<p>My mom and my sister have the same first name. If dad yelled it, there was always a reply “Which one - the big one or the little one?”</p>
<p>I knew a boy name Chris Cross when I was in school. I’m embarrassed to say we know someone (distantly) who named their twins Bill and Billy. No, I’m not kidding … I wish I were.</p>
<p>OK this may be a little O.T. but anyone remember:</p>
<p>“Hi I’m Larry…and this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl”?</p>
<p>There’s a person with whom I deal whose name is Richard Dick.</p>
<p>There was a star running back for the old Los Angeles Rams in the 1970s, Lawrence McCutcheon. His brother was Larry McCutcheon. I mean really, what posseses parents to do such a thing?</p>
<p>This thread is a hoot.</p>
<p>It reminded me of my best girl friend “Sammie” in h.s. in the l960’s who received her draft notice for Vietnam. She didn’t go to serve, but did hightail down to the draft board to correct the misunderstanding.</p>
<p>S’s close friends in HS often called him by his last name - last name as nickname kind of thing. Because our last name can also be used as a first, more than one kid along the way was surprised to find out that they were actually calling him by his last name!</p>
<p>I went to JH with Thomas Thomas…yep, his middle name was Thomas…his parent’s must’ve been a few french fries short of a happy meal!</p>
<p>Please be careful giving full names, particularly since they are clearly unusual. It’s important to protect the privacy of strangers to this board.</p>
<p>I really truly knew a faimily whose oldest girl was Annabel Lee, her younger sister was Vivian Lee. I’m sure a brother would have been Robert E.</p>
<p>Saw newborn twins in the hospital named “Michelle” and “Nichelle”. Just bad.</p>
<p>The world’s greatest boxer, George Foreman, has tried to protect his first name by increasing the ratio of boys named George to girls named George. He has named all six of his sons George.</p>
<p>I have a boys’ middle name, and as a girl was always called by both my first and middle names. Come to think of it, my first name is a unisex name, though aside from a Steelers quarterback I’d never really considered it much of a boys name until reading it here… </p>
<p>My parents came very close to naming me “Martha Allen” after a late relative. Sometimes those unisex/male names are actually family names.</p>
<p>We know many male Riley’s, Ryan’s and Connor’s, and now know girls with those names as well. My daughter has both male and female Elvin’s in her grade, surprisingly.</p>
<p>mathmom: I thought your cousin had had a sex-change operation until I realized what you meant. LOL.</p>
<p>My last name is a unisex first name and not very common as a last name in the US. (It is in England.) This has caused no end of confusion, mostly with surly restaurant staff if they ask for my last name. When I give it they hiss, “I said your last name.” Not even embarassed when a I explain that it is my last name.</p>
<p>Just to add to the general confusion because what would life be without it, I gave both kids hyphenated last names. Together at about 11 and 13 they both decided to drop H’s name and just keep mine. Went to court and everything. Yay! Matriliny. Vassar kept asking us for the returns of the non-custodial parent and treating H as a stepparent, even though he explained several times.</p>
<p>I have the most trouble when parents re-spell classic names and change the gender. I was the confused one, looking at a “Mykah” in a pink dress, trying to figure out why Micah was being cross-dressed at age 2.
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<p>I can’t believe how many ways one can spell “Emily”! Oh, wait, may be it is “Emilie”? Or “Emylee”? Or “Emielee”? Or “Aimylee”? Nowadays, I always ask D’s friends, “Your name is Jennifer? How do you spell that?”</p>
<p>H. once had a closing with a man whose first name was Egbert.
He said that his grandfather and father before him were Egberts, and when his son was born he naturally chose… Egbert. I’d say that’s a pretty rough name to have nowadays.</p>
<p>Egbert, yes kind of rough, but it must mean a lot to that family. Maybe the kids will nickname him “bert” or “gb”</p>
<p>I had a female student aged 11 who changed the spelling of her unusual name from the “y” to an “i” so she could dot it with a heart. Awwww.</p>
<p>Then there’s baseball player Cecil Fielder, who named his son Prince. Prince Fielder (also a baseball player).</p>
<p>Both of my S’s have definite masculine first names but they go by nicknames that years ago would have been defintely male nicknames but have become unisex over the years. </p>
<p>S1’s name is very unisex. S2’s still leans more to the male side. We have often told S1 that he has a perfectly good full name that he is free to use whenever he wants if the nickname bothers him. Also there is another nickname for his full name would be considered more masculine. He is a super masculine guy, body builder, military man so he has never had any flack about his unisex name. </p>
<p>S2’s full name could easily be considered three last names or three first names!</p>
<p>Like another poster many of my S’s friends call them by their last name, which could also be a first name,lol,
When DH was in college many called him by his last name also. It must be a guy thing.</p>