<p>My family had a Nellie and a Fanny. </p>
<p>Last week, I met a Rapunzel. She’s about 35 and very successful, btw.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder just as much about self-selected usernames, btw.</p>
<p>I worked wth a woman who named her kids after perfumes: Nate (from Jean Nate), Diamond (after Elizabeth Taylor’s perfume), and Chanel. The boy was Christian Dior. </p>
<p>“I always joke that I married my husband for his simple four-letter last name.”</p>
<p>I did a similar thing. 
But gosh - what was I thinking?! Even though my married last name is very short and simple (German roots), it is amazing how many times (and different ways!) it gets butchered! 
We are a family of very conventional first names. When I was born, my parents decided to “recycle” grandmothers’ names. I was lucky that my dad prevailed and I was not named after my maternal grandmother Claudia. </p>
<p>Names are interesting, and I’m fine with about whatever. Even unusual, long names like Marquavious are easy to spell. It’s the weird spellings that I don’t understand, like Jaysen or Karrson. Why would you want to saddle a child with a name that people would never spell the way you intended for it to be spelled? Even worse are the names that don’t sound like their spelling. My cousin had a student in her kindergarten class whose name the parents pronounced totally differently from the name’s spelling. This wasn’t a nickname. It was as if his name were written John, but the parents pronounced it “Joseph”. That poor child already had a strike against him. </p>
<p>In the spirit of the thread</p>
<p><a href=“Key & Peele - East/West College Bowl - YouTube”>Key & Peele - East/West College Bowl - YouTube;
<p>Key and Peele. </p>
<p>Waiting for Mike, Debbie, Linda, Kathy, Barbara, Pam, Sally, Susan, Sue, Susie, Nancy, Tommy, Bobby, Danny, Jimmy, Charlie, Wayne,David, Kim, Patty, Paula,Betty, Margie, Maggie, Julie, Jane, Judy, Terry, Jerry, Tony, etc…to make a comeback someday.</p>
<p>I’m on that list (as are a lot of you, I bet). I knew lots of other girls with my name growing up, and when I got my first job, there were THREE of us new college grads with that name in the accounting department. We were everywhere! Have never heard of a girl in D’s generation with my name. </p>
<p>I had 3 girls named Patricia in my 6th grade class of ~25, two of them named Patricia Doherty. Another name I haven’t heard used in years. </p>
<p>Ever run across others with your own name, via Google? </p>
<p>Emeraldkity- My mom’s name was Cleo and I had an Aunt Opal (she was a hoot!). At school this year, we had twin girls- Cleo and Cloe (pronounced like Chloe). The mom said to us, as she was registering, “I don’t know what I was thinking!”</p>
<p>I think that Clara is a nice name. In fact, I was strongly interested in it had S been a D.</p>
<p>Partly it depends whether you think of it as Claire-ah or Cla-rah. I prefer the latter.</p>
<p>Anyone who wants to read about distressing baby names should google not without my handbag, without the spaces. It’s a blog, or I’d link to it.</p>
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<p>Probably because of the unusual spelling of my first name, no, there is no one else out there (searching via Google) with my name. </p>
<p>First plus last = tons of hits (Linkedin, Facebook, etc.). If I throw in my middle name, I am probably the only one out there. </p>
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<p>It looks like there’s only 1 other person in the US with my same first and last name and same spelling for both. Confirmed that with Facebook, Linked In, and White Pages. Then there’s about 12 more outside the US. Weird thing is I have a mutual facebook friend with one them. </p>
<p>The spelling of both of my names is the most common spelling, but I know there was actually one other student at Michigan who had my same first and last name, but different spelling for each. </p>
<p>Though having an uncommon name means that when I google it, I’m the first image that shows up.</p>
<p>My sister will have no one with her name because my parents just made up her name. She goes by a nickname which is pretty common though. </p>
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<p>A Google search gives people with related first and last names because my first and last name are spelled oddly. You don’t get my Facebook or other social media accounts as I am not searchable. </p>
<p>I once tutored a little girl named Chastity. I wonder if that’s a common name. </p>
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<p>Yep, everyone in my family has same-name doppelgangers. My daughter’s name-sharer is 6 years younger and now a sophomore at the local flagship U, quote active in social media. My son’s name sharer is 7 years younger than him, lives in a midwestern state, but doesn’t share much about himself. My name is even more common – Facebook lists at least 8 others with the same name. </p>
<p>D1’s sings badly in odd youtube videos. </p>