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Confession: One class that I teach on the weekends consists mainly of 2 to 3 year olds that rotate to different spots. When I forget a boy's name I wait until he's in a group of boys and then sing the song out to "Jack" "Sam" "Liam" etc. and eventually the kid will usually look up after the third or fourth try.
My kids were named after family memebers. As a result, my middle child's name would be the name you call out in a seniors center located in the Bronx. "Hiram"? "Arsen" Leo" ? |
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Mother of a Sophie here. We just loved the name! It was pretty much the only one we could agree on, out of many names.
It's funny that Sophie is so popular around here. Most of my friends who live elsewhere in the country don't have a single Sophie in their circles. I saw Sophia was popular on the name websites, but didn't really connect that all those Sophias would become Sophies. They just seem so different to me, strange as that sounds. I feel a little silly not knowing that, but honestly, it wouldn't have made much of a difference because we loved the name no matter what and it turns out to perfectly suit our sweet girl. The only thing that makes me sad is to hear people on this site saying "ugh, not another Sophie!" and talking badly about the name. It feels like overhearing someone trash talking my daughter, for some weird reason. I hate that people might pre-judge Sophie because of her name, when we didn't even name her after a fruit or anything!  I hope everyone gives her a chance, and she doesn't hate me one day like the Jennifer above.
My husband says that our Sophie will just be the best one and thinks I'm silly to worry about her name now that she's almost a year old. I will say that our second choice was Miri, short for Miriam. I was relieved we didn't pick that one after the movie "Zach and Miri make a porno" came out! the same year she was born! Gulp. |
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I think focusing so much on making your kids's name special and different, to degree that you are consciously hunting out wacky names, reflects some kind of basic insecurity. Everyone wants to be special and different and stand out from the herd. But forcing it, and being so proudly different, is caring just as much about what's popular as the people who name their kids Jack and Emily.
Or, how about we just all pick the names we really like and NOT consult lists or care? If everyone is naming their kids Emily and Jack, then maybe its because everyone likes those names. Why is that such a bad thing? |
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I mentioned that Sophie was popular but I still think it's a great name and I wouldn't give any of this a second thought. FWIW, we have a Zachary and we naively didn't think much about whether we liked Zach (I guess we just thought if he were to become Zach it would start when he was older). He is 5 and prefers Zachary but people still nickname him. We thought much more about nicknames when we named our second child.... |
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| Madeleine- they are everywhere. |
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This cracked me up. I remember reading a book that took place in NYC around 2000 about a family with little kids. The author wrote about how all the kids on the playground had the same names as the guys his grandfather used to take a Schvitz with back in the day in Brooklyn! |
Anonymous
My 8 year old is Charlie (Charles) and when we named him after my grandfather no one was using the name much any more (2001). Now you do hear it a lot but he has never had another Charlie in his class. They are always a few years younger. I love it regardless and I think, with a classic like Charlie, Will (William), Henry, George, John (Jack) , etc... you just can not go wrong. They have been used for so long for a reason. I do know a lot of children today named Campbell, both genders. I personally would only use it if it was a family name. My husband has a 40-yr old friend named Campbell but all anyone has ever called him since highschool is "Soup." As for a "unique name" well, I have one. I have NEVER met anyone with my name although if I google it there are some others out there as it is a very old name from another country. I have hated my name my entire life. It is AWFUL to have a name that no one else has. There is no chance of anonymity so every deed, good or bad, gets remembered and rehashed and is always attached to YOU! You can not get away with anything as a child or teenager. If someone is talking about you in public there is NO chance that someone overhearing it will mistake who is being talked about. I HATE being talked about, even in a good way, and I really believe that in my entire life I have never been able to blend in t a crowd name-wise. It sucks, flat out sucks. I crave privacy and can not understand celebrityhood or even wanting your house on a house tour or your child's picture in a magazine. Ugh. As for changing my name, I guess some people would have but, then you are loosing everything about yourself up until that moment you change it and I love my life, just not my name. Also, I just dont think it would work. When your name is as unique as mine is, I think you kind of get stuck. Please, please dont do that to your new baby. That is all I can ask. |
Anonymous
LOL, I grew up with one of the first/last names you mentioned. DH likes the modern trendies (which I don't care for) and he doesn't like the "classics" I like (which I admit are becoming trendy themselves). Now we're thinking about finding a GenX name that wasn't super popular so DD doesn't have a "mom name". |
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My sons are the first two---damn proud they are named after their great Grandfathers-- two supberb men. It's funny I haven't heard any other 'Henrys' in G-town but my friend in Capitol Hill said it is rampant over there. My son is the only 'Jack' in his school. Go figure. My feeling- the name does not make the personality/character. John and Henry have survived for eons and never migrated down to the white trash category. Hell if 'Henry' was good enough for 8 kings it's good enough for my guy. |
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funny. I went back to my 20year HS reunion and all of the Jennifers bonded again immediately. I think maybe it did help as you immediately identified with this other group of ppl and we all had outlandish nicknames created by others. All of us turned out very successful. I never minded having a 'common' name which btw wasn't common at the time my mom named me--- apparently 'Love Story' came out soon after I was born and 'Jenny' played by Ali McGraw caused a 'Jennifer' naming frenzy which lasted many years after. I still think it's a beautiful name-- though I know it will be the old lady name in about 20 years  .
I agree w/ somebody that I liked that it creates a kind of privacy since there be so many others with that name it's not immediately known who is being referenced in the hallway gossip. I don't think I'd want a name I had to explain and spell over and over again and repeat a million times. |
Anonymous
We didn't tell anyone potential names while we were expecting.....and GASP! we didn't find out the genders ahead of time either. Very refreshing. |
Anonymous
Watch out for those role models! |
Anonymous
Yep, we were the same way. We also chose names from our parents' generation. I'd read that if you want a name that is not being used a lot these days, pick one from one generation back. So far it seems to hold true! |
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I don't even think they teach history in school these days (if everything I read in the papers is true) so I should be safe...ha! |
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Boys: Aiden, Noah
Girls: Eleanor/Ellie/Ella, Madeleine |