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Good gawd, y'all! And I thought someone had thrown a fit on the keyboard.
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Patchwork Shaman posted:Just once, I'd like to hear one of these stories passed around with a white sounding name like P@rick or Am&a. I used to work in a government department dealing with support for middle to low income families in New Zealand. I once processed an application for T-Gen and J'd. Spoke to their mother, they're pronounced Teagan and Jade. I have no idea what flavour they were but the last name was pretty Anglo. That's the closest I got.
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Oct 9, 2013 15:50
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In my highschool orchestra we had a Darwin Chen and an Angus Chen (no relation). I mean, those are actual names, but I can't help but laugh at them. They were both great players, as I recall.
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Oct 9, 2013 21:54
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Shithouse Dave posted:I used to work in a government department dealing with support for middle to low income families in New Zealand. I once processed an application for T-Gen and J'd. Spoke to their mother, they're pronounced Teagan and Jade. I have no idea what flavour they were but the last name was pretty Anglo. That's the closest I got. I know someone that changed their name from Kayleigh to K-lee, I mean, I understand that people misspell their name to show individuality (eg Amy/Ami/Amee/Aimy/Aimee/Aymi) but to change your legal name to K-lee just seems daft to me. Also I know a lot of databases aren't able to accommodate punctuation, so she's probably referred to as Klee a lot.
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Oct 9, 2013 22:27
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I had a client last year named Benhur Rodriguez. My brother and his family attend church with Major Flash. That's not his rank. My niece and nephew have a classmate named Atticus, a little white boy whose parents must be fans of To Kill A Mockingbird. There is also a pair of twins named London and Paris. The boy is Paris, which is accurate as Paris is historically male, but must confuse a lot of parents. The daughters of a friend of my mother have given their collective children pretty terrible names, the only one I remember is a boy named Pharoah. His mother is white as can be and the father is first generation Canadian, his parents were Italian. I'm going to find out what those names are. I used to work with a Stormy. Her mother is Starla and her children are Summer, Skylar and Stetsyn.
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Oct 9, 2013 22:28
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qerina posted:Summer qerina posted:Skylar qerina posted:and Stetsyn. 
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Oct 10, 2013 00:01
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You just know there is a little Fedora Jones out there somewhere.
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Oct 10, 2013 00:05
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:clonk: ? The alternative spelling for that one really just knocks it out of the park. "Stetson" just wasn't "out there" enough.
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Oct 10, 2013 00:25
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My cousin's 4 year old son is named kyler, When I saw it on facebook I just thought that he messed up on his iphone and meant skyler or tyler but nope, kyler.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:13
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When I adopted my cat, he was named Tyler (re-named Ivan almost immediately), and he was there with his brother, named Kyler. That's the only time I've encountered the name, and I figured the SPCA just made it up to be cutesy. These parents name their kids the way most people name their pets.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:22
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Kyla is a not-uncommon name. I assume Kyler is a masculine (or just alternate) version.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:15
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Istari posted:Kyla is a not-uncommon name. I assume Kyler is a masculine (or just alternate) version. I would think the masculine form would just be, you know, Kyle.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:28
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I know someone miangel (My Angel) Such a weird name..
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Oct 10, 2013 02:45
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Popular names seem to go in cycles. There were three girls called Lisa in my college chemistry class of about 30, it was literally 10% Lisas. I noticed in the late 90s that there seemed to be an excessive number of boys named Caleb or Mitchell. Anyone notice an excess of recurring names lately?
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sweeperbravo posted::clonk: Inspector Zenigata posted:Lots of -aydens/aidens. Everying from Aiden to Zayden. Sham bam bamina! has a new favorite as of 03:27 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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Oct 10, 2013 03:22
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^^^Ohh, yours is better. Maybe I'll name my kid that. I worked at a portrait studio, and it seemed like every day we had a little girl named Madison or Maddie (I say "seemed" but this was definitely true around the holidays. The more customers coming in, the percentage of Madison/Maddies stayed the same, but you saw more of them). Lots of Olivias and Evas/Avas also. For boys, a lot of Nicholas and Vincent, but I think that's partly due to me living in a region with a lot of Italian ancestry/heritage. And yeah, the -adens for little boys. Literally every consonant or consonant pair of the alphabet slapped in front of an -aden. Except fortunately I never did meet a Maiden.
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Oct 10, 2013 03:23
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Whenever Hawaii's papers would run a piece on the child of the singer Don Ho, they would always name her in the headline as HO DAUGHTER.Say Nothing posted:Um... typo? Now imagine that, except multiplied by four hundred, and then you have what my high school graduation sounded like 
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Oct 10, 2013 03:34
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Say Nothing posted:Popular names seem to go in cycles. There were three girls called Lisa in my college chemistry class of about 30, it was literally 10% Lisas. In high school, there was an absurd number of kids called Jess/Jesse/Jessie/Jessica. Same for Ben/Benjamin, and Matt/Matthew. There were 3 girls called Ruby in my kindergarten class of 18 kids. I know 3 guys, all aged 24-25, called Odin. Ten years ago, of the 7 girls in my cousin's preschool class, 2 were called Tigerlily.
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Oct 10, 2013 03:55
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Say Nothing posted:
I'm a sportswriter in a place dominated by prep sports. I mainly cover one team and sitting up in pressboxes, you get to know each other a little bit. So, it's become a joke with several of us as to how many football players are named Malik this year. My main team has three. They played a Malik last week and the week before. I know for sure in two weeks, there will be another Malik. Several of the state's prep stars this year are named Malik or a variation thereof. I have actually have had a coach tell me this year, "the Maliks are good." Sure, football lends itself to a lot of duplicate names, but this is the first swarm of Maliks.
