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[nederlandergirl.livejournal.com]



These names are from Nameberry.com's list "Names of the Future." They are names that, though still not that popular, are rapidly climbing the charts. Here, I'll list them and offer some commentary. Please discuss!

ANAIS    (I particularly like the literary connotations of this name.)

ANASTASIA   Nice royalty connotation, but a little too chunky for my taste.

ANNABEL

ANWEN

ARDEN    Very pretty. I bet it's going to be extremely popular.

 

AURELIA

BRONWYN

BRYONY    Atonement!

CALLA

CALLIOPE

CARYS

CECELIA

CLEO     Also very cute, and less daring than Cleopatra.

CORDELIA     I remember that Anneof Green Gables adored this name. She would love knowing it's going to be popular!

DAPHNE     I'm torn. Don't like the '80s connotation but do like the mythology.

DELPHINE

DIXIE

EDITH    LOVE it. I'm a huge fan of Grey Gardens and this name makes me think of crumbling mansions and quirky style.

ELIANA     My name's Ilana, so this makes me a little happy.

ELOISE

ESTELLE

EVER    It's one of my favourite names.

FLEUR      Too prissy.

GAIA    I really like it, but it's not for the faint of heart.

GREER

GRETA

HELENA

ISOLDE     One of my favourites. So beautiful and classy.

JEMIMA     Can't say I like Jemina.

KETURAH

KIKI     I don't this name is all that great.

LARK

LAVINIA    Still too old-fashioned.

MAMIE     I just don't think I'll ever find this name attractive.

MILLA

MIRABELLA     Following the Isabella trend, but would do well to be shortened. It's a bit too frlilly.

NEVE

PERSEPHONE    Nice, but clunky.

PIPER     Cute,

PIPPA

REMI

SASKIA   I like it.

SELA

SLOANE

VERITY      Love this name.

VERONICA      Another 80s redux.

WREN     Remember Even Stevens?

Boys

ARCHER    Too phonetically harsh for my taste.

BEAU

BECKETT         Very 1980s Yuppie.

CALLUM

CALVIN    Phonetically beautiful. I reallu like it.

CASPIAN

CORMAC

DEXTER

ELLIOT

GAVIN

HUGO   This is an amazing name.

KIERAN

LACHLAN     This is very nice.

LENNON        Reminds me of Adam Pascal's son.

OTTO

REMY      A rare female-to-male gender switch?

RUFUS

SILAS   I like it.

STELLAN      Nice.

XAVIER

Comments

[sunshinefleur.livejournal.com]

Beau's not popular everywhere else? oh...

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I am happy to see my great grandma's name on there, Edith. I probably would have used the name as a first or middle name myself, but my aunt beat me to it with her second daughter.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

There was Remy Buxaplenty on Fairly OddParents. He was male.

[ironqueen.livejournal.com]

I hope Cordelia doesn't get popular. It's my absolute favorite name. :(

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Mine too, and I would be devastated if a whole bunch of people started using it. I just think it's such a pretty, classic name and one of the appeals is that she's likely to be the only Cordelia in the class.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

For once I actually agree with one of these 'what names are going to be popular' things. There are some I just can't see getting trendy (Jemima?) but for the most part... yeah. Some of them are already up there.

But Remy was never a female name, as far as I know...

[hwar.livejournal.com]

I think Jemima is on the list because it's popular in the UK. It doesn't have the "Aunt Jemima" connotation there that it does here. Often names get popular in Europe before the cross over to the US. However, I agree with you that Jemima isn't going to be able to shake the syrup lady image here so I doubt it will get very popular!

