What's happened to the 'real' Hippy names?

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I still hear people describing names like Willow, Summer, Autumn etc as hippy...but I think they are now too mainstream and popular (or becoming popular) to be defined this way.
Others I predict destined for popularity and no longer hippy or boho: Meadow, Winter.
I'd be interested to hear other views on this.

I knew lots of kids with names like Dharma, Karuna and Uma when I was growing up in a commune area where lots of hippies congregated

When I was born my mother's friends tried to persuade her to call me Sunshine. Luckily she thought that was a ridiculous name for a baby and gave me a proper name (not on that list)

Wind makes me snigger.

Knew someone with a Burgundy Rose and it does conjure up a pretty image.

Wind is ridiculous. I met a baby girl called Echo recently. She was so beautiful that I would probably have found myself liking whatever name she had.

Sorry, I wasn't serious about 'Wind'.
Some of you seem to think I was
Although it would suit my DH perfectly!

pmsl @ snowphish

I know a Zebedee whose father does indeed wears tie-dye & hessian and plays the pipes. Mum still bf him at 3 (no problem with this) but I do wish she'd wear a bra; norks do occasionally make an appearance at bottom of her crop crochet top.

In Mother and Baby magazine this month there is a mother who has called her children Flash, Blue, Wolf and Moss.

I secretly rather like the last 3 milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo

Dd and I both have hippy names apparently.

Wish I'd called the dc's Doobie and Daydream.

Hang on, Timothy is there too, really .

LOL heated at the norks peeking out of the bottom of the crochet crop top!
I think Doobie is brilliant. Would sound wonderful with my surname (which rhymes with it!) Must suggest it to DH later.......
Flash is surely ludicrous? Surely Cillit Bang has a better ring to it?
I still like Wafty Kaftan.....for a girl obviously

WhereWolf - Surely after the patron saint of hippies Timothy Leary (godfather to Winona Ryder and Uma Thurman I believe).

So do you have to be a "true hippy" to choose a "hippy name"? I'm not but I quite like Summer and China. Is that allowed?

My DH and I are both on that list and we both have proper names.

I am going to call my next child Papers (see list) as in Rizla I presume - but is it a boy or girl's name? Seems more masculine to me...

To me 'Timothy' is Ronnie Corbet.

What was that program called?

DH and I are both on the list. Mine's a fine Roman name and his is biblical. We are both aging hippies as we were just too young to partake of the 60s, but old enough to have absorbed the vibes!

Sadly, we seem to have failed dismally to have named our dd suitably. Her name is not on the list.

DD3's name is on the hippy list

I grew up in a very "hippy" area. At school I knew:
Miracle (g)
Brave (b)
Orion (b)
River (g!)
Silver (b)
Sylvan (b)

and the best of all... Hobbit.

WhereWolfTheWildThingsWere Wasn't it called Sorry! Im so embarrassed i know that

Couldn't get further from hippy than that Timotheeeeeeeeey!

Well done ilovemyflipflops, that was starting to really bug me.

Never knew there were so may ways to spell Rain!

crumpet about Burgundy Rose...I don't think anyone's first name should be an adjective describing their second name...