Wow this is a great thread - names are so, erm, emotive! My main problem with names is just how cringey it is, now I have a son in school, that they’re all called the same thing! The teachers must be sick of having to tell apart 30 Olivia, Amelia, Amelie, Oliver, Isla, Freddy, Millie etc. Although I suppose it could make things easier in some ways - just toss out one of those names and you are probably going to be correct.
Do people purposefully find comfort in choosing the most excruciatingly common names? Like, do they consult the top ten baby names list and choose from there? Or do we think we are being wildly inventive then it gets to five years down the line and they start school and we realise we’ve all been brainwashed into using the same names somehow... I find it fascinating!
Haven’t seen my kids names much on here, though Beatrice was mentioned earlier. I have a Beatrix, with an X on the end, but so many people insist on calling her Beatrice still. Again, so fascinating. So fascinating in fact that I’m starting to feel gaslighted that I must be saying it so it sounds like Beatrice instead of Beatrix