Baby Names

is emmett a twilight name? i am not familiar with them, but i was wondering what the heck made emmett make such an appearance?

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Emmett is definitely a Twilight name. sadly.

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what others are twilight names? just curious. the only one i know of is the main character, edward?

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well, Edward and Isabella/Bella (obviously); then there's Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle, Jacob, Alice, Esme, and Rosalie. (and Renesmee, but ew. lol.)

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oh wow thats so unfortunate. ive had jasper and esme on my list forever. alice and edward are family names for us, and i love rosalie too. boo.

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Emmett is our #2 name, it was that way over two years ago. I've read the books and had forgotten that name was in it, lol.

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I think you can get away with Emmett...he's not really a major character, plus it's not a trendy sounding name so I don't think it will go crazy. The books/movies will fade by the time any kids born now get older and he'll be the first character to be forgotten.

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Scarlett's #21? that kinda sucks. oh well, I'm still going to use it eventually -- even if it's #1 by the time I have kids.

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i know, seriously. i was SO surprised by so many of these.

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I've never met a Scarlett and was like...what?! when I saw it there.

it's also on a list my mom was reading a few days ago predicting the top 10 baby names of 2020 -- she called me over and was like, "hey, Sam, Scarlett's on here! how do you feel about that?" lol

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I know one Scarlett is in my April 2008 baby community.

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lovablemess.livejournal.com

I adore most of the girl newbies. As for boys, I love Nolan and Jude.

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I could see Stella becoming popular. I'm surprised about Rosalie and Isla. I really like a lot of the newcomers though... besides Zoey and Adalyn (basically for spelling). Aren't most of these Twilight names? UH! I couldn't believe Esme was up there!

I love Rhys but won't be using it possibly because it's becoming so popular. If it continues to gain popularity I REALLY won't use it.

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quitmyscene.livejournal.com

Nolan!

Shocked at Scarlett being so high. And Keira and Claire also in top 30? When did these get so popular?

Wait Scarlett was 35 last year ... beating Riley. I'm not sure what these names are supposed to mean, but eh. Interesting enough anyway. I'd say overall, these top 100s are more like my taste than the regular/SSA top 100.

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Thoughts? I am upset that my daughter's name has become #1...last year it was #37 or 38! Way too popular!

I'm also rather annoyed that Esme has made the list. It wasn't in the top 500 last year and now it's in the 80's? It's our name for our baby due in 2010 and, ugh, oh well.

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I noticed Amelia only had a black arrow, not a red arrow, which means it moved less than 10 spaces, and if you look at the social security website for top names, you'll see that in 2008 Amelia was 37/38, so if it really did move up to 1, well, it'd have a red arrow. Maybe by THEIR count, but this obviously isn't the official top names list.

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this is not the SSA list. its the babynames.com list, so the rankings are different.

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jeweledvixen.livejournal.com

newcomer girls:
Vivienne - LOVE this one.
Stella - Not my style, but ok.
Harper - I really like this.
Esme - I love this.
Rosalie - Not my style, but very nice.
Zoey - What is wrong with Zoe? Why the need to add a "Y"?
Isla - I don't care for this one.
Adalyn - Makes me think of barbershop quartets - My Sweet Adalyn.
Lorelei - Meh, just ok.

newcomer boys:
Nolan - Very nice.
Jude - I LOVE this name.
Jonathan - Classic. I love it.
Rhys - This name is starting to grow on me.
Emmett - No. I do not like this at all.

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velkoria.livejournal.com

Yay!! in my list the only one would be Jude but I don't plan on using that as a full name, Julian with the nick name Jude. I really like Rhys too but it's not really on my list.

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As long as nobody in my generation likes the Greeks and Romans, I'm a-okay. It would piss me off to no end to finally become of a responsible child-bearing age and financial situation and see dozens of Ariadnes, Persephones, and Ulysseses running around.

Anyway, that list is very predictable.

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frost.livejournal.com

I really like Ariadne. =)
(And the Greeks and Romans. ;P Though I'm not sure if I'd use any of the names...)

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Thanks! It's been my top name for about two years now. :)

(That's the one thing I'm counting on. Greek and Roman names are incredibly ballsy, and I'm hoping that in ten-ish years, when everyone my age are reproducing, they will shy away from the kinds of names. I'll name my kid Andromeda, even if they won't.)

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I went to college with an Ariadne and a Ulysses! Both great names. Also an Arlo and an Ishmael, both names which I have a fondness for...their incredible hotness may have played a teeensy part. ;)

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COOL. Ariadne and Ulysses are both on my MUST USE list as sibsets. I would use Arlo as a middle name; it's right up my alley. Ishmael is cool, but much too religious. I'm my family's lone agnostic, so I shy away from most religious names - they'd all get that smug smirk on their faces, lol.

