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Tue Sep-27-05 03:42 PM
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When I was a kid, there was a kid in my neighbourhood named "Hugh".
Imagine some six-year-old "Hugh". Can't do it, can you?
Also: Millicent, Daphne, Earl, Roger, Earnest.
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Tue Sep-27-05 03:43 PM
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1. I don't think Daphne's too bad. |
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I don't think ANYONE should be named Millicent though
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:08 PM
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It just seems weird to call a little toddler Salvatore. (What can I say- I live on Long Islanad- lots of little Salvatores and Dominics running around these parts!)
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Tue Sep-27-05 08:07 PM
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I'm also the only one I know though.
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Tue Sep-27-05 09:56 PM
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58. Nothing wrong with Dominic |
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It's Salvatore I think is really too adult. Dom is OK. Just lots of really Italian names around these parts. Lots of little Vincents and Salvatores and Dominics. Half expect the 5 year olds to have tattoos.
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Wed Sep-28-05 02:01 AM
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62. I have a cousin named Salvatore. |
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We just always called him Sully. It worked.
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Tue Sep-27-05 03:43 PM
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2. Linda, Mildred, Nancy, Brenda, Richard, etc. |
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:57 PM
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What's wrong with those?
I've gotta wonder, especially since my name is Brenda... :D
Mildred's a little mature sounding, but Milly works ok.
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Wed Sep-28-05 08:13 AM
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70. There is nothing wrong with those names. |
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I guess as I was younger, all of my mom's friends were named Brenda, or Nancy or something to that effect. I guess those were the popular names at the time she was born. I just don't know anyone my age with those names. But they aren't ugly names at all. That is not what I meant. :)
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Nothing wrong with the names! :)
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Wed Sep-28-05 08:15 AM
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72. funny thing is that my mother named me after her... |
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but gave me the "nicknames" associated with her name.
her name is Anna Elizabeth....I got Nancy Beth...
Now she was going to name me Salome...after her grandmother and that would have been a real interesting name to have in CCD classes.
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Wed Sep-28-05 08:19 AM
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76. I like that name Salome. That is different. I've never |
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heard it before. I never knew Nancy was a nickname for Anna. :)
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Wed Sep-28-05 04:29 PM
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84. LOL! You would've gotten silver platters for your birthday... |
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hopefully without heads upon them!
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Wed Sep-28-05 08:18 AM
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74. Brenda, Nancy and Linda definitely seem okay for kids to me, because... |
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the only Lindas, Nancys, and Brendas I knew were my peers when I was a kid!
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I'm actually more a fan of "grown-up" names for children than I am of cutesy-wootsey names on adults.
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4. Shit. "Hi! I'm Shit Smith. Glad to meetcha!" |
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19. Yeah...or "Douchebag" is kinda grown up too! |
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Hi, Millicent, have you met my son Douchebag? HEY! DOUCHEBAG! GET OFF THE COUCH AND MEET MILLICENT!!!
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6. I never got the name Buffy! I just don't get it! |
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9. Winnifred, Ethel, Edna, Thelma, Frida, Ferd, Leroy, Enola |
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Tue Sep-27-05 03:52 PM
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11. Yes, those all sound grandma and grandpa-ish! |
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Tue Sep-27-05 03:54 PM
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13. you never meet young people with those names |
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it is like some people were born old :P
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16. I know! I have yet to know anyone named Winifred! |
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25. That was my grandmothers name |
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She was married to Lyle until she passed away nine years ago.
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:14 PM
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27. My grandma is a Milly. My other one was Geraldine. |
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My grandpa's sister's names were Mavis and Edna. Old people names!
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:48 PM
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35. there is NEVER a young person named Edna. Ever |
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It is like, at the age of 65, they adopt a new name.
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:35 PM
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32. There are lots of 20-something Chinese women in Vancouver with... |
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..old-fashioned names: Winnifred, Myrna, Lucille, Bea, Agnes, Ethyl, Alice, Mavis. I had an assistant named "Mavis".
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Tue Sep-27-05 03:57 PM
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17. There was an Enola at my daughter's preschool. |
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She was named after someone in her family(never got the whole story).
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Tue Sep-27-05 10:00 PM
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59. Maybe the parents were fans of Waterworld? n/t |
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83. I heard the mother say something about family. |
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The way it was said I think the name came from the father's side. Maybe one of those guilt things.
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wasn't that a WW11 airplane:shrug:
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on Hiroshima. Named for the captain's mother.
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The name of my 1 year old cousin. Ick.
