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I'd name my baby after a personal hero in some way. But i'm not really a fan of One-person names (names which are so connected to a certain person that people will assume you named the baby after them), especially if you really dislike the famous bearer.

I like the famous people idea, as long as they are famous like Leonardo da Vinci and not like Leonardo da Caprio. I like naming people after book characters if the characters are good namesakes, and I prefer it when they aren't from something dreadfully popular and trendy like Twilight.

Jacob and Isabella are a far cry from something like Bilbo and Cinderella.
Twilight wasn't published until 2005, and Isabella was already #6 at that point and had been rising steadily through the 1990s.
Jacob has been #1 for the past decade, and was #5 for the 1990s.

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I personally like a lot of literary names, so I don't care if names come from a book or not. Just the *trend* with Twilight names gets under my skin and I don't have any interest in vampires so the whole attraction to naming a child after a fictitious vampire is lost on me. I don't think that most of these parents are naming their kids after Twilight characters though, seeing as the names were so common *before* the first book was released.