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Help[Opinions] Re: Nova
in reply to a message by Perrine
One of my cousins (in the US) has a daughter named Nova. She was born in 2011, which was the first year it reentered the Top 1000, after last featuring in 1938.
Cousin looked up Nova back in 2012, after the stats for 2011 were released, and was surprised to see it was even Top 1000. She didn't think anything of it after that though, until I e-mailed her yesterday, showing Nova sitting at #95 last year, jokingly saying to her "so I guess this makes you a trendsetter?!" Her reply to me was, "What? WHAT? WHAT WHAT WHAT?!"
It's had a rather rapid rise, and as of yet, I can't pinpoint why. I think it may climb a bit higher, but I don't think it'll ever hit the Top 25 or anything like that. [Waits to be proven wrong in a few years]
Anyway, I quite like it, and it really suits my cousin's daughter. She chose it, because she loves the band Oasis, so is inspired from the song Champagne Supernova. The name wasn't well-received by everyone in our family, with another cousin labelling it 'a typical teen mom trash name' (cousin was 16 when her daughter was born).
~Charley~
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/184785
Cousin looked up Nova back in 2012, after the stats for 2011 were released, and was surprised to see it was even Top 1000. She didn't think anything of it after that though, until I e-mailed her yesterday, showing Nova sitting at #95 last year, jokingly saying to her "so I guess this makes you a trendsetter?!" Her reply to me was, "What? WHAT? WHAT WHAT WHAT?!"
It's had a rather rapid rise, and as of yet, I can't pinpoint why. I think it may climb a bit higher, but I don't think it'll ever hit the Top 25 or anything like that. [Waits to be proven wrong in a few years]
Anyway, I quite like it, and it really suits my cousin's daughter. She chose it, because she loves the band Oasis, so is inspired from the song Champagne Supernova. The name wasn't well-received by everyone in our family, with another cousin labelling it 'a typical teen mom trash name' (cousin was 16 when her daughter was born).
~Charley~
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/184785
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I was wondering the same thing and did some googleing. It was actually used by someone on Teen Moms whose daughter is NovaLee Reign, called Nova. Novalee is rising too.
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Novalee
The 2000 film 'Where the Heart Is' stars Natalie Portman as a character called Novalee Nation. That's when I first heard the name. The movie isn't great but it did okay at the box office and 11-year-old me really liked the movie at the time and I still kind of love the movie in a real guilty pleasure kind of way. I wonder if part of the rise of Novalee and Nova could be the teens and tweens around when that movie came out and then who have watched it whenever it's on TV (which is not a rare occurrence) using it on their kids now. Not necessarily after the character but they liked the sound and that movie brought it to their attention.
ETA: The character actually isn't a bad character to name your daughter after. Her name was chosen by her "redneck" and also manipulative and awful mother, however the character of Novalee is most of the things I would hope a daughter of mine grows to be. She's resilient, resourceful, hardworking, nonjudgmental, loving, and honest. So while I don't think anyone would actually name their kid after the character, it did give the name some publicity and then it definitely wasn't associated with a negative character, and that probably increases the positive feelings towards the name.
The 2000 film 'Where the Heart Is' stars Natalie Portman as a character called Novalee Nation. That's when I first heard the name. The movie isn't great but it did okay at the box office and 11-year-old me really liked the movie at the time and I still kind of love the movie in a real guilty pleasure kind of way. I wonder if part of the rise of Novalee and Nova could be the teens and tweens around when that movie came out and then who have watched it whenever it's on TV (which is not a rare occurrence) using it on their kids now. Not necessarily after the character but they liked the sound and that movie brought it to their attention.
ETA: The character actually isn't a bad character to name your daughter after. Her name was chosen by her "redneck" and also manipulative and awful mother, however the character of Novalee is most of the things I would hope a daughter of mine grows to be. She's resilient, resourceful, hardworking, nonjudgmental, loving, and honest. So while I don't think anyone would actually name their kid after the character, it did give the name some publicity and then it definitely wasn't associated with a negative character, and that probably increases the positive feelings towards the name.
This message was edited 5/13/2018, 4:35 PM
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nm, double post
This message was edited 5/13/2018, 5:18 AM
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meant to reply to OP
It's a colloquial word used to mean northern Virginia, where my sister lives, so I mainly think of it like that. I get a headache every time I have to drive in that area, the traffic is that horrific...so Nova in my mind is tinged with fatigue and repressed road rage...the fact that it is also a type of car probably strengthens that initial impression...it also reminds me of novacaine.
But to a lot of people, maybe it just sounds nerdy-pretty and sci-fi because of the astronomy/science connection, and that's kind of in style right now (I think?): Super Nova sounds like a comic book hero...sure enough, I just checked the name page and she's a superhero, so there's that...plus now there's a Power Rangers character - maybe that was connected to the recent spike?
I don't think the NO sound being negative is very relevant here to popularity, judging by Noah / Noa. I wouldn't be surprised if Nova ended up in the top 10 or 20, since soundwise, it's like a compromise between Noah and Ava.
It's a colloquial word used to mean northern Virginia, where my sister lives, so I mainly think of it like that. I get a headache every time I have to drive in that area, the traffic is that horrific...so Nova in my mind is tinged with fatigue and repressed road rage...the fact that it is also a type of car probably strengthens that initial impression...it also reminds me of novacaine.
But to a lot of people, maybe it just sounds nerdy-pretty and sci-fi because of the astronomy/science connection, and that's kind of in style right now (I think?): Super Nova sounds like a comic book hero...sure enough, I just checked the name page and she's a superhero, so there's that...plus now there's a Power Rangers character - maybe that was connected to the recent spike?
I don't think the NO sound being negative is very relevant here to popularity, judging by Noah / Noa. I wouldn't be surprised if Nova ended up in the top 10 or 20, since soundwise, it's like a compromise between Noah and Ava.
This message was edited 5/13/2018, 5:24 AM
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