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The most popular boy and girl name in 2009. Any opinions on naming kids after "famous" people (quotations optional) or, like here, book characters?
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I'd name my baby after a personal hero in some way. But i'm not really a fan of One-person names (names which are so connected to a certain person that people will assume you named the baby after them), especially if you really dislike the famous bearer.
I like the famous people idea, as long as they are famous like Leonardo da Vinci and not like Leonardo da Caprio. I like naming people after book characters if the characters are good namesakes, and I prefer it when they aren't from something dreadfully popular and trendy like Twilight.
Jacob and Isabella are a far cry from something like Bilbo and Cinderella.
Twilight wasn't published until 2005, and Isabella was already #6 at that point and had been rising steadily through the 1990s.
Jacob has been #1 for the past decade, and was #5 for the 1990s.
I personally like a lot of literary names, so I don't care if names come from a book or not. Just the *trend* with Twilight names gets under my skin and I don't have any interest in vampires so the whole attraction to naming a child after a fictitious vampire is lost on me. I don't think that most of these parents are naming their kids after Twilight characters though, seeing as the names were so common *before* the first book was released.
Twilight wasn't published until 2005, and Isabella was already #6 at that point and had been rising steadily through the 1990s.
Jacob has been #1 for the past decade, and was #5 for the 1990s.
I personally like a lot of literary names, so I don't care if names come from a book or not. Just the *trend* with Twilight names gets under my skin and I don't have any interest in vampires so the whole attraction to naming a child after a fictitious vampire is lost on me. I don't think that most of these parents are naming their kids after Twilight characters though, seeing as the names were so common *before* the first book was released.
I didn't mean the names Jacob and Isabella specifically, just the idea of naming kids after a trend. Harry (Potter), Hermione, Storm (x-men) etc.
Also I think there is a difference between literary names and (tween) crazes with people relatively soon forgotten.
Also I think there is a difference between literary names and (tween) crazes with people relatively soon forgotten.
You put your name as Jacob/Isabella so I figured you wanted a response to the specific Twilight names.
My bad, sorry.
I think there's a huge difference between more classical literary names and the new series as well, but I guess one isn't inherently better than the other.
While I like a lot of literary names, I wouldn't say I'm naming my kids *after* a character.
My bad, sorry.
I think there's a huge difference between more classical literary names and the new series as well, but I guess one isn't inherently better than the other.
While I like a lot of literary names, I wouldn't say I'm naming my kids *after* a character.