Discussion Post! Names You Hope(d) Never Become (or Became) Popular

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Because you love them, of course! I'm a bit sad today because my favorite name Ariadne is the name of one of the main characters in Inception, so I'm hoping that nobody likes it enough to use often. So, members, what names do you hope/have you hoped never get the reply, "Oh, I've heard that before!"???

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[spookymrsboo.livejournal.com]

I am in LOVE with the name Cecily, I hope it never becomes popular because I don't want my future child to be one of a million girls with the same name like I was (My name is Jessica)

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

I'm Samaria; I've never met another one, but if my mom had had her way I'd be Jessica, Courtney, Asia, Amber... very 90s timestamped! I can't even imagine... And I think the name Jessica is quite pretty, too. :)

Cecily is gorgeous; it's on my favorite names list.

[hoping-4-happy.livejournal.com]

I love Emmeline (em-eh-line), but my husband's cousin just named their daughter Emmaline (emma-lean). I was crushed. Now I'm determined to use it anyway. But seriously, what are the odds? We never spoke about it at all. I thought I'd be perfectly safe to use that name whenever I wanted.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

There's quite a few, since I really would like any name I give my kids to be uncommon, those most of them are girls names. I think it's probably because my sister and I have relatively uncommon names and it took us awhile before we met another one of each.

So, for girls, to name a few, Dreama, Olive, Blake, Ireland, Saoirse, Persephone. My boys names are a lot more popular, but Beau is my favourite, so I hope it doesn't become huge.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love the name Persephone. &hearts

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Emmeline! I like it spelled this way, but the way your husband's cousin pronounces it. It's so fresh.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I hope Neva never becomes popular, but I doubt it will.

[02895.livejournal.com]

i hope Lillah (lilah) never gets popular, its what i named my daughter, and i have never met another one ever. before i found the name for her, i had never even heard of it.

[02895.livejournal.com]

it was very important to me to give her a name that was not popular, as i am an ashley, and her father is a kevin, both very popular

[mrssubee.livejournal.com]

how do you pronounce Ariadne?

[lorienellen.livejournal.com]

Rohan, but it's already creeping up there in popularity. I'm really hoping it won't spike with the new actor in Harry Potter being named Rohan!

[xanya.livejournal.com]

Octavaian! That is MY NAME. I mean, my future son's name. Augustus/Octavian is my historic boyfriend and I've loved him for so many years. If that name starts to get popular I will be so irritated because most people who use it won't be thinking of that sexy (hee) Roman at all. I'm devoted to him! In a normal sort of way.

Also Marigold. That's my number one girl's name right now. But flower names are always getting popular so I'm not hopeful...

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Two ways: AIR-ree-AD-nee or AH-ree-AHD-nee

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

I prefer the latter!

[skudge.livejournal.com]

Linus and Nestor. I don't think there's much of a chance of any of my favorite girl names ever becoming popular, so I'm not really worried about them.

[ounceofpeace.livejournal.com]

I'm a 1990 Jessica. It doesn't bother me though. I've run into surprisingly few Jessicas in my schools/activities/jobs

[spookymrsboo.livejournal.com]

I am a 1986 Jessica, it was extremely popular that year so I always had at least 2 or 3 more Jessicas in every class I took during school :/

[ounceofpeace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks like you have 52,634 to my 46,459 births, though it was #1 both years. I'm also the type of person who doesn't really care about name uniqueness in general, so it has never bothered me even when I have encountered other Jessicas. Sorry you feel that way! I think Cecily is really pretty. :)

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

I felt the SAME way when I heard about Ariadne!

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that Alexander becomes less popular before my husband and I have a son because it's the only boy name we can agree on. I also hope that Malia doesn't become insanely popular because of Obama's daughter. I like it because it's a Hawaiian form of Mary which is Grandma's name.

I wouldn't mind if Hana became a little more popular because then people might be more apt to pronouce it the right way, Ha-na instead of Han-nah.

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

I knew a guy in middle school named Nestor.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Hahah I had the same thought when I saw the character's name in that movie. It's not one of my favorites, but I'd rather not see a bunch of trendy folks name their children horribly spelled versions of that lovely name.

For many years, my favorite name for a boy was Aiden. Well, we all know what happened to THAT.

My favorite girl's name is Willa. I hope it doesn't get popular.

[fangirlism]

I was born in 1986 as well (but am not a Jessica). However, I graduated with quite a few of them, and my seventh grade social studies class was known as the "Michael and Jessica class" because it had, literally, six Michaels and, like, 5 Jessicas.

So, I feel you XD

[fangirlism]

I think I'm in luck because a lot of my favorite girls' names (Adele, Azure, Cerise, Viola) aren't even in the top 1000 (though, according to one site I would say Adele is, like, 1001 or 1002 lol).

Boys' names, OTOH, are a lost cause (Aidan, Landon, Nathan, Tristan, etc. etc.)

[1842.livejournal.com]

i second this!