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I love Imogen but Huntington is hideous. It is the name of a bank I use. I can see it on a boy. I don't understand why these -ton names are getting popular for girls. It is a thing in the American south.

Huntington, yuck! It makes sense alongside Remington and other such names.

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I quite like Imogen (and Imogene), though the perfectionist/pedant in me can't ignore the fact that the name arose from a misprinting of Innogen...

Imogen is very beautiful, as well as being inoffensive. That wouldn't have occurred to me if Imogen hadn't ended up next to Huntington (f)! I dislike lnfns in general, but this one takes the biscuit. I would bet my entire bank balance plus the sack of cat food that nobody would use Huntington as an everyday, ordinary name. It's too long and too clunky and will inevitably shorten, quite possibly (and revoltingly) to Honey. It could well be a family ln, or the name of a distinguished ancestor, but that's no excuse.

I don't like either of them. I think if I were named Huntington I would pine for a nicer, shorter personal name instead. Or at least a good nickname. Probably her name won't get confused with anyone else's, anyway. I might be willing to bet you some baked goods that when she's 13 or so, she'll change it to Quinn or Virgil or Lenore or something.

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I met a young Imogen about ten years ago (they were Aussies) and her mother called her Ibby. Too twee for my taste, but it's alright, just nms. I can see how it's appealing to people, being what it is, easy to say and having no "baggage" really. I don't care for Imogen myself because it starts just like "image" in my accent, and also looks like a name for a biotech company.

Huntington seems too place-name. Imogen is gorgeous.

I love Imogen a lot, but Huntington is blah.

Huntington makes me think of Huntington's Disease. Very awful.

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Imogen is nice.

I like Imogen. Huntington is a surname, very unusual to use as a forename.

Imogen is fine. Huntington sounds like a boy name and a surname.

I strongly dislike both.

Imogen is nice, Huntington is terrible especially for a girl

Imogen is a fine name for a girl but Huntington is horrible. It sounds like a person with her nose stuck up in the air who thinks she's better than everyone else. I wonder if Huntington was the mother's maiden name or a family name?

I find it fascinating that Imogen is common in the UK, Aus and NZ but not in the US. I know about 6!
It is a pretty name.

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Huntington does not make me think of ballet at all! In fact it sounds very violent to me. I don't like it at all.