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Looked at the list. I don't get "Harper" for a girl. Where did that come from? Similarly, "Piper".
And although it's not a new name, I don't like the name Zoe at all. I guess because of words like "protozoa", it makes me think of something you would find in a petri dish. ("Look, Harold, the zoes multiplied exponentially since we added the algae!")
Also, the first time I ever heard the name Zoe was in one of Lawrence Sanders's Deadly Sins novels. It was the name of a female serial killer who murdered men during her mentrual cycle. Kind of colored my perception of the name.
I knew a family of four. The two girls were named Spring and Summer and the two boys were Fall and Winter. I attended Catholic School with them in CA in the 70's.
I've heard of Le-sha...the dash is NOT silent.
I have a very unusual middle name. Fairlight, I hated it as a kid but I kept it as my middle name when I married. My grandmother wanted to call me "Fairy" when I was born. I guess at the time it didn't mean what it does now. Like gay use to mean happy and now means someone who is homosexual. I could not imagine answering to FAIRY!
I knew a girl named Gay when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. She was in my younger sister's grade. That was before gay widely meant was it does now. My sister ran into her a few years ago, and she uses only her middle name now.
I used to work with a woman named Sunshine and her sister was named Summer. I loved the names. When Sunshine would go on vacation from work the day she got back, as soon as she walked in the door, the office manager and I would sing, "Ain't no Sunshine when's she's gone...only darkness when she's away." Her husband sings it to her too sometimes.
Looked at the list. I don't get "Harper" for a girl. Where did that come from? Similarly, "Piper".
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A college friend named her daughter Harper after Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Piper, you got me.
I don't have kids, but most people in my family have gone the "name your kid after a family member" route, which keeps things traditional. Except for the one cousin who has a girl named Brooklyn.
A college friend named her daughter Harper after Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Piper, you got me.
I don't have kids, but most people in my family have gone the "name your kid after a family member" route, which keeps things traditional. Except for the one cousin who has a girl named Brooklyn.
But that wasn't really the author's first name...oh well.
This isn't the first time someone said they heard of a girl named Brooklyn. Why just that borough? How about Bronx for a boy? Or Manhattan?
A college friend named her daughter Harper after Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.
I have a friend that chose Harper Lee for the same reason.......despite the fact that Harper Lee's full name is Nelle Harper Lee. Nelle being her grandmother's name Ellen, spelled backwards.
I know of a child named L-a (La-dash-ah) that's how her 14 yr old ghetto mother pronounced it. I had to check the paperwork twice.....poor kid
And I think the OP has a lot of nerve picking on other people's name choices when he named his kid Declan...reminds me rat poison or floor polish. Not at all attractive.
LOL. I've heard so many people claim to "know" a child with this name, and every time I hear it I laugh right in their faces. People too dumb not only not know a lie when they hear it, but to repeat it and lie again, claiming to personally know someone who named their child Le-a. It's racist propaganda which of course, certain idiots who want to believe every negative thing about blacks took and ran with, and managed to make themselves look like fools in the process.
I have a friend that chose Harper Lee for the same reason.......despite the fact that Harper Lee's full name is Nelle Harper Lee. Nelle being her grandmother's name Ellen, spelled backwards.
AHA--I wondered about the "Nelle" spelling.
My middle name is Ellen, apparently an attempt to make two grandmothers, Nellie and Helen, happy that a granddaughter had a sound-alike name.
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