Columbine

It's an interesting name, shame you can't use it in the US.

Use this name, please. It's lovely, and based on a lovely flower. Being afraid of it is allowing those psychopaths to win, and inspiring other would-be terrorists and murderers to feel like they could make a lasting impact if they were to do the same. Even more than 20 years down the road people are afraid to use it. It is NOT good to hide from names with bad associations, people! Better to change them for the better.

Very tainted name.

I live in the U.S. and I've heard of some school shootings - but never of the Columbine!
Maybe in 50 years, all of the young people would've forgotten about it?
I wish they'd stop naming bad events after people/locations/or other things by accident/coincidence because then the names become risky to bestow on our children. (Hurricane Katrina, Operation Ellamy, I.S.I.S., Corona Virus, Big Bertha, etc.) It happens all the time. And other names get ruined by literature or slang.

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I personally don't like the sound of Columbine, but do I love flowers! And I want parents to have the freedom to name their children after beautiful things in nature. Columbine is really not a bad name at all. The only problem aside from the bad association is that people, much like myself, may mispronounce the name if not corrected. I thought that it was "Kuh-lum-BEEN", like a feminine form of Columbus, when it's actually "Kah-lum-bien." Excuse my ignorance! You learn something new everyday.

Sad to see that this name can't really be used anymore.

I do still love the name, but here in America it is clearly unusable due to very obvious reasons.

I love it! Very flowery and well-meaning.

It sounds very pleasant and would make a lovely name were it not for the massacre.

Since I'm not from the USA this name would be usable here, though it would be too rare for me to consider it for a child.

Beautiful name and a beautiful flower! Unique but classic!

A lovely flower, but unfortunately unusable due to the school shooting. I'd love to be able to use it.

This name sounds nice, but it has the horrible association with the 1999 school shooting. Colombina (which is prettier) might be a safer choice.

This is a beautiful name, but the most I could ever use it is as a middle name, since as a first name it has, as other users pointed out, too many negative connotations (especially in America). It would make a great name for a character, though--especially if the story is historical.

All I can think about is school shootings but this might actually make a cool name for an evil character in a book or movie.

All I can thing about is the school shooting in 1999.

This is a really nice name. But the connotations to it are too strong to ever actually use it.

It wouldn't be such a bad name, if I didn't immediately associate it with the Columbine High School massacre of 1999.

I agree that this name is quite pretty, as well as being Colorado's state flower.

Columbine is a really pretty name.