We live in a rural/small town part of Maryland and I bet my high school aged son knows 5 boys named Tyler and 5 or more others named Logan as first names. Probably half a dozen Cody’s too.
The black kids mostly have fairly common names.
LaTrina is not a Biblical name? Who knew?!
he number of girls given the name Mary at birth has fallen 94 percent since 1961
(Not a papist, but) our youngest, born 1990, is a Mary.
We gave all our kids pretty ordinary names, of biblical origin. We didn't try to be trendy (but it turned out there was a spate of Hannahs born in the early 80s).
And I got pointed to this a couple weeks ago:
My children all have a biblical name in their names:
Anne
Marie
Louise
John David
Patrick
At least some black comics are getting mileage from the naming thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss
The ‘Curse of Individualism.’ Only from the HRC!
All names were strange once.
“Laquintas”
Named after where conceived?
Some popular redneck names around here . . Dakota, Cheyenne or Shyann, or Shian, Shawn, or Sean, or Shawna, or Seana, Amber, Crystal, or Krystal . . these are okay names, but have been driven into the ground with lots of repeats.
So, here’s something on this topic from 2006:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606343/posts
I’m simultaneously amused and irritated by dippy parents who really think by giving their child a weird name, they will make the kid a unique individual.
I know a
Holly Holly and Jody Jupiter
Oh, well. We named our only daughter Mary. She’s been extremely successful and never had to justify her name.
There was a time, as I recall, that you could not baptize a child in the Catholic Church unless s/he had a saint’s name. It could have been a middle name, but somewhere in there s/he had to have a saint’s name.
Like Msgr. Pope, over the years and decades I’ve worked extensively with DC’s African American community. One older (60ish) black woman was horrified by her grand-children’s names. Only one had a ‘normal’ (and, to her, acceptable) name.
The man I was with for a number of years, before he passed in September of this year, his first name, David, means “beloved”.
ABCDE That one will be hard to spell wrong.
Strange names? How about Meta World Peace?
“In 2011 there were more than twice as many Nevaehs (“Heaven” spelled backwards) born as there were Marys.”
Come on. But then I read the article...
“Incredibly, out of 1.7 million girls’ names recorded by the SSA in 2011, I was able to predict to within 87 how many would be named Mary. By simply taking the number born in 2010 and subtracting the 5-year average decline, I predicted 2,584 would be born; the actual number was 2,671 (an error of 3.3 percent).”
I think the Nationals have two Tylers, three Ryans, a Jordan, a Drew, a Jayson, an Ian and a Bryce.
Freegards
I couldn't take it after a few weeks and told him that "Individualism" was bunk and that it actually made more folks similar by limiting the methods (dress/hair/tattoos/piercings, etc.) by taking God out of the equation. I told him that real individualism meant just being you and not trying to be an individual because God made all of us different than the others in some wonderful ways.
He didn't like it much, but his father was a good friend so i still got the grade I deserved.