Can I ask your advice?

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DD is Alice and we are thinking of naming our impending DS Toby or Jasper. Jasper is preferred but I have read that these are the names of a couple in Twighlight. I haven't seen the films or read the books so don't know who they are or if they are main characters. Do you think this would be a problem - would people make comment? Would you avoid Jasper?

They are secondary characters. I'm not a big fan so it wouldn't have occurred to me tbh, but maybe it would to others.

Only to massive fans I guess. My friend had a Phillip and a Grant. She never ever watched eastenders so it never occurred to her. She gets asked all the time sometimes if she's an Easties fan.

I think it would be fine, as taking said, they are not main characters, and I think only die hard fans would think about it.
Besides, in a year or so the Twilight thing will have died down considerably as the last film is out towards the end of this year.
I am quite a big twilight fan and it didn't even occur to me until I read your second sentence.
If you were thinking Edward and Bella, however I think people would be a bit
I love Toby FWIW - but Jasper is great - my puppy is Jasper

Alice and Jasper go well together. I don't watch Twilight so haven't heard of these characters. I don't suppose it will be a popular series forever. In any case they are classic enough names to not be an immediate reminder of anything else.

I only think of it now you have said it.

They are sort of siblings of one of the lead characters. In a few years I imagine lots of people wont know what you are talking about so wouldn't worry.

I think it would be fine and I watched the movies and didn't get it! Alice and Jasper are a really cute sibset!

i read one twilight book a while ago and it never would've occurred to me if you hadn't mentioned it. And even now i struggle to remember who these characters were. I think it's a non-issue. In 5 years no one will even remember twilight existed.

I have vaguely heard of these being Twilight names but I didn't know they were a couple, have never read the books, seen the films and generally am not interested in it in the slightest so it wouldn't have occured to me.

They are nice names and I don't think it should put you off Jasper.

I have got an Isabella and an Edward. The only person who has ever commented ( or realised I think) is my dd1.

I would go for it if I were you - not everyone has read Twilight and in 10 years time it will have been forgotten anyway!

I think it would bother me slightly, but rationally, it's unimportant. Twilight is hardly going to go down in the annals of classic literature.

I should add here though that this is coming from a mama who is considering calling her DS2 Felix, to go with DS1 Oscar, which just so happen to be the names of The Odd Couple...

my eldest is called Charlie and I wanted to call dd1 Lola! (this was before the books). Luckily I didn't.

No one comments on my Isabella and Edward and he is only 4 so was named while the twilight frenzy has been around. (I dont' call her Bella though. I also have a Charlie (Bella's dad in the book) and my name is one of the Vampires names too. I just had a baby and wanted to call her Alice! I would have had the whole set of characters!

Think it would be fine. Suspect that the Twilight phenomenon is on its way out anyway. They're both fairly normal names, so I wouldn't see a problem.

They are both Twilight names, I'd avoid them tbh