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[laminy.livejournal.com]

I met my first Isabelle today. It's never been a name that I cared about either way, but when I heard it on an actual person, I thought, "wow, it's entirely way too princess-y, over-the-top, and only works in theory."

So, whether that's your opinion or not, I was wondering: do any of you have names that you liked until you heard it on an actual person, and then just thought, "wow, that does not work"?

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[hwar.livejournal.com]

I haven't had that exact experience, but I noticed that when I got pregnant and had an actual kid to name, suddenly a lot of the more fanciful names I liked seemed less appealing.

From another perspective, I have found it weird when people I know by a nickname move or enter a new phase of their lives and start going by their full names. For example, my college roommate was always Toni and when she went to grad school she started going by Antoinette. I love the name Antoinette but it doesn't seem like it fits the person I know/knew...so it has been really alienating. Maybe it's because Toni and Antoinette are such different name styles? Maybe if it was Sara short for Sarafina it wouldn't seem so weird? I don't know.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

My best friend is Joseph Evan, but because Joseph was also his uncle's name, he has forever been Evan. However, all of his professors call him Joseph, and he's started going by it to some degree. It is weird.

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is John Nicholas, but he's always gone by Nick. He said the same thing of professors- he just lets them call him John because he's in a lot of larger classes where it's difficult to explain that he goes by Nick, so a lot of his schoolmates know him as John.

I think it's kind of weird- he's so clearly a Nick and not a John to me.