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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another nickname for Caspian is Casper.  And U bbn know it makes everyone think of the friendly ghost but I knew a kid in grade school who was named Casper and he was not made fun of any more than any other name.

I was just talking to my two second graders.  There are a number of kids in their grade that have names that seem like they would be prime target contenders.  But no one makes fun of the names. At this point I think that there are far fewer people using traditional names and a lot more cultural names , so most everything is normal.  My kids said no 9ne makes fun if anyone's name because everyone had normal names,  which really isn't true.   But they are normal to the kids.  When we were young the popular names were 10-20 times more commonly used than the most popular names today.  The top 10 names now are about as common as the top 50-100 names were then.
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Not OP but we came very close to naming our son Caspar. We chose something else bc we were afraid of him getting mocked as Casper the Friendly Ghost (particularly bc we are rather pale in skin tone...).  But, in retrospect, this doesn’t seem like it would have been an issue. There are lots of kids in DS’s elementary classes with non-traditional names and no one seems to get mocked for their name.  Other things, yes. But not the name. [/quote]

I spend my weekends listening to parents yell at kids on the soccer field and I can tell you there are a lot of kids running around with names my DH insisted would be horrible choices due to being picked on.  I almost fell out my chair when I heard a "Billy".

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