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Help[Opinions] Midnightblue
I met a girl a little over a week ago named Midnightblue. Yes, that's her full, legal, given-at-birth-by-her-mother name. At first I was thinking "man I bet she HATES that", but then I realised that if she was really that displeased with it she could've easily chosen to go by a nickname or a pseudonym. I think it's pretty awesome that she's just rockin' it in all its glory. I have a feeling it's going to get a whole lot of crap here, but I figured I'd post it anyway since I for one found it pretty neat.
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It seems so shallow. I feel about it the same as I feel about Moxie or Dweezil or Audio Science, "I'm Special!" names. Since it is just the name of a color, one that has basically no symbolism except maybe a connotation of romance and mystery, it seems superficial to me. Like a trademark - you know, for marketing? Like a band name. Something that is supposed to grab your attention and make you associate an image, and sets an expectation. I know all names are like that a little bit, but Midnightblue bludgeons me with it. I guess since the woman herself has the right personality, it isn't annoying, but I don't like the name itself anyway.
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I see what you're saying, definitely. In all actuality I'd never name my child something quite as out-there as Midnightblue, and it does come across as sort of attention-seeking to me as well. But I just think it's so neat to see someone with such an unusual name, even if it's a subpar one.
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It's neat, but probably not something I'd use myself. I used to go to school with a Clearblue. I thought he had a cool name, and apparently, he didn't hate it because he didn't go by something else. His middle name was Seneca, which I think adds to the coolness of Clearblue.
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wow that's a neat one too
Clearblue Seneca, very cool.
Clearblue Seneca, very cool.
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I don't like how it's smooshed together.(m)
I could tolerate Midnight Blue, but Midnightblue looks weird.
I could tolerate Midnight Blue, but Midnightblue looks weird.
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I actually like it. It's beautiful. Not a name I would choose, though.
I know a little girl called Indigo.
I know a little girl called Indigo.
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It's dafter than a great big daft bucket of daftness, imo. But! - like you say, it really takes some chops to take on such a name, embrace it and rock it out. So it gets cool owner points.
I really hope she's got a short surname.
I really hope she's got a short surname.
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I've seen Midnight as a name and thought it was cool. I've seen Blue as a name and thought it was all right. I don't really like how there's no space though. But otherwise, cool.
More of a middle name for me though, just because I prefer word names in the middle (with a few exceptions).
More of a middle name for me though, just because I prefer word names in the middle (with a few exceptions).
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I'll be the first to give it crap. It's silly. I tried not to have that knee-jerk reaction of "It's silly". I didn't really want to, so I tried for a few minutes to think of something positive to say. "Good imagery, the words are attractive actually, at least it's different", stuff like that. But then I tried to imagine giving my newborn daughter the name Midnightblue and knew I would die a thousand deaths before I'd do it. Why? Just...because...it's.....SILLY.
And smacks of attention-seeking.
And smacks of attention-seeking.
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Same
Midnight I could handle. Blue isn't so bad. But Midnightblue is just silly.
Midnight I could handle. Blue isn't so bad. But Midnightblue is just silly.
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I LOLed hard at your "die a thousand deaths" statement! I could never do it either. On the positive, I do love the color.
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Yes.
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Ditto...
For a name-name, it's silly, but for a nickname, I think it's fun and unique. Kind of fantasy-ish. Makes me want to get a wig that's black with blue highlights and pretend to be an elf.
Heh, I'm not sure how someone can look at an infant and think blue. Red, maybe. Pink, maybe. But blue? Not seein' it...
For a name-name, it's silly, but for a nickname, I think it's fun and unique. Kind of fantasy-ish. Makes me want to get a wig that's black with blue highlights and pretend to be an elf.
Heh, I'm not sure how someone can look at an infant and think blue. Red, maybe. Pink, maybe. But blue? Not seein' it...
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Ditto
I have to agree. I can't pretend to find anything redeeming about this name, and it is going to catch alot more crap in the real world than on this board.
I have to agree. I can't pretend to find anything redeeming about this name, and it is going to catch alot more crap in the real world than on this board.
