Names, Pick Some Different Ones!

[aeriedraconia]

Ever go through a whole pile of books and run across the same names over and over? It's like there's a popular name book or name web site with a small collection of names that everybody draws from. Here is my list of over used names that I'd like to stop seeing

Comments

[anghara]

Unh I committed a Ben in the Worldweavers books. Sorry about that.

Other than that... girls named anything that ends in i where a y is ordinarily indicated - things like Traci - scream cheerleader to me and I am supremely disinterested in cheerleader antics.

And just be grateful that there isn't an army of boys called Albus or Severus out there right now.

[captlychee]

I was just ponering the Albus and severus situation. The traditional Hogwarts staff have exotic wizardy names suvh as those, but the new crop of students are normalising the student roll in a major way. Apart from Ginerva Weasley and Draco Malfoy, they all have names welded to the late 20th century. How sad that must be for the older Professors there.

'Bronte' is a popular girls' name that completely throws me.

[aeriedraconia]

Oh, wow, Bronte? That would throw me too.

[melissajm]

Uh-oh. And I was so PROUD of my new character.
Um, Ben, we have to talk...

[aeriedraconia]

Noooooooo! Not another one! How about Bjorn instead? I'm kidding. ;-)

[melissajm]

FWIW, he's not intended to be a "hunky young stud," just a nice starry-eyed boy.

[aeriedraconia]

Does he have a middle name he might go by? *whistles innocently*

[melissajm]

Er, no. He doesn't even have a last name. He just goes by "Benjamin Wanderer," which is typical for his people. Calling him "Ben" is actually a privilege.

[aeriedraconia]

It's only because I've been seeing these names a lot that I'm bringing it up at all.

What, no Candi for you? I too am deeply disinterested in cheerleader antics. Bleh.

I think Albus and Severus are too well know and distinctive to be widely used. At least during this decade.