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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe but spellings of names say everything. Why would you name your kid a fairly recognizable name like Brayden and then spell it Breighdan? Or a name like Alison and spell it Aleysen? Just don't.[/quote]

I think they genuinely don’t realize how dumb they look.[/quote]

It could also be they were not particularly good students and don't know the proper spelling of particular name. In Freakanomics, they talk about how as a name grows more popular it works its way down socioeconomic classes until only the poors will touch it and that is when all the alternate spellings pop up. In Freakanomics he also writes about how names are often aspirational and people don't want to "steal" ideas from friends so they take them from someone in a higher social class in their orbit. I think this probably happened to us. We are UMC and our son has a classic name with a classic but rarely used nickname. Our mail carrier used it a few years later with his son. I found this out by accident when I met his wife and baby in the ballet waiting room.  She called him by the same nickname we call ours.  She said her husband suggested the name and then I realized she was the wife of our mail carrier. [/quote]

Dumbest story..   Classic names are used by all parents across the board.   You’re probably thinking about John / Jack, Charles / Chad, Henry / Hank, David, Michael, James, George, all very common names.    Or do you have a really embarrassing name that you think identifies you as umc? [/quote]

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