Just a few questions:

[ahmunnaeetchu.livejournal.com]

A girl from school is naming her daughter Kennadie Kay after her grandfather (his last name was Kennedy). Her original name was Kylie Marie. Thoughts?
I don't like the spelling of Kennedy, but its not Nevaeh.

How do you feel about traditionally "old" names like Dorothy, Martha, Bertha, Abigail, etc?
I dislike them. I think names reach a point where they become outdated.

Can you think of any interesting literary names?
Holden, Anabel Lee, what else?

What do you think of the name Hadley as opposed to Hailey? Is it just as bad?

Comments

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Kennadie Kay - I am NOT a fan. I love the name Kennedy but that spelling is like McKenna mashed with Kennedy, minus some letters. I could almost deal with Kennedi, or Kennedie, but that spelling is atrocious. Kennedy Marie or Kylie Marie would be much better.

I am not a fan of most old names. The only one I can tolerate of those you listed is Abigail and I don't even particularly like that.

Hadley seems like a boys name, but I do like Hailey.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Kennedy is an ok name... spelled Kennedy.

Older names are ok, although I don't care for the ones listed here.

Literary ones are grand. My Sims are all named for Poe characters (Lenore, Roderick, Annabel Lee, etc.) :)

I prefer Hailey to Hadley.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

ah, someone else obsessed with the sims! :]

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Man, you have no idea. :)

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Kennadie is horrible.

I dispise the name Abigail, I think it is the ugliest name ever.

I like Hadley though, I'd probably use it if I didn't have other names I liked more.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I like Kennedy only when spelled like that, but I love the name. Kennedy Kay is a little sugary but flows nicely. Kylie Marie is very sugary, and I hate Marie as a middle name. SO OVERDONE.

Dorothy, Martha, Bertha - all old, fat women.

Abigail, I think of a little girl and like it. "Old" names are pretty split down the middle for me - some are really just OLD and some are really hip these days.

Harper for a girl - To Kill A Mockingbird!


I like Hadley better than Hailey. They're two separate names. And Hailey is just so popular that it's blah.

[lavandersparkle.livejournal.com]

I hate Kennadie or Kennedy. Ugg. I hate both of those names.

I don't mind old names, unless there not REALLY old like Agnes or as you mentioned Dorothy, Martha, and Bertha. But Abigail I love.

Hadley is ugly it should be a guys name, I WAY prefer Hailey.

Atticus - To Kill A Mockingbird.

[ilovehounds.livejournal.com]

Kennadie Kay? NO! Kennedy is a great name and a great spelling. I don't accept alternates on that one. Kay is bland. It's a letter, not a name.

How do you feel about traditionally "old" names like Dorothy, Martha, Bertha, Abigail, etc?
I don't think Abigail is old. I like Alice and Dorothy, but Bertha, Mildred, etc. have to go.

Can you think of any interesting literary names? Scout, Atticus, Juliette, Hero (girl), Desdemona, Othello, Iago


What do you think of the name Hadley as opposed to Hailey? i prefer Hailey

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

- kennadie looks tacky & the middle name kay screams white trash to me. i'm not a huge fan of kylie marie either, but it's better than misspelling kennedy.
- i like some old names. i think names like abigail or isabel are fine. i'm not a fan of dorothy, martha, bertha, ruth. they all sound rather harsh to me. i am a fan of elinor though. i love it.
- i like holden. i also like scout.
- i love hadley, not a fan of hailey.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Hm. I never thought of Hailey/Hayley as terribly creative/mangled.

Ooh, Dahlia is pretty.

[thorabrighid.livejournal.com]

i really dislike kennadie. I really like Hadley, though.

[zante.livejournal.com]

Abigail Imogene is my *future* daughters' name. So I like olden-ish traditional names :)

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

Dorothey is my grandmother's name, so I have a special place for it. Honestly "old lady names" usually aren't my style, but they're MUCH better than the popular names of today... I can't even begin to imagine "Grandma Madison and Grandma Neveah" ick. At least "old lady names" have some class.

