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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Growing up my brother had a very common name but I didn’t. I was always annoyed that he could always find personalized stuff - every store had pencils and keychains with his name on it while I could never find my own. Everyone knew how to spell his name but I had to spell mine out every time.
When my dd was born i wanted to make sure they didn’t happen so we picked a more popular name (that’s become super popular, rising in popularity every year.). Didn’t expect that…[/quote]

I was the one with the common name while my sister was the one with the interesting name growing up.  She definitely was annoyed about never being able to buy keychains, etc ever — I remember when she as an adult she visited the country our ancestors were from (also where her name is from) and bought herself a mug as her name just because she could.  Whereas I was so jealous she had an interesting/cool name and mine was super boring and shared by five people in my class every year.  As adults I think we’ve both made peace with our names and the pros and cons of uniqueness vs commonality.

I named my oldest daughter after my sister and the only issue I’ve had this far is one time a pharmacist swore up and down he didn’t have her prescription ready because he was looking her name up under a common American name that sounds similar but starts with a different letter (think Ekaterin vs Katherine).  I’ve learned to spell the name clearly for things like that.

I call my younger child by her middle name since the first name is shared by several relatives and I kind of regret not swapping the names (name I call her as first, family name middle) although I didn’t settled in middle name as nickname until after she was born so I don’t blame myself for that too too much.[/quote]

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