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March Madness: Boys’ Opening Round

March 5, 2011 By appellationmountain 17 Comments

Place your bets, name aficionados! It’s time for the first-ever March Madness event at Appellation Mountain.

Round One matches up the Top Sixteen names from 2010. Vote for your favorite in each of the eight polls below, and check back next week to see who makes the cut for the quarter-finals. We’ll crown the victors after the close of voting in the fourth and final round on Saturday, March 26.

The literary Dashiell (1) versus the wild Wolf (16)

The Irish Eamon (2) versus the ever-so English St. John (15)

A surname match-up: Huxley (3) versus Cohen (14)

Subdued color name Gray (4) v. Old Testament Tobias (13)

Otto the palindrome (5) v. colonial cool Nathaniel (12)

Kelly green Cian (6) v. très français Etienne (11)

The Scottish Lachlan (7) v. the Glee-ful Finn (10)

Sharp Archer (8) v. leading man Liam (9)

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Comments

  1. chaneltara says

    March 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM

    Wow Eamon and Cian are two of my most favorites!

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  2. C in DC says

    March 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM

    My hardest choice was between Otto and Nathaniel, two names I really really like. Most of the other names I’m ehh about.

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  3. Bewildertrix says

    March 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM

    I feel guilty for voting for St John. It’s comically snobby a la Digby, Jocasta or Bunty but I really like it as a middle, and I cannot stomach Eamon.

    I always blank on Etienne. It’s one of those few names my brain will never process correctly and it’s frustrating. Cian wins by default.

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  4. Sarah A says

    March 6, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    I must admit I’m surprised to see Finn getting so many votes, especially considering his over exposure on Glee…

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  5. Lyndsay says

    March 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    I’m surprised that some of these are in the top 16! St. John? Eamon? And is the number in parentheses it’s ranking for the year? As in, Dashiell was #1? Shocking!

    These were surprisingly easy to vote for and I was in the majority for almost all of them!

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    • appellationmountain says

      March 5, 2011 at 7:04 PM

      Exactly, Lyndsay – Dashiell was the most viewed boys’ name in 2010! But Elisabeth once pointed out that “most viewed” here is tricky, because some of the names are nearly impossible to find anywhere else. Pomeline always ranks really well on the girls’ side for that reason. So … it doesn’t necessarily translate to greater use, but it does make for an intriguing list.

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  6. Kelly says

    March 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    I think this “tournament” is a great idea! Several months ago on Nameberry I did a few elimination games like these with certain categories of my favorites (and I’ve been thinking about doing them again in the near future).

    About some of new not being familiar with Etienne: It’s one of my guilty pleasures, since I like it but don’t know how well it would fair in a non-francophone area.

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    • Kelly says

      March 5, 2011 at 11:56 AM

      Should be “some of you” and not “new”!

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      • Kelly says

        March 5, 2011 at 11:57 AM

        Should also be “fare” and not “fair”; sorry for my little mistakes (I’m one who feels like that I should correct/point them out)!

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  7. Fran says

    March 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    That was actually really easy, especially with Tobias being include. Also I think I’ve found a new favourite boys name, Dashiell! Not that we’ll ever have another one but Genevieve, Oliver, Tobias, Lenora, Matilda and Dashiell dont actually sound that bad together.

    Thanks for doing this Abby, will be interesting to see all the results!

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  8. Colleen says

    March 5, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    Fun!! Looks like Archer and Liam are awfully close. I’ll have to check back and see how it turns out.

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  9. caroline says

    March 5, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    This is so fun! I did leave one category blank (Cian vs Etienne) b/c I really don’t like either one, but I did my best to pick on all other others! When will the girls tourney start?

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  10. SadieSadie says

    March 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM

    I love a lot of these names! It was really hard to choose between Dashiel and Wolf… both such great names!

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  11. British American says

    March 5, 2011 at 9:26 AM

    Voted! 🙂

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  12. Lola says

    March 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM

    That was fun! I expected to be in the minority more often than I actually was. I’m going to be in & out today but I’ll check back to see where*my* favorites are! 😀

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  13. Elizabeth says

    March 5, 2011 at 3:48 AM

    I’m not familiar with Cian or Etienne, so I didn’t vote on them.

    Reply

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