[anamericanchild.livejournal.com]

The pretty ones are really beautiful imo.
I love
ARDEN
AURELIA
BRONWYN
CALLA
CALLIOPE
CECELIA
ELIANA
EVER
GAIA
GREER- I love this... but mainly for a boy.
HELENA
LAVINIA
NEVE
VERITY - love it and would possibly use it if my twins weren't Vera and Vivian.
BECKETT - on my list. Beck itself is one of my top names.
CALVIN Phonetically beautiful. I reallu like it.
CASPIAN - love it but reminds me of casper.
DEXTER - love it but wouldn't use it due to the television show
ELLIOT - my top boy's name.
GAVIN
KIERAN
LACHLAN - is on my list but wouldn't actually use it for a child because my son's name is Landon
LENNON
OTTO
STELLAN
XAVIER

---
CORDELIA reminds me of those dishes...

[bettybites.livejournal.com]

My baby (due early March) is going to be named Eloise! I like a lot of these names actually.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Anastasia
Annabel
Calla
Cecelia
Daphne
Edith
Eloise
Greta
Helena
Archer
Beau
Beckett
Calvin
Dexter
Elliot
Gavin
Otto
Silas

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I like:
Anwen
Arden
Cecelia
Cleo
Helena*
Jemima*
Pippa*
Neve*
Caspian
Elliot
Hugo
Lennon
Otto*
Silas

Asterisk ones are on my list already. I absolutely love Neve and Pippa, but Jemima is so great as well. I don't believe Jemima is going to rise in popularity though, simply because of its connotations (in the US).

[bright-eyes-jh.livejournal.com]

Remy is a fairly old boy's name.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and it's the name of Gambit from X-Men!

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

The ones I like:

Annabelle
Arden
Bryony
Cordelia (one of my favorites!)
Daphne
Lavinia
Verity
Wren

Archer
Caspian
Elliott
Gavin
Lachlan


My cousin and his girlfriend are planning to name their son Silas (due in a month or two). Most of the family is being conspicuously, politely silent. Personally, I kind of like it-- mostly due to Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book"!

[hwar.livejournal.com]

This is a great list I think. I already know a four year old Cleo and babies Edith and Persephone. My three year old nephew's mn is Elliot. I have also heard a lot of people talking about Cordelia, Dexter, and Archer lately.

[rubie-dubidoux.livejournal.com]

I basically love all of these names. Oh no...

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Gah! Someone has been looking at my list! Joking, but I'm sad to see so many that were on my list on this list...I'll have to have lots of babies very quickly LOL


ANAIS
ANNABEL
BRONWYN
CALLA
CALLIOPE
CORDELIA
ELIANA
ESTELLE (prf Estella)
EVER
FLEUR
GREER
HELENA
ISOLDE
LARK
MILLA
PERSEPHONE
PIPER
VERITY
VERONICA
WREN

Boys

ARCHER
BECKETT
CALLUM
CORMAC
ELLIOT
GAVIN
KIERAN
LACHLAN
LENNON

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

I feel you; I love a lot of names on here, and some are even on my "list". Ffff

[sanjam.livejournal.com]

if you ever plan for your child to come even close to a finnish-speaking person, don't even consider naming them keturah or persephone. i beg you not to.

my niece is called jemina and i think it's a really pretty name (she's 8 this year), but we pronounce it differently, as yeh-mee-nuh.

[cathubodva.livejournal.com]

if you ever plan for your child to come even close to a finnish-speaking person, don't even consider naming them keturah or persephone. i beg you not to.

Why? I'm curious!

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

Like:
Annabel - I'm shocked it isn't more popular. I think Annabelle is a more popular spelling.
Bronwyn
Bryony - Really surprised this hasn't caught on either. I like it better spelled Briony, even though that's not how the flower is spelled.
Edith - LOVE. It's only like the most adorable name ever, and I can't believe it's not right up there with Evelyn.
Eloise - Was never a huge fan until I "met" a one year old girl Eloise, who is adorable and makes me totally able to picture this on a little girl now.
Greer
Isolde
Jemima - But as a GP only. No way this could ever really be used in the US because of the syrup and racial connotation.
Keturah - Never was a huge fan of this, either, but I've been coming around. It reminds me of blue open skies and a nice breeze.
Mamie - Soooo adorable. I'd use it as an occasional nn for Margaret, which is what we'll name our first daughter.

