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Blossom - I feel like it should be okay yet I don't like it. The immediate image that comes to mind is a prey animal whose main characteristics are cuteness and feebleness. I don't like the sounds in it, nor the word-associations I have - blah-some, b-loss-sum. I can imagine Blossom as the name of an assertive competent character, sure, it's not an awful name. I just don't feel like it really *fits* such a character. It's too pathetically rustic, somehow.
Meadow - it's like a low-key opposite of Blossom; I think it would fit a smart and sensitive character alright, despite being excessively pastoral and borderline just dumb. Meadow seems to me like one of the better "field-mousey" type hippie names. Meadow > Clover > Flower > Blossom. I think I could kinda forget Meadow was a word, if it were the name of someone I knew - like with Jasmine, it just becomes a name easily, for me.
Indigo - Seems very late nineties / oughts new-agey, almost abrasively so. I think it was used for a lot of characters but didn't seem to make the cut as a good name for a person, in the past. As a baby name today it's alright - would blend in pretty well, leaving a nice little memory hole into which "indigo children" might fall and be forgotten. I'd like it more if it were not three syllables - the length makes it a tad overbearing to me. Also if the nick wasn't Indy, which is puppyish. I named a cat Indy circa 2000. Indigo seems more urban, more "sexless abstract wordname trend" than actually hippie style now. Sibs like Sage and Nova. I don't like it, don't hate it. I could see nn Ingo.
Skye - this was a name used for the MC in a bodice-ripper my mother read in the 80s. I think it's an appealing name - definitely feminine but not in a conventional way, and the place-name aspect is subtle, not trying too hard imo. Does not seem hippie to me... to me the vibe is more like Jade or Kenna.
Star - now, that's a real hippie name. Has never not been a little bit eccentric and brassy to use, but being just a little word, it's also sweet and simple. I like it pretty well. It's only a little bit awkward.
Lotus - also a true hippie name, seems like it makes a new-age allusion. I don't care for the sound of it. Any of the sounds in it really. But besides the sound, it seems neat.
Love - another hippie name. This one is too hippie for me though - it's a little bothersome because it's an endearment. Calling someone I've just met Love because it's their name, would feel pretty lame IMO.
- mirfak
Meadow - it's like a low-key opposite of Blossom; I think it would fit a smart and sensitive character alright, despite being excessively pastoral and borderline just dumb. Meadow seems to me like one of the better "field-mousey" type hippie names. Meadow > Clover > Flower > Blossom. I think I could kinda forget Meadow was a word, if it were the name of someone I knew - like with Jasmine, it just becomes a name easily, for me.
Indigo - Seems very late nineties / oughts new-agey, almost abrasively so. I think it was used for a lot of characters but didn't seem to make the cut as a good name for a person, in the past. As a baby name today it's alright - would blend in pretty well, leaving a nice little memory hole into which "indigo children" might fall and be forgotten. I'd like it more if it were not three syllables - the length makes it a tad overbearing to me. Also if the nick wasn't Indy, which is puppyish. I named a cat Indy circa 2000. Indigo seems more urban, more "sexless abstract wordname trend" than actually hippie style now. Sibs like Sage and Nova. I don't like it, don't hate it. I could see nn Ingo.
Skye - this was a name used for the MC in a bodice-ripper my mother read in the 80s. I think it's an appealing name - definitely feminine but not in a conventional way, and the place-name aspect is subtle, not trying too hard imo. Does not seem hippie to me... to me the vibe is more like Jade or Kenna.
Star - now, that's a real hippie name. Has never not been a little bit eccentric and brassy to use, but being just a little word, it's also sweet and simple. I like it pretty well. It's only a little bit awkward.
Lotus - also a true hippie name, seems like it makes a new-age allusion. I don't care for the sound of it. Any of the sounds in it really. But besides the sound, it seems neat.
Love - another hippie name. This one is too hippie for me though - it's a little bothersome because it's an endearment. Calling someone I've just met Love because it's their name, would feel pretty lame IMO.
- mirfak
