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Desert Strawberry

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What do you think of Luna?  

201 members have voted

  1. 1. Cute or wacky

    • Cute
      57
    • Wacky
      50
    • Neither
      2
    • Ok, but not my style
      77
    • Other. Please explain.
      15

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Desert Strawberry

Desert Strawberry

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Luna

 

I like it, but is my hippiness getting the best of me?

 

ETA: I have all boys. They have very traditional, boring names. The kind your husbands and fathers have. Because I have no girls, and their names are so nondescript, I think I can do pretty much anything, and it won't necessarily clash. Am I wrong?

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SKL

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I think the name itself is nice, but it is likely to invite reactions I would not want to invite.

Kinda like when I decided against my first choice of name because it would result in my daughter having the initials ASS.  Just thinking ahead a bit .... ;)

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Renthead Mommy

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I put other because I have a problem with "cute".  I like it.  If it fits with the rest of your kid names, then yes. If it stands out too much from the other kids it may sound off.  But I like the hippie side.  And the Harry Potter side.  I named my kid after a character in Rent, but it is a lot less obvious than Luna.  (Sort of like naming a kid Ron or Harry vs Hermione)

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I do like it quite a bit, but I wouldn't probably pick it because it doesn't sound like a name for a professional adult to me and I think the Harry Potter connotations are pretty strong.  I know a couple cats named Luna also which doesn't help!  But I'm boring like that.  ;)

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gaillardia

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Luna, I don't associate it with hippie times. I don't like it because we had a dog temporarily that was pre-named Luna and she was not a good dog for our family.

I rhyme it with tuna and heavily associate it with the word lunatic being used in Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

The fun thing about names for our children is that even when people tell us their negative points of view, if that's the name of that child, then that's what you will choose. KWIM?

It does have a pretty sound and I am 50/50 on it.

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Desert Strawberry

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I don't really like cute as a descriptor for it. I think it is a beautiful name with a solid meaning (moon) and since it has ties to mythology (Artemis), that makes it even more awesome.

 

Yes, this is why I chose it. I'm not familiar with Luna Lovegood. I had to google. It sounds like a pornstar  :leaving:

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Yes, this is why I chose it. I'm not familiar with Luna Lovegood. I had to google. It sounds like a pornstar  :leaving:

 

if you googled it - then you know luna lovegood wasn't remotely such.  :glare:  she was rather looney though.  other than that - she was also a loyal friend.

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Yes, this is why I chose it. I'm not familiar with Luna Lovegood. I had to google. It sounds like a pornstar  :leaving:

 

Honestly, if you're considering it as a name... I would take the time to at least watch some of the movies with this character in it. Not because they're awesome movies, but because people will INSTANTLY associate the name with the character and you may want to know exactly what that means for how it may cause her to be perceived.

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I like it, although I do associate it with this tree:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_%28tree%29

 

and my ex-husband's cat.

 

My kids' names definitely "clash", but you get used to saying them together so they flow off your tongue so naturally as a parent that you wind up doing a doubletake by the time they are teens when other people don't understand when you say that you like names like Dweezil-John-Francesca-Sunshine-and-Simone.

 

 

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Lady Florida.

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Other. It's a nice name but I wouldn't call it cute. Of course people will think of Luna Lovegood, but that could fade over time even if the Harry Potter series stays popular.

 

I have a friend with a daughter ds' age. The daughter is named Rhiannon and when she was considering names everyone said people will think of the Fleetwood Mac song every time they hear her name. It's now a somewhat common name (or at least it's not unusual) and the girl rarely has anyone try to sing that song to her anymore.

 

The same could possibly happen with the name Luna. Even if it does stay associated with HP, she's a great character. She's not the loony person everyone thought she was even though she has some odd beliefs. She actually has great insights into people's character. Maybe your Luna, if you stick with that name choice, will be as lovely a person as Luna Lovegood. :)

 

 

ETA: After reading some other responses I agree that it could be a problem for an adult. Of course it could become popular enough that no one will think that way by the time your dd is an adult. Anyway, I would say if that's a concern, give her a middle name that's common or boring but goes well with Luna. Then as an adult she can choose which name to use.

