Do you love your unusual name?

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Sasha

Didn't like it as a kid (I wanted a name that could end in "y" like Jenny), but like it as an adult.

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If you want to choose an unusual name for your daughter, try these names. Susan. You'll never hear of a Susan under age 30. Or Linda. Or Donna. THOSE are unusual names (unlike the tsunami of Claires, Madelyns, and Isabelles in my son's class)

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to choose an unusual name for your daughter, try these names. Susan. You'll never hear of a Susan under age 30. Or Linda. Or Donna. THOSE are unusual names (unlike the tsunami of Claires, Madelyns, and Isabelles in my son's class)

Please do. I have one of those names, and cringed a little when a 19 year old BOY at my office said I had an old-lady name. Bring them back and maybe I won't feel like I'm the youngest generation's version of Mable and Gertrude and Mildred.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to choose an unusual name for your daughter, try these names. Susan. You'll never hear of a Susan under age 30. Or Linda. Or Donna. THOSE are unusual names (unlike the tsunami of Claires, Madelyns, and Isabelles in my son's class)

Or Peggy or Gladys.

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Anonymous wrote:PP, I seriously did not know another Heather growing up and I do not know any now. Maybe just happens to be where I have lived but now I am intrigued that I do not know any others. I'm closer to 1980, maybe that is why I don't know any, the name was losing steam by then?

On the "Heather" front, I guess I can't think of a single Heather, famous or not, who is under 30, and if you are under 30, or just over 30, and never watched Melrose Place (Heather Locklear), never saw or heard of the movie "Heathers" (which in part made fun of the commonness of the name Heather), never heard of Paul McCartney's ex-wife (Heather Mills), or of Austin powers' first co-star (Heather Graham), I can totally understand why you would think you were the only one.

When did I say I thought I was the only Heather out there? Not what I said. I said I did not know any Heathers growing up and that I do not know any now. As far as the famous Heathers you mentioned, of course I have heard of them but I do not consider them friends and I do not know them.

I did not grow up in this area. I think it's funny so many people find it hard to believe I do not know any other Heathers just based on the Social Security website statistics. Yes, it seems it was a popular name, does not mean I know other Heathers. If it makes any difference I am not in my 30's.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to choose an unusual name for your daughter, try these names. Susan. You'll never hear of a Susan under age 30. Or Linda. Or Donna. THOSE are unusual names (unlike the tsunami of Claires, Madelyns, and Isabelles in my son's class)

I hate my name, Donna! No one names their child Donna anymore. Born in mid sixties...Donna, Linda, Christine, Michelle, Laura, Denise, Debbie, Barbara, Karen, Kimberly, Tammy, Pamela, were very common names in the 60s.

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And Lisa!

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I would also love to know how men with unusual names feel about their names. Do they care as much as women seem to care? (that remark is not meant in any way disparagingly, I am a woman and fascinated with names)

My name wasn't common in the 70's, but is now: Natalie.

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I'm Melinda. I used to hate my name as a kid, but now kind of like it because you don't hear it all the time. Of course throughout my life I've had to deal with people who first remember my name as Melissa instead. No, it's Melinda....not Melissa.

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It's probably true on the boy's side too, but not as severely. Try to find a boy 10 or younger named alan. But most of the names can still be found (jeff, kevin, scott, eric, etc)

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Anonymous wrote:I'm Melinda. I used to hate my name as a kid, but now kind of like it because you don't hear it all the time. Of course throughout my life I've had to deal with people who first remember my name as Melissa instead. No, it's Melinda....not Melissa.

I knew a family with three daughters: Melanie, Melinda and Melissa. The girls used to fight over who got to call herself "Mel".

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Anonymous wrote:My name is so unusual that I could not post it here (or anywhere) without outing myself. I hated my name as a child in the 70s, and continue to dislike it now.

Me to! So I changed it to a more common form.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm Melinda. I used to hate my name as a kid, but now kind of like it because you don't hear it all the time. Of course throughout my life I've had to deal with people who first remember my name as Melissa instead. No, it's Melinda....not Melissa.

I knew a family with three daughters: Melanie, Melinda and Melissa. The girls used to fight over who got to call herself "Mel".

Melinda here. OMG, are you kidding?? That's kind of strange...

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I knew a Spanish couple that moved here and chose names which I guess could work in English and Spanish. Bernice and Bertha. Can you imagine worse names?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm Melinda. I used to hate my name as a kid, but now kind of like it because you don't hear it all the time. Of course throughout my life I've had to deal with people who first remember my name as Melissa instead. No, it's Melinda....not Melissa.

I knew a family with three daughters: Melanie, Melinda and Melissa. The girls used to fight over who got to call herself "Mel".

Melinda here. OMG, are you kidding?? That's kind of strange...

I actually knew a family of five girls, all named Maria. Only of them got to use the Maria, and the others had to go by their middle names, which were God awful: Juana, Lupe, ... I can't remember the rest. It would have been fine if (1) they were in a Spanish speaking community, or (2) they were actually Hispanic. They weren't. They were regular old Caucasians with these ridiculous Spanish names. Lupe is impossible to pull off if you're not Hispanic.