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Oldest Female: Brooke
Second Female: Darcey

Anonymous wrote:Not my DCs but relative's kid is called Bubba and no one ever calls him by his official name

Your relative must be a special kind of dumbphucc

Arabella
Amara

Amit and Rahm.

Anonymous wrote:Thea and Eden

You have monogrammed hand towels.

Anonymous wrote:Theodore
Vivian

You are originally from the South or Midwest and moved to this area for college. You bought in an upper middle class area with a good school district. You want your kids to go to the top Ivies and be intellectuals. You are slightly snobby, which comes out when you post about how much better your kids’ school is than others on DCUM, but in person you are much sweeter.

Thea and Eden

Anonymous wrote:And last night my MIL was watching Wheel of Fortune and the guy introduced his kids in the audience and they were named Payton and Paisley. Isn't that like the same name?

So my sister named her baby Payton, and I was curious about it, and apparently a DCUM member DH was on Wheel of Fortune

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/324070.page

Like this spelling is #126 which is huge.

https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-peyton-5425.htm

Not my DCs but relative's kid is called Bubba and no one ever calls him by his official name

Bump

Theodore
Vivian

Anonymous wrote:
Anya and Margo

Anya: Russian origin meaning “Grace”. Indian version means Inexhaustible, Limitless, resurrection, Nightless, the one who is bright and shining. Anya is the form found most frequently in Russia, Poland, and other East European countries, while Anja is the preferred spelling in Germany Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands. Anya is feminine in some cultures, and unisex in several African and European countries, as well as in India. Anya was the 656th most popular girls name in 2020. 1 out of every 4,035 baby girls born in 2020 are named Anya.

Margo: female name of French origin that means Pearl. The name Margo/Margot is a derivative of the name Margaret, which means "a pearl." Margo is currently #46 on the Baby Names Popularity Charts
Margo is currently #760 in U.S. births
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You are a DC power broker in the old-fashioned, quietly kick ass under the table, and behind closed doors, type of way. Your phone calls are returned immediately by many more visible power holders who are regularly in the news.

Surprisingly few people have heard of you although you have served as deputy White House chief of staff and top advisor to various presidents on controversial issues such as health care reform, reigning in online misinformation, coordinated pandemic responses based on science, protecting voters rights, and Russian interference in elections.

You were a valedictorian and national merit scholar from the mid west who attended a honors program at a flagship state university with a full ride. You attended another top public school for post grad, and never regretted your choice although many elite private universities offered you admission and scholarships for undergrad and generous stipends for post grad. You would rather watch 2 Broke Girls/ Mr Mayor/ Call me Kat repeats than have joined a Greek sorority or secret society, and they were bad enough the first time around.

Surprisingly, few people in Washington appreciate your influence, which extends beyond the West Wing. When the president asks you to help get stuff done in an extremely polarized political environment, you work behind the scenes to bring people together and listening to each other.

Power brokers from both sides of the aisle come to you for advice on how to implement regulations that will effect large chunks of the economy.

You are married to a kind, smart and funny man of Creole-Indian descent who grew up in Mauritius. He has a colorful back story and sensitized you to the need to combat racism structurally and confront climate change in realistic ways. His entire home island country is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Accelerating sea level rise and increasing number of severe tropical cyclones will likely result in massive economic loss, loss of life, and environmental degradation.

After slavery in Mauritius was abolished in 1835, his great, great, great grandfather was shipped from India, along with many others, to work sugar cane plantations as an indentured laborer.

This period of quasi slavery during British rule involved many brutal episodes. The indentured fought long and hard for respect. The term “coolie” was applied to the indenture, and has since become a derogatory term for Mauritians of Asian descent. The island became central in the trade of indentured labourers, (thousands of Indians arrived from Calcutta or Karikal) and were often traded to the West Indies.

As the Indian population became dominant after British rule ended, and the voting franchise was extended, political and economic power shifted from the Franco-Mauritians and their Creole allies to the Indo-Mauritians.

Hence, your husband’s family taught him to appreciate the struggles of those at the bottom of society and to seek to wield power wisely.

You met doing a Masters of Public Management and Leadership at University of Georgia (established 1785, MPA #3 program US News). You both liked the climate, shifting dynamics around diversity and vibrant atmosphere cloaked in traditions ripe for renewal. Stacey Abrams, who also hails from the MidWest but lives in Georgia is on your speed dial.

Your daughters are drop dead gorgeous as biracial children who speak English, French and some Spanish.

You chose names that work well for both your families. Anya although more commonly known as Russian origins (Chekhov’s character in The Cherry Orchard) is actually popular in India as well.

Anya and Margo attend a regular public school. You don’t swoop into save them when they falter due to making poor decisions such as procrastinating study. But if anyone messes with them due to their race, you are all over it. You are raising them with Midwest values to be kind, honest, respectful and to work hard. They are leaders in the School orchestra and science robotics club. They tutor younger children in transition out of homelessness via zoom once a week. They know with hard work and perseverance that they can do and become whomever they wish to be. They are being raised to lend their hands to others along the way.

