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| NP here, and I immediately recognized Declan as Irish, but I have to admit I agree with the posters who, if pressed and they didn't know, would guess that Declan is AA, since the D' /De Something is common in that community. And I really don't get how this is inherently racist? If I were to see a name like MacSomething/McSomething or O'Something, I would guess that they were Scottish or Irish in origin, even though I'm sure there are examples that aren't. But I don't think I'm being racist to do so. |
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Assuming variant spellings, many of these names are old and not made up: Afton: English Deon: Greek Jerrel: English Dewayne: Irish/Gaelic Dezmond: Irish/Gaelic Aeryn: Hebrew Detrich: German Cleophus: Greek Brionne: Irish/Gaelic |
Anonymous
| So a name could be both Irish/Gaelic. and AA? You are blowing my mind. |
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Britny, Britney, Brittaney, Britany, Brittany......HOWEVER you spell it.....still WT.
Ashley (Ashly, Ashleigh, etc.....) was many decades ago a nice name, but then everyone decided they HAD to have that name. It's my niece's name also. In fact, I would bet you know at least ten Ashley (Ashly, Ashleigh, etc....)'s! There are names that, after you beat them to a pulp, are just overdone. Does anyone recall how many of a certain name were in their elementary classes? WHO wants to be one of ten (whatever the name is)? And WHAT exactly is everyone's fascination with Declan (again, any spelling thereof)? As long as it's not too cutesy or too common, it's kind to the child! |
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I had a friend who named her daughter Lyric, not long after the movie "Jason's Lyric" came out. I don't know if she was inspired by the movie or if it was because she was a musician, but I liked the name either way.
I did read somewhere that after the movie Bridges of Madison County, the name Madison became popular for girls. But I've liked that name ever since the movie Splash. I am wondering if the name Barack will climb the name charts this year. |
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I knew a woman who named her child Lyric. She really loved to sing, and couldn't wait to name her child Lyric, boy or girl. She never did account for the fact that her child may be born deaf, and that name may be painful irony.
I liked the name Madeline when I was a kid. I just loved Moonlighing, and thought I would name my child Maddie, but there was such an explosion of Maddies that there was no way. My brother stole the name for his child, and totally regrets it. He says that when he is down at the soccer field and yells "Maddie" no less than ten girls turn. |
Anonymous
| I just have to throw in that I'm the mother of one of the 10,000,000 Carolines. I don't care that it's popular -- whatever, DH and I like it and she likes it and it's not a stripper name or anything. Anyway, I cannot stand the Neil Diamond "Sweet Caroline" song. Wouldn't you know it, everyone sings that to her? Oh well, life's too short to worry about things like that. |
Anonymous
Why would anyone assume that to be AA? The rule is starts with "De" not "Dae." Everyone knows Dae is Korean. |
Anonymous
Caroline is still a classic name. Glad you aren't sweating it cause I think you made a good choice. |
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Am I the only one that thinks each person/child makes their own name? Whether you were given an overdone or unique name, your personality shapes the name, not the other way around.
Having said that, I did not want to name my daughter anything that was *too* popular because my own name was very popular and there were 5 of us in my 30 kid class in middle school. I hated having to pick a variation of my name/last name as a nickname to be identified. For years and years I was known as "little Smith" (Smith is not my actual last name) but I had older siblings at the same school, and so I became little Smith...HATED it. |
Anonymous
This my experience too. My mom picked a name she thought was really unusual, and a few years later it became the #1 name in America for 20 years running. The only bonus is everyone thinks I'm a few years younger than I am because of the name. |
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No they don't. Most people assumes DaeWong is African American, not Korean. |
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And that makes them racist? I don't understand the point. |
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Humm... guess it depends on the name.
If it is super super uncommon and the only one person with the name is from the show then maybe I think they got it from the tv/movie. But if it's a really old fashioned name that I've heard before then I think they had the name and it happens to be on the TV show or in the movies. For example: Gwenyth - I would think they heard of it from Gwenyth Paltrow, but a name like Isadora for example is a really old name. Does this makes sense. To the OP, any chance you want to share the name that made you start this thread? I love unusual names. |
Anonymous
| Just don't name a kid Forrest-people will be telling him to run, Forrest,run for the rest of his life. He won't be able to shop at a supermarket without some wise guy cashier saying something like "life is like a box of chocolates". And he better be really, really good at ping pong. |