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I absolutely love Lux! It's in my top five.

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Middle names are hard though. I think it needs something long and feminine, beginning with a vowel, like Annabelle, Anneliese, Isabella, Ophelia etc

The bad: It makes me think of deluxe and luxury and lucks, and other not-very-appealing rhyming words such as sucks and flux (diarrhea) and mukluks and [expletive], and of Lux Interior (the humorous self-chosen name of the male lead singer of the Cramps). I think it seems celebby (trying to be cool and "different") and really ... it's pretty awful all around. The only redeeming value is the meaning, and even that is made too pedestrian to me, because of "lux" being a unit of measure for light. I wouldn't want to be named it, and I would eyeroll if I met a child named it (gah, celeb style names, I'd think).

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The relatively good: if I met an adult named Lux who wasn't an entertainer, it would not seem that awful. It would just seem eccentric, and there are a lot of names I do like that are no less eccentric seeming. Cute? never. Decent? yeah.

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Sorry, I don't like it at all. It's almost a non-name to me. I think of the Latin word before I think of it as a name -- and it just doesn't sound like a name. "Lux" as a name is on par with "Light" as a name to me. I also know two unrelated people with the surname Lux. I don't find the appearance or sound very appealing either.

The first things that come to mind for me are "suicidal virgins" ("The Virgin Suicides") and soap.

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To be perfectly honest, for some reason Lux, just like Pax, just doesn't really feel like a name to me. At least not one for a person. More like a brand name or something. Sorry.

I always think on the book The Virgin Suicides. One of the main characters in this book is named Lux.

It's underrated as a name, but I always have this idea of a Pokemon called Luxray entering my mind!