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in reply to a message by Martha
It's okay but it doesn't feel different than the other names to me.
There are five names that convinced me that a popular name should be avoided, and Stephanie is one of them. The other four are Ashley, Brittany and its spelling variants, Heather, and Sarah / Sara. I have known multiple people of each of these names. The people whom I've known with these names could never be referred to solely by their first names or else nobody would know which Stephanie / Ashley / Brittany / Heather / Sarah was being referred to.
No, it doesn't escape the 80s, crimped mall hair association, because in the US it has never had a period of popularity before 1960 and at this time we can't know if it will ever come back. It's tied to an era, for now at least.
I'm just not a big Stephanie fan but I think it's only due to over familiarity. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say.
There are five names that convinced me that a popular name should be avoided, and Stephanie is one of them. The other four are Ashley, Brittany and its spelling variants, Heather, and Sarah / Sara. I have known multiple people of each of these names. The people whom I've known with these names could never be referred to solely by their first names or else nobody would know which Stephanie / Ashley / Brittany / Heather / Sarah was being referred to.
No, it doesn't escape the 80s, crimped mall hair association, because in the US it has never had a period of popularity before 1960 and at this time we can't know if it will ever come back. It's tied to an era, for now at least.
I'm just not a big Stephanie fan but I think it's only due to over familiarity. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say.
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