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Rollersnake posted:First name: Jaelynn. Middle name: Zaelee. My kids are named Mary and Bruce, after my grandmother and my father respectively, and I have yet to meet any other kids with those names. I have met lots of Marias of all ages, and the Bruce's I've met are in their 50s or older - it used to be one of the most popular names in the US. I know lots of Christophers and Michaels and Jasons in their 40s, but I've only met one little kid names Jason. And Jennifers in their 30s and 40s are a dime a dozen, but I haven't met any little kids named Jennifer. I have met at least two Annistons, though.
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Rollersnake posted:First name: Jaelynn. Middle name: Zaelee. Please don't name your children after candy bars 
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Rollersnake posted:First name: Jaelynn. Middle name: Zaelee. Give it a few years and kindergarten classes will be full of Dorothy, Anne, George, Margaret and Geoffrey.
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May 14, 2015 09:25
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Shithouse Dave posted:Give it a few years and kindergarten classes will be full of Dorothy, Anne, George, Margaret and Geoffrey. It seems "George" has been on the rise ever since the Royal Spawning, and I imagine "Charlotte" will now, too. Which kinda sucks, as I've always liked the name Charlotte, but I wouldn't want my kid to have to be Charlotte W. in class. <-----------and this kind of thinking is exactly what propagated the names making up this thread.
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bringmyfishback posted:It seems "George" has been on the rise ever since the Royal Spawning, and I imagine "Charlotte" will now, too. Where I'm from, the name Charlotte never went out of fashion, so your kid would get that no matter what.
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May 14, 2015 10:27
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Rollersnake posted:Edit: I am seriously going to name my future child something like Henry or Ruth, but maybe normal, grandparent-sounding names will be back in style by then. No.... anything but that.... NOT HENRY!!!!
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May 14, 2015 12:17
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Not any name in particular, but I find it pretty odd how if someone names their kid after themselves e.g. John Smith, Jr then apparently their wives also take on the ",Jr" as well, at least in formal settings.
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May 14, 2015 12:35
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sout posted:Not any name in particular, but I find it pretty odd how if someone names their kid after themselves e.g. John Smith, Jr then apparently their wives also take on the ",Jr" as well, at least in formal settings. Haha what really? Completely off topic, but it reminded me: as a DB admin there's nothing more infuriating that users filling out forms and including unwanted information in them. And you better believe that if a form on a website just gives you "first" and "last" name options your users are going to fill them with so much unnecessary bullshit that you'll want to blow your brains out when scrubbing the data.
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May 14, 2015 12:57
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Snorben. 
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Wayne Gretzky posted:Snorben. I lol'd, this is formatted perfectly.
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Istari posted:Where I'm from, the name Charlotte never went out of fashion, so your kid would get that no matter what. I live in Charlotte, NC. I don't think there are many girls named Charlotte around here (which is kind of a shame, it's a pretty name).
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May 14, 2015 15:57
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On of the contestants on Wheel of Fortune yesterday was named G'NA. My gf guessed it was pronounced Gina but it turned out to be a Jennay
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fullroundaction posted:Haha what really? It's a really old-fashioned way of referring to married couples. Doesn't just apply to guys named after their dads. Dr. John Smith and his wife Mary would be Dr. & Mrs. John Smith, for example. And it works the same for guys with a Jr. tacked on the end: Mr. Thomas Long, Jr. and his wife Sarah would be Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Long, Jr. You don't see it much anymore except from old people and in historic documents.
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VorpalBunny posted:My kids are named Mary and Bruce, after my grandmother and my father respectively, and I have yet to meet any other kids with those names. I have met lots of Marias of all ages, and the Bruce's I've met are in their 50s or older - it used to be one of the most popular names in the US. I know lots of Christophers and Michaels and Jasons in their 40s, but I've only met one little kid names Jason. And Jennifers in their 30s and 40s are a dime a dozen, but I haven't met any little kids named Jennifer. I have met at least two Annistons, though. I would imagine Avengers would up the Bruces in the world. Mary honestly surprises me. It's one of those names like "Jane" or "John" where it's considered super generic. bringmyfishback posted:It seems "George" has been on the rise ever since the Royal Spawning, and I imagine "Charlotte" will now, too. I had this backfire with my kid. My (now ex) wife and I were huge b-movie fans, and liked the name Ash (from Evil Dead. We're nerds. Deal with it.) and went looking through name books for something Ash could be short for. Ashley is still too girly, despite being the case with the namesake, and Ashton would make everyone think we named him after Ashton Kutcher. So then we settled on Asher, because it was cool, it was different, and could be shortened to Ash (Ironically he at age 8 prefers the full name to the nickname.) Then, after he was born, suddenly we started seeing people named Asher everywhere. On TV, at playgrounds, in pictures in newspapers, etc etc. Apparently by chance we wound up with one of the hot "different" names of that year. I even found out later that a cousin of mine who had her son less than a year later named him the same thing, because apparently she'd always wanted a son with that name--to the point where she didn't tell her husband we already used the name, even though we're not at all close, until after the kid was born and named.
