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Easter: Stick with Esther.
Ebony: This is a beautiful name, but in the US, if you give it to your own kid, she better be black or everybody will laugh at you.
Echo: Quit repeating yourself.
Eclipse: Car. Also, you can't look directly at one.
Eden: Charmless.
Eglantine: Eggy.
Elf: Ugh.
Ember: Stick to Amber.
Emerald: It's got a bit of a charm to it.
Epiphany: It sounds funny, actually.
Essence: Very dated feel, very much a black name, like Ebony. But none of Ebony's beauty.
Eternity: Perfume or maybe an adult diaper.
Ever: Never.
Evergreen: Good name for a senior citizen's social club.
Fable: Silly.
Faith: Pretty.
Fancy: Be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, and they'll be nice to you.
Favor: Fancy trades a Favor.
Felicity: Goofy sound.
Fern: Very pretty and gentle.
Firefly: It's a very popular music festival here in Delaware. It's dumb as a person's name.
Flame: Yuck.
Frost: Like a milkshake.
Galaxy: Another car name, or an exploding smart phone.
Garland: Kind of okay, in a early 1900's farmer way.
Genista: Sounds like a medical lab.
Glade: Air freshener.
Glory: Much prefer Gloria.
Grace: Okay but tired of hearing it tacked onto names.
Harmony: Never liked.
Haven: Animal shelter or homeless shelter.
Hazel: It's okay.
Heart: And her brother Liver and sister Gallbladder.
Heather: Very nice.
Heaven: Cheap.
Heavenly: Even cheaper.
Holly: Love.
Honour: Hate it.
Hope: Nice.
Hunter: On a guy, it's cool.
Hyacinth: Insufferable.
Indigo: Miserably hippie.
Integrity: Good name for an insurance company.
Ivory: Soap that floats.
Ivy: Cute.
Jade: It's not terrible but it does have a slick, sort of tacky vibe.
Jasper: Hate it.
Jazz: Good name for a dog. Much prefer Jasmine on a person.
Jet: Be a Hollywood hipster and use Jet Blue as a name. Come on, I dare you.
Jewel: Old ladyish.
Jonquil: Honk.
Journey: Irritating eighties band that still gets too much airplay.
Jubilation: Curb your enthusiasm.
Juniper: Loathe it, wish it would go away.
Justice: Never liked.
Kestrel: Ugly.
Labyrinth: Terrible.
Lavender: Love the color and the scent, but it makes a dumb name.
Liberty: Liberty the flibberty jibbet.
Lily: It's okay but weak.
Linden: Never liked.
Linnet: Too hard to say Lynette?
Locket: Stupid.
Lotus: Hippie dippie.
Lyric: No appeal.
Madrigal: Phony.
Magnolia: So Driving Miss Daisy.
Mahogany: Nothing with hog in the middle of it is good.
Mandolin: Just name her Amanda Lynn and be seen as having made a boo-boo, rather than being a fool.
Marigold: Mooo!
Materia: Can't see this as a name.
Meadow: Sick of it.
Melody: Pretty, prefer Melanie.
Memory: Already dead.
Mercury: It's the bad guy now.
Meridian: Silly.
Midnight: It would be very cliche even for a cat.
Millennia: Maybe somebody thought this was a fun idea back in 1999.
Minuet: Everybody will think you misspelled minute.
Miracle: Screams low-rent.
Moon: Showing your butt.
Morning: Sounds exactly like Mourning. Stick with Dawn.
Ocean: Not really a name.
Oleander: More poison.
Opal: Love it.
Oracle: Buy some stock in it.
Orchid: Bad.

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