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How would you pronounce Jade? It's really popular in France atm. I kind of like it in French, but maybe that's just the novelty. Calvin is okay, a bit religious for me.

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I met a Hebe and am kind of liking that too, heebie-jeebies aside.

Calvin is one of my favorite names. I love the nn Cal. I like Jade well enough.

Calvin is rather too fundamentalist (Calvinist, in fact) for my simple tastes. Where I live, there were rugby-playing brothers several seasons ago names Calvin and Luther, which I thought was toe-curlingly awful. Kelvin is better, though too snobbish.

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Jade sounds like Jane with a head cold. I much prefer Jane!

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I think I might be slightly warming up to Simon!

Not a fan of either, Calvin reminds me of Calvinism and Jade is very 90s and a bit tacky.

Both nice.

I like both, though they don't seem to go over well on BtN. I think Calvin is geeky and sweet, and Jade is pretty and green and bright.

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Ziggy has been on my mind lately, thanks to Liane Moriarty's book. I finished it not long ago.

I love both Calvin and Jade, but for boys.

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I really don't like Jade on a girl at all.

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Ptolemy has really been settled on my mind. I love it, though it seems like everyone completely detests it. I know my family would not be impressed if we used it, but no other boys name is sitting well with me at this point.

Calvin is not my kind of thing at all....it sounds like a surname and also somehow a bit try-hard trendy. But actually I really like it!

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Jade, I dislike a lot. It sounds harsh, it's horribly overused and has the old fashioned meaning of 'whore'.

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Zora is one I've been thinking about lately. I kind of wonder why it isn't more popular than it is, when Nora and Flora are growing in popularity and it ticks the box for unusual initial and turn of the century vintage. I first came across it in a name book I have, published in 1872!