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[Opinions] Eleanor
WDYT? Its starting to warm up to me. I might use it as a middle name.
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I love it, and I don't think it needs a nn - I knew two at school and they were both just Eleanor. Very different people, but the name suited them both.
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It's passable but low-key annoying, comes across as cliche-intelligent or self-important and dull, to me, and "the other Aenor" as a meaning doesn't appeal.A masculine name I get somewhat the same impression from is Richard. Or unisex, Emerson.Yet I do like Lenore / Eleonora / Leonora / Nellie somewhat.

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I agree, it's more suited to a middle name. I don't like the pronunciation ell-ih-NORE. I prefer putting in a soft Y, so it's closer to Ell-yuh-nore.
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As a kid, I thought Eleanor was an "old-lady" name of my great-grandmother's generation. Of course, those names are coming back in style, so Eleanor doesn't sound so "old" anymore. I quite like Eleanor (as well as Elinor, which I think of as the "Jane Austen spelling), but I'd be more likely to use it as a middle name than a first.
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I really like it now but I used to hate it. I remember when I first learned that Eleanor Roosevelt’s fn was Anna and being perplexed as to why she’d choose to go by Eleanor if she didn’t have to.Now I think it’s one of the most elegant, classy names. I think of an intelligent and sophisticated woman.Don’t think I’ll actually use as a fn (just not my style for a real life kid) but a mn maybe.
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Eleanor is beautiful, though it can feel quite heavy on a small child.We had Elanor as our number 1 girl name with our second child.
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I love it. It's one of my top names right now that I'm considering for my baby.
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It used to be one of my favourite names, but I find it a bit boring now. Nevertheless, it's a beautiful classic that will never become dated.
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