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What do you think of Tanner? I'm not usually into surname names for boys but Tanner is really growing on me. Too trendy?
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I think it is a really 90's name (but) I love Tanner!
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hahaha awesome! thanks for the laugh :)
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All I can think of is the family from "ALF"...sorry.
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The overall sound is okay, but the associations I have with the name and its meaning are unattractive to me. It reminds me of hides as well as tanning salons, tanning spray, etc. "One who tans hides" is not an appealing meaning to me.
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I'm not a native English speaker and wasn't familiar with that meaning of "tan", so I can't help but picture someone who spends too much time in tanning salons ... And the real meaning certainly isn't any better! I don't like these "occupational surnames names" at all, especially not when it comes to things like Tanner and Hunter (a young American relative of mine).
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When I was a small child, we lived a couple of miles away from a working tannery. Very occasionally when the wind was in the right (or wrong!) direction, we could smell it.
Before you consider using Tanner, please first find a tannery and drive past it slowly on a working day. Then change your mind for ever.
Before you consider using Tanner, please first find a tannery and drive past it slowly on a working day. Then change your mind for ever.
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It's hard for me to consider this name objectively. The Tanner I know is the town druggie/schizo/homeless/drunk, seriously his own caricature; not a bad guy really but not anyone you'd want your child associated with. It's his last name but the one everyone knows him by. So yeah I don't know, outside of that it feels like it's trying too hard to be "not cool"... Like out of Hunter, Cooper, Tucker, Tanner, etc., Tanner's the one smoking behind the school, sort of secretly wishing he was on the football team with Hunter and the rest, but more concerned about his "alternative" image.
eta - I do know another Tanner also. It is his FN and he's probably around 20 or younger
eta - I do know another Tanner also. It is his FN and he's probably around 20 or younger
This message was edited 12/9/2012, 9:44 PM
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Hideous. One of my most hated occupation names.
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Yeah, I don't care for it. Too soccer mom.
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A science teacher I had in freshman year named her son Tanner. I don't like the name, but I don't hate it, either.
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Ick.... I just see a person making animal hides.
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This is one of my least favorite names. To start with, I generally dislike surnames as first names. And the image of an actual tanner is not very appealing, especially for me because I'm a vegetarian. I would never, ever consider it for my own child, personally. However, I don't think it's too trendy. I've never met one.
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GP. It's soap operaish, but I sorta like the sound of it, and it has a sort of outdoorsy image to me, like Canyon but less vivid or "cowboyish," and lacks the pretentiousness of Sawyer. I don't think of tanning hides and I don't really think of surnames. Even though I should. Trendy? I don't think it's faddish but the style of it is fashionable and that makes it seem uh, working class or something ... you know what I mean. Anyway I would never use it or consider it but if I met one I would think it was likeable. Sort of like Hunter or Canyon.
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I like Hunter too and Canyon was my favorite boys name when I was 14 or so. Still a GP.
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Really??
Trying to imagine anything tackier... maybe, like, Rawhide...
Trying to imagine anything tackier... maybe, like, Rawhide...
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Ok, for real, as far as surname-names go this is truly the worst.
Like... one who tans hides? That process is mad gross, and you probably wouldn't have much connection to it.
Like... one who tans hides? That process is mad gross, and you probably wouldn't have much connection to it.
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Hmm. Yeah, Braxton's really bad. I guess I'd qualify my statement by saying occupational surnames.
Cutter I don't think is actually a surname at all, just an... occupation...?
Cutter I don't think is actually a surname at all, just an... occupation...?
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I wasn't sure if it was a surname or not, but I feel like I could have heard Cutter as a surname so I hedged my bets :)
Cutter is hands down my least favourite name of all time.
But Braxton is a very close second!
Cutter is hands down my least favourite name of all time.
But Braxton is a very close second!
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Cutter is a real last name, but it's not very common.
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Heeee! And likewise!
I wouldn't phrase it as such, but I agree! It's like naming your kiddy 'Butcher'. Yeah...no.
It's also, in itself, veeeery ugly and nicht gut. As always, I don't mean to be rude. There are probably names I love you hate, and Tanner is just one of these names you love and I hate.
I wouldn't phrase it as such, but I agree! It's like naming your kiddy 'Butcher'. Yeah...no.
It's also, in itself, veeeery ugly and nicht gut. As always, I don't mean to be rude. There are probably names I love you hate, and Tanner is just one of these names you love and I hate.
This message was edited 12/9/2012, 10:47 AM
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Agreed. Tanner is pretty awful.
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I actually really like it, but to me it almost sounds like a dog name.
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Very trendy, very unattractive sound. Very much like a sweaty, shirtless cowboy on the cover of a "romance novel" at the drugstore. A cowboy who owns his ranch and despite his sweaty appearance and all the fine horses he supposedly owns, never misses a shower, a shave, a manicure or a chance to buy thousand-dollar boots.
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Hahaha! Yes!
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I do think it's trendy, and I dislike the potential nickname of Tan. However, there's something that draws me too it, I think it's cute though I doubt it would age well.
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