Old and Young Names
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babynamesWhat’s the most “old person” name you can think of? A name that you cannot imagine on a little baby or a child, but is great/fitting on an adult or senior.
What’s the most “young person” name you can think of? Something that would be great/cute for a kid until about young adulthood, but you can’t imagine a grown man or woman with that name.
Try to think of at least one boy name and one girl name for each question, but you can list as many as you want. You don't have to LIKE the names you list.
What’s the most “young person” name you can think of? Something that would be great/cute for a kid until about young adulthood, but you can’t imagine a grown man or woman with that name.
Try to think of at least one boy name and one girl name for each question, but you can list as many as you want. You don't have to LIKE the names you list.
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:40 pm (UTC)Barbara, Millicent, Edna
Arthur (maybe), Albert, Ronald
Young:
McKenzie, Hailey, Stormy
Rowdy, Paden, Skylar
picking boy names is harder for me than girl names
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:41 pm (UTC)Mildred
Winnie
Carol
Men:
Carl
Girl:
Molly
Boy:
any of these names as their full name and not a NN
Timmy
Ricky
Tommy
Sammy
Jimmy
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:50 pm (UTC)old man name- archibald
little girl-mandy/misty
little boy-i can't picture an adult or old man with the name benji.
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:50 pm (UTC)Harriet (my Great grandma's name!)
Pearl
June
Old men:
Frederick
Donald
Little girls:
Sally
Madeleine (although I love it, so I don't care)
Little boys:
Johnny
Dylan
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 06:55 pm (UTC)Agnes, Mildred, Bertha
Henry, Archie
Young:
Chloe, Zoe, Brianna
Aiden, Timmy
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:57 pm (UTC)Ethel and Edna
Reginald and Murray
Young:
Jaelynn and all that other crap
Mackenzie
Ainsley (I know TWO 20-something Ainsleys but this name still screams cutesy little girl to me!)
Ummm... not so great with the boy's names...
Toby
Aydyn and such garbage, but that's more plain old unfortunate rather than juvenile.
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Date: 2006-07-20 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:00 pm (UTC)But I can deal with Ainsley and Toby on kids, though not adults.
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:01 pm (UTC)i don't know why but i think it'd horrid. i guess i just would never want to be named that:)
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:01 pm (UTC)Girl: Arlene, Geraldine, Gertrude
Boy: Frederick, Neal, Joseph
Young:
Girl: Mikayla, McKenzie, Chloe, Zoe, Skylar/Skyler (eww), Sage, Jade, anything with a kry8tyv spelling
Boy: Skyler/Skylar (eww again), any -aden name except Aidan, Dustin, Justin, Rusty
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:03 pm (UTC)Edna, Edith, Norma, June, Mabel, Esther, Dorothy, Milly, Beatrice.
Milton, Merl, Fred, Norbert, George, Barney, Amos.
for a young person:
Cayleigh, Hailey, Neveah, Madison, Bailey, Mackenzie.
Shayden, Cayden, Braden, Jayden, Mason, Cody.
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:06 pm (UTC)Having said that, I am in love with Esther, Beatrice, George and Amos... but not a single one of your "young" names do anything for me - yuck.
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:19 pm (UTC)For senior men: Leo, Richard, Henry, Donald
Young names:
Girl- Autumn, Anya, Ava
Boy- Landon, Ethan, Cullen
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:21 pm (UTC)