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We have that problem with my husband's family too. When one of his cousins wanted to use Elijah there was a big tizzy about it. That is why Gabriel and Delilah are off our list too.

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I find the religious name thing interesting, because few people notice unless it's an odd choice in context. Like nobody would blink twice a an Adam, a Noah, or a Matthew most of the time, except when it's the unusual choice. Hmmm...

Big tizzy because his cousin's situation is the reversal of mine - Christian among nons - or tizzy because his situation is just like mine?

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The family is very religious (Pentecostal) and they felt that an Elijah would be teased about being a prophet or something. I guess because the Elijah story is told a lot at their church (being the official anti-Pagan I suppose). A Biblical name that is too Biblical for the Christians I guess!

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That's odd. At my church my pastor holds Biblical names above all others, something about the name being a huge influence on a child's personality and children tend to embody their names. He named his kids Josiah, Jeremiah, and Keturah for that purpose - a king, a prophet, and Abraham's wife. *rolls eyes* I wonder if my love for "heathen" names is partly a response to my pastor's ridiculousness.

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My son's father is Catholic and I am Atheist. He refused the name Elijah because he felt everyone would suspect we were both Jewish since it's a Hebrew name. Well, he's an idiot and not in our lives so I stuck with the name Elijah, but I have, several times, had people bring up the bible after I tell them his name or just straight out ask what church I go to. I honestly didn't think it was that religious of a name. When I think religious names I think Isaiah or Matthew, Noah, Gabriel, etc.

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I like the list to get an idea, but I dont think it comes close to representing the truth of names. My son;s name they say went down pn popularity eg it's 35 but SSA for 2008 actually had it at say.. 45, so it really went up now. Ill be waiting w baitef breath for SSA lists 2009 and 10 as those babies will be his eventual classmates.

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frost.livejournal.com

Esme has become popular? Awww. I like that one; I wasn't aware that it was gaining it popularity.

Gods, all of my top boy's names are now in the top sixty. (-_-) I think I need new names.

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That is why boy names are so difficult...in the top 100 = too popular. Out of the top 100 = misspellings of the top 100.

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Esme Colette is going to be our daughter's name. If it wasn't the fact that out of thousands of names, that is the only one that's stuck, I probably wouldn't use it because of the gaining popularity...I was really hoping most people who would actually name their child after Twilight were far from child bearing age, lol.

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my son (born 2009) was #12 more popular than I thought
my daughter (2006) wasn't on the list...
I teach and there are at least a dozen Jonathan's in my school
I think it's so overused

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laminy.livejournal.com

I like, and would definitely use:

Isla
Nolan
Jude
Rhys

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Xander is 60? Sad. I might use it anyway...I decided that Logan as 20 takes it off my list.

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Vivienne- I've always wanted this! I named my bunny Vivienne when I was 5 :-).

Stella- Stupid Sim Farm... it makes me think of the pig that one third prize at the fair.

Harper- Don't like! Don't like! I think of the phrase, "Harping on someone"

Esme- I really like. I had pushed for this for my daughter...

Rosalie- I like it :-)

Zoey- Meh.

Isla- Like.

Adalyn- My husband's cousin just had an "Addalyn"

Lorelei- Reminds me of the shampoo

Nolan- Nope

Jude- Like!

Jonathan- Good, classic name.

Rhys- Nerp.

Emmett- Awww, my grandma had an old couple named "Emmett and Tilly" that lived next door. Way cute!

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starskye.livejournal.com

surprised to see Isla on that list.

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kitchen-poet.livejournal.com

Yeah, I have seen Amelia shoot up like crazy with all our baby-having friends, so I'm not surprised with that. Jude bums me out because we have Judah on our list. Vivienne = Brangelia influence? Really? Interesting.

All I can say with all the Twilight names up there, thank you Name Gods for leaving Alice out of it. I'm worried about how trendy it is becoming, as it is a family name for us too. (On both sides even!)

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i am super sad to see Jude on there. :(

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The funny thing is that most of us, me included think it is a very bad thing to find out that the name you like is popular, but it is very common because most of us are from the same basic generation and therefore have a similar mindset when it comes to names. Therefore, most of the names that are well liked are the ones we will feel drawn to. I am about ready to just decide that it is ok if the name I use is popular. After all, no matter what name you choose, it might shoot up in popularity 2 years later and there is nothing you can do about it. What are you going to do? Rename your 2 year old? I have spent the last 8 months or so trying to decide a name for my baby boy on the way, and every single name I have liked or considered is on this top hundred list! (with the exception of Linus, but I can't get anyone to agree with me on that one!) lol And I consider myself to be different than most and I certainly do not lean toward trendy names.
Looks like we are going to end up with a Noah, and that is #2 on the list. Oh, well. I don't care. The important thing to me is that I don't know any Noah's at all, and therfore he won't be surrounded by them (at least at first) and to us the name is a clean slate!

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