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[dolcedaze.livejournal.com]

Ever since I was little, I've had favorite names that I loved and eventually grew to not love quite as much. I wonder if others have gone through this type of name succession, too.

1986- Rally B. Kazally - The name I suggested at age 3 for my new baby brother. Thankfully, no one listened to me!

1989- Melissa- My current best friend's name. I named all my toys Melissa.

1991-Katie- The next best friend. This one lasted for a while.

1998- Autumn- I babysat for a little girl named Autumn, and I loved seasonal names like Autumn or April, especially paired with meaning names like Skye or Grace.

2002- Hayden/Aidan & Layla Grace- I fell in love with Aidan after hearing it on Sex in the City, and Hayden after hearing it in a movie. I especially liked Aidan's Irish roots. Layla was my boyfriend (now husband)'s favorite.

2004- Julian, Maggie- Aiden and its variants were getting too popular, and after hearing Julian online it became my new pick. I had a student named Maggie (Margaret) and it became my new favorite girl name. I also liked biblical boy's names like Noah.

2005- Aurelia, Lucian- I grew to hate hearing the same names over and over, and became determined to find names that were historically popular and nice sounding, but currently not in the top 1000. At the same time, I dislike "original" names that sound recently invented.

What's yours?

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[evelnnsmom.livejournal.com]

no timeline of discontinued favorite names for me fortunately all my favorite names growning up have stayed my favorite names so here goes
1989 or so i read anne of green gables and anne became one of my favorite names and it still is one of my favorites even though i would never name one of my children that(it just forever sticks in my head as anne shirley and would have me thinking of said child as a fictional character as opposed to a real person)
somewhere between 1996 and 1998(end of high school)i came to learn of the name cassandra another name i will not name my children since i have already named my goddaughter cassandra as her mother couldn't think of a first name to go with nicole
(notice no boys names yet i had no use for them until i hit about 17)
1998~ i watched the fifth element(i think that's the name of the movie) with one of my cousins and his then gf and fell in love with the name corbin although i spelled it korben w/nn benny and as much as i like the name my boyfriend doesn't and has his heart set on logan
now we'll skip *skip skip skip* along to 2003/2004 where i was pregnant with my daughter and at a loss for once as to what to name a child!!! until the name the name evelynn just popped up everywhere... it was in movies, books, tv and even the nurse at my doctor's office so i came to go with the name evelynn gail (i was determined to have my mother's name in there somewhere lol)

[dolcedaze.livejournal.com]

I like Evelyn a lot :-) I had no use for boy's names until I was nearing adulthood, either!

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I still love biblical boys' names, even though I'm not Christian or any other Biblical (?) religion. I like Noah, Isaac, Elijah, Isaiah (my fave), and Zachariah.

[pixiequeen112.livejournal.com]

My favorite girl names are Brielle, Adrielle, Mireille and Sapphira.

My favorite boys names are Lucio, Nemesio, Andres and Waldemar ironically these are also names of family members (Lucio is my grandfather, Nemesio is my great-great grandfather and Andres is my cousin.) Waldemar is a classmates name, I never heard anyone else with that name.