Your DH has reclaimed the derogatory slang used for his ethnic group in Mauritius. He reminds Anya and Margo that they are simply “cool” and not “coolies”.

I am just going to say that your Anya description is spot on.

New list

1. Xena and James
2. Mira, Mateo, and Olive
3. Nora, Gideon & Elijah (twins), and Laura
4. William and Henry
5. Annabelle
6. Stefan
7. Colin and Grant (twins)
8. Aaliyah, Farah, Hassan
9. Emanuel
10. Dusty, Webster and Gunther
11. Isla, Sasha
12. Araceli, Gabriel, Marisol
13. Florbert, Fauntleroy, Egbert and Melissa
14. Hallow and Tilia

SAHM
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Lyra: Latin and Greek name referring to the Antique harp-like instrument lyre. And there is a constellation of stars called Lyra in the northern sky. Lyra also means “brave” in Nordic.

Lydia: Greek meaning "beautiful one", "noble one", "from Lydia/Persia"

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Your Italian American family have come a long way since your illiterate great great grandparents emigrated from Sicily in the early 20th century and settled in Swampoodle, which was then considered the outskirts of Washington DC to the north of Capitol. It is the gentrified area near the U.S. Capitol and Union Station, and the Judiciary Square. The then semi-rural and semi-lawless shanty town developed during the second half of the 19th century, providing refuge for Irish emigrants after the Great Famine of Ireland. In the 1840s and 1850s, Irish immigrants came to work on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol, the Post Office, and some of the structures on the National Mall. By the 1890s, Swampoodle also became home to Italian workers who came to the District to work on the Capitol, the Library of Congress, other public buidings, and the railroads. In 1903, more Italian construction workers arrived to build Union Station.

The neighborhood was known for overcrowding, crime and outbreaks of malaria, typhoid and dysentery. But Swampoodle was also a vibrant community. Many Swampoodle residents kept goats and cows in livestock pens among the alleys dividing their modest houses. By the early 20th Century, most of the Irish American population left the Swampoodle neighborhood, while Greek and Italian immigrants and some African-Americans moved in.

The newly arrived Italians didn't have a church or an Italian-speaking priest of their own. So your great great grandparents helped a young Italian-born graduate of Catholic University's seminary, Father Nicola DeCarlo, to rent a small house on H Street NW. There he built a small altar in the parlor and built benches to serve as pews. The priest soon moved to a bigger house on Third Street NW, which became the main gathering place for the District's Italians. The working-class Italian Americans raised enough dough to buy land and build a church, Holy Rosary, at Third and F streets, which opened in 1919.

Holy Rosary is still in existence, but Swampoodle has been gone for decades, yet another victim of DC's escalating downtown real estate values. Like many of the the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original Italian immigrant community, you now live in Washington's far-flung suburbs. You still return to worship and play the parish's Casa Italiana SocioCultural Cultural Center. The Casa offers Italian language instruction and courses in Italian cooking, wine tasting, and majolica, the ancient Italian art of ceramic pottery.

In fact, your family attended a cocktail reception last year honoring donors to the Casa Italiana Sociocultural Center’s Capital Founders Fund. You support CISC plans to expand the footprint of Casa Italiana to create an Italian American Museum (IAMDC) which will highlight contributions by Italian Americans in the Nation’s Capital. Your family is assisting the Marconi Project, which is collecting oral histories of Italian Americans in the Washington area. You love to talk, to listen, to laugh, and to feel connected to your ancestral ties in Southern Italy, so this volunteer work suits you perfectly.

Your parents and grandparents played the music of Italian Americans night and day: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Vic Damone, Tony Bennett, Perry Como and Louis Prima. They boasted that two of the four greatest American movies were directed by Italian Americans and explore Italian American experiences. Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull follows the gritty rise and fall of middleweight boxing champ Jake La Motta. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather highlighted the difficult journey of adjusting to USA laws and values as Michael Corleone abandoned his American ambitions to succeed his father as a crime boss. Your Italian church prays to Saint Mother Cabrini, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized in 1946, becoming the patron saint of immigrants.

Your family’s journey from illiterate but devout Sicilian peasants to hard working Italian construction workers in the early 20th century to middle class high school teachers by mid 20th century to highly educated professionals in the 21st century has been a roller coaster ride. It made more loud, fun and bearable by having so many family members and friends along for the ride with you.

You have taught Lydia and Lyra to make their own pasta, to speak Italian fluently, to appreciate music and art, and to enjoy life. They are proud of their large extended family and have many cousins, aunts and uncles in the DC area. The Pandemic was hard on them, as they were accustomed to large family get togethers, but wanted to protect their vulnerable family members from getting COVID. Now you are all triple vaccinated, family get togethers have resumed in scaled down events. In part because Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, is a trusted member of the Italian American community, your family has trusted CDC guidance during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

In God, pasta, and science, your family trusts.