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Esme- faddy/twilight?!

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JuniorMint · 13/10/2013 11:55

DH's favourite name is Esme. He's liked it for ages, even before I was pregnant. I really liked it too and we were pretty set on it, but over the last year or so I've noticed it's become quite popular, obviously because it is a gorgeous name but I think it also has an association with a baby in Twilight?! Someone at work recently commented a friend of theirs had announced their baby name as Esme and others commented "oh there's loads of them around at the moment" and "oh yes, like from twilight?". This has sort of given the name a bit of an association for me and I've gone off it, although the rational side of me knows it won't matter in 5+ years, it's still affected how I feel about the name! My current favourite is Erin (which DH does like too). However, DH has mentioned today that he still really likes Esme and its his favourite. What to do?! Any enlightening thoughts?

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JuniorMint · 13/10/2013 12:36

That darkgreener site is very interesting! Esme has gone up from 278th to 65th. I think the twilight association bothers me, I would feel like I would need to say to people "it's Esme... but not from twilight!!" Grin Realise I sound totally irrational!

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LadyRochford · 13/10/2013 12:26

I think of Esme at a beautiful classic Scottish name. In sure everyone will have forgotten twighlight in a few years and Esme isn't a main character (isn't she the vampire family mum?).

There is a great website for looking at the popularity of names. Can't link as on phone, but google darkgreener names.

aniara · 13/10/2013 12:25

Is the main problem the popularity or that people would think you got it from Twilight? It's not crazily popular, so that shouldn't be a problem unless you want a really unique name. I would probably assume that young-ish parents got the name from Twilight, but if you are 25+ I would just assume you like the name anyway. How about Esmeralda with NN Esme?

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