Spinoff:what is your name and do you like it?

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Anonymous wrote:Rebecca here 53 and I love my name…now. I kind of wish that my parents had spelled my name Rebekah because I am old-fashioned and traditional and prefer the biblical spelling.

Funny that I married into a Swiss-German surname and I often assumed to be Jewish.

I am 4th generation Rebecca and never nicknamed. Also forgot to give my only DD my name so guess it ends with me.

My name is Rebecca, too.
Age 56. Love!

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Old farts on here

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This thread has me thinking about name popularity and ages.

I made a spin off thread in off topic with a game about friend group names and high school graduation year.

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My name is an uncommon spelling of a popular name in the 80s-90s. I like the name but not the fact that it gets misspelled all the time. I wish my parents had gone with the more conventional spelling.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a Jennifer too. Hated it growing up. We had 5 in a class one year. Now I'm more neutral, when I meet other Jennifers I know we're the same age range.

My son was one of 5 Andrews in his kindergarten class. There were 3 other kindergarten classes and none of them had Andrews.

This was during peak Jayden/Brayden/Hayden era, too!

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Anonymous wrote:Nikki (well actually Nicole). I like Nikki, Nicole is fine, but doesn't feel like its me.

Every Nikki I've ever known has been awesomely cool, including the one named Veronica who went by Nikki.

I knew Nikki at school who was a major B. She blew up, her hair turned gray, and she's a middle school teacher now.

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I’m an Elizabeth who goes by Liz. Absolutely love my name!

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Anonymous wrote:Bridget here. I've always loved it. It's common enough in the US that no one blinks twice but uncommon enough that I tend to be the only Bridget in someone's life.

My grandparents called me Bridie which I also loved but only from
them.

I feel similarly about my name, Dana. People have heard of it, almost always know how to pronounce and spell it, it sounds OK, and until I was 50, I never personally knew another Dana. I think it's kind of a sweetspot for names, actually, and I looked for similar types of names when I named my own kids (with mixed success). (I like Bridget too!)

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Original name Linda, I changed it to Lindsay in college.

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The most common female name of my FB friends is Karen/Karin. I love it. It is my sister's name and it's the middle name of both my daughters. One is Karen and the other is Karin.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I'm the third Karen on this thread (late 30s).

I loved it as a kid. There were a couple others in high school, so it wasn't an anomoly. Everyone has always been able to spell it/prounce it easily. My parents called me Carebear which was super 80s and cute.

I hate what the internet has done to it though. I now have to almost apologize for it when I introduce myself. I've debated starting to go by my middle name but I still love it at heart.

Shout it from the rooftops! It is my favorite name, due to my fave loving aunt and my 2 best friends Karen.

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Anonymous wrote:It is so weird how names just go out of fashion. No one names their kids Betty, Alice, Carl, or Frank etc anymore.

There are both a Frank and an Alice at my kids school

From "Friends"?

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Anonymous wrote:Jamie. As a child I hated that it was androgynous. As an adult, I still dislike that but also think it just sounds like a 70’s/80’s name.

Yeah but if you’re a woman, you have maybe gotten job interviews you otherwise would not have!

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My name is not unusual but it’s pretty uncommon so I won’t say it here. It’s fine. I liked that it was unusual but not complicated for anyone. It’s a bit dated, though and not the prettiest name.

I always wanted to be Catherine so I could go by Cat. I think that suits me better.

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Anonymous wrote:Old farts on here

How do you know we fart??

(Young fart here)