I have a 'classic' name according to the posts above.
Without sounding vain (I didn't pick them) I have always been complimented throughout the world on having 'a beautiful name' from Oz to South America.
Thanks Mum and Dad - best thing you ever gave me was a 'classic name'.
I was never judged by it, asked to spell it, explain it or be embarrassed by it.
Easy life.
I once met a woman who gave her son a very weird unusual name. She rolled her eyebrows and sighed when I asked the origin of it and said in a very bored voice.
"It is a Maori name-no-we-do-not-have-links-with-New-Zealand-we-just-liked-it!
The child was four at the time - he is now 16 and prefers to be called 'Jim'
I also have a friend with a very unusual name and she loves it and feels she 'has grown into it' but hated it as a child.
Another example was a woman I met who was in her sixties and called Sharon - she said when she was a child at school it was exotic and she never met another Sharon until it became popular in the 60's.
Long post - but choose the name you like and want but then again my favourite name for a DD is a total no-no. Bad meaning to it.
