My niece is named Eleanor - Ellie for short - after her great grandmother. Calling her baby Ellie was just adorable - and now she is just such a little Ellie. I like it because it's a bit retro but not too far out.

I found out yesterday that a friend from school named her daughter "Felinda" - Sounds like a pr0n name to me...

My Mom was an Elinor (slite spelling difference from normal). It is a cool name and I hope it makes a comeback. I like Ella for short.

I think we all know how I feel about unusual names. ;) I actually liked Kal El when I thought it was Kalel and not named after S-man. I like that classic names are making a comeback. I love Eleanor and Isabell and such. I've come across a few tiny Agnes's though and felt a bit of pity for them.

Hey, I chose Rhiannon for a girl way back when but I was convinced I was having a boy (a hunch, not ultrasound) so I didn't really expect to use it. And I was right so I got my Dylan instead. No, not after Bob. I read a lot of Welsh mythology back then. And it was before the name got all trendy and common, so there!

A girl's name I really love is Bronwen. I'm blanking on boy's names at the moment.

Someone should tell Nic Cage that naming his kid Kal-El won't give him super powers. Just think, it will probably be shortened to just Kal by his friends and people will think he was named after Cal Worthington.

Most everyone knows that I chose B's name mearly out of convenience for not having to choose a name for each gender. One name was picked that was appropriate for a girl or a boy.

I love the name Emma. Not only for the book, but really because it sounds romantic. I would have chosen this name for my daughter if my middle name wasn't going to be her middle name too. It would've been weird: Emma Emalia.

Jason Lee just dropped 50 notches in my book. :mad:

I guess I'm just conservative in my name choices. I was named the most common name for my generation and it's scarred me regarding names in general.

My own rules for naming kids:

Easy to spell
Easy to pronounce
No rhyming
No trendy bullsh!t

Then again, do you know how often people misspell our super simple last name? Especially if we have to spell it over the phone.

me: "S-L-O..."
them: "S-O-L-O..."
me: "no. S-L-O-A..."
them: "S-L-A-O..."
me: "NO, YOU FVCKING MORON."

Recently we ordered something and the order came back with a last name of Solqan. Double-you tee eff???

So maybe it doesn't matter what your name is, because people are stupid and will always misspell it anyway.