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'Good looking' names

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hopperdee · 18/09/2008 14:31

Can you think of any names that you always associate with someone really good looking? I don't think I've ever met a boy/man called Ben or Alex who isn't a hottie. If you name your baby one of these names, will they always turn out to be good looking?

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nooka · 18/09/2008 18:36

I know a very podgy Grace. It doesn't seem very kind.

DrNortherner · 18/09/2008 17:09

I knew a very ugly Rose once, which is why I would never use that name in case she turned out to be un rose like!

Our boss used to call her 'the beautiful rose' to her face

Anna8888 · 18/09/2008 17:06

My DSS1 (13) is an Alex and he's very hot . Girls are swarming around him...

bogie · 18/09/2008 17:05

I know a really really fat ugly horriable ben

TwoMore · 18/09/2008 17:04

Darcey

missblythe · 18/09/2008 15:31

I find it amazing enough that I know two men called Leo. That they are both swoony is teh icing on teh cake.

staryeyed · 18/09/2008 15:25

I have met more than one ugly alex and ben.

MrsMattie · 18/09/2008 15:24

I went to school with a very unattractive Anna and a complete lumbering doofus of a boy called Alex. I also associate the name Rebecca withclever but plain girls - certainly not beauties. Name associations are so personal.

Countingthegreyhairs · 18/09/2008 15:19

"You call her Natasha
and she looks like Elsie,
I don't want to go to Chelsea"

although Elsie is probably the height of chic for a girl's name now !!

Tbh though I always think the personality of the person somehow "inhabits" their name and overtakes it, so even if someone's looks don't happen to "match" their name in the conventional sense, the name becomes very individual to them

(if that makes any sense at all)

Szyslak · 18/09/2008 15:05

Rebeccas are beautiful.

MaryAnnSingleton · 18/09/2008 15:03

how about Jane - Janes are meant to be plain

OrmIrian · 18/09/2008 15:02

Of course Alex is a handsome name! My DS is Alex. And he's lovely.

Can't think of any others. I can think of ugly names but handsome ones tend to be that way because of their owners.

katiepotatie · 18/09/2008 15:02

Dh says you never meet an ugly Emma.

PuzzleRocks · 18/09/2008 15:01

Ooh, glad to see I have picked an attractive name for bump if she turns out to be a girl.

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hopperdee · 18/09/2008 15:00

that is pretty shocking about carmen..

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loler · 18/09/2008 14:59

Adam

Holly

Thea/Anthea

Difficult for men as can think of lots of ugly men for each name too!

nooka · 18/09/2008 14:57

I'm not good at remembering names, so I probably wouldn't be able to do correlations. I hope that people with my name are always fabulous of course (but I do slightly resent anyone who shares my name, because it's mine all mine )

TwoMore · 18/09/2008 14:56

Wentworth

DoubleBluff · 18/09/2008 14:55

I have never met an ugly Stephanie

zwiggy · 18/09/2008 14:55

i met a really ugly 'carmen' once and it really surprised me that she was called carmen

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hopperdee · 18/09/2008 14:52

All the Toms and Ollies I ever met were good looking and slightly cheeky skateboarders with floppy hair (when I was a teen).

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suzywong · 18/09/2008 14:51

yes, they will
names have a direct correlation with physical beauty

mynameisluka · 18/09/2008 14:49

It's ok Hopperdee. I think we all know what you mean. We're just having a laugh with you

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hopperdee · 18/09/2008 14:46

I didn't really think of it as a scientific study, just a bit of fun to see which names you think of in this way, if any..! It's just that names are all about association - so people often dislike names as they remind them of someone frumpy or an old aunt etc. I wanted to look at the opposite, of course it's subjective.

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