i feel bad, because i'm almost certain to offend SOMEONE on my flist with the absurd amount of madisons out there... >_<
it just drives me crazy, people regurgitating this stupid name because they heard it somewhere and thought it sounded edgy.
i guess it's not really worth getting THAT worked up over. :)
cadence is a beautiful name! the only baby name i've experimented with is darwin, for a boy... i like the idea of taking a famous surname (of a man i strongly admire) and reworking it.
A trasy teen co-worker of mine at Chuck E. Cheese receantly had a baby and named her Madison. :) I really have been hearing a lot of that name lately..
I'm not too concerned with the origin of a name, unless it's something totally bad ass. But if it's something lame, who's really gonna know or care? I'm named after some silly tree and it's never bugged me much. I can agree with you that the over use of a name is annoying though.
Hence why my first son's name will be Dizzie. And my daughter's name will be Willow, which isn't too uncommon, but I like it... And they'll have middle names like McThunder, Valentine, Scissorhands, or Twillifwanzappo. :)
Despite what we might want to believe, I'm sure 97% of our parents didn't start off saying "I want our child to have a name that originally means 'chaste, fair haired, and knowledgeable in turnip farming.' Oh look, honey, 'Mitch'." Chances are we were named after some song or famous person and the meaning was looked up as an afterthought. My parents were probably thinking more "Steve McQueen" and less "crown/garland." People care more about how non-goofy the name's gonna sound when coupled with the last name than the etymology of it.
Plus, without fictional works inspiring parents we wouldn't have cool names like Vanessa, Wendy, Legolas, or...Neo. As for Madison, naming a kid after a film about love conquering mystically overwhelming obstacles doesn't sound so bad when they could be naming their kid Bam or Meatwad.
Besides, there were 18 female Madison's born in the 1860's alone! Just goes to show you how all trends have their peaks and valleys.
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I'm naming my daughter Cadence when and if I have a daughter. Because it means rhythm. And because it is pretty.
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it just drives me crazy, people regurgitating this stupid name because they heard it somewhere and thought it sounded edgy.
i guess it's not really worth getting THAT worked up over. :)
cadence is a beautiful name! the only baby name i've experimented with is darwin, for a boy... i like the idea of taking a famous surname (of a man i strongly admire) and reworking it.
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I guess I can't talk, though. My name is from a Shakespeare play I don't even like at all.
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I'm not too concerned with the origin of a name, unless it's something totally bad ass. But if it's something lame, who's really gonna know or care? I'm named after some silly tree and it's never bugged me much. I can agree with you that the over use of a name is annoying though.
Hence why my first son's name will be Dizzie. And my daughter's name will be Willow, which isn't too uncommon, but I like it... And they'll have middle names like McThunder, Valentine, Scissorhands, or Twillifwanzappo. :)
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Plus, without fictional works inspiring parents we wouldn't have cool names like Vanessa, Wendy, Legolas, or...Neo. As for Madison, naming a kid after a film about love conquering mystically overwhelming obstacles doesn't sound so bad when they could be naming their kid Bam or Meatwad.
Besides, there were 18 female Madison's born in the 1860's alone! Just goes to show you how all trends have their peaks and valleys.
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