haven't posted in a while...

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

so, insomnia got the better of me last night and I was trawling baby_names, and it got me to thinking about names I used to HATE and I found that I've come to like most of them.
Here are just a few examples to get the ball rolling:

Evelyn (I really like this now!)
Norah (Ditto!)
Eleanor
Emma
Ruth

I still can't like a lot of B names, which is funny because I'm a Bianca. I cringe whenever I see Bethany, or Beatrice, or Briana, or Brenda... Urghh! Especially Bethany for some reason. It's just so ugly to me.

Anyway, what are some of the names you used to HATEHATE and now you like?

EDIT: I'm sorry if this has idea has already been done, but I don't recall coming across it?

Comments

[lneef.livejournal.com]

I love the name Bianca, and I'm not a B fan either.

When I was little, I remember thinking Catherine was stuffy and for old ladies. 20 years later, that's what I named my first daughter.

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I only wonder if I would hate it along with other B names if it weren't my name.

Catherine is a beautiful name, but I only like that spelling. Do you have other kids? What are their names?

[lneef.livejournal.com]

I also like Katherine, but there were too many K-names in the family already, plus C is a bit more elegant to me. She's Catherine Juliet.

No others... not until late August, anyway. We're only just starting to talk names, though I'm not sure there's much point. We have a shortlist of favorite boy's names and would just wait to see him and pick one, and we had a terrible time choosing a girl's name and likely will again. Catherine wasn't named until 18 hours after she was born and it was the first time we'd ever discussed that name.

So either way, we probably won't pick one until birth.

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I like Bianca because it has this elegant Italian feel and isn't clunky like so many B-names are. Plus the Shakespearean connotation... Bianca of Taming of the Shrew, as you're probably aware, was the beautiful girl all the men wanted. Never a bad thing!

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

haha, wasn't she a prostitute?!

[lneef.livejournal.com]

No! She was a wealthy and beautiful younger sister who couldn't get married until the shrew older sister did, so all her suitors team up to find Katharina a husband.