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I like this name for a character at the mo. a girl character. Nick-name would be Ren. What do you all think?
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I love it, but on a boy
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Too pretentious. Sounds like the parents wanted other people to think they were intelligent and well-read, so they bestowed an over-the-top name on their kid. Sorry, but I really don't like it.
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Cool for a character. I would bring it up once or twice in the story and have her just be Ren most of the time.
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The Renaissance was a great time in history, but I can't say that about it being a name.
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If your story 's realistic, it's weird. I'd always wonder why the heck she got this name, and I'd expect it to be justified in some way (eg: her parents were Renaissance scholars or something).It would be really unusable on a real child. Honestly, I wouldn't be entirely surprized if one of these days someone said they liked Table and Chair as names.
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DittoRandom word names always remind me of that Seinfeld episode where they say they want to name kids Seven and Soda.
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Ha! I could only ever see ultra-obsessed (a thousand times more obsessed than I, if that's possible) Harry Potter fans using the name Seven, because it's the most powerful number.
Now, I'm obsessed enough that I want to use Severus, Fred (nn for Frederick), and maybe Hermione, but those are reall names. Seven is a number. There's a fine line between psycho-obsessed and ridiculous-obsessed, I being the psycho-obsessed. Someone who names their kid Seven is ridiculous-obsessed.
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HahahaAnd I actually heard of people named Seven and Soda! Seven was a friends little brother :P
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I know a girl named Seven too, actually. :)
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I once met a Soda, but she's from Senegal, and I think over there it's a legit name with nothing to do with the drink. And some people seem to like number names.
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I've heard of a girl named Soda too. Not sure where they got her name from.
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