Names you liked in the past that are completely different your current naming style?

[palejewel]

As you can see from my signature, I love names that fall in the "classic unusual" and "classic eccentric" categories. However, I distinctly remember that when I was around four or five years old, my favorite names were Emily, Monica, and Melissa! (I apparently didn't care about boys names back then).

By middle school, when I really got interested in names, my taste started to tend toward the types of names I like now. But clearly, when I was in preschool/kindergarten, my taste was quite different!

Do you remember any names you liked as a child, or even in the more recent past, that are totally different than the types of names you like now?

[balloonsforellie]

I actually didn't get interested into names until quite recently, but as you can see from my user lists, my first names and middle names are completely different style-wise. Compare my girls list in my signature to my combo list Calla Combos With Unusual/Rare Middles. ..........Am I Hopelessly Hipster?

[palejewel]

Balloonsforellie, I love many of the names in your lists! Maybe I'm missing something, but how do I differentiate between your choices for first and middle?

[alzora]

I've loved names for as long as I can remember, and my first loves were '80s and '90s names that were common among my friends. Jamie was my deepest love, a name I got from my doll who came pre-named, and remains one of my top 3 contenders for a future daughter. I still do love names from that era, so I can't say my style has changed much (though it has VASTLY broadened to include nickname names and literary names, etc.), but several of my first loves have passed. Names that I no longer love anymore include Michelle (because I met a pretty bad one) and Alyssa (<< I thought this was the epitome of beauty but now consider it bland). Still, if I met babies today with most of the names on my childhood name list, I'd think their parents had pretty fantastic taste. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), it seems that nobody shares my love for the nostalgic '90s names!

[balloonsforellie]

Porcelain and Pink are all fn's and all the middles are in the second list. I picked Calla to put as a fn in the combo list.

[flick]

I had super awful taste when I first became interested in names - Masculine names for girls, Misspelled, Overly Gothy......just bad.

Then I went from there to the other side of the spectrum and my taste became what I consider extremely pretentious and over the top - but they were not bad, just over the top. (Ezebel Rhiannon Willow, Ginevra Eponine Rosabel...that kind of thing)

But NOW, I think I have toned down my style, I still love a lot of over the top, very obscure names but generally not all put into one combo - pairing things like Tullia Penelope Joy together instead of combining Tullia with 2 other super obscure, super frilly choices.

[augusta_lee]

I used to LOVE Emma, Emily, and Elizabeth. I named a lot of characters Pamela, for some reason. When I first discovered the name nerd community I fell hard for offbeat mythological names, the weirder the better. Give my kid a name in the top 1000? Perish the thought! While I still enjoy offbeat names, my tastes are back to what they were before my wacky phase: slightly dusty but distinguished antiques with strong connections to history and literature. I do still love me some nature names, though...

[tori101]

Hmmm...
My taste in boys have really stayed the same I like short, slightly quirky well known names like Levi, Jonah, Henry & Elwood. The middle names are normally family names or have a meaning to me. As for girls I like frilly femimine classics that sound cultured like Jane, Rosalie, Scarlett and Amira.

However I used to like Mackenzie, Dakota and Skye which are not my taste now at all, Mackenzie in my eyes now is a masculine name and a surname. A name I only like as a surname. Dakota is Dakota Sioux an Native American tribe and shouldn't be used as a name by people who aren't of Native Amerian descent just the name Cohen shouldn't be used if your not Jewish. Skye is so dated so yes my tastes have changed considerably over the years, I now hate all three names I used to love !!

[mge28]

I don't really know what my naming style is... Could someone tell me by looking at my signature or something? lol But when I was younger, (8 or 9) I LOVED "J" names. For a girl, I liked Jamie and Janessa. For a boy I liked Jason. Now, I apparently like "L" names. Lydia, Lily, Larissa, and Liam, Louis (pronounced like Louie, not Lewis), and Leo.

[garnet]

As a little girl, I loved Abigail and James. I'm still head over heels in love with James, but my love for Abigail has faded a bit (although I'm still nostalgically fond of her).