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You have India Eve as one of your combos- I babysit a little India Eve Bess! (2 middle names) She's six, and too adorable for words so I love the name, although I do slightly prefer Indira. It's off limits for me, but I love it for someone else.

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Oh, and her siblings are Harrison Geoffrey John, Summer, Bindi Ashley Tess and Trinity Victoria Cash. I still haven't been able to find Summer's middle names, which bugs me immensley.

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I've never seen the movie, so I don't associate it with that, and I dont think the name is trrashy, although it is a little trendy.

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I like Noah Olivia and Noah Sofia. India Seraphine and India Eve.

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India Frances
India Sophia
India Delphine
India Liron
India Maryam
India Madeleine
India Jemima

India is very pretty. I don't think it's trashy. Most people probably won't automatically think of the character.

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As far as combos go, I like India Seraphine the best. It's lovely.

This message was edited 5/21/2009, 11:30 PM

India is my cousin's name. I didn't like it at first, but I have grown to like it. I originally associated it with the GWTW character, but my cousin really changed that for me. I like India Seraphine a lot.

I prefer other Ind names such as Indiana and Indigo. I like the nn Indy.

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I prefer Noah as a boy's name but out of the Noah combos I like Noah Isabella and Noah Sofia.

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India Eve is nice too.

I know 2 people named India, both women. Neither one of them is Indian. I personally feel that it's pretentious to name your child after a country (or city) if you have no association with that country. What about Indira? It's a beautiful Indian name that sounds similar to India.

India was my top girl name for about ten years. I think of it as strictly a GP now. I don't think it's trashy, and I don't think it's too closely associated with India Wilkes. As far as I'm concerned, India is the very best of the place names. I love it, and I love all the saffron-tinted images it brings to my mind.

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I don't have any deep personal connection to India as a place. I've never even been there. That, and the justifiable accusation that India (the name) is an "imperialism-tainted relic," makes me a little uncomfortable with using it as a fn.

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From your combos, I prefer Noah Sofia and India Serephine. India Eve and India Belle are both too phrasey for my tastes.

I like it for a boy

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It's useable. A couple I know named their daughter India Simone aandthey call her Indy. They have a son named Andrew that they call Andy, so they have Andy and Indy, which I think is really cute!

India is okayish, and it does make me think of the country, to be honest. I think slightly exotic middle names would fit it (i.e. India Chandra)

Meloves! :)

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Hence the posting name... ;)

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I think it's very usable, not just a GP. To me it doesn't sound trashy at all, and I think it's popular enough (without being very popular) that people wouldn't automatically come up with the Gone With The Wind association when they hear it.

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From your combos, I like Noah Sofia, India Seraphine India Belle best. Other India combos I like...

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India Roseanne
India Violet
India Andromache
India Modesty
India Paige
India Janine
India Josephina
India Loveday

I always think of the country. That's all I can think of. I never thought of the character in Gone with the Wind.

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I'm not so crazy about your Noah combos, as I can't picture the name on a girl at all. I know its a unisex name, but I have a male cousin with this name so maybe I'm a little biased. I like India Belle and I like India Seraphine ok, but I think India Seraphina would be better. How about India Isabella? They both begin and end with the same sounds, but I kinda like it.

I quite like India. I don't think it is strongly associated with the character, I don't recall her being a big character in the film.

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I like India Kallisto.

I don't like India. It's too much of a country's name and not a person's. It's like the people who name their daughter Ireland. Weird.

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I didn't realize it was a character in Gone with the Wind (I'm a bad person and haven't read that or seen the movie, though I want to do both!) That makes me accept it a little bit more.

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I do think India does sound tacky and a little trashy. I don't know anyone named India.

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Noah Sofia is my favorite out of the Noah combos, and India Belle out of the India ones. It has a nice ring to it (pun not intended). :)

I like India - I don't think it's trashy at all - in fact to me it's a middle class, slightly arty name. India is the sister of Caspian and Alfie for me.

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I do have issues with country names in general but I'd use India.

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I don't think it's especially associated with TGWTW character, thankfully - wasn't India Wilkes prissy and spiteful.

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(Veering OT a bit - I think Honey is sweet but it's a bit trashy.)

I love it. I don't think it's too strongly associated with the character. And even if it were, think of how strongly Scarlett was associated with the Gone With the Wind character. So strongly that, in spite of the vast popularity of the book and the movie, Scarlett went nowhere as a name for at least sixty years after the book was published. In spite of the fact that Scarlett is, in my opinion, a great name. All it took was a few brave souls to start using Scarlett, and the more it's used, the less it becomes solely associated with the character.

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No, I don't think India is at all tacky the way Brooklyn is, and is completely usable. I've never known an India, though.

I love the name India, and I think it's way more workable than Brooklyn or something. It's pretty, feminine, and I don't think it has too many connections with Gone with the Wind.

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Combos, okay, I like Noah Sofia or Noah Isabella the best, but I don't really like Noah on a girl. India Kallisto is beautiful (I think I'd like India Callista more though) and I LOVE India Eve. How about India Celeste, India Jane, India Winter, or India Selene?

I do like India as a middle name. I love Noah Isabella, Noah Sofia and Noah India. I do like Seraphine India and Eve India.