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My younger sister was conceived shortly after her paternal grandfather passed away (lets agree not think about the timing too much, ok?) and received his name as her middle name. Franklin. She hates it and went by "Firstname F. Lastname" when she received her diploma. It's nice to want to honor him, but this is someone she never knew, so she had to deal with a man's middle name for years as a way to "honor" him. I think the suggestion to use the name Neve or Neva is a much better way to honor him without burdening your daughter with a name she may resent.
My rule of thumb is that, if your kid cannot go into a Cracker Barrel five years from now and find his/her name (same spelling) on a pencil, then you have done your kid a disservice. I would take some time and think it through. Natalie would be nice. Best of luck to you & congratulations!
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My rule of thumb is that, if your kid cannot go into a Cracker Barrell five years from now and find his/her name (same spelling) on a pencil, then you have done your kid a disservice. I would take some time and think it through. Natalie would be nice. Best of luck to you & congratulations!
well then i guess i did my kids a disservice because you can not find my kids names on anything like a pencil, cup or licence plate!! and my kids have never had anyone make fun of there names or so bad things about them we have only ever had compliments and their names are Bryton, Anaya, and Tayven.
Our neighborhood puts out a directory so people can easily contact one another (yes, it's opt-in, but almost everyone participates). Kids' names are listed. I looked through the ~400 names with my sister a couple weeks ago, because we were talking about odd names. (She works for a school district in another state and encounters some DOOZIES.) Almost without exception, the kids in my neighborhood have traditional, "boring" names. Olivia, Ellen, Rebecca, Kate, John, James, Alexandra, Emma, Abigail, Freddie, Cora, Nathan, Daniel, Elizabeth, Michael, Anna, Luke, Andrew ... there are literally just a few unusual names like Alyssa and Bailey, and those aren't even that different.
well then i guess i did my kids a disservice because you can not find my kids names on anything like a pencil, cup or licence plate!! and my kids have never had anyone make fun of there names or so bad things about them we have only ever had compliments and their names are Bryton, Anaya, and Tayven.
My kid never found anything with her name on it, either, and her name is more conventional than any of yours! It's just an old-fashioned name that isn't commonly used. She's met two or three others her age over the years, and now there is a singer with her name, too.
Our neighborhood puts out a directory so people can easily contact one another (yes, it's opt-in, but almost everyone participates). Kids' names are listed. I looked through the ~400 names with my sister a couple weeks ago, because we were talking about odd names. (She works for a school district in another state and encounters some DOOZIES.) Almost without exception, the kids in my neighborhood have traditional, "boring" names. Olivia, Ellen, Rebecca, Kate, John, James, Alexandra, Emma, Abigail, Freddie, Cora, Nathan, Daniel, Elizabeth, Michael, Anna, Luke, Andrew ... there are literally just a few unusual names like Alyssa and Bailey, and those aren't even that different.
I was thinking about "Kate" the other day--my daughter had a number of Kates in her class, but when I was growing up, that was an old-lady name. Right after hs graduation, though (1976) a couple of the Kathys, a very common name at the time, decided they wanted to be called Kate. When my daughter started kindergarten in 1996 and I saw all the Kates, I was kind of surprised at how much of a comeback it had made.
Emma and Abigail are other "old-lady" names that made a comeback. I wonder if Myrtle ever will.
It may, probably around the same time Ethyl comes back into vogue!
I had an Aunt Ethel. Crazy as a loon. I remember that she made great watermelon baskets for family picnics when I was a kid, but also remember hearing my mother saying, "Ethel's about to go off again--I can see it in her eyes.." and sure enough, Aunt Ethel would be off to the asylum for a month. Uncle Herb finally divorced her when he woke up in the middle of the night to find Ethel standing over him grinning with a butcher knife in her hand.
My rule of thumb is that, if your kid cannot go into a Cracker Barrel five years from now and find his/her name (same spelling) on a pencil, then you have done your kid a disservice. I would take some time and think it through. Natalie would be nice. Best of luck to you & congratulations!
I have an extremely common name and can never find my name on that novelty stuff....so.........
My rule of thumb is that, if your kid cannot go into a Cracker Barrel five years from now and find his/her name (same spelling) on a pencil, then you have done your kid a disservice. I would take some time and think it through. Natalie would be nice. Best of luck to you & congratulations!
I ALWAYS find my name everywhere. I have never seen preprinted merchandise that didn't have my name. I have always hated that. I couldn't stand the fact that my name was so common that stores could assume that they could easily sell 100 mini license plates with my name on it (and they did). Add a very boring name to the fact that I am completely average looking and ugh.
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