guilty pleasures?

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

Ever have a name just stick to you that's completely not your style, but you just LOVE it? Despite the classic choices on my lists for boys (Walter, Charles) and girls (Helena, Grace, Kate), there are names I absolutely love that couldn't be farther away from my style. Dated, trendy, even unisex! But I still love them, despite myself. Alas! =D



GIRLS
Bailey - I admit to loving this for a girl despite my general hatred of boys names for girls. I like it as a boys name too, I just think it has such a nice sound to it, and I find it to have a sort of a tomboyish quality rather than being super masculine.
Gray - This is probably my worst, because I seriously love it enough to use it, though I'd never let myself. (Maybe as a middle name. Doesn't Helena Gray sound pretty? =p) I love this name just as much for a boy.
Sally - a direct result of my love of Peanuts, I've always loved the name Sally. I think it's sweet and strong, and although most people think of it as dated, I just think it's pretty.
Linney - I was lamenting to a friend that the name Laura, which I think is very pretty, doesn't work very well in Hebrew at all (Lo Ra means 'not bad'), and she humorously suggested that I just name the kid Linney instead. Now I'm obsessed; hopefully it'll pass soon.
Kayla - not such a sin, I don't think, except that it really is SO popular. I like it best as a nickname for Michaela, though--no unique spellings.

BOYS
Lander - a person I'd very much like to honour by naming a child after him is named Yehoshua Englander. I don't like Yehoshua, or the English version, Joshua, but I have this weird obsession with surnames as given names for boys, and Englander sounded nice. It took about two days for me to fall in love with the nickname, Lander. This is also a name I like well enough to use.
Archer - people become absolutely furious with me when I mention this name, for some reason, but I absolutely LOVE it. I think it has such a strong sound to it, but most people imply that the kid will get pummeled at preschool.
Keaton
Anderson
Merritt
Wilder
--the direct result of my passion for surnames mentioned above. I know.


Haha. It feels good to get it off my chest. =D

Comments

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I'm in love with the names Orion and Brennan for boys, but I'd never use them because there's not my style at all. All of my girls' names tend to be pretty similar, though.

I really like Archer and Lander for boys as well as Merritt and Wilder. I'm a huge fan of surnames for boys, too, my favorites being Walker and Wallace (both Wally for short).

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I think Walker is a great name.

For girls, these are all named I'd probably use as middle names, if anything; I like the sound of Helena Gray and Katherine Linney, for example, though I don't think I'd ever use them as given names. With the boys, I can definitely see a kid of mine named Wilder or Archer, but I might be forced to not use it, haha. A lot of people REALLY dislike the surnames as given names thing and I can't understand why.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it either! Some of them are really cool names. I know these two little boys whose family is INCREDIBLY Irish and their first names are Brennan and O'Riley. I LOVE it. :)

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I love it too! For me, pretty much any surname works for boys. Really. I'm running a list in my head of everyone I know and their surnames... I wouldn't like all of them but they'd all be acceptable first names to me!

[tesslouise.livejournal.com]

I know a set of brothers, *last* name Brennan, first names Rory and Seamus.

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

My two boys names are both last names. I think they're cute, and age well because they aren't girly or made up.