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That was my reaction too, more or less.
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if it was
on a horse, I'd definintely bet on that horse!
on a horse, I'd definintely bet on that horse!
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Ahahahahaha! You're my favourite.
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hooray!
I CAPSLOCK LOVE IT.
Does she have a cool middle name too??
I CAPSLOCK LOVE IT.
Does she have a cool middle name too??
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I don't know! I didn't actually legit meet her, she's just in a club that I'm in and we went around the table saying our names.
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If I was named Midnightblue, I'd wanna be called Blue, but I bet my fam would call me Middie.
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I love you
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It's definitely one of those names I think is cool and really not good at the same time. Definitely a stand-out, though!
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It's nothing I would choose, but I think it is kinda cool. It makes a great GP ;P
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Cool.
Very, really - I love the vibe that comes off it.
Very, really - I love the vibe that comes off it.
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Although I will say this from experience
It's really not that easy to decide to go by a pseudonym or nickname. You have to be very determined.
It's really not that easy to decide to go by a pseudonym or nickname. You have to be very determined.
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Well, okay, I'll rephrase - if she hated it that much, she'd be very determined.
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lol.
It took me until I was in my 20s to finally get people to call me something other than my given name. Everyone I know who has tried to go by a different name or change their name ha a hard road to go - names are part of a person's identity. A lot of people who don't like their names put up with them just because it's easier than insisting on a nickname or what-not.
It took me until I was in my 20s to finally get people to call me something other than my given name. Everyone I know who has tried to go by a different name or change their name ha a hard road to go - names are part of a person's identity. A lot of people who don't like their names put up with them just because it's easier than insisting on a nickname or what-not.
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Yeah but you did it.
And also, being that she's in college, she could've changed it a lot more easily when she moved here.
Plus, as it was a mass introduction it would've been very easy to just introduce herself by a nickname / different name.
I'm sure it's hard, and I'm not denying it, but I also think if she really hated her name, I mean really hated it, she'd make it work. That's my point.
And also, being that she's in college, she could've changed it a lot more easily when she moved here.
Plus, as it was a mass introduction it would've been very easy to just introduce herself by a nickname / different name.
I'm sure it's hard, and I'm not denying it, but I also think if she really hated her name, I mean really hated it, she'd make it work. That's my point.
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Hmm...
I've had a friend since I was five who was called Tootie until she was about 14. Then one day, she up and decided to use her real name, Laura Leigh. It took a few months of accidentally saying Tootie and correcting ourselves, but now we all barely remember her as Tootie. I don't think it was particularly hard for her.
I might adopt Midnightblue as a new nickname. It's really cool for a nickname.
I've had a friend since I was five who was called Tootie until she was about 14. Then one day, she up and decided to use her real name, Laura Leigh. It took a few months of accidentally saying Tootie and correcting ourselves, but now we all barely remember her as Tootie. I don't think it was particularly hard for her.
I might adopt Midnightblue as a new nickname. It's really cool for a nickname.
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as someone who has had to do this
It can be a bit of a struggle, but it's not insurmountable. I suppose the older one gets, the more entrenched the name is, but I changed my name fairly late (25) and by 27 I am pretty well called only exclusively by my new name. Even the people who swore they'd NEVER use my new name use it because that's what everyone else does.
I sometimes wonder though if trying to use a different nickname would have been harder than asking to go by a new name altogether. Somehow I imagine people would brush you off a lot more, thinking its a phase or something.
It can be a bit of a struggle, but it's not insurmountable. I suppose the older one gets, the more entrenched the name is, but I changed my name fairly late (25) and by 27 I am pretty well called only exclusively by my new name. Even the people who swore they'd NEVER use my new name use it because that's what everyone else does.
I sometimes wonder though if trying to use a different nickname would have been harder than asking to go by a new name altogether. Somehow I imagine people would brush you off a lot more, thinking its a phase or something.
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I agree with you completely. It can be done.
I changed my name later than you did. It's been over 7 years and 99% of people who knew me before call me Elena now. It's a matter of respect, imo. If it makes a person happy and if you care for them, all it takes is a sincere effort. With time, it CAN be done. You and I are living proof of this.
