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My first AND last names are both so common it's a PITA. The company I work for actually has another person with my same name, same spelling working in the same building! After 9/11 my name began appearing on the terrorist watch list since it's so common, kept getting stuck going through "random" searches until some one at the airport clued me in. Now I travel using first, middle, last and mothers maiden. Barely fits on the ticket but it does the job! Haven't been randomly selected ever since
Hubby also has a fairly common name so when we named DS we definitely wanted something off the beaten path so he wouldn't be 1 of 4 in his class with the same name as was the case with us. Sadly, the name has become much more popular in the last few years so he may suffer the same fate after all
I don't really understand the animosity some people feel towards what other people chose to name their children, at the end of the day it's not like some one is naming YOU that so who cares? The one exception to that for me was when those id*ots named their kids Adolph Hilter and something else equally hateful.
Here's a fun website to see just how popular your/kids name really is:
What an interesting list. My kid is down there in the mid 300's. I saw Genesis in there, for a girl. I dunno if I could name my kid that, I'd always be reminded of Phil Collins (unfortunately he ruined it for me and I no longer associate the name with Peter Gabriel).
Su Su Sudio, indeed. Who names their kid that, Phil?
I always feel bad for someone who had a trendy name before it was trendy. Like you, some people chose it because it was a nice name with a nice meaning. Now all the world is choosing it because it's "trendy" and "cool" and "celebrity". I have one of those names. My name is Moderator cut: Orphaned . At the time my parents chose[mod]Orphaned[/mod} because it was a nice name that wasn't too common. Then from 1997-2007 it was the most common girls name. Anytime i went somewhere and my mom would call out to me literally 27 people would look.
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These things go in cycles; Moderator cut: deleted was pretty popular when I was younger (not top of the list, but pretty high up, and while it wasn't like Jennifer or Amy, it was still fairly common. Perhaps today's (or last decade's) mothers were choosing it because it sounded, to our generation, like a nice classic name, and very possibly, nice but not too common. I can still understand being annoyed when it became so popular, though; my son has a common name, and we had no idea when we named him just HOW popular it was. We thought it was classic but not trendy. Apparently it's both.
These things go in cycles; Moderator cut: Orphaned was pretty popular when I was younger (not top of the list, but pretty high up, and while it wasn't like Jennifer or Amy, it was still fairly common. Perhaps today's (or last decade's) mothers were choosing it because it sounded, to our generation, like a nice classic name, and very possibly, nice but not too common. I can still understand being annoyed when it became so popular, though; my son has a common name, and we had no idea when we named him just HOW popular it was. We thought it was classic but not trendy. Apparently it's both.
The funny part is my mom was asked by many people why she gave me such an "old" name.
Kelsey, used to be a boy's name, now a girl's name. I wanted to name my daughter, Kitten...but my Grandmother went crazy, told me she would end up being a dancer at Cheetah's...
Sometimes I hate the fact that my name is Unisex. Casey is either way. So, when I was in high school, the quarterback of the football team was a guy named Casey and I would always think people were talking to me in the hall.... when there were actually yelling to him BEHIND me.
Sometimes I hate the fact that my name is Unisex. Casey is either way. So, when I was in high school, the quarterback of the football team was a guy named Casey and I would always think people were talking to me in the hall.... when there were actually yelling to him BEHIND me.
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My son is name Vincent. NO confusion there.
Yeah, I would it hate it too if my name was Unise... oh wait, that's not what you were saying, was it?
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