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Re: Names. (My obsession) ((Well one of them))
Long ago in a land far away I failed to persuade someone who had won the green card lottery to change her name from Assol to something, ANYthing, else.
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many don't. But these were born here.
My fave is still Randy Dong ...who was an associate researcher or something when I was PhD student. He chose an anglicized name, but apparently was underinformed about the differences between British and American English. But he was very friendly and enthusiastic and when he introduced himself to the group, it was several minutes before any of us could respond
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Re: Names. (My obsession) ((Well one of them))
monster wrote:
4 days of swim championships, some name observations:
most unusual
Sunbear
Rune
Rock
Diem
surprise popular names:
Avery
Grayson
In one of the 4 meets (9/10 age group), there were 3 of each of these -two girls and one boy. yes, that's right, two girls called Grayson in the same swim meet
About to add this year's offerings but just wanted to update.... Sunbear is still swimming. Now in the oldest group and when the ladies were waiting to be marshalled, I overheard them mention his name in a highschool girl way....
(Only one Grayson left and she's also in the top age group, The Averys have reached the spelling variant point (Averi, Aivery....))
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Based on my observations from three days of swim championships this year (one more to go)... ...in the next couple of decades, we will be attending the wedding of Ellie and Hamilton. The bridesmaids will be Vera, Esther and Gladys, with Odin as best man and any and all other groomsmen will be called Jude.
Yes, two Odins so far and still another day to go.
In the Unique and New (ish) department
Capricus
Payne
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Our new weird frontrunner these days is Nico ("neeko")--we've have three of those this summer, all short for Nicolas, plus one Neko, short for nothing.
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Save me. Spotted today at work -this person is around 27: Ryhlei
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(One might presume it's pronounced Riley....)
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Save me. Spotted today at work -this person is around 27: Ryhlei
EEEK!!!
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today... Parys. my eyes.......
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Re: Names. (My obsession) ((Well one of them))
Billennium. As a first name. This person is about 27. I bet the poor lad goes by Bill
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Re: Names. (My obsession) ((Well one of them))
Billennium. As a first name. This person is about 27. I bet the poor lad goes by Bill
His twin sister is Millie. They're 25 and were born on 1st January 2000.
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I couldn't possibly comment. But now I will have to go double-check
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I feel like Rodney may soon become a girls' name
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And lo and behold today I found a Rodnika. Not exactly a female Rodney, but it's coming.....
Also plenty of Millenniums, but none related to Billennium who, it turns out, was named after his father.
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