Would you name your kid after a pony?

[Tap Dancer]

I'm gonna say it- I'm not crazy about Rarity as a pony name.

I thought I was the only one!

No way! I don't like a lot of "modern" or "unique" names.

[shimmlight]

I would, if I had any interest in having children.  I think it would be cool to name a boy Ace and a girl Clover.

I thought Ace would be a cool boys name! The boyfriend doesn't like it though 

[PandoraFox]

I personally think Rarity could work as a middle name, but with FiM still running and fresh in peoples minds it is something to be careful with I'd say. Ideally no child or parent would be teased over a name but that's not the case.

I think the biggest problem here though, is that your girlfriend doesn't agree with the name. If she honestly hates it, I doubt she's going to change her mind anytime soon and the name of your child really is something you should both be agreeing on. It means you're going to have to let go of a name you like, but I'm certain she has to do the same with some of her preferred choices.

Here in the Netherlands we put - je behind a name when something is small or cute. A lot of female names are male names with - je behind it. I know a lot of women hate that. At a certain age you don't feel small and cute anymore And if they take the -je away it often leaves them a really manly name. (like Stef, but I don't care). They also get weird reactions when they have that 'manly' name.
They would be happy if they would have second names they could use.
SO.. please give them more names

It's funny, I have the exact opposite. My name has -ke behind it. Another, if less used, way of making it sound "smaller".
Without the -ke it would be a normal dutch girls name.
I've gone through a period of 2 years or so where everyone from close family members to complete strangers kept asking me when I'd drop the -ke. It drove me batty. I HATE my name without the -ke, with a passion. It is, for as far as I'm concerned, NOT. ME.
Heck, my name as is doesn't even sound cutesy to me.
Oddly, after a year or two I was apparently past the age where I got to have issues with my name, since people just stopped bringing it up from one day to the next and my name was once again accepted without question. It was weird. :/

Mind you, I absolutely get why people would want to drop the -je or -ke.
I just found it curious that I've experienced the exact opposite, and in either case people will be weird about it.

[LittleSpiffy]

If your girlfriend hates it, don't push the issue.  Don't use Rarity.

[Hunter-Rose]

While I agree Rarity is a pretty name, I would never dare name my child after something so popular, even people who hate MLP would probably work out where it is from, especially if they know you like it.
I would love to call my daughter Adria, mostly because its a pretty name but also because its a character from Stargate SG-1, one of my favourite TV shows, however I would be hesitant because she was a somewhat insane alien cult leader, in turn named after her mothers cruel step-mother. However I have taken that into factors and its an obscure enough reference that I would be able to get away with it.
That entire night where I thought naming my son Tiberius would be a splended idea on the other hand... 

[Taxel]

I would never name my child after any sort of character on purpose. Real people (not celebrities) is as much as I'm willing to accept. Even a normal name like "Tiffany" I'd never give to my child because of a toy horse. A nickname based on a pony for some actual reason (they like that specific pony, they enjoy doing the same as the pony's symbol, etc) I'm totally fine with, but a real name? Never.

I wasn't named after a character, but growing up with the name Carissa I had to deal with a lot of "Clarissa Explains It All" jokes and I hated it. I'd never purposely put my kid through something similar.

[PrincessGlitterBloom]

I feel like it's something to regret later on. Like when you join a website and name yourself like yugiohfan1994 or something and year later though you're still a fan, it dates you badly. And you kind of wish you'd chosen something more flexible.

Character names are for pets not children, name your dogs Katniss and Twilight, not your daughters.

[Eternia]

A pony name? no. However; Megan, Molly, and Danny are total possibilities

[Stormness_1]

As a person with a unique name, people are always asking which reference I'm named after - I wasn't, it just came to my dad - Mum said no, but had complications, and when she came to, the paperwork was done, and I was named! Because my parents separated pretty early on, I used my first middle name with most people until I started school, when my first name went on the paperwork. That was confusing for some of my friends, going from calling me one thing to another. My sister, one 'aunt' (an old neightbour in truth), and my oldest friend (my 'aunts' grandaughter) still call me by my middle name, and my hubby hates it. He's constantly correcting them.. which gets a bit awkward, but he's passionate about names, and won't accept any shortening of his own, either. That said, he wants to name our first daughter 'Sunday', which is even worse than my name!

But if you don't both agree on the name, don't use it! Mum never forgave dad for that little whoopsie that he did with my name!

[Aitsuki]

nope!
there are so many beautiful names to choose ,i would def choose something from Greek Mythology 

My boyfriend has already told me he wants to name one of his kids Antiochus or Seleucus  (he is a classicist). I have told him he can name a cat it. Not necessarily mythology but anicent Greek xD

I wanted to name my children Stella and Astrophel when I was young. And just today at work, there was a little boy named Archimedes!

[Nence]

I dont have children but I like the name Lyra, I think it would suits as a name
But I have other names in the list if I ever is going to get children.

[Rainfeather]

Be sure to spell it as D'Rehwritty. Otherwise it is not hip.

[OctoberFlash]

I definitely wouldn't do it. Choose a name that is easy to spell and understand.

My cousin, who is five years old, is named Dagne (pronounced "dahg knee"). To be fair, it's a Norwegian name and that side of my family has some Norwegian heritage, but already she gets frustrated because people always question her and correct her on her name, assuming she doesn't know how to say it right because she's little.

Then again, my name is Ashton and people were always correcting me to "Ashlyn" or "Ashley" when I was younger because "Ashton is a boy's name". :T

[Marigold]

My cousin, who is five years old, is named Dagne (pronounced "dahg knee"). To be fair, it's a Norwegian name and that side of my family has some Norwegian heritage, but already she gets frustrated because people always question her and correct her on her name, assuming she doesn't know how to say it right because she's little.

I can think of only one other way you should say Dagne.  Dahg nah.  But what are people telling her it sounds like?  My sister was almost named this.  She would have prefered it to her own common and boring name which can be spelled multiple ways. 

[Hervoyel]

If your girlfriend hates it, don't push the issue.  Don't use Rarity.

This.  Regardless of how one feels about character names* why would you want to give your child a name that the other parent hates?  Your child's name shouldn't turn into some power struggle, and surely there are plenty of names that the two of you can agree on, no?


*Personally I'm on the fence about them.  Standard names that happen to be shared with a character seem fine to me, but when you're on the edges of that, I think it gets complicated.