Beau
Callum - It's crazy popular elsewhere and would fit right in in the US, so this one's always really surprised me.
Cormac - I really like it, but it has such an unfortunate meaning. I'm sure that's why it isn't more common.
Dexter - So nerdy and tweed wearing-ly cool. I can see it getting pretty hipster.
Elliot
Hugo
Kieran - I prefer Ciaran, and am surprised neither are more common.


I really do agree with the majority of these-- that they will be/you'd think they would be more popular than they are.

[gipro2003.livejournal.com]

ANASTASIA (LOVE this, not sure if I'd ever actually use it, but it is on my list.)
BRONWYN (Prefer the Brownwen spelling though.)
CARYS (Really starting to grow on me.)
EDITH (Same with this one.)
ELIANA
EVER (Only ever known male Ever's, but still cute.)
FLEUR (I really like it for the Harry Potter connection... I'd consider it as a middle name.0
HELENA (Like it.)
SASKIA (One of my top names)
SLOANE (Growing on me)

Boys
CASPIAN (Prefer it spelled Kaspian, but I love it.)
CORMAC (Don't like this one, especially fro the Harry Potter association lol)
KIERAN (Not sure how I feel about this one)
STELLAN (I actually like this one)

[onthebabytrain.livejournal.com]

My piano teacher (and mentor's) name was Mamie, which I'd always planned to use probably as a middle name for a girl because I loved my piano teacher and it is not very common. It better not get very popular!

And, I thought the same thing when I read Cordelia :)

[unmowngrass.livejournal.com]

There's not many I like on this list.

Lavinia is my Nan's middle name and as such has been on my list for a while, so that's the exception.

Other than that, I like Anwen, Helena and Neve (I would use the Irish spelling though, I just can't happen to remember it right now.)

For boys I like Elliot ... and that's about it.

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Niamh?

[frost.livejournal.com]

I like...Callum, Kieran, Remy, and Silas. I kind of like Caspian and Elliot.
A lot of the girl's names are really ugly, imo. =(

Remy is a boy's name.
Random: Gambit from X-Men is a Remy. <3 olympia_phoenix mentioned hearing it only on French or Cajun- Gambit is Cajun. I've never heard Remy/Remi on a girl- I wouldn't be surprised if people started using it for a girl though. >_>

[starskye.livejournal.com]

Anastasia
Aurelia
Cleo
Cordelia
Eloise
Estelle
Lavinia
Elliot
Gavin
Silas

I know someone named Neva, which I like. However, it is ALWAYS getting pronounced wrong. Everyone calls her NEEva, like knee. That's why I would not use it. I wonder if Neve would always be pronounced like Eve.

[babyjess8.livejournal.com]

Similar to another post about naming trends a couple of days ago, this one lists many of the "grandma names" that I think will definitely make a strong comback (Daphne, Estelle, Edith, Bronwyn, Cecilia, Helena, Greta)

Names I like:
Anastasia
Annabel
Aurelia
Bronwyn
Calla
Estelle - I think Stella will be more common than Estelle
Milla - or Mila. I LOVE this name :D

Archer
Beau
Callum
Caspian
Elliot
Hugo - not a big fan, however I do LOVE Hugh :)
Lachlan - I rarely hear of this name outside Australia.
Stellan
Xavier

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Like:

BRONWYN
CECELIA
CLEO
DAPHNE
DELPHINE
FLEUR
GRETA
HELENA
JEMIMA
MIRABELLA
NEVE
SASKIA
VERONICA

CORMAC

[julia-michelle.livejournal.com]

AURELIA
CALLIOPE
CARYS
CECELIA
CORDELIA
DAPHNE
ELOISE
GRETA - this is my car's name!
HELENA
ISOLDE
NEVE - but only spelled "Naimh" please.
PERSEPHONE - prefer Penelope. They are interchangeable IMO.
PIPER
WREN - this is my BIGGEST guilty pleasure name!

Boys

ARCHER
BECKETT
ELLIOT - but only with a second T please! It looks unfinished this way.
LENNON
SILAS