That just makes it your naming style. I'm OK with that (unless, of course, it's one of my boys' names ;P).
These ^ are general "yous," not you specifically, Kate or Arne.
I disagree. There is no hard and fast rule to what "they" love. Look at the regulars' siggies. Their kids aren't typically rocking Theodore, Elizabeth and Catherine. Seriously. As a general rule, a classic name is going to get a thumbs up because they appeal to a vast majority of people that's what makes them classic -- look at their popularity over the years. They trend highly across generations because of their appeal, not because only a few people from the BNB like them. KWIM?
And, with the exception of Fletcher your choices aren't that uncommon... Landon: 34; Abraham: 192. Hadley: 178; Nora: 137; Quinnlyn (the only one I can find is Quinlan but it's masculine, so I don't know where you got this one); Libby (nn for Elizabeth): which is #11.
Elliott, her full name would be Anne Elliott LastName and we would call her a double name. I own it 100% and couldn't give two shits if somebody doesn't like it. It sounds great with our last name, Elliott is both my GFIL and BILs name and DD has a double name as well. Suck it, BNB!
It did!
First off, you're spelling it wrong.
Two L's and two T's. Second, I edited my original post to add the full name. It would be Anne Elliott as a double name probably. Ellie could be a NN but that is VERY close to DD's name.
Is Ellie's full name Ellie or is it short for something? DD is Lillie, so I'm not sure we would ever go for the nn of Ellie, though I like it.
I posted a poll over there when I had my boy's name narrowed to two choices. I actually named him the losing name.
There is actually already an Anne OurLastName in our neighborhood! LOL And our last name is NOT common. It's crazy! There are about 15 of us with the same last name...all of them are related and then the 4 of us in my family {FIL plus our 3} We all go to the same church though.
Oh they HATE the use of Elliott for a girl. Of course, half of them have named their kids the dumbest names ever, so I don't really care. I rather name my child a "boy" name than Luna. Double names are very normal here.
Oh and what's wrong with the spelling? That's the right way to spell it!