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!

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I really like Evelyn! It's always been an on-again-off-again type of name for me.
Norah is amazing. Both these names remind me of WWII.
I really like Eleanor, which is sadly gaining in popularity if I'm not correct?

[so-there.livejournal.com]

Evelyn! haha. it's my grama's name and I always thought it was an old lady name... but I ended up liking it enough to give it to my daughter as a middle name.

I'm starting to like Esther and some of those other old lady names...

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I used to hate Harriet, and now it's my favorite name for a girl. I also never really liked Elliot or Henry all that much, and they're two of my favorites for boys.

I don't like many B names, either. I love Beth, but hate Brenda, Briana, Beatrice, etc. Bianca is really pretty, but not one I'd ever use.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I love old lady names:) Harriet, Josephine, Eleanor, and Louisa are all on my list, and they're all pretty 'old fashioned,' but I love them anyway. Esther and Evelyn aren't ones I'd use, but I do like them.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Evelyn is gorgeous.. I adore Evie.
It's my friends middle name and she used to absolutely hate it, infact she'd pretend she didn;t have a middle name!

It reminds me of WW2 also, Pearl Harbour perhaps?

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine someone denying their name as Evelyn!

Haha, yah, because of the movie for me.

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Frances - I used to think this name was so ugly and old but now I really think it is pretty
and others are Georgia, Greer, Harper, Violet

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I used to hate the name Alice, but now I like it. I wouldn't use it, though, because my name is Alison.

[classiestkid.livejournal.com]

June, Ruth/Ruthie, Margaret, Cathleen

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I hated the names Lydia, Adrienne, Bethany, and Juliet until I met friends who had those names.

[cherrysorbet.livejournal.com]

I love the name Bianca!

I used to hate the name Megan but now it's on my top 5. I'm sure there's more but I've just forgotten that I used to hate them...

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I used to hate the names Astrid and Amanda, and now I love both.
I came to like Astrid because of the book 'White Oleander', and I now like Amanda because of some great women who were both named Amanda =)

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

*I just realized, I used to dislike Aisling too, and now I love it =D For some reason those are all 'a' names...interesting =)

[taillow.livejournal.com]

My name is Brittany, and I have always HATED it, along with all B names.

My great aunt's name is Civilene (not sure of the spelling, actually), and I've always loved that name. It's one step cooler than Evelyn for me, while still being very similar.

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

I used to hate the name Henry... but then I read The Timetraveller's Wife...

Also Mallory, it's growing on me.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I used to hate Violet, but now I am coming around. Ditto with Norah, now I love it.

I really dislike most B names, but I think it was probably the 12349 Britneys in my grade school classes that ruined most B names forever. (With the notable exception of Bruno ;)

[sourblowpop19.livejournal.com]

I'm slowly coming around to Eleanor, it is getting prettier every time I see it.

Just curious, what's your middle name? I'm Bianca Elaine Nichole. I like to tell people the minute they learn my named they learned a Italian word for the day. haha.

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

I nearly choked on my water because I thought you said you were Bianca Emily as well (my middle name is Emily).

Unfortunately most non-Italian Australians can't pronounce my name right and it ends up sounding horrible (like bi-YANG-ka), so I was toying with changing my name, until I realised just how much paperwork and legal stuff I would have had to do...

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

Time Traveler's Wife is my favourite book. I like Alba, too, because of it :P

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

I really don't like Rachel for some reason. I can't figure out why.

Good job on calling your daughter Norah! It's a beautiful name. I've never met anyone called Nora/Norah, though, it's obviously quite rare here.

[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.

[sourblowpop19.livejournal.com]

yeah, i even get that. i just nod my head and smile. try to correct people, but it never works. especially when i am talking on the phone at work and try to spell my name, i always get mail and it is never right. oh well. it is cute since i teach dance to 3 year olds, they can't ever get the "B" on it so i am always "onca" =]