opinions?

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two people who work in retail and wear name tags who i have encountered recently. both males.

dontay - this is the phonetic spelling of dante, i assume, its horrid to me and just sounds like someone heard the name and just assumed this was how it was spelled. plus, my friends dog is named dante, so thats my association.

chassity - its an atrocious, made up name and on a teenaged male. i pitied that guy from the second i figured out what his name tag said.

ok, now a couple of names i would like to get your thoughts on.

i am really big on nicknames. i nickname everyone. my boyfriends name is jack (his name is john, but he is a junior and his father goes by john, he has been called jack his whole life) and i call him jackie all the time. my ex was scott and i never called him anything but scotty. i dont know what it is. i just do that. so, when i am considering names, i need something that has a great nickname to go along with it.

violet - whats a good nickname besides just vi? because thats boring.

cosette - fell in love with it the past couple of days. cosie as a nickname. i love it. what do you guys think?

lastly, i have slowly fallen in love with the name lily over the past couple of months. is it too popular? what do you guys think? how many lilys are out there being born right now? would she be doomed to be lily s. for all of her school years? i adore it, and the way it sounds with the middle and last, so i happen to think its kind of perfect.

i have some popular names on my list, isabel and oliver being the most notable. i am not happy about the popularity spike since these have been high on my list for many many years, but i have resigned myself to knowing my kids will probably have somewhat common names. it sucks, but im not going to name them something different just for the sake of it. what do you guys think?