I have great great grandparents named Adam and Eve. Seriously!
Top baby names on the rise for 2016.
@Pizzagirl “I have great great grandparents named Adam and Eve.”
Yes, we all do. 
So I flipped through just for the fun of it, and there, at #13 for boys, I saw:
Aryan
wow , that is troubling dfbdfb
I’m rarely ashamed of my generation. But right now, I certainly am.
One time in elementary school, I almost missed the bus because they said “the Walkers are dismissed” and my last name wasn’t Walker.
I also had a teacher named Mrs. Prince, who said she was a princess because she married a Prince. I believed her.
My best suggestion for a terrible name is Someone, pronounced Simone.
That “baby names on the rise” list is totally meaningless. Here’s how the list was generated, according to the Nameberry website that created the list:
In other words, it was based on HOW MANY PEOPLE LOOKED UP THE NAME on the website over the last 30 days, as compared to the comparable period last year.
If you looked up the name “Aryan” on that website in response to this thread, then you could have contributed to its status as one of the “hottest” names “on the rise.” (Depending on the timing of the data collection).
The list has NOTHING whatsoever to do with what any baby has been named.
So, anyway, no need to lose faith in an entire generation over this silly and meaningless list.
I had a professional acquaintance whose name was Richard Dick, who went by Dick Dick. Not kidding and completely first hand contact.
Um - “First hand”…
LOL, this isn’t “that” thread, Madison85. Seems that one went limp.
Maybe someone will res-erect that other one.
Oops! You would think I would have noticed that, but . . .
There was some city official in DC whose name is Robert Bob. Probably called Bob Bob as a kid!
I used to work with a girl named Beverly Beverly.
Ugh why would someone do that to their kid?
I have an O’Irish last name and I have a distant cousin named something like Irish O’Irish. Why??
Beverly Beverly isn’t necessarily the result of parental choices.
Pulling from memory, but wasn’t one of the observations made by the male lead in The Wedding Singer that if Julia, the female lead, ended up marrying the antagonist character, she’d be Julia Gulia?
A nice argument for why women shouldn’t change their names
I say this in jest but really, my first name would sound godawful with my spouse’s last name but goes great with my last name.
There’s Lauren Bush Lauren as another real-life example.
Beverly Beverly was about 23 and single when I knew her. That’s what her parents named her! I can’t imagine doing that to a kid.