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18. Worked w/ someone who named her daughter Cora. |
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Named her after her grandmother who raised her from birth.
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42. Cora actually means "girl" |
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It's actually more fitting for a child than for a grandmother (though it is my grandmother's name).
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12. Blanch doesn't seem to suit a kid. |
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14. My grandfather was Hugo. |
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I always see him as 70-something and cranky, preaching the word of God. He made all his children promise never to name a child after him because he hated his name so much.
Nope, can't see a kid w/ that name.
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20. My cousin is a Dorothy. |
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I remember it very well. She renamed herself Dee.
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Tue Sep-27-05 06:55 PM
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53. Two of my Dorothy friends prefer to be called Dot. NT |
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57. Cousin was named after her grandmother. |
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79. Yep, I have a bud here named Dot. |
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She signs her e-mails "." That's so cool! I want a name like that! It's almost like Prince, with the symbol thing.
:D FSC
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Yeah...That's pretty bad.
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Edited on Tue Sep-27-05 04:13 PM by pdx_prog
Claude, Rufus, Sam, Merlene, Erna-lou, Martha, Betty, Wanda, Pearl..
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Jean-Claude. Dick. Gertrude. Cesare.
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:22 PM
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30. I love those parents who name the kid after the conception spot |
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Like 'Alburquerque' or 'Dallas' or 'Behindthefootballstands'
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31. Stockard, Cloris, Celine.. talented ladies, but don't name your |
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daughters after them.. it'll make people think of: A defunct automobile maker; a household cleaning product, a bodily fluid.
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Tue Sep-27-05 04:39 PM
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33. Delores, Mulva, Regina. |
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Ole, Sven, Erling (had an uncle by that name) Edna and Ada (ditto, aunts) Bertha and Effie (grandmothers). Lotsa Scandihoovian handles up here in Minnuh-Soduh.
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77. You've managed to name both of my grandfathers in that list. |
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39. Better Hugh than Huey... |
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When I was in 6th grade, one of my first big crushes was a guy named Hugh. :loveya:
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41. Jedediah (AKA Jebediah) |
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Somehow, I don't think there's anyone under the age of 96 named "Jedediah". And if there actually is, I truly feel sorry for them.
Other names that won't work anymore:
Zebulon Agnes Gladys Lemuel (Lem) Cletus Bruford Rufus Chaka Khan
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51. Harry Beevers was a respected biology professor at UCSC |
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He passed away last fall. Here's his obituary. He was a great guy. http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/09-20/inmemoriam-beevers.asp
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65. Harry Brown Motors, a real car dealership |
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somewhere in Ohio that we wandered by
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47. Ebenezer. Only old people are called Ebenezer. (nt) |
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Unless it looked like this little hustler:
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54. Now THAT is a cute baby!! NT |
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55. Maurice, Myrtle, Daphne, Oliver |
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60. Bertha for girls and Homer for boys. Neither name should |
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63. Eunice, Bertha, Edgar, Howard, Buford, Lucille, Martha, |
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Arnold, Beverly, Betty, Bernice, Constance, Durwood, Evelyn, Freida, Gloria, Georgina, Georgette, Hortense, Hubert, Harold, Ivan, Irene, Orville, Ophelia,
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66. Mercedes, Dakota, ESPN, Chevrolet, L'Oreal, Armani, Noxema, Chanel... |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3268161.stm features a bunch of names. It is hardly individuality to name your offspring after a corporate name. It's free advertising for a bunch of leaches.
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69. Mercedes is actually a girls name that a car maker used... |
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Gender: Girl Pronunciation: mer-SAY-dees Origin: Spanish Meaning: "Mercies." Notes: Used in reference to the Virgin Mary, Santa Maria de las Mercedes as "Our Lady of Mercies." Literary: the name of the lost love of Edmond Dantes in Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo." Also the name of the German luxury car, which was named for a little girl named Mercedes. Mostly Catholic use. See also Mercy. Actresses Mercedes McCambridge, Mercedes Ruehl.
courtesy of www.thinkbabynames.com
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73. Daphne was on my short list when I was pregnant with my 2nd. |
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It was my grandmother's middle name, and I've always liked it. My husband nixed it, though, because it reminded him of Scooby Doo.
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82. Clive, Edgar, Gertrude, Winston |
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85. My mother's first name is Ada; her younger sister is Clora Jean. |
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My grandmother was Clora Cordelia. I had a great-aunt and great-uncle named Dorothy and Harold; other great aunts named Elna and Vivian. I can't imagine young people having those names. (no offense to any young people here who have them, though.)
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