I think they're pretty terrible. They could be worse, but they're pretty blah and will be very dated in 20 or 40 years.
I would venture to guess that 97% of people who name their children Dakota have never been to the Dakotas, and if they had, they wouldn't use it as a name. The other two I've never really condsidered girls names either. Not just "oh, that's traditionally a boys name" because I really don't care about that. Madison is a last name with the word "son" in it. In scandanavian countries, "-son" means "son of." In Scotland, "Mac" means "son of" as well. (In Ireland the same thing would be "Mc.")
I agree with you. I'm from North Dakota and actually the first time I heard of people using that name, I was like WTFFF?! It's the same as Phoenix, now I live in Arizona (like 2 minutes outside of Phoenix) and I think it's weird people would name their children that.
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Date: 2006-10-07 09:50 pm (UTC)I would venture to guess that 97% of people who name their children Dakota have never been to the Dakotas, and if they had, they wouldn't use it as a name. The other two I've never really condsidered girls names either. Not just "oh, that's traditionally a boys name" because I really don't care about that. Madison is a last name with the word "son" in it. In scandanavian countries, "-son" means "son of." In Scotland, "Mac" means "son of" as well. (In Ireland the same thing would be "Mc.")
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Date: 2006-10-08 04:40 pm (UTC)