Posted by Dinah on August 21, 2004, at 9:31:50
In reply to Thanks everyone for your impressions, posted by pegasus on August 19, 2004, at 12:40:26
I've known far fewer boys that hated their names, but quite a few girls that hated their names. Maybe you just can't win with girls. :) I really really hate my name and periodically decide to change it. It was only really appropriate in beach blanket movies.
My son has an enormously popular name, and we were worried that he would be XXX#7 in his classes. But as it happens, most of the boys at school have very unusual names that are probably some variant of a family last name. Come to think of it, most of the girls do too. :) Seems to be the naming trend in my area. We chose the only boy's name that both my husband and I liked, despite its popularity, and gave him my maiden name as a middle name.
If we had had a daughter, her first name would have been a lovely classic name that happened to be a combination of my maternal and my husband's paternal grandmothers. Her middle name would have been a 19th century name that would have probably got her some ribbing, but just happened to be the name of my paternal and my husband's maternal grandmother. You can't resist that kind of coincidence, given how unusual the name is.
But I'm guessing our preference towards very traditional naming patterns came from the fact that both my husband and I were named "name of the year", mine from quite a few years before I was born, my husband's from the year he was born (he was XXX #7). So we wanted to go in the opposite direction of trying to connect our child to its history. But as I said above, apparently every parent in our area had the same idea the same year. :)
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