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Or Alexa, or Siri. They have nice voice. They are fun to play with. You can ask them any fun questions you think of, they are always calm and smart and give you good answers.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The OP says they've met an Alyssa who they thought was attractive. Personally, Alyssa Milano is not attractive at all. I don't put any faith into anyone's name having anything to do with their looks. As a teenager, I thought Jon Bon Jovi was drop dead gorgeous. Since then I've met many men named John/Jon who were ugly - inside and out.
You're absolutely right that attitudes towards names are generational. My mother, for instance (born in 1926) thought the name Hannah was awful and only belonged on an old woman. She had maiden great-aunts named Emma, Rose and Sophie. She never would have considered such old-fashioned names for her children.
But people my age (I'm 51) and younger don't have those associations, because we never met those people. To us the "old-fashioned, out-of-style" names are the names of the 1930s through 50s, like Carol, Linda, Debbie, and Sharon. The names you mentioned--Sophie, Olivia, Hannah, Emma, Emily--were hugely popular choices among people of my generation, with babies born in the 1990s and 2000s.
In fact, they were so popular that many of them are already on the way out! People in their 30s and younger are getting tired of them. Believe it or not, Madison and Bailey have also already hit their peak and are dropping fast. Amelia is the only one you mentioned that is still rising.
I'm younger than you are and while I know it must be people around my age giving their kids these names, I'm pretty sure when we were young we would've seen those names as weird and old-fashioned. Why suddenly they wanted to give these names to their kids is beyond me. (But while to people my age Carol/Linda/Debbie/Sharon might not be in fashion, I've never heard anyone say they think they're "old lady" names. They are, after all, the kinds of names our parents have, not our grandparents and great-grandparents.)
And yes, you're right, Madison/Bailey/Riley/Kylie are now out of style, but they were among the first in the new "creative" naming trend and were popular when I was young. (Hopefully "Logan" is on the way out, too...)
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LOL!
You can always change your name to something that you feel is more fitting. To quote Erica Jong: "To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary."
To "poet and revolutionary" I would also add "forum member," as many forum members deliberately choose screen names that they feel better describe themselves to others.
Sure, you can change your name, but it tends to offend your parents, who feel they chose a perfectly-lovely name for you and can't understand why you dislike it so much... It also tends to confuse people who have known you by both names, some of whom will insist on still calling you by the old one.
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Or Alexa, or Siri. They have nice voice. They are fun to play with. You can ask them any fun questions you think of, they are always calm and smart and give you good answers.
Which is too bad, because they're both nice names... but now ruined.
You can always change your name to something that you feel is more fitting. To quote Erica Jong: "To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary."
To "poet and revolutionary" I would also add "forum member," as many forum members deliberately choose screen names that they feel better describe themselves to others.
Well Erica got it right on the revolutionary side, I considered using*Subcomandante Marcos here, but my ego couldn't deal with the*"Sub" part and I'm partial to poetry.
Maybe I should have gone with Genghis Khan, or Atilla The Hun.
On the female side, I approve of #1 Olivia, #4 Sophia, and maybe #6 Charlotte.
On the male side Liam has been #1 for several years. Many Americans may not be aware that Liam is Gaelic for # 4 William.So its Liam/William by a mile.....
I guess the quiz is accurate for me, though my ego is bruised my the high "outmoded" rank.
On the male side I chose mostly short names. More varied on the female.
Here are the results of the Name Personality Quiz
Your personality type is: Classic Conservative*: 21%
Your personality type is: Classic Outmoded*: 21%
Your personality type is: Classic Eccentric*: 14%
Your personality type is: Modern Conservative*: 7%
Your personality type is: Classic Unusual*: 7%
Your personality type is: Modern Eccentric.*: 0%
Your personality type is: Modern Unusual*: 0%
Your personality type is: Unisex*: 0%
On the male side Liam has been #1 for several years. Many Americans may not be aware that Liam is Gaelic for # 4 William.So its Liam/William by a mile.....
Liam (ליעם) is also a popular name in Israel. Its etymology is, of course, different from the Gaelic Liam. In Hebrew, Liam means "my people."
I(But while to people my age Carol/Linda/Debbie/Sharon might not be in fashion, I've never heard anyone say they think they're "old lady" names. They are, after all, the kinds of names our parents have, not our grandparents and great-grandparents.)
Indeed! *I* don't think of them as "old lady" names. But anyone whose grandmother is named Carol, Linda, Debbie or Sharon...and many of these grandchildren are already in their teens or twenties...is going to see them as old lady names!
Baby names are subject to fashions of the time. When I was born in the early 80s, "Ashley" was one of the most popular girl names. Fast forward to the 00s, there are lots hot college aged girls named Ashley. I dated two Ashleys in my 20s. So I associate that name with hot girls.
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