Yeah, it's dated/common/tacky here too, it'll never make my short list.
..Which is why I don't mind sticking Nymphadora with it :P
Simon seems so ... I don't know. It just seems
perfect to me. It's so holy with
Francis and
Benedict, so old-testament with
Joseph, so wise and ornery with Crow, so bold with
Rudolph, so intelligent with
Arthur. And as a first name, it's so simple and distinctive and handsome, but with a certain edge to it that nothing else has. The long I, the slick S. A dignity, but a strange kind of dignity...
...no one in the real world things this hard about names. I love
Simon very much though.