Lost-Love Names: One that you love but wouldn’t ever use

Is there one particular name that you really like but for some reason would never use?

Today’s Question of the Week was inspired by a thread on our own nameberry forums, initiated by lynxycrowy, which elicited some really interesting choices and even more interesting reasons for their rejection.

We’d love to hear what your example is—a name you really adore but know you’ll never use—and why.

  • Namenapped by someone else?

  • Too trendy?

  • Too irrevocably tied to some pop culture character?

  • Too hard to pronounce?

  • Doesn’t work with sibling’s name?

  • Too far out there?

  • Too much name or too little?

  • Let us know your #1 lost-love name!

    If you’re interested in what the other posters have had to say, check out the message board.

    About the Author

    Linda Rosenkrantz

    Linda Rosenkrantz

    Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.

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    The Nameberry App Is Live

    Nameberry app screenshot
    Find your perfect baby name together in our iPhone app, now available on the App Store.
    • Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
    • Names you match on are saved to your shared list
    • Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
    • Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
    • Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.
    Download on the App Store
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