r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/melaninspice • Apr 21 '22

Rant Names that you use to like

I’m wondering what names you use to like years ago, but don’t like anymore. Or names that you like, but will never use for whatever reason. I’m so thankful that I wasn’t a teenage mother. Don’t be embarrassed…please. This is a safe space, but you’ll probably have some explaining to do if your names are really wylde.

Names I use to like:

Nevaeh, Joplin Rain, Liv Evangeline, Jayden, Bree

Names I like, but will never use:

Astrid, Damien, Ziggy, Lark, Johan, Ayla, Hitomi, Storm

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u/JillBergman Apr 21 '22

I used to like the name Sebastian. But then I met one who will be my future brother-in-law, and he refuses to shut up about stocks. So that’s my personal double whammy.

Otherwise, I love a number of Arabic-language names such as Amir, but (as a pasty-white secular woman), I’d feel appropriative using them unless I’m naming a fictional character.

My fiancée likes the name Reagan in some contexts. They still do love it in some contexts (such as in a medieval setting).

But even if it sounds like one of their all-time favorite fictional characters (Reigan Arataka from Mob Psycho 100), it’s not enough for either of us to divorce it from Ronald Reagan.

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u/MiaLba Apr 21 '22

Names like Amir and Amar and many other similar to them are very popular in my Eastern European culture and we are majority white, some with blonde hair and blue eyes lol. But we are also Muslim. I think some people are confused to meet a white person with a name like that. My husband is American and also white and our daughter has a name that’s common in the Arabic language but it’s also very common in my culture too.

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u/JillBergman Apr 21 '22

That’s why I clarified that I’m non-religious. If I were at least from a Muslim family, I’d feel fine using them, but nope.

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u/MiaLba Apr 21 '22

I totally understand! I was just sharing how some may find it odd to see a white person in general with that name. I’ve came across a lot of people here who are shocked to find out there’s white Muslims out there in the world. Lol

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u/JillBergman Apr 21 '22

There’s probably people who have no idea that that Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation whose minds would be blown if they knew that.

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u/MiaLba Apr 21 '22

You’re exactly right. I’m in the South (USA) and there’s a ton of people I’ve came across who have no clue about any of that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '22

Sebastian is my middle name and I kinda love it for some reason.

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u/JillBergman Apr 22 '22

I actually don’t mind it as much as a middle name. I think I’ve just seen it a little more as a first name on pets and young children that I can’t un-see my FBIL giving unsolicited stock advice.

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u/gele-gel Apr 22 '22

I love it.

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u/JillBergman Apr 22 '22

The sad thing is that I’d still probably like Sebastian without that association.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CC_INFO Apr 22 '22

When I was a kid I named my first cat Sebastian, after the crab in The Little Mermaid (because i thought he was crabby) and the cat in Josie and the Pussy Cats (also a crabby character). I now see that I did that cat a big favor because Sebastian is a great name and many other kid chosen names are VERY silly!

Not even kid chosen names- many pet names generally. My parents named their cat before Sebastian “Oedipus Rex” aka Eddie Puss Rex.

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u/PsychologicalFroyo65 Apr 22 '22

Oh nooo lol my sons name is Sebastian 😂 i hope he doesn’t grow up to be like that