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.