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[sian-y.livejournal.com]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/family/sc-fam-0727-baby-name-20100727,0,196484.story

Really? 17 Renesme's? 

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[nacho-cheese.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

I knew, the moment that movie came out, there would be babies all over the place named "Bella" or "Cullen" or whatever. My poor Dad shares his namesake with the main sparkly vampire, but at least he's three times this character's age!

[sian-y.livejournal.com]

haha.
I hate thats its ruined the name Bella for me, I always thought it was such a pretty name but by the time I come to have babies there will be millions of them :(.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

Bela was on my list...but it was after Bela Lugosi!

[chesterismyhero.livejournal.com]

I know a Cullen...he's 28 though.

[beepandetch.livejournal.com]

Makes me glad when I was pregnant in 2007 we didn't go with Emmett or Jasper. I had no idea they were Twilight names back then. I actually really liked Cullen too but it has been ruined for me.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Regardless of whether Renesme is a Twilight name, or made up...it looks and sounds so ugly to me!

Totally unrelated, but this part interested me: Carlisle may sound feminine to an American ear and contains consonants unseparated by vowels (think Gertrude) — a definite negative for modern parents.

I understand the former, but the latter? Consonants unseparated by vowels are a definite negative? Interesting.

*fixed for weird italics.

[sal_amanda]

God, I thought Renesme was horrible when I read it in the books. Naming your kid that is just cruel because it's completely obvious where the name came from.

[sal_amanda]

I thought that was kind of odd, too. Not sure I buy into it.

[nacho-cheese.livejournal.com]

Haha, see, this is what I mean. ;) My dad's name is Edward, and I've seen a number of those pop up nowadays...

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to pinpoint the precise degree of "Twilight's" influence on the more than 4 million baby names chosen annually in the U.S., in part because Meyer chose names for her characters that were either already high on the hot list (Jacob), rising (Bella, Alice, Jasper, Emmett) or related to those that were. Isabella was already a top-10 girls' name in 2005, and Bella was at No. 208 and rising at a nice clip.

Cullen was at No. 727 in 2005 and falling, but using last names as first names was already a powerful trend. <-- That.

I'm not saying Twilight had no influence on the popularity of those names, just that it wasn't necessarily what made them popular. Now obviously this does not apply to Renesmee, which I would kind of enjoy seeing in the top 1000, if only to see the outraged reactions of everyone in this community. ;)

[renishas.livejournal.com]

if only to see the outraged reactions of everyone in this community.

Awesome.

[renishas.livejournal.com]

17 Remesme's really? Are their parents lives THAT bad?

I love the name Rosalie but I'll never use it because of Twilight.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Well... I guess we could look at the silver lining... fewer Aidens/Cadens/Bradens right? : /

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I think names like Rosalie, Edward and Isabella are normal enough to not be associated with Twilight within the next 5-10 years, unless you use them all at the same time, of course.

I really like Rosalie as well!

[myiris.livejournal.com]

Same here. About 2 years before the series came out and therefore a good solid year before the first movie, my friend named his son Cullen. Since he can't predict the future his son now bears that burden. It could happen to any of us, really :(

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

That's depressing.

"How did you pick my name, Mommy?"
"Well, I read about it in this book about vampires where the girl had this demon half-vampire baby ripped from her uterus and then a werewolf fell in love with it and they mushed the names Renee and Esme together so there you are."
"...what."

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

So by that logic, names like William, Michael, Anthony, and Ethan shouldn't currently be on the list of top ten names. O_o

[arrien.livejournal.com]

seriously. Imagine the explaining the parents will have to do in 20 years when the books are a distant memory. I'd be so pissed if my parents named me after a half vampire/half human baby from a 15-minutes-of-fame book series.

[arrien.livejournal.com]

I came across a Brycyn today. D:

[bekahbaby.livejournal.com]

I love the name Rosalie, too! I don't know that I'd ever consider it now because of the Twilight association. But maybe you're right, in the next 5-10 years or so, maybe that name will be okay to use again :)

[bekahbaby.livejournal.com]

Haha and fewer Jaydens hopefully! :op

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

I actually had Cullen on my list as a middle name, but as soon as I read Twilight (and subsequently never picked up another of them after), I crossed it off. Too much association.

It is similar to the situation with my daughter's name. I've been planning to name a daughter Sophia or Sophie since I was probably...12 or 13. And when I became pregnant and found out it was a girl, and said I was using Sophia, people were like "OH, LIKE FARRAH ON TEEN MOM?!?!"

Uh, no.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I read that as brick-en.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Yes, my thoughts exactly. And what about the more trendy names like Marley and Harlow?

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahaha a million times this.

[tortallian.livejournal.com]

This has made me interested in the name Emmett now, as in Emmett Brown from Back to the Future rather than whoever's named it in Twilight (never read the books). I wonder if everyone would think it was from Twilight if I used it in a few years time?

[nacho-cheese.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, FH keeps saying that he wants to name our kids Emmett and Clara. Thanks, BTtF. ;)