My Tastes Are Changing? Anyone Else?
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My Tastes Are Changing? Anyone Else?
| Thu, 05-01-2008 - 1:40pm |
I find my tastes in names (girls in particular) have changed so much since I started having children (almost 9 years ago).

Haha, before I even got to the end of your post I was thinking "maybe it has something to do with being on these boards?"
I think my tastes are definitely changing too, partially because I'm on these boards but also because of the evolving trends of popularity. Back in junior high I was convinced I was going to name my daughter Kailey (and was so smug because I thought I had made it up). Now I would never use that name - there are thousands of little Kayleigh/Cailie/Kaylees running around, and the name actually bugs me a little now. This is terrifying since if I had had a daughter back then (God forbid), she would be Kailey and I would probably hate her name!
I have that same fear with my current favorite, Charlotte. But the more I think about it, I only reason I feel it is rising in popularity is because I see it all over these boards. I still don't know anybody in real life with that name...
Last week I
I think I'm willing to step further outside the boundaries of average than I used to be (my teenage dreams of an Asia Krystal Starr notwithstanding...or my high school ideal of Mackenzie, Madison, Michael and Matthew...) because I now know that there are other names out there...real names, lovely names, but names I didn't grow up with and that aren't in the mass media. But I'd say that I've been pretty steady in my tastes for the last, oh, ten to twelve years. New names are getting plugged into the same categories as they come across my radar...but they're still the same "type." But the girl's first name we would use is the same one I fell in love with when I saw it in a play program in 1993 and I "discovered" my son's name while studying for the GRE in 1999. It wasn't my favorite name then (I was leaning towards Jack or Liam,) but I think it falls into the same short-but-manly field that the names I loved then do.
Honestly, when I was a teenager, I wasn't too excited about having kids because names were so boring...I've since come to the conclusion that NAMES aren't boring, the names being used in the 1970s (when I and my classmates were named) were boring.
I'd say my style is changing.