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I know a Barbara who's about 19 (her combo is Barbara Rose), and I've always thought it fit her very oddly - she doesn't seem like a person who's not a Barbara, necessarily, just one who's...not one yet, maybe? She just seems too young for it. I think Barbara in full is a million times better than (and also dates better than) Barb or Barbie, both of which I find horrifying.

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I dunno, I feel like Barbara is too "old" for a college student, so I definitely can't see it fitting a baby, personally. Barbara Ann has a pretty retro feel to it, and I think it'd be waaaaay nicer than Madison or Brooklyn or whatever, but I can't really dig it. It's one of those names where if I saw it in a BA, I'd think, "I admire what you did there...but as a matter of personal taste, that is so not the route I would have taken away from the trendy, popular, oh-so-tiresome stuff."