Nameberry Faves: The names nameberryites love most
Back in February, a topic was posted on the Girls’ Names section of our Message Boards suggesting that people list their current Top Ten favorite names for girls, and it’s been running ever since. What’s especially nice about this for us is that it’s given Pam and me a fascinating look into the specific likes and loves of the nameberry community. After all, for a long time, through our books and on the site, you’ve gotten to know our opinions on both general categories of names and specific examples–and now the tables have been turned.
And we’re so gratified to see that we’re almost universally in synch (we’ll be dealing with dislikes and ‘heresies’ tomorrow), and that for the most part you love the names we love, affirming to us that we have the most enlightened, most thoughtful, most tasteful, group of name lovers in existence.
Proof to us was in the pudding of names that showed up most frequently on your Top Ten lists, all possessing both substance and style. So even though the thread is still alive, I couldn’t resist tallying up the Top Names of the Top Tens to date.
The most popular three are, in order:
Followed by:
WILLOW and
DELILAH, and then:
The next group:
and then:
and finally
We’ll continue to track the changes as more lists are added, and also hope to see more Boys Current Favorites lists posted to the boards so we can get a good sampling of those as well.
Another route to the nameberry aesthetic is to look at which names get the most 5-star ratings by visitors. The Top 25 of these, at this moment, are:
TUNE IN TOMORROW TO SEE WHICH NAMES NAMEBERRYITES DON‘T LIKE–AND WHY.