Message: "What is your opinion on Nameberry?"

What is your opinion on Nameberry?

by LunaTheMaltipoo (Pug_lover8)

10/4/2022, 10:31 PM

What is your opinion on Nameberry? Nameberry is the most popular name website. They definitely don’t have the most accurate meanings on their names. For example, on here BTN says that the meaning of Katherine is uncertain, but on Nameberry it just says that it mean “Pure”. I also noticed that instead of talking about the etymology of the names they instead seem to kinda advertise it.

So what is your opinion on Nameberry?

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day”

#Nameberry

This message was edited 10/5/2022, 7:44 PM

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- Rosebeth (Rosanne)

10/6/2022, 9:14 AM

I love the Nameberry forums, I'm very active on there, and it's a great community. But for information on names and etymology etc. I wouldn't recommend it. It's often inaccurate and biased.

- ari.

10/6/2022, 4:25 AM

It's enjoyable enough. I frequent the forums, as they're far more active than BtN is, but it suffers very much from being strongly opposed to criticism. Someone might post a topic like "honest opinion on these names?", and if your opinion is anything more negative than "not for me, ever so sorry :(( but it's lovely on other people!", you'll be met with criticism. And they do play fast and loose with etymology.

- Belphoebe

10/6/2022, 2:49 AM

As writing_wrote_and_written said I love the way the site looks. Visual it's very inviting. I also love their name lists (even though they might not be accurate, roughly they are). Just don't take it too serious.

- writing_wrote_and_written (better_nit_bitter)

10/6/2022, 1:53 AM

I actually enjoyed surfing through Nameberry before I logged in to this site. I like its visual and color palette very much. But yeah, I also think that they're sometimes advertise meaning of names, which some is not true.

- Wraith (guest)

10/5/2022, 6:52 PM

I despise Nameberry, they play fast and loose with the etymology, and couldn't care less that they create and perpetuate errors. Won't use them, won't recommend them.

- sprout +2

10/4/2022, 11:22 PM

I agree, Nameberry seems to advertise names. It does annoy me a little. I personally prefer BabyCenter’s name section. However, I do love Nameberry’s Baby Name DNA quiz!

- Higuma (Higuma Kanora) +1

10/5/2022, 2:35 AM

Thanks for mentioning the quiz, it was fun :)
(I got Noble-Leader; pretty accurate)

- sprout

10/5/2022, 10:12 AM

I know, it’s super accurate! I got leader-charmer.

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