When you were in school was your first name popular?

Not only was there never another Ginna in school (even spellcheck just told me I misspelled it lol) I have never,ever met another with my name. It IS a nickname though,and there was another girl in high school who had the same "real" name as me,but she didn`t go by it either. She went by her middle name,Ann.
 

Yes, there were 5 of us in kindergarten with the same first name. Currently, I work at an elementary school, TK - 3rd grade with about 325 students, and there is only 1 student who shares my name. And now it seems parents are doing their best to find all kinds of weird ways to spell names. Also, I noticed names with "ton" and "on" at the end are popular: Kolton, Weston, Payton, Teyton, Easton, Dalton, Carson...
 
For a couple of years in grade school I got away with spelling my name terrie or teri until a teacher called me on it. She did not understand that spelling it Terry made people think I was a boy.
 
chic said:
I would have loved to have been named after a flower. Many women in my family were and classmates also.
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I never liked my name, and changed it through the years to Lillian .. which I also never liked :rolleyes:

edit: I was named after my father's British war-buddy's sister, and my little brother was named after his buddy.
 
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Sassycakes said:
In my class, there were 7 girls named Barbara. If the Nun called out the name 7 girls would stand up.
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At work we have several guys named Brian. Emails tend to be sent to multiple group lists, and then if the email starts out 'Brian,' and asks a question, it is common for the wrong Brian to reply that he doesn't know about that area. But no matter how many times our Brians ask people to use a last initial we all just throw questions out to 'Brian'.
 
No. I've always gone by my middle name, not my choice but I'm glad it worked out that way since I dislike my first name even more than my middle name. And I've only met 1 person by each name and that was after I became an adult.
 
Aunt Marg said:
It has such great vintage behind it! :)

If your location would have read Canada, I would have asked you a few questions to see if you and I went to school together!

As the old saying goes, it's a small world.
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I went to High School and college in Ruston, Louisiana with a year at U of I ...but I would loved to have gone to school with you :)
 
Serenity4321 said:
I went to High School and college in Ruston, Louisiana with a year at U of I ...but I would loved to have gone to school with you :)
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Awww... what a sweetie you are, Serenity!

One thing I keep forgetting is my age in relation to so many others on the forum. I'm definitely one of the younger ones here... a 1963 baby.
 
Serenity4321 said:
Enjoy and appreciate it 😃 ..it is amazing how quickly time passes..you turn around and think.."what happened":oops: how did I get to this age so quickly
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I battle those very thoughts all too often, Serenity.

Brings me down and makes me so sad at times wondering where my younger years went.

Aging and death, two things I have never been good with and will never be good with. Life is cruel that way.
 

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