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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a Will and Katherine and only recently realized maybe I was subconsciously influenced by the British Royal Family.[/quote]

Ha, I have a friend who did this as well and it really wasn't until several years after her youngest was born that any of us made the connection. They are just such classic names -- I think she and her husband had them picked out for years before they had kids (they were high school sweethearts). But yeah, now it's funny.

I think we're all influenced by names just kind of in the ether when we choose our kids names, whether we want to admit it or not. You may not know why a certain name hits your ear just right when it does, but it's probably not just its inherent qualities. It's also all these little associations we have with it that result in us developing a positive feeling or affinity for the name, and those associations usually come from the broader community or culture. None of us is as individual and original as we like to think.[/quote]

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