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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

Re: P.S.

[shechoselove.livejournal.com]

...someone has an insatiable desire to cause drama, methinks.

[bright-eyes-jh.livejournal.com]

Because spell-check is a good test of whether or not a name is "real".

[gipro2003.livejournal.com]

Saskia is actually pretty common in the Netherlands, Germany, and other countries in that area of Europe. I LOVE it and plan on using it on one of my children one day.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Yes! I was gonna say the same thing. I'm Dutch, and I've known/heard of quite a few people called Saskia. It's not my style, but not bad at all!

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Saskia's a real name. I've heard that before. So is Mamie. I vaguely remember hearing Keturah, but I'm not sure about that one.