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The only Mary I've ever known is 38, the only Winston I've ever known is 37. edit: I swear, there is some kind of bad snipe curse on me lately YeahTubaMike has a new favorite as of 15:16 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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These old-young cycles are also true for Dutch names. Like, no one in Flanders who is named Luc, Rita, André or Liliane is going to be younger than 50, while people with names like Jef or Jules are either over 80 or under 10. I myself have such a 'generational' name that clearly marks me as an elder Millennial - after 1988, almost no boys with my name were born here. It was my impression English did have a larger variety of "evergreen" names like John, William, Mary, etc.
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I have a first first name that's never been in the top 5 but has been in the top 15 or 20 ever since we've had first names. Every generation will have one or two famous 3Ds. e: Hmm I guess the data is muddled somewhat by the fact that it counts all first names, not just first first names. So you've got Antero in the top ten despite literally no-one's first first name being Antero. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 17:58 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Pope Hilarius II posted:These old-young cycles are also true for Dutch names. Like, no one in Flanders who is named Luc, Rita, André or Liliane is going to be younger than 50, while people with names like Jef or Jules are either over 80 or under 10. I myself have such a 'generational' name that clearly marks me as an elder Millennial - after 1988, almost no boys with my name were born here. Today I learned that Dutch has Jeffs
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My name is a medium popular 80s girl name with a special spelling because my teen parents couldn't initially agree on what to name me. My mom wanted "Moon" and my dad wanted his ex-girlfriend's name and they compromised by going with a version of dad's ex's name but my mom got to choose the spelling.
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Mar 17, 2022 18:00
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Dad's lucky he got a place to sleep after that little maneuver
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So is Name of the Year not a thing anymore?
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Lady Disdain posted:Names I've only ever seen on people over 60 or under 6: Ha, my name's on this list and I'm mid 30s. Don't know a lot of other people with it though. I also grew up with three Margarets who all went by Maggie, and I have two coworkers around my age or a bit younger who are Margarets going by Maggie.
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Mar 18, 2022 03:45
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The two Margarets under 6 that I know are both Maggies.
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Cross posting from the weird Wikipedia face thread in GBS:
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I found out today that one of the members of my team is a Jlah. Pronounced 'Jay-luh'. Also less the name itself than the circumstances; yesterday I had a contact from a customer named Cecelia who was unable to use text alerts because she's blind. Cecelia is the feminine form of 'Cecil', which actually means 'blind'.
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Mar 25, 2022 17:35
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I just processed a work application for a man named Ryno Welding. I thought he was business untill I saw his drivers licence.
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Wendy Kite
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Names come in cycles like that. A generation actively avoids the names old people had when they were growing up, so their kids never hear them and don't have any negative associations. Reminds me of how Louis has come back into fashion over here, despite being an old people name when I was younger. Phy posted:Today I learned that Dutch has Jeffs I actually knew a few Jefs growing up, but for the most part Pope is probably correct that it's a name for either the very old or the very young Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 16:38 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Spotted in Avignon, France: e: I was gonna try it but then I saw a Vietnamese restaurant, so sorry to this House of Poop.
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I found out recently a friend's legal name is just "S". Weird parents, not a clerical mistake.
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I'm transcribing bits of the 1950 US Census for one of the various websites indexing it. Shirley Temple [surname] has popped up in Texas. She is a young teen, so definitely named after the actress.
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Recently encountered a 5 year old kid named Pepper and usually goes by Pep. Can't say I hate it but definitely unusual.
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Apr 15, 2022 17:19
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Well, there's Pep Guardiola, I assume it's a Catalan name.
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Apr 15, 2022 23:40
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Aphrodite posted:I found out recently a friend's legal name is just "S". Big fans of Harry Truman?
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scholastica spiro velverlon siblings shedmarion, shedtina shiny minnie piggee ellen kellen last name hell
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DemonDarkhorse posted:
These are just evolutions.
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DemonDarkhorse posted:scholastica I was just looking through a book of baby names recently and saw this one.
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Aphrodite posted:I found out recently a friend's legal name is just "S". Can you introduce me to the reincarnation of Harry Truman?
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DemonDarkhorse posted:scholastica Aww, it sounds like a book fair-themed Elastica cover band :/
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Phlegmish posted:Well, there's Pep Guardiola, I assume it's a Catalan name. Yup, short for Josep IIRC. I have a coworker named Pep who has no pep at all!
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Saffronia.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Can you introduce me to the reincarnation of Harry Truman? I thought President Grant did it first.
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Marc de Cock Candela Poó
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I have fairly close relatives with this exact surname. It's basically the Dutch/Flemish equivalent of Cook. I must say that I have occasionally wondered if it ever gets awkward for them when they visit Anglo countries or interact with Anglo people. A bit like Joke, which is a reasonably common and normal Flemish name (pronounced using two distinct syllables, -ke being a diminutive suffix commonly used in Flanders although not so much the Netherlands) that becomes rather unfortunate when English pronunciation rules are applied to it.
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Just worked with someone with the name : J. Pepper Hornbuckle It was a remote session with no camera, but I can only imagine they were in a white sear-sucker suit, slowly sipping on a mint julep the entire time.
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Phlegmish posted:I have fairly close relatives with this exact surname. It's basically the Dutch/Flemish equivalent of Cook. I must say that I have occasionally wondered if it ever gets awkward for them when they visit Anglo countries or interact with Anglo people. I had a colleague with this surname, and he had a brother named Dick (not an uncommon name in the Netherlands and to a lesser extent Flanders, for men born in the '50s and '60s). So yeah. Dick De Cock.
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Sworn enemy of Dick Van Dyke.
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Euletia Beagle
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There's a girl in my baby daughter's class at daycare named Mabel, to continue the cyclical name discussion from a few months ago. I think we should go all the way and bring back those puritan names that were just phrases. Gonna name my next kid Fly-fornication.
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Bring back names like If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned imo
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venus de lmao posted:Bring back names like If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned imo If you look up the actual meanings of many common names they have these kind of meanings in ancient Greek, Hebrew, Germanic or similar old dead languages or dialects. Like Alexander meaning "defender of man", Alfred being "elf council" or "bright council" and Michael being the rethorical question "who is like God?".
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A couple, Richard and Candi Grabber Some parents are just mean spirited.
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venus de lmao posted:Bring back names like If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned imo I actually talk about that guy all the time! (I work in insurance.)
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