So names can be terrible, bad, good, okay, hilarious.
Do you like your name? Hate it? What do you want to name your kids (if you're having any)?
Here's the top baby names from 2007
Jacob
Michael
Ethan
Joshua
Daniel
Christopher
Anthony
William
Matthew
Andrew
Emily
Isabella
Emma
Ava
Madison
Sophia
Olivia
Abigail
Hannah
Personally I like my name. I want to name my kids with names from antiquity and myths. Artemis, Diana, Perseus, Jason...
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I have met less than ten people in my life who share my name (Travis). I guess that's kinda neat? I wish I had a more badass name, like the guy at my high school named Cal Murdock. Of course there was also the guy named Clint Torres, so I don't feel very bad.
Now suddenly it's popular. I had a problem growing up with a common name that wasn't all that common before I was born and I don't want my kid to be Abigail S. in her class.
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What's odd is the names my wife and I picked for our first child aren't on that list, but I assumed they were more popular (Trevor and Kayla).
No joke, on any given day in my office I will be communicating with six different people named Mike. We usually reference them by their last name at this point, like a drill sergeant.
Alternatively, if I ever have crib midgets, I might name them after famous mathematicians and/or computer scientists. Ada would be a cool name for a daughter and Haskell for a son.
Personal favorite: Saf-aye-en-aye
My wife is a med student. Apparently there are horror stories about mothers trying to name their kids with words they see on the charts, most notable "miconium."
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
What the fuck? Why would you do that, in the first one? Make it deliberately difficult? Fuck.
I mean, it's retarded beyond that, but why would you try to "fake someone out" with a name?
I think if I have a boy, the name I will push hardest for is Gabriel. as for a girl... Rebbecca is something I like. Who knows if that will happen though, I really don't think I should breed.
This is the annoying thing to me. I'm 26. In 1981 (You can get the list year-by-year here), it was an unusual name. There were ~40 names more popular than it on a good year and in the 60s and 70s there were a few hundred more popular names. I got teased for it being weird, for the rhyming of Jake with many words and I was the only one I knew named Jacob in a school system for three years in either direction that graduated almost 400 kids a year.
Then, somehow it becomes the most popular name in the world during the Clinton administration and has been for almost a decade. What the hell happened? I know I'm awesome but I'm not that awesome. Its like your favorite band that only you follow suddenly is on 14 different commercials and Abercrombie and Fitch are selling their tshirts.
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Helen is also a good old name that people don't use as much
or Ellen
Interesting to note is that the baby boy names hardly change over the years. Girl names change all the time.
http://www.weddingvendors.com/baby-names/popular/2005/
You can look at different years/decades there.
Yah, but it's not like the people you work with were born this year, which is where the names come from. I also know a whole pile of people named Mike.
For the longest time I've wanted to name my kids Liam (William) and Imogen, but since Liam is now stinkin' popular, I've gotta re-think that one.
If I have a girl I would name her Amanda or Tracy.
If I have a boy I would name him Constantine.
The urban legend I like best from that is the woman who names her twins (pronunciation:Oran-gelo and Lamongelo)
To add to my earlier personal comment, I was named Jacob because my father's name is James and he didn't want a Jr but liked the idea of his son being named after him. Jacob is the equivalent. My girlfriend's name is Jamie because her Dad is James and he was like the 4th so they wanted to both keep the tradition and quit it with the #s.
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I've thought about naming my children names of famous people. One name I play with the idea is Robert, its practically trevor backwards (Rovert) so I can poke fun for years to come. Some of my favorite famous people are named robert, Robert E. Lee; Robert Frost; Robert Kennedy.
Girls names? well...lets just say I'm hoping its not a girl (I kid, I kid). I thought about naming her Jezebel but that would be cruel, I'll leave that up to the wife.
On a different note I want to change my last name. Its been family tradition for the males to disassociate from their father by changing their last names as a mark of defiance for many generations. I have no idea what I am going to change it to.
Also my initials are WTF.
Then I would refer to him as Gar.
I have a grandpa named Elwood. Whatever happened to that name?
but they're listening to every word I say
My nephew's name is Constantine Robert. My best friend named her little one constantine vladamir. The best thing was neither was aware of the other's choice. Remarkable names. They are going to suck to fill in a scantron sheet with those names.
My last name, though, is Irons, which is badass. :P I mean, I'm cool with any girl I marry not taking my last name simply because I'd never give up Irons.
In college all my friends were named Mike. Now, everyone I work with is named Matt. Yes, everyone.
If you give someone a very old name, make sure that most people still know it. Sarah, Cassandra, Jason, Alexander, Julia, Felicia, etc. are all ancient names that people would still recognize as names. If you name your kid Nicodemus or Saturninus you are dooming your child to a very hard life.
A similar way people go wrong is to give the kid a relatively common name but spell it in magical ways. Do not name your kid Aishleigh or Meighien. What are you doing? They will spend their entire life repeating the spelling of their name and nobody ever getting it right.
Kind of like that seinfeld episode.
Also William is kind of a dumb name. Mostly because everyone automatically assumes it shortens to Bill which I fucking hate to be called. I guess the upside is that I dont meet as many Wills out there. But I cringe when people think its funny to call me Willie.
You would figure Dan Akroyd would have made it popular after his performance as one of the Blues Brothers
Id much rather be named something gay like Sage or Dagger then meet every third person with the same name as me.
Plus my dad thought it would be good to name me after a pope. That's the uncool side of old school names.
My grandmother was named Euphemia May, and since there there are 6 girls with May as a middlename that descend from her. No Effies yet though.
If you're going to give your kid a weird name, make sure there's an easy shorter version. Maximillian=Max. Nicodemus=Nick etc. That way they have an out.
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Grady is a bad ass, wisened name.
I desperately want to name a child Baloo.
Potential kid names: I like Lionel and Charlotte.
There is a line of "okay that's not unique, that's just dumb" which includes stupid spellings and naming your kids after jello, but I'm guessing that line is probably different for everyone.
I think Constantine would be a great name and I stick by Perseus and Artemis too.
"goes to page through mythology books"
Goodness me, it is infuriating seeing someone trying to over-spell a perfectly normal name because they want to be different.
Then you get a story I heard a few years ago, that probably won't translate well to text (I'll have to do it phonetically), about a teacher reading off the register to her class of children on her first day. She got to the end and a girl comes up to her and says "you didn't read out my name". She asked what the girls name was, and got the reply (here's where it falls down) "Wivonee".
Checking down the list of names, she found one absence, 'Yvonne'.
Apparently her parends had seen the name written down, and didn't know how to pronounce it.
Yup, first example is the kind of thing I'm on about, and I've heard of people doing the latter, doo.
Also 'Mileena' is a popular one too.
Same thing happened to Bette Midler.
I like the name "Phaedre," but I wouldn't really want my kid to learn where it came from.