A survey! Names you would use.

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Your top 5 names:

Family names you would consider using:

Literary names you would consider using:

Pop culture names: (names of a musician, actress, politician, etc) you would consider using:

Place names you would consider using:

Names that you like the meaning of but wouldn't necessarily use:

Names that you would use except you can't stand the meaning:

Names you like but someone has ruined, so you can't use them:

Guilty pleasure names:

Your top 5 names for each gender:

Girls:
Anne Louisa
Hope Catherine
Elisabeth Barbara
Sarah Elinor
Caroline Jane

Boys:
John Daniel
James Kenneth
Robert Edward
Henry Cory
William Theodore

Family names you would consider using:

Girls: Rosemary (my mom), Doris (my grandmother), June, Mary, Agnes, Lee, Catherine, Cornelia, Victoria, Margaret, Jane, Susan

Boys: Laurence (my grandfather), Beatrice (husband's grandmother), Kenneth, Robert, Henry, Daniel, Cory (my mom's maiden name and my middle name)

Literary names you would consider using:

Girls:
Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice)
Anne (Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables)
Jean Louise (Scout, from To Kill a Mockingbird)

Boys:
Major (Major Major Major, Catch-22)

Pop culture/historical names: (names of a musician, actress, politician, etc) you would consider using:

Abigail (Abigail Adams)
Bette (Bette Davis, pronounced like "Betty" for those who don't know)
Vivian (Vivien Leigh)

Boys:
Basie (Count Basie)
Mason (George Mason, my alma mater)
Kay (Kay Kyser, but I'd probably use this for a nickname)
Delano or Franklin (FDR)
Lyndon (LBJ)

Place names you would consider using:

Girls: Virginia

None for boys!

Names that you like the meaning of but wouldn't necessarily use:

Lois: brave in battle
Felicity: happiness
Cleopatra (My father's pride)

Names that you would use except you can't stand the meaning:

Claudia: Lame
Cecilia: Blind

Names you like but someone has ruined, so you can't use them:

Angelica (Too close to Angelina Jolie, whom I hate).
William (My husband's dead uncle)
Alexandra
Genevieve
Josie (Josie Pye in the Anne of Green Gables books)
Susanna
Wyeth (the name of a really horrible Virginian congressman from the colonial times, he was a terrible racist).

Guilty pleasure names:

Girls:
Fleur
Felicity
Honor
Lorelei
Clementine

Boys:
Whitt
Wyatt
Wyeth (pronounced like "With", can you tell I like these sounds?)
Mason

Comments

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

(My top 5 names change frequently so I'm doing my Top 5 for each category)
Family names you would consider using:
David, Joesph, Christine, Elena, Sidney (m.)

Literary names you would consider using:
Juliet, Scarlett, Atticus, Ella, Gemma

Pop culture names: (names of a musician, actress, politician, etc) you would consider using:
Kylie (one of my best friends' name), Anderson, Carson, Elliott (after Elliott Smith), Heath

Place names you would consider using:
Brooklyn, London, Georgia (only if I moved out of Georgia though), Jackson, Aspen

Names that you like the meaning of but wouldn't necessarily use:
Anwen, Angelica, Gabriel, Rose, Faith (along with Hope & names like that)

Names that you would use except you can't stand the meaning:
Douglas, Blake, Caleb, Marilyn, Brandon

Names you like but someone has ruined, so you can't use them:
Anastasia, Claire, Elise, Alexander, Devin

Guilty pleasure names:
Star, Gwendolyn, Rhys (m.), Windsor, Raine

[sballik.livejournal.com]

I like Brooklyn! :)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's where my dad was born. Unfortunately, I think Victoria and David Beckham named their son that, though I would use it for as girl as in "Brooke Lynn".

[sballik.livejournal.com]

I went to school with a girl named Brooke Lynn, I always loved her name. I think V&D named their kid Brooklyn, too; I would hate for people to say, "oh, you named him/her after [celebrity]'s baby?" whenever they found out my child's name, so I'm ruling out a lot of names based on that.