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For similar reasons that I'm not fond of some other place names that sound more like a city or street than a person. For a place or business, Bexley sounds fine. On a person, it feels impersonal and trendy. According to BTN it means ‘box tree.’ What is that? Some kind of method of farming? If I had a tree farm where I sold trees in boxes, I might use Bexley for the company name, but, for a person, there are other names that I find more expressive and meaningful.

This message was edited 6/9/2022, 7:04 AM

Good god, no.

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It’s just a made-up collection of trendy sounds. There’s no depth, history or meaning.

This message was edited 6/4/2022, 5:34 AM

It sounds made up, like someone was trying to come up with a new nickname for Rebecca.

It doesn't sound like a name. It also reminds me of a parent who want's their kid to have such a unique name that they will call the poor kid anything.

For the same reason I don't like Fexley or Brixley. Why would I.

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If it's in the Top 1000, it does have trendiness going for it, but that's not in itself a reason for me to like it, just would mean it's slightly more likely to blend into a crowd than Fexley or Brixley. I guess it could be likable as a way to smoosh Rebecca and Ashley together into an honoring name, but that's nms.

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I will say I don't think it's hideous, and I'd rather be Bexley than Bentley, Kinsley, Braxton, Ainsley, Presley, Sloan, but also I'd probably prefer most names over Bexley, even just picking from trendy surnamey ones, like for instance I'd rather be Saylor, Oakley, Bennett, Bellamy, Marley, Delaney, Bronte, Brooks, Hendrix...

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I'd rate it about the same as I would Blakely and Ryleigh probably. Or maybe Hadley and Parker. There's nothing appealing about those to me, but (given current trends) I don't think they're unfortunate names to have, objectively, nor do I absolutely hate them aesthetically. 4/10

This message was edited 6/1/2022, 4:39 PM

It fits comfortably into my least favorite genre of name: Neo-Yuppie. These are also names I put in that category:

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Payton / Peyton
Paisley
Paxton
Lakyn
Brinxlee
Kinsley
Tenley
Cody
Brayden / Jayden / Cayden / all assorted spellings (Aidan and Hayden don't sound as bad, though)

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Bexley fits right in here, in both sound and vibe.

let me count the ways

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It's ugly, it's vacuously trendy, it's a style I don't enjoy at all

It’s got an extremely unattractive, unfeminine sound.

It's a suburb of London, and I don't enjoy geographical names.

It sounds like the name of the next global pandemic

I like more traditional names that don’t sound made-up, trendy or like they will be tied to a certain time period. It kind of seems like a university name, like Berkeley or like someone just smushed together some sounds that sound more like a place, company or car brand than a person. It doesn’t come across as very feminine and doesn’t have very good nickname potential. I’m also just not a big fan of x.

I don’t dislike it, but I don’t dislike it either. I don’t really like many -ley names to be honest with you. Bexley is fine. Just trendy and it won’t age very well.

I don't like it. Just used Billie.

Never heard it, before.

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It's not a sound I particularly like. I have nothing against Bex/Becks, but the -ley makes it sound childish and early 00's trendy. I don't hate names like that on principle, but this one just doesn't work for me.

Girls? People use on girls? Oy. Its crude, harsh, unattractive, uninteresting, and utterly unfeminine.

It's on the same level as names like Brynleigh, ugly sounding and forgettable.

This message was edited 5/31/2022, 5:15 PM

I can't speak for anyone else. I don't like it because it comes off as totally blah. It's just a trendy, surnamey-sounding name with no history of being used as a first name till some blogger or reality star or someone used it and then it started getting used. It's not even based off an existing name like Jazlyn or Ashlyn is. It's like a McMansion.

Because it's forgettable is one way of phrasing it. It's like a pet form of Rebecca with the ubiquitous -ley ending. The meaning is not very inspiring either: "box tree clearing". I'll pass.

This message was edited 9/6/2022, 1:56 PM