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I love Elias, but I don't like it in combo with Scott. The S's elide. I dislike Trenton.

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I don't really like Idabel. I just sounds like someone's saying "I duh bell" (i.e., I'm the bell).

There's an Idabel, Oklahoma. It sounds like some hilbilly woman from the 1930's.

Elias is a great name, but Elias + Scott run in to each other, so if you say "Elias Scott" it can sound a bit like you're saying "Elia Scott" or "Elias Cott".

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I don't like Trenton.

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I actually find Idabel quite endearing, my great-great-grandfather's brother married a woman named Mary Idabel, and discovering her in my extended family tree was the first time I'd ever come across the name. I thought maybe her parents had got creative, but a quick search on Ancestry, revealed that it was very much a real name.

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So yeah, I like it, and my g-g-grandfather's sister-in-law must have liked it somewhat, as she passed it on as a middle name to her firstborn daughter (but didn't pass on her first name, Mary to any of her daughters). It makes me wonder if she perhaps went by Idabel.

Heh, well, I'm from New Jersey. So the first thing I think of when I see or hear Trenton is the capitol of New Jersey. I'm sure that's not true of everyone. And although I think New Jersey is a great and beautiful state, I acknowledge that every large city in New Jersey is, well, pretty crappy, which is what gives the state an undeserved reputation. It's the country and suburbs of New Jersey that are beautiful, and too many people don't even realize that New Jersey even has country and suburbs, and that's why I get so defensive. But I digress. So, as I said, every large city in New Jersey is crappy and run-down. Including Trenton. Which predisposes me not to like it as a personal name.

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But I really think that even if it weren't for that, I'd find Trenton ugly. It reminds me of a toad.

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Elias Scott is nice enough. Elias is fairly handsome and not overused, and Scott is boring as a first name but it makes a nice middle.

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I don't like Idabel at all. I don't like Isabel or Isabelle, and Idabel is a little worse than those.

Idabel sounds like someone has a blood nose and can't say Isabel correctly.

I don't mind Elias or Scott, however, I don't care for the way they run together. Trenton is so NMS.

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My ggm was named Ida Belle. Can't say I like it much. BTW, her dd (my gm) was named Ida Lillian (though she called herself Ida Lee).