Is Luna a weird name?

I love all of your names, especially Aurora. I know a little Aurora who is known as Rory and she's just adorable.

Luny. Just no.

I have a daughter called Luna. Yes, I first heard it in Harry Potter, but I loved Luna Lovegood's strength of character and resilience, and how she wasn'the afraid to be herself and didn't care what others thought of her. I also just love L names in general (Love, Laughter, Learning... all important things, I think), and especially two-syllable names.

She gets called Lu and Lulu a lot by family.

www.babycenter.com/top-baby-names-2016.htm

sorry its number 100 but still it is on the most popular list for last year so i really wouldnt worry about it being considered unusual! Its a lovely name. x

No its beautiful and very popular so wont be considered odd or even unusual. I know of two Lunas who were born in the last couple of years and thats only out of the handful of people i know whove had kids.
I think its even in the top 50 names for last year?

Nah. Anything goes now, doesn't it?

I like it, fwiw.

Luna cup.

Nope, nope, nope.

Luna just reminds me too much of Harry Potter.
Thea is nice, but I'd prefer it is a nn for Theodora or something, rather than just Theo on it's own.

I think Luna is a sweet name.

Although I don't get the HP connection (stopped reading the series at around the 3rd book)- take it Luna must be a main character or something?

To be honest, I wouldn't really care if someone thought I named my child after an HP character- the association means nothing to me.

I also really like the name Aurora!

All beautiful names op
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All are lovely names. I don't think Luna is weird. It has put me off slightly that there is an association with the word lunatic. But I still think it's lovely and I think you should go for it if it's your favourite.

Love it. When we were picking we decided and didn't discuss with anyone else as I knew some would like and some would not. It's a lovely name and would be great if you gave birth on a full moon too!!

I really don't like it.

I don't think it's pretty, and I just think of lunar, moons, lunatics, etc.

Me neither Lolly - it's not the first name that springs to mind when I've thought about naming a dog

But again - what does it matter? I had a cat called Tabitha growing up. See that name come up quite a lot on this board, my friend called her DD Tabitha...what does it matter that I had a cat of the same name?

Two families of my acquaintance bought puppies last year and called them Luna Lolly.

Iv never heard of a dog called Luna 😳

LightsLoveLaughter I do like lux a lot but I don't think my husband likes it. With luna HP is where I got the idea but I like it as it means moon and I thought that was quite sweet. I understand people think about there child being bullied but iv herd worse insults then looney

It sounds like a dogs name to me sorry

Missed your previous post Vagina ( ) - totally agree. You can't protect against anything and unless a name is really, truly offensive or something, the beauty of it is just in the eye of the beholder. A lot of the time we're seeking validation for our choices - especially if your choices are out there. I know I did. My children are Quincy and Hero and I'm 30 weeks pregnant with DD2 - considering Luna, River, Lux and Phoenix so clearly of the out there persuasion!

Or she could just flick her radish earrings at people.

That should be "actually". Not acthusly

I just thought of something else - to really evoke the full HP experience, the DD could be trained to say in a really Hermione-esque prissy, know-it-all kind of way "accccctually, Luna is the Roman goddess of the moon. Acthusly."

Redcrab, I do in fact agree with you in general, and am a bit taken aback by the seriousness with which grown adults debate on here the often extremely far-fetched possible nicknames anything that isn't Jack or Sophie might inspire, or whether initials that spell a word might be considered weird in the playground.

And thanks to my maiden name, I was relentlessly nicknamed Cookiemonster all through school and adulthood. Hardly a complimentary association It happens. It's not the end of the world.

But I guess that argument could be applied to any name used negatively in popular culture? And for me, once a person is named something, it just becomes them - not the association in books or films. To me Luna is really beautiful because I really like Latin and Greek names and words. The fact that it was used in HP is very recent and fleeting in comparison to the ancient history of the word. If we choose to use it, we'll tell her about it's origins and show her the context in history and ancient cultures. Maybe some kids would use it to call her Lunatic but it's hardly the worst thing in the world! She could be bullied for being mixed race or having a big or small nose or being tall or short. Anything at all!