GeorgiaXplant
Well-known Member
- Location
- Georgia
Did you choose a name that you really liked and discover much later that it was a name that was so en vogue that there were multiple students in their classes with the same name?
Or that it was a nice name where you lived at the time but moved to a different part of the country where there were waaaaay too many other kids with the same name?
Or maybe a name that seemed "normal" to you at the time but that others cannot/will not pronounce or spell correctly?
Or, heck, maybe your own name is one that you have always disliked?
Mine is unusual (and to most Americans unpronounceable) so my kids have normal names that people can spell and pronounce and that weren't (and aren't) trendy. Also, at the time they were born in the early 60s, the Catholic Church still required that baptismal names were names of saints so right off the bat, all the cutesy names were off the table, even had we been so inclined.
Or that it was a nice name where you lived at the time but moved to a different part of the country where there were waaaaay too many other kids with the same name?
Or maybe a name that seemed "normal" to you at the time but that others cannot/will not pronounce or spell correctly?
Or, heck, maybe your own name is one that you have always disliked?
Mine is unusual (and to most Americans unpronounceable) so my kids have normal names that people can spell and pronounce and that weren't (and aren't) trendy. Also, at the time they were born in the early 60s, the Catholic Church still required that baptismal names were names of saints so right off the bat, all the cutesy names were off the table, even had we been so inclined.