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I think it's pretty but I wouldn't give a child a name like that, both for Harry Potter connotations and the concept that the root sounds are related to lunacy & mental illness.

 

If you want it as a nickname you could always choose a very classic name like Lauren or Lorelai and call her Luna - that way she won't face job discrimination when she's older for having an odd name, and you still get a pretty, hippy name.

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If you want it as a nickname you could always choose a very classic name like Lauren or Lorelai and call her Luna - that way she won't face job discrimination when she's older for having an odd name, and you still get a pretty, hippy name.

 

Luna could also be shortened to Lou, a very classic nickname usually used for the very classic name Louise, for professional life.

 

I try to "hedge my bets" with unusual names as well, but it really isn't that difficult. My father goes by his classic first name at work and his middle name (mother's maiden name) socially and with family. dd1 also has a "fade into the woodwork" nickname for her unusual name, which neither I nor her father even saw coming.

 

As far as "Harry Potter" connotations, I wouldn't stress too much over that. I dismissed "Phoebe" as too weird, but if I had used it anyway, the child would have grown up with "Friends" connotations. I did not dismiss "Phoenix" when everybody else screamed "Too weird!" but had no way of predicting that I was giving my daughter what would become a "boy's name" or that the trend of giving boys names to girls would increase the "cool value" of her name.

 

 

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I hesitate to say this but, looney is the very first thing that popped into my head when I saw it. Of course, I've never heard of this as a name so take it with a grain of salt.

 

I agree with pp's...okay for a little girl, not so much a woman.

 

BUT-if you love it, who cares what we think? I was on here a year or so ago asking the same question about a not so common name that got mixed reviews. But, I gave my daughter that name and it's perfect!

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My sister named her dog Luna, because she loved it as a name but her husband and older kids couldn't get past the Harry Potter connotation. Looney, Tooney and Tuna are the dog's nicknames.

 

She ended up naming her daughter Rhea. Willa, Stella, Nora and Ruby were in on their short list.

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I love the name but I go for hippie names so that might be why. :) I agree with the pp who suggested hedging your bets with the name. I gave both my girls more professional, lawyer-type middle names (also were family names) so that they could go by those names if they felt their first names wouldn't cut it. I actually have a very common middle name that I've considered going by as Whitney sounds childish to me.

 

I don't see Luna as childish though. I can picture it on an adult.

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texasmama

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I think it is cute for a little girl. Not so much for a business woman. I wouldn't do it.

These are my thoughts.  I do not think it a terrible name at all.  It is lovely.  But it is too "hippie", as you call it, for me.

 

For reference, my dds are Emily and Lauren.  Emily should have been an Amanda, but my then dh objected to Mandy.  Sigh.  I'm still bitter.

 

I don't branch out too much with names.

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I don't love it for all the reasons already mentioned: Luna Tuna, Lunabars, Luna moths, Looney Tunes . . . it's too easy to mock the name.

 

That said, plenty of people I know have given their kids names I don't love, but once the kids are here and the name belongs to them . . . it just fits.

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I agree that you should at least be prepared for the Harry Potter reference. It's a hugely popular book/movie series, especially among kids. It will be referred to frequently. As someone who was constantly asked as a kid "Where's the White Rabbit?" or "How's Wonderland?" I feel that I can confidently speak on this issue. I've never been a huge Alice in Wonderland fan, but I don't mind the reference that much. I can see a quirky, confident girl not caring about the Luna Lovegood reference or even really embracing it but I would definitely make sure you know what it is.

 

My oldest has a name that is an iconic comic strip character. We knew he would constantly have people refer to it and they do. But we were ok with that reference and so is he. He rolls his eyes a bit when people act like it's the first time he's heard someone refer to it but he doesn't mind the jokes. 

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I do like it quite a bit, but I wouldn't probably pick it because it doesn't sound like a name for a professional adult to me and I think the Harry Potter connotations are pretty strong. I know a couple cats named Luna also which doesn't help! But I'm boring like that. ;)

My cat is named Luna, and I did have Harry Potter in mind when I gave her the name.

 

It wouldn't be a terrible baby girl name, though. If I knew a child with that name, I would just chalk it up to all the other "different-while-not-bizarre" names I know, like Grady or Piper.

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