Discussion on an earlier thread got me thinking, where does BBI stand on kids names? Traditional or trendy?
Clearly to each his/her own but I’m curious because I’ve found my opinion on this matter (more traditional/family names) falls in-line with a lot of my east coast friends, while a lot of my west coast friends go the trendy or purposefully obscure route. Not to mention several that actually take issue with a “super boring common name”, which is how one parent explained it knowing my name is Michael haha.
My daughters school consists of 90% names that I never came across K through 12.
I really liked the name my wife chose, Nolan, so that's what we went with in the end.
yeah same here but my parents put a stop to the name lineage thing. Thank God because if I had to take the name of one of my grandfathers, it would be ugly
George Costanza - Seven - ( New Window )
There's also a Bella, so 3 Ella's and a Bella, half the time I'm calling kids the wrong name or sometimes I'm right because I just say Ella or Callie.
opposing coaches look at the score sheet and think we're joking.
We have to have nicknames for everyone.
I guess the point is I'd rather something unique vs the trendy but don't put a target on your kids back and name them abcde or apple or something too unique.
As a coach, I can't imagine trying to navigate that. Gotta be THE worst roster situation I've ever heard. LOL
A friend of mine is a resident in a hospital. Someone she works with once treated twins with the last name Mann. Their names were Idon'tneeda and Idon'twanna*.
*I don't know how they spelled it.
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Half Italian. Name lineage has always been important in my family. My brother is named after my father and grandfather on my dads side. I'm named after my grandfather (Greek) on my mothers side. I was torn about naming him after me or the name my wife wanted. I decided to go with the name my wife picked and made his middle name my name. If we had named him after me we still planned on calling him by the name my wife wanted and just made it his middle name.
I really liked the name my wife chose, Nolan, so that's what we went with in the end.
yeah same here but my parents put a stop to the name lineage thing. Thank God because if I had to take the name of one of my grandfathers, it would be ugly
I got lucky and have one of the more American names for a Greek. I have some relatives with some doozies.
My post? That's what she told me, maybe the person was pulling her leg I don't know. There are idiotic people in this world, so who knows?
John
Michael
Thomas
Robert
To name a few. Nobody in his class will share his name. He will be unique.
God bless you. Actual normal names.
And hope he grows up a Rangers fan :)
Would you believe "La dash a" She thought this would stand-out. I think it will result in an IRS audit every year of that girls adult life...
My brother-in-law had a student with that same name