:)

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't like Kennadie. Of course, I'm not a fan of Kennedy for a little girl to begin with, so the creative spelling just makes it worse.

I like them. Generally, I like traditional names. I'm not a huge fan of Martha and Bertha, but I like Abigail a lot.

Um, lots? I like LotR names. I think Arwen and Galadriel are really pretty. And I actually really like Jean Louise.

Even worse.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

I don't think names reach a point where they become outdated; they cycle so it can seem as if one is outdated. Whether I like it really depends on the name. I like Dorothy, Abigail is okay, Martha I don't care for, and Bertha I hate. Other 'old' names I like are Evelyn, Edith, Eleanor, to name a few.

I don't like Holden because it is a literary name. Off the top of my head I can;t think of any good classic literary names, but I can think of some from contemporary literature that not many else would recognize.

I see Hadley and Hailey as two different names I don't much care for either but don't hate them. Hadley sounds less overplayed.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Kennedy after the grandfather is cute, but ick on the spelling. I'm not particularly enamored of the name Kennedy, but it's not too bad.

[kthartline.livejournal.com]

Kennadie - hate the spelling! Don't particularly like the name either, but if she's going to use it I think the original spelling is better.

Some old names I like, others I don't. I love Ruby, Helen, Abigail... Don't particularly like Bertha (I think of a huge fat lady for some reason- probably a movie or something), Dorothy (of OZ), Martha (Stewart). Most names have a point that they become outdated BUT then a while later are recycled again. Hence the latest wave of Abigails!

Literary names? I'll leave that for someone else.

I LOVE HADLEY- BUT NOT FOR A GIRL!! I actually grew up in a town called Hadley, MI that was basically one corner with a stopsign (about 30 minutes East of Flint, MI). To me, it's too masculine for a girl but would work wonderfully on a boy!

[mandyjalo.livejournal.com]

I can kind of answer two questions in one...

I love old names, specifically ones from Shakespeare's plays:

-Helena (several plays)
-Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)
-Rosalind (several plays)
-Portia (The Merchant of Venice)
-Edmund (King Lear)
-Sebastian (Twelfth Night)
-Malcolm (Macbeth)

[sayga.livejournal.com]

I like Cordelia and Lysander too. My husband wouldn't go for any of those though, especially Lysander (which is fine now because we're having another girl anyway).

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Kennedy in ANY variation is horrid if you ask me.

I like a lot of "old people" names. I would MUCH rather see a 5 year old Dorothy than a 5 year old Kaylie or Kennadie or Madison.

I'm not a fan of the trendy literary names (Holden, Atticus, Scout)... I do however like the name Jane cause of Jane Eyre :)

Hadley is meh.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Kennadie Kay - I don't like... it looks really trashy, somehow the dodgy spelling combined with the alliteration makes it a very unappealing combo

Old names - I like some and don't like others, same as common names that haven't outdated yet

Can't think of any literary names atm, have a migraine >:{

Hadley - I think this is a terrible name, no offense, I just really don't like anything that resembles a last name, especially on girls. It doesn't sound pretty, starting with "Had". Hailey is a name that I don't really like, but at least I consider it to be a name.

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

1. I dislike the name Kennedy for anyone, unless it was your surname, or a family name and you want it to carry on by giving it as a first name to your child. Kenadi or Kennadie is not the same name as Kennedy.

How do you feel about traditionally "old" names like Dorothy, Martha, Bertha, Abigail, etc?
I love them. Some of my favorites are Martha, Lois, and Edith. I love Bertha...it's the name of Anne of Green Gables's mother and daughter. And I think a little girl named Dorothy would be so cute.

Can you think of any interesting literary names?
Rilla (Rilla of Ingleside)
Brett (for a girl, from The Sun Also Rises)
Valancy (The Blue Castle)

What do you think of the name Hadley as opposed to Hailey? I hate Hailey. I like Hadley, it reminds me of Hemingway's first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. She went by Hadley.