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Gabriel would be first pick even though I'm not crazy about the nickname Gabe. I know a couple of TJ's, weirdly there is a nickname for a nickname and both of them are often called by the one syllable 'teej'
I have recently called two help lines in the financial arena. One was a bank and another an investment company. At the bank I got Tyler. At the investment company I talked with Sawyer. In both cases I would have had more confidence in what I was hearing if the guy on the other end was named John. That was honestly my gut reaction. I called the bank after hours and got someone named Austin. I liked that a little better than Tyler or Sawyer, so now if I need help I wait for Austin. I feel a little safer, but not much.
On one of these types of threads on another forum, some misguided young woman wanted to know if everyone liked Summer for her baby girl. I told her not to go that route, that it was a silly hippie name and no one would take her seriously as an adult.
Some 30-year-old Summer then came along and ripped me, saying how she has a Masters degree and did this and that and no one thought of her as silly. Lol. You never know.
I think people make too big a deal out of the whole "teasing" aspect of a name. No, don't name your kid Harry Dix, but don't make yourself crazy thinking about all of the possible ways a name could be fun of. Honestly, in my experience if there's nothing about a kid that would otherwise "warrant" teasing, he's not going to be made fun of just because his name has the sound "Gay" in it (as someone said about the name Gabriel) or anything like that.
Case in point: my son goes to school with a girl named Pooja. Envisioning endless jokes about "poo", "poop", etc. I once asked him if kids ever teased Pooja, and his response was, "No, why would they? Pooja is awesome. No one would think to tease her." We also know someone with the last name Butts, and again, same situation.
My brother-in-law became furious when we called his new baby Ham. Those are his initials. He asked us why we would call him that. We didn't, you did. Little Ham is now two and that is still what we call him. He should have seen it coming, we call Ham's brother, BP, also his initials.
For the record, yes, we like to pick on my brother-in-law. It's a sibling thing. Not an outright nasty thing.
On one of these types of threads on another forum, some misguided young woman wanted to know if everyone liked Summer for her baby girl. I told her not to go that route, that it was a silly hippie name and no one would take her seriously as an adult.
Some 30-year-old Summer then came along and ripped me, saying how she has a Masters degree and did this and that and no one thought of her as silly. Lol. You never know.
I know a Summer and a Winter. Summer jut took a director job at a fortune 500 company, it works well for her.
I'm more of a traditionalist when it comes to names. I agree with some of the previous posters, I would have picked Gabriel. I don't like surnames as given names either.
I like the name Michael a lot. It's still very popular, but in a good way. It's a classic that will never truly go out of style.
Are you going to use the diminutive Mike?
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