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HelpRe: Frances
in reply to a message by Adelle
I like Frances okay. It still seems "old" to me, though. I'm more partial to Francine, and Francis for a male. I can't quite shake the "nursing-home dweller" expectation I have when I see Viola Frances... but I realize it's also a hip baby-name today. It's a nice combination.
I guess I just don't care for Viola. It's a musical instrument, which is an extremely passive concept - much too passive for a person's name, in my view. The sound of the word is nice, though.
Adelle Frances sounds nice...
I guess I just don't care for Viola. It's a musical instrument, which is an extremely passive concept - much too passive for a person's name, in my view. The sound of the word is nice, though.
Adelle Frances sounds nice...
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I didn't realize that it's "hip" -- I saw it in the Books thread in the Lounge, and it seems to be dropping steadily in popularity. Hm, that's unfortunate.
My sister played the viola, so in a way I think that's kind of neat.
Adelle Frances does sound nice, actually, but I don't know if I could use Adelle for a future child since I'm so attached to it personally. Thanks, though.
My sister played the viola, so in a way I think that's kind of neat.
Adelle Frances does sound nice, actually, but I don't know if I could use Adelle for a future child since I'm so attached to it personally. Thanks, though.
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Well, hip isn't necessarily equal to popular. I think that a lot of the names that were specifically popular around the turn of the 20th c. - 1920s have a particular image that is fashionable right now. Viola and Frances included... they give me the same impression as a lot of the not-so-common but still very fashionable sounding names I see on babies lately.
Such as ...
Popular - Ella, Stella, Bella, Grace, Madeline
Uncommon but still fashionable in the same way, to my mind at least - Eleanor, Lillian, Hazel, Violet, Evelyn, Lucy
Olive is another one that I've seen on a child recently that I'd put in this category .. of "hip antique" name fashion. If I met a baby Viola I'd also put it in the "hip antique" box. I don't mean I think it'd be bad in some way to use these names, though. There's something to recommend having a name with the "right" fashion date on it, and it's hard to avoid the idea of fashion altogether (although it's hip to try).
Such as ...
Popular - Ella, Stella, Bella, Grace, Madeline
Uncommon but still fashionable in the same way, to my mind at least - Eleanor, Lillian, Hazel, Violet, Evelyn, Lucy
Olive is another one that I've seen on a child recently that I'd put in this category .. of "hip antique" name fashion. If I met a baby Viola I'd also put it in the "hip antique" box. I don't mean I think it'd be bad in some way to use these names, though. There's something to recommend having a name with the "right" fashion date on it, and it's hard to avoid the idea of fashion altogether (although it's hip to try).
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Oh, I see what you mean now. I normally equate the two notions, but in your definition, a lot of my favorites fall into the "hip" but not necessarily "popular" category.
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