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That's a very organized list! I wish I could find my very first list of names I ever loved. But if it existed I probably destroyed it, because I felt oddly ashamed of my name obsession when I was young.

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If I try to think back as far as I can, around age 7 to 9, I can distinctly remember liking...

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Hillary
Aaron (this was the first name I ever remember liking in terms of a "name for a child" but I didn't tend to look at names that way most of the time)
Colin
Galatea (although I mispronounced it as "ga-LAY-sha" for like a decade, how embarrassing)
Annabelle
Charlotte
Denison (I "came up with" this one myself, from a surname)
Norah
Sylvia
Tabitha
Pamina
Millicent
Akhsah (this one is burned into my brain because my little name book said the meaning was "a tinkling anklet" and I really loved that.)

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That's all I can recall clearly. I remember my taste being heavily influenced by stuff like mythology, classical music, art, and books. I used to read this huge illustrated encyclopedia we had, and that exposed me to a lot. It's probably why my taste is so "bookish" even to this day.