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I try really hard to be fair about why I don't like a name that is attributed to a particular age group; I think it's very misogynistic to reject a name only because it belongs to women who are middle aged or elderly. But going on the name's own qualities, I only see a lack thereof. It seems meant to compete with Sherry and Cherie, and I don't like those names either. But I like Meryl and Beryl. I wonder why. I will think about it more.

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Your point is taken about languages evolving; I have been working on being less prescriptive and pedantic about names, and about English in general. I belong to one facebook group where I think people are far too reactionary about names they deem weird or new; I like to joke that basically the only names people ever like in that group are Henry and Alice. Then there are other, more "basic" (in the pejorative sense) groups where people are looking for baby names, and they are going completely in the other direction, flipping to the middle of a phonics book and marrying random syllables haphazardly. (Or worse, using words from weapons catalogs for their sons.)

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