Are some too liberal and some too narrow-minded?

Um i don't think so. I've met some answerers (who are contacts) who are very traditional and yet one is 15 and the other is 21.

I have a couple contacts who are over 30 who have a very "yoo-neek" style to their naming as well.

I'm 32, and think i'm a bit "middle-of-the-road" type, leaning towards traditional, but open to exotic and/or creative names.
I like to mull a name over before i decide. i look them up on reliable sites (like behindthename.com) and all info i can on it before deciding what to say about a name being asked about. i probably spend way too much time on each question i answer, which is why most of the time my answers are usually one of the last submitted. (that and i'm a proof reading nut-must be OCD).

lol

Over all i think that younger users in this section have a more whimsical approach to baby names. I can certainly remember what it was like before having kids, and all the fun names i thought up! it was a daydream, a light hearted hobby. it's totally different from actually picking a name for a child you're carrying....or after you've had kids and giving advice on names being a parent yourself. there is a lot of growing up that we do between 15-25 and then between 30-35...even our tastes and opinions in names changes over time. i know mine certainly have.

I certainly wouldn't call it liberal and narrow-minded. They aren't really "liberal" as much as they are creative and light hearted about naming, probably due to not having or expecting children. They aren't "narrow minded" at all...just experienced, and know that in reality one really should give their child a name that; yes they like, but one that their kids as adutls won't recent their parents for in future.

How do you mean too liberal?

Edit: Oh, OK.

Mm, I think that's too much of a generalisation. I wouldn't call some of the older answerers narrow-minded, I'd call them sensible. Some of the names the younger answerers are coming up with are simply ridiculous. Now, I pride myself on being open minded, but there are limits. I refuse to accept that any girl would want to be called Shadow or Izuhbelah.

Unusual isn't always a bad thing, but it isn't always a good thing either. I think that some answerers are a little too crazy with spellings and making up completely new names. I'm pretty much a traditional namer through and through, but I'm open to new names - just names that are actually names, and not words or a bunch of letters someone has thrown together.

I do think that some people need to be a little more open minded, as some of the more unusual names (and I mean real unusual names, not just a common name with an alternative spelling) are really quite pretty.

Overall, I think that some need to tone it down, and others could do with opening their minds a little. I don't mean in what they end up naming their children (I'd rather see a John and a Jane than a Jayden and an Emersynn), but in how they view names when they answer here.

I hope I've managed to make sense :)

Most younger ones prefer a name that is unique, cool, trendy, special, iconic etc., because they see themselves using it at current... while the older ones think more long-term (not narrow-minded), they realized it's horrible to carry an outdated name (cool at the beginning and dated afterward), so they go for the ones that is more time lasting.

One example is, there is this guy his lastname is Duck, and his parents named him Donald Duck (no kidding, read this on the news, he was caught speeding). I am very sure his parents see that as a trendy name the time when they named him.

I agree to some extent - though the way YA works means it's impossible to know the real ages of anybody who posts. I think a bit of both is the way to go - some young people take an "anything goes" culture too far, and some older people are too stuck in their ways to consider that there might be other just as valid ways of doing things. You can say that about anything and not just what people choose to name their babies. In recent years there have been more cues for young people to self-identify and develop their own sense of self - when my parents were kids you didn't dare to question your parents or grandparents and the way their generation had done things. That's not a value that stands anymore, for the better, I think.

Many of the more 'liberal' or trendy names are influenced by celebrities, television and pop culture. Teenagers and young people are typically more influenced by pop culture and the media than older people - again although I'm sure you could find a thousand exceptions to that rule. Perhaps it's that lack of exposure that makes some older people less adaptable. I think you also need to remember that in their day, some of the names we think of nowadays as completely normal were considered too liberal. The people who first decided to name their daughters Courtney and Kimberley were no doubt laughed out of town for thinking those boy's names were cute for girls.

Yes. Sometimes I feel like asking a question for only people 25 and up to answer. But, then I'd probably just get all negative feedback because my name taste is a little different than the typical person my age. :) So, I guess it's good that we have so much variety. The younger teens are actually helping because they are the voice of the younger generations that our children will grow up with. So, what they think of the names is probably even more important than what dear old Grandma thinks. :)

ok while answering your question i ll make these assumptions:

1. By liberal you mean using weird names as in made up, or change the spelling to an unpronounceable one or any other trend.

2. By narrow minded i am assuming you mean sticking to traditional spelling, known name or known but unused names etc.

After clarifying these assumptions i ll answer your question:

Based on the [assumptions] i am consider a "narrow minded", however i am UNDER 25.

If this assumption is true, then almost everyone's parents are narrow minded for using traditional names and traditional spellings, and all the weird names with the weird spelling belong to a liberal person and parents.

Again, based on the assumptions i made, being liberal in names doesnt mean i have to make up names or change spelling and call my daughter John or david, because that to me is just illiterate.

However being liberal in names to me means to use names from different origins or to reuse names that almost died and so on.

Being narrow minded in names to me is just to give a child a name that wont be useful when he/she is 30 meaning the name will be a shame for the person or something not to be proud of as in naming without foreseeing the future of the name.

I always give the example of the two Jordan's i knew who changed their names to feminine names, of course that doesnt apply to all, but does happen.

Hope i answered you, and please correct my assumptions if they are wrong.

Juliet R---Always a pioneer in GREAT question ^_^

Happy to answer you always

I don't think liberal and narrow minded go together. People have their own opinions, and opinions are never stupid, you just might look at it differently.

well i am probably one of the few under 25's that agree with you! im 19 and i see all of these people thinking of off the wall names for their children and it makes me want to shake them!

they dont think about the child having to live with the name! they just think about the celebrity names and take it from there! it does truly upset me because i think of all these children who will be picked on because of their name, something they cannot change! its so sad!

and in 60 years time were going to have an older generation with rediculous names!

i have had my childrens names picked out for ages now (since i met my partner) and they are emma or Isobel for girls and Harry or Joshua for boys, im sure no other kid intheir class will have these 'borning' names, but they will be unique! its a sad time when hearty, proper names are now seen as unique because the angels and hangelique's are taking over!

ps i have actually met people with children with these names! argh!

Kind of. I wouldn't say the children are too liberal, but I would say that they like names that are normally found in romance novels or on soap operas, but not in real life. As for us older women, a lot of us are interested in naming real live babies or near-future babies. We tend to be more practical and realize that there's more to a name than silly spelling and novelties.

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