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I think their sounds are just unfashionable, and since they're not associated with anything well-known/popular, they're bound to be considered ugly. I also associate Chloris with chlorine more than with Chloe, and Clovis with cleaving more than with clover, and both names sound to me like they came from the obituaries ... I like the Clo- sound and many -is names, it's just the other associations that ruin them. I think the reason for me and most people not liking them, might be because unfamiliarity subtly biases us against names. Some kind of xenophobia and/or fear of old age? If we had grown up in a world where there was, say, a designer perfume named Chloris, and a famous Hollywood leading man named Clovis, I bet they would not seem so irredeemably ugly.

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- mirfak

This message was edited 10/27/2019, 10:54 PM