OT, my dh and I know a man from church named Horst. He's in his mid 60s, I'd say. Horst and his family moved to the US from Germany when he was 10. His younger brother, Friedrich, hated his name in this country so he ended up being called Zeke for most of his young life until early to mid adulthood. Frankly, I don't know how his friends (who began this) derived Zeke from Friedrich. Anyway, Friedrich / Zeke finally made a legal name change to Eric in his 30s and he's been Eric ever since. I'd say he's in his late 50s now. Can you imagine Eric's family getting used to three names? But according to Horst, they all took it in stride. No biggie. And btw, it was this story and Horst's attitude that helped me realize that life was short and that I should finally change the name that I had hated from the time I was seven years old (I had thought about changing my name for most of my life).
I changed my name later than you did. It's been over 7 years and 99% of people who knew me before call me Elena now. It's a matter of respect, imo. If it makes a person happy and if you care for them, all it takes is a sincere effort. With time, it CAN be done. You and I are living proof of this.
OT, my dh and I know a man from church named Horst. He's in his mid 60s, I'd say. Horst and his family moved to the US from Germany when he was 10. His younger brother, Friedrich, hated his name in this country so he ended up being called Zeke for most of his young life until early to mid adulthood. Frankly, I don't know how his friends (who began this) derived Zeke from Friedrich. Anyway, Friedrich / Zeke finally made a legal name change to Eric in his 30s and he's been Eric ever since. I'd say he's in his late 50s now. Can you imagine Eric's family getting used to three names? But according to Horst, they all took it in stride. No biggie. And btw, it was this story and Horst's attitude that helped me realize that life was short and that I should finally change the name that I had hated from the time I was seven years old (I had thought about changing my name for most of my life).
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I think so. And yah, it's not insurmountable.
The funniest thing is that my brother still calls me by my middle name, rather than my first. (I went back to my first because I have a sister-in-law named Elizabeth.) The nickname thing is harder, I think - unless you really, really insist on it.
But the thing is: You have to insist on it, and some people aren't able to. I babysat for a woman who converted to Judaism and changed her name to Ruth - no one ever called her it. She was just Joy.
The funniest thing is that my brother still calls me by my middle name, rather than my first. (I went back to my first because I have a sister-in-law named Elizabeth.) The nickname thing is harder, I think - unless you really, really insist on it.
But the thing is: You have to insist on it, and some people aren't able to. I babysat for a woman who converted to Judaism and changed her name to Ruth - no one ever called her it. She was just Joy.
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My husband change his nickname at about the age of fourteen, upon entering high school. It was the best time to do it, since he was entering a new, much larger school where he would be meeting a lot of new people. Overall, the change took. By the time I met him, when he was twenty, all of his college friends used his new nickname, once my family got to know him, they all used his new nickname, when he started his career, everyone he knew through work used it, and basically all new friends he met after the age of fourteen used it.
There were a few holdouts. His parents, brother, and sister persisted in using the old one, as did those friends he had made before he decided to change it. Those were his oldest, closest friends, the ones who persisted through life. The other person who used his old nickname was myself---I didn't like his new one, and to me it never seemed to fit him...for the first few months I knew him, I didn't call him anything, and when I met his family and heard them call him his old one, I immediately started calling him by that, also. He didn't mind me doing it---he actually rather liked *me* doing it, but he didn't want to hear from it anyone else, though he tolerated it from his family and oldest friends.
The old nickname was Jamie and the new one was Jim.
There were a few holdouts. His parents, brother, and sister persisted in using the old one, as did those friends he had made before he decided to change it. Those were his oldest, closest friends, the ones who persisted through life. The other person who used his old nickname was myself---I didn't like his new one, and to me it never seemed to fit him...for the first few months I knew him, I didn't call him anything, and when I met his family and heard them call him his old one, I immediately started calling him by that, also. He didn't mind me doing it---he actually rather liked *me* doing it, but he didn't want to hear from it anyone else, though he tolerated it from his family and oldest friends.
The old nickname was Jamie and the new one was Jim.
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