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There are a few fairly common names around, but I just realized that there were some uncreative people way back when. I'm doing a spreadsheet and just boring my life away entering names of people in nursing homes for their insurance...
Every woman is named either dorothy, violet or delores with a gertrude thrown in every once in a while for shits and giggles and i've done over 400
The men at least had a large variety of names.
I just realized benjamin is ben jamin
I wonder how names change over generations (or in this case centuries) Why ishn't the world filled with stanley's and dorothys
Every woman is named either dorothy, violet or delores with a gertrude thrown in every once in a while for shits and giggles and i've done over 400
The men at least had a large variety of names.
I just realized benjamin is ben jamin
I wonder how names change over generations (or in this case centuries) Why ishn't the world filled with stanley's and dorothys
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Oh that dorothy did not even cross my mind!
But why? Why would you refuse to call them that, oh the curiousity.
These names will be back "in" in a few years, you'll see! You live long enough and everything comes back around again.
Well then? What is it... the suspense is killing me..
Ahh crap, I forgot to say!
It's Andrew/Andy. I go by either. Because I'm greedy when it comes to names.
Is that so that if someone says one to much and wears it out you have a spare one???
Yup. And I also have 'Drew' in case of naming emergencies.
Is that not a bit greedy??
lol you sound just like the boyfriend (edmund) he always gets a little sad when we pass by a stand with named keychains
Next one?! :no:
Oh, that made me laugh more than it should. File it under babies called Trevor, Nigel and Romulux the destroyer of galaxies.
one of my grandma's brothers was called stan, and whenever we have a conversation about nice baby names, she tries to slip it in. along with mary (a million people in her family) and william (my grandad). she's a crafty lass.
we have quite a strong tradition of family names in my family, so my wee ones will probably end up being named after an uncle or a great aunt or a great grandparent or something. my great grandma was called elsie. reckon there's much chance of a comeback?
Ahh, baby naming pressure kicking in already. In some families I know, choosing the right name is like a carefully planned political manoeuvre. I I suppose anyone with sense would want to curry the favour of the richest rellies who just LOVE to babysit... at least that's my plan.
Slightly weird kind-of coincidence, but Elsie was actually one of my mum's potentials for me until tradition/narcissism/originality really kicked in and she named me after my great gran, gran and herself. Well, apparently it was Elsie, Clover and Felicity ( :eek2: ) she really had trouble choosing between, so going for the old-namesake route sorted her troubles. I'm kinda grateful..
But back on the topic... can I cast my [future baby name] vote for Mary, what a fabulous, traditional, timelessly classic name. Oh, how I wish it was my middle name.
my mum is a mary too, so it'll almost definitely pop up somewhere. plus my grandma (dad's mum) and all her sisters have mary as a middle name. apart from her sister mary. not sure what her middle name is....
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