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I think it's kinda boring but usually harmless, I was really into Nina for a while because I was watching Fullmetal Alchemist a few years ago, the meaning just being little girl is just kinda dull, plus once you get older it's a little infantile past childhood, but I didn't focus on that I thought about the feelings it gave me and the impression I had of it in a name in general. I think for most people the etymology of their name isn't really a thought that comes up, I've known people who were middle aged and even elderly without even a passing interest in their names meaning tbh, so it really depends on the individual. I guess what this really boils down to is how much does a names meaning mean to you in general and for me personally it's a nice factor but I don't put all my stock into it, particularly because often a names true etymology is just lost to time and we don't even truly know to begin with so it really "doesn't matter" to a degree. For me personally a nice meaning is a little added bonus but it isn't the full selling point of a name. Like one of my top choices for a name is Elodie which allegedly means foreign riches. At it's core this meaning seems uninteresting at best but imperialist at worst and has some negative implications if you chew on it long enough. But honestly in the grand scheme of things how many people would know that meaning if I picked it for a daughter? Probably none her entire life besides perhaps another mother of an Elodie. What she would have is a cute story of how I picked it from a character in a book I admired as a kid that came with her own song "her name is like a melody she's our little Elodie.." and to me, it's those cute little stories on WHY that hold more value than the meaning of the names in it of themselves. In most cases there are of course exceptions to the rule with wildly inappropriate meanings occasionally but for the most part I stand by my feelings on the matter.

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Please rate my "Names I would use" list if you have a spare moment, feel free to rate other lists too if you want but ik there's a lot, thank you :) https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/223226/138473

This message was edited 6/23/2021, 5:33 PM