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Poking around in nouglybabies, and I decided to post the first page of names.

Levi Oliver
Rosalind
Pandora Mere
Daina


Ella
Violet
Logan Matthew
Elliott Giles
Aubrey Elaine
Charlotte Abigail
Kitty
Aiden Jeffrey
Mary
Elena Denise
Rylan Connor
Kendall
Ambrose
Malcolm


Also, I believe I got in on this discussion on Yahoo! Answers: Is there really such a thing as a unique name? Personally I don't consider "creative" spelling as a unique name; it's simply a different spelling. And when people were giving their favorite unique names, I checked and most of them were in the top 100 most common U.S. names in the past 10 years. (Also, I have to add, someone listed Aiden, and I had to laugh because I thought of this community :)).

Thirdly, because I was kind of talking about this with my family recently: What are your takes on gender neutral names? Is there truly such a thing, or when you hear a name do you immediately assign a gender to it (intentionally or not)?

Fourthly (sorry there are so many, but it seemed better than multiple posts), what do you think about fandom names? I don't mean names like Emma, Luke, etc. which more or less are common names and therefore could be from multiple things (after all, a friend and I were discussing my liking of the name Emma, which I had gotten from Jane Austen, but which she associated with F.R.I.E.N.D.S), but names obviously from a certain fandom, such as Meriadoc or Obi-Wan? And going off of that, what about cultural names from other cultures? For example, what would you think about Hermoine on a non-British child? Or Mathieu on a child with no French (Canadian) blood? (And is it different in a situation like Mathieu Schneider's where he was born in New York but his mom is French Canadian?)