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Vintage, earthy baby name inspo??

108 replies

avicci · Yesterday 11:45

I have been digging and scouring the web for baby names. I really like names that feel vintage and earthy at the same time... for girls i really like

  • Eloise

  • Ember

  • Violet

  • Twyla

  • Winona

I'm looking for this same vibe. The kind of name that gives the same energy as the sunset beaming into your grandmas house- dust peaking through the rays, doilies everywhere, flowers. Preferably names that aren't SUPER common. I have a very unique name and want to keep the quirkiness in the fam.

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LilyLemonade · Yesterday 21:57

Jean
Laurel
Muriel

KissKissByeBye · Yesterday 22:03

Gudrun.

LilyLemonade · Yesterday 22:11

KissKissByeBye · Yesterday 22:03

Gudrun.

That is a great one, not heard it for ages.

Dagmar
Martha

Giraffehaver · Yesterday 22:16

Fern

Wisenotboring · Yesterday 22:18

Sorrel
Mabel
Alba
Constance

RachTheAlpaca · Today 13:59

Omg please not Twyla, that's horrific. Ember pretty bad too, your others choices are nice but Winona definitely on the uncommon side

Saltysweetspicy · Today 14:38

HeartinWinter · Yesterday 15:51

I do: "The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild/ White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine/ Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves". "A violet by a mossy stone/ Half-hidden from the eye" etc

Whether it's in a poem or not it sounds like a harsh name to me (IMO)

HeartinWinter · Today 14:44

Saltysweetspicy · Today 14:38

Whether it's in a poem or not it sounds like a harsh name to me (IMO)

Its not the fact that it is in a number of poems. It is the fact that violets are often associated with flowers, earth, shadiness, nature, shyness etc, as in those two poems, which stops me thinking of the word as violent, even though the words share almost all the same letters. I can see how it might work the other way though. Maybe it depends on how often you have come across a particular word in a particular context.

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