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May 14, 2015 22:41
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Junior is crap, the younger is where it's at.
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May 14, 2015 22:46
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 Another preschooler who is doomed from the start
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Pipsies posted:
Hello, I'm Wilford Brynlee, and I have diabetus.
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Choco1980 posted:I would imagine Avengers would up the Bruces in the world. Mary honestly surprises me. It's one of those names like "Jane" or "John" where it's considered super generic. One of the main characters in The Giver is named Asher, and since the mid-90s, that book's been a requisite in every middle school ever. It's not unlikely that kids who read it back in the 90s are having kids of their own now. I always liked the name 
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I really want to name my future son Walter but I don't think the probable father is at all jazzed about the name 
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sweeperbravo posted:I really want to name my future son Walter but I don't think the probable father is at all jazzed about the name That would convince me.
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hyperhazard posted:One of the main characters in The Giver is named Asher, and since the mid-90s, that book's been a requisite in every middle school ever. It's not unlikely that kids who read it back in the 90s are having kids of their own now. I always figured it was a Hebrew name. Every Asher I know is Jewish.
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Male Tears posted:I always figured it was a Hebrew name. Every Asher I know is Jewish. That's the English derivation, I think. iirc the historical name was Ashur, but if you hopped on a boat to the promise of a new life in America in the 1800s, you probably didn't give a gently caress how the guy spelled or pronounced it.
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Yeah, according to the baby name book we used, it's Hebrew. Means "happy".
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I think posting birth announcements from the Daily Prophet is cheating.
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May 15, 2015 07:35
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Just because your parents named you Rupert means you should take it out on your kids
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Choco1980 posted:I would imagine Avengers would up the Bruces in the world. Mary honestly surprises me. It's one of those names like "Jane" or "John" where it's considered super generic. My parents were going to name my sister Megan, and then changed their mind when they noticed that several people on base were doing the same. My sister had over ten friends named Megan in high school.
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Lotish posted:My parents were going to name my sister Megan, and then changed their mind when they noticed that several people on base were doing the same. My sister had over ten friends named Megan in high school. This is why I'm not named Caitlin like a lot of girls who were born in 1986. I ended up going to an all girls Catholic school for a year when I was 14 and so many of my upper middle class white classmates were named Caitlin, with every spelling you can imagine.
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There were a LOT of Jennifers in my classes growing up. This data point could probably be used to guess my age fairly accurately. My kid's name is Alice, after her great-grandma, and we haven't yet run into another Alice in any of her classes. Oddly, people will hear "Alexis" or "Alex" before "Alice," so I end up having to add "like in Wonderland" if someone is writing her name down.
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Let's welcome little Reign Leif No, not "Reign Layve", "Rain Leaf." quote:"I said if we have the baby out here we can call him 'Reign,' because it's raining, and 'Leif,' because there are leaves," he said. 
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KillerEggplant posted:My kid's name is Alice, after her great-grandma, and we haven't yet run into another Alice in any of her classes. Oddly, people will hear "Alexis" or "Alex" before "Alice," so I end up having to add "like in Wonderland" if someone is writing her name down. I get a lot of stunned looks when Bruce and Mary give their names, I think the simplicity stuns people. Then I get a lot of "my Dad was named Bruce!" or "that was my aunt and uncle's names!" I have friends with a boy named Teague, and other friends with a girl named Tegan, and my son gets confused when we talk about visiting them (they live in different cities).
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Jushila
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May 15, 2015 18:32
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I made an appointment with a Lark a few years back.
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KillerEggplant posted:There were a LOT of Jennifers in my classes growing up. This data point could probably be used to guess my age fairly accurately. I was born in 1977 and, like you, grew up surrounded by Jennifers. No one ever got my name right (they thought it was Allison), or if they did, they made Wonderland jokes. People who heard my name before meeting me would invariably tell me they'd expected "a little old lady." Apparently it's getting popular again, which is very strange to me. 
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Carb. Heard shouted at a small boy of eight or so on my bus to work this morning by his grandmother. It was definitely Carb, she said it about a dozen times. Seriously, Carb? I can't even think what it would be a nickname for? He did not look like a child who ate a lot of starchy foods.
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Irisi posted:Carb. Heard shouted at a small boy of eight or so on my bus to work this morning by his grandmother. It was definitely Carb, she said it about a dozen times. 
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Lotish posted:Jushila Jew-Sheila? Joo-shilla? Jush-eela? This one has me stumped!
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Just met a little girl called Maffia.
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Katana. (not oriental) These poor kids.
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