If you're thinking "I love the name, but I don't think I'm brave enough to use iit"

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BertrandRussell · 05/08/2017 18:38

Please, I beg you, just remember, it's not you that will have to be brave.

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AmysTiara · 05/08/2017 23:30

Ha my friend would like you to go back in time and say this to her parents. Her name was unique. Not in a good way.

She calls herself Leah now

BroomstickOfLove · 05/08/2017 23:27

Meh. One person's brave is another person's ubiquitous, and what's a bog standard safe name to some is chavvy or try-hard to another.

I have an unusual name, as does DD. We like them.

ScarletSienna · 05/08/2017 23:20

If you really want to use a 'brave' name, then call yourself it. If you think it is brave to use it then you are using it knowing it is something potentially unpleasant.

SuperBeagle · 05/08/2017 22:49

To an extent, I agree. On the other hand, I don't like having an extremely common first and surname (think something completely ubiquitous like Jane Smith or 2017's Lily Jones). So finding something that was a happy medium between "out there" and "ridiculously common" was important, considering my DC all have my surname, which is in the top 5 most popular surnames in the country.

MyCalmX · 05/08/2017 22:43

Yes because the world needs more George and Charlotte's running around about the only acceptable names on MN

Ffs get over yourself. I wished I'd been a bit more brave with dd2 name as we we were with dd1.

frid · 05/08/2017 22:40

I think it depends. Some people think they're being very brave and it turns out to be a top 100 name

BackforGood · 05/08/2017 18:54

Quite

ScarletSienna · 05/08/2017 18:44

Yes! Being brave is to face something unpleasant, painful or dangerous...

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 05/08/2017 18:42

No truer words said Bert !

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