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Oct 10, 2013 04:09
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I feel like when I was a kid, every girl was named Jennifer, Sarah, or Elizabeth, and all the boys were Brian, Jason, and Michael. Now I feel like all the girls are MaKyN'ZEE or Mad!sunn, and all the boys are Flayden, Quaiden, Zpleyden, or some other abomination.
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Oct 10, 2013 05:21
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bringmyfishback posted:I feel like when I was a kid, every girl was named Jennifer, Sarah, or Elizabeth, and all the boys were Brian, Jason, and Michael.
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Oct 10, 2013 05:26
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My nephew is Aidan. Normal Aidan, nothing fancy. I went to primary school with a girl called Rainy Webber. I don't know if her mum suddenly realised one day what she had done, but the mum started referring to her as Rainy-Lee every time she was mentioned. The kid preferred Rainy. I've come to believe that Ethan is a bad prognostic indicator for a child. I work in intensive care, and we had a spate of Ethans of varying ages for a while. Not one of them went well. There are a few others I've seen that were a bit special: Dekkard, Daiquiri (I can't remember the spelling for this one, it was not enough to call the kid Daiquiri but it was a unique spelling too), and Kevin. Kevin's not a bad name in and of itself, but a 4 month old does not suit having an older man's name like that. I went to high school with a Mayuran, which sounds just great in an Australian accent (my urine). In high school I thought the names Avalon and Ambrosia were a bit weird, but they're nothing nowadays. My own unborn kid is going to be called William. The OB complimented us on our normal name choice and made a muttered comment about "some of the names I hear in this place..."
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One of my other cousin's daughters is named logan, boy name on a little girl...and y'know, wolverine.
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Renzuko posted:One of my other cousin's daughters is named logan, boy name on a little girl...and y'know, wolverine. I knew at least three girls growing up named Logan. It's not all that unusual.
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Oct 10, 2013 07:36
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Say Nothing posted:Anyone notice an excess of recurring names lately? Working in a daycare, I know a thousand toddlers called Alfie and Isabella. Evie is crazy popular too.
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Oct 10, 2013 13:36
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annaconda posted:Dekkard
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razorrozar posted:I knew at least three girls growing up named Logan. It's not all that unusual. I went to school with a girl named Michael. Always threw folks for a loop when she would introduce herself.
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Oct 10, 2013 19:25
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Lotish posted:I went to school with a girl named Michael.
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eating only apples posted:Working in a daycare, I know a thousand toddlers called Alfie and Isabella. Evie is crazy popular too.
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Oct 10, 2013 20:10
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a million birds posted:It's funny how old people names are coming back. I've met 3 year olds named Edna and Agnes. I really want to give my future kids old people names  They solve the problem of wanting a somewhat unique name while still keeping it familiar to the populace.
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Oct 10, 2013 22:05
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Lotish posted:I went to school with a girl named Michael. Always threw folks for a loop when she would introduce herself. You just made me remember that I went to college with a girl named Michael (and yes, I'm certain it was spelled that way). Would have wound up dating her, too, if not for some fraternity/sorority drama.
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Oct 10, 2013 22:42
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Yes, that was how she spelled it. Thanks for link, though. I love learning.
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a million birds posted:It's funny how old people names are coming back. I've met 3 year olds named Edna and Agnes. Thank God, because they'll keep a really young Warren I know company.
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Oct 10, 2013 23:42
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As a very young child, I went to church with a kid called Boogie. That was, as far as anyone knew, his given name.
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I know a woman who named her son Aidan, or possibly Aiden. And as for common names, I knew a lot of Kates (And variations on it) in high school. Hell my mom told me that if I'd been a girl I would have been named Katherine. Instead I got saddled with Eamon, which is bizarrely difficult for a lot of people to pronounce, especially if they read it before I can tell them how to say it. And no, it's not made up.
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Beardless posted:I know a woman who named her son Aidan, or possibly Aiden. And as for common names, I knew a lot of Kates (And variations on it) in high school. Hell my mom told me that if I'd been a girl I would have been named Katherine. Instead I got saddled with Eamon, which is bizarrely difficult for a lot of people to pronounce, especially if they read it before I can tell them how to say it. And no, it's not made up. You have the opportunity to educate them on their 20th century Irish history.
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Beardless posted:I know a woman who named her son Aidan, or possibly Aiden. And as for common names, I knew a lot of Kates (And variations on it) in high school. Hell my mom told me that if I'd been a girl I would have been named Katherine. Instead I got saddled with Eamon, which is bizarrely difficult for a lot of people to pronounce, especially if they read it before I can tell them how to say it. And no, it's not made up. I know a girl called Aidan. I also knew two boys called Aidan (Aiden ?) in primary school; they were both arseholes. I went to school with a boy called Eamon. It always confused me how many people pronounced it Ee-mon, rather than Ay-mon, no matter how many times he corrected them, despite the fact that it isn't that uncommon. Yesterday, I was stuck in a queue behind a woman with a newborn. Someone else in the queue asked about his name and was told it was 'Leo'. I caught a glimpse of his birth certificate. Leo is short for Leodegrance. Are Arthurian babynames a popular thing now ? Should I be anticipating seeing a bunch of Excaliburs and Gawaines popping up in the next few years ?
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At dinner the other night, my little sister noticed a friend request from Boogie Shuler. We went to church with him 15 years ago and as far as anyone I know can tell, Boogie is actually his name.
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Istari posted:Are Arthurian babynames a popular thing now ? Should I be anticipating seeing a bunch of Excaliburs and Gawaines popping up in the next few years ?
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