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Post by chapeau on Feb 8, 2019 19:23:40 GMT -5
LOL, I know a Sara no "H" and a Sarah witha "H". That's how they say their name with they are giving it to someone who is entering/looking for their name in a list. They know each other. So, sometimes their friends refer to them that way too to identify which sarah/sara they mean. Maybe guys have it easier - they just get referred to by their last name (or some part of their last name) when they all have the same first name. Atleast that was how it worked in HS - all the John's were referred to by last name. Does anyone name their sons John any more? One of my cousins was in the same high school class as my sister. She was 1 of 2 girls in the class with the same first and middle names. Both girls were part of the same social group, so it was really confusing for a while. Then they became “Name Sis’s cousin” and “Name part of last name”. The whole school, including teachers, called them that. They were both in my sister’s wedding last year and everyone was calling them their high school names again. And my cousin went to college with a couple of kids from their high school. 800 miles from home, people who have never met my sister were calling my cousin “Name Sis’s cousin”.
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Post by teen persuasion on Feb 8, 2019 19:58:55 GMT -5
LOL, I know a Sara no "H" and a Sarah witha "H". That's how they say their name with they are giving it to someone who is entering/looking for their name in a list. They know each other. So, sometimes their friends refer to them that way too to identify which sarah/sara they mean. Maybe guys have it easier - they just get referred to by their last name (or some part of their last name) when they all have the same first name. Atleast that was how it worked in HS - all the John's were referred to by last name. Does anyone name their sons John any more? These days, even girls get called by their last names. DD1 is in the navy, and everyone answers to <last name>, so that's "her" name. When she was home recently, she was objecting to the fact that all of DS5's friends call him by his last name lately. I think it's due to being the fifth family member going thru the music program in the school. After 20ish years, the teachers have just stuck with <last name>, its easier - oh, look, it's another <last name>! Hm, now that I'm thinking about this and the connection to the music teachers, it occurs to me that the orchestra teacher was military before going into teaching. So maybe the last name trend started with him, and spread to the band teacher ...
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 8, 2019 20:30:40 GMT -5
LOL, I know a Sara no "H" and a Sarah witha "H". That's how they say their name with they are giving it to someone who is entering/looking for their name in a list. They know each other. So, sometimes their friends refer to them that way too to identify which sarah/sara they mean. Maybe guys have it easier - they just get referred to by their last name (or some part of their last name) when they all have the same first name. Atleast that was how it worked in HS - all the John's were referred to by last name. Does anyone name their sons John any more? These days, even girls get called by their last names. DD1 is in the navy, and everyone answers to <last name>, so that's "her" name. When she was home recently, she was objecting to the fact that all of DS5's friends call him by his last name lately. I think it's due to being the fifth family member going thru the music program in the school. After 20ish years, the teachers have just stuck with <last name>, its easier - oh, look, it's another <last name>! Hm, now that I'm thinking about this and the connection to the music teachers, it occurs to me that the orchestra teacher was military before going into teaching. So maybe the last name trend started with him, and spread to the band teacher ... My college friends all called me by my last name. It was nice when I got married and changed my last name that they still called me by my maiden name.
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Post by lynnerself on Feb 8, 2019 20:42:33 GMT -5
My grandmothers were Minnie and Gladys, so not chosen for my daughter. DH wanted one of his names for our son, but since he already got the last name, DS got my maiden name (Ross) for his middle name. Both my kids have their own popular 1st names. DD shares my middle name. I have one of those ridiculously common first names. There were 5 with my name at my work. Fortunately there are a lot of nick names and alternate spellings. Still we used "first name, last name" a lot to tell us apart.
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Post by alabamagal on Feb 8, 2019 20:43:06 GMT -5
My niece named her daughter my Grandmother's name. It was the third most "old-ladiest" name I could ever think of. I know those names are back. And I think there are several super cute nick names, but she is adamant that we have to use the entire name. I'm a short name kind of person - give me one syllable all day, every day. Ethel or Gertrude ? My grandmother was Gertrude
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Post by alabamagal on Feb 8, 2019 20:45:07 GMT -5
A good friend of mine (30 years ago)put a lot of thought into picking a name for her daughter from Greek mythology. But she was not aware of a lot of Disney movies. And she hated when people would say “Ariel, like the Little Mermaid” Huh. Our last dog was named Ariel - but because it is Hebrew origin, meaning Lion (of god) I didn't know anything about it in mythology. But everyone thought we named her after the Little Mermaid too. From The Tempest. My friend was Jewish also but said it was from Shakespeare
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Post by alabamagal on Feb 8, 2019 20:53:43 GMT -5
DS's nickname is Bear. It started as Air Bear, turned into Bear Bear. He introduces himself to people that way. I'm thinking he'll drop a 'Bear' when he gets older. His name doesn't lend to many nicknames so I don't see it being replaced. It does seem popular in the UK. Two of the British moms from my 30 person baby group call their sons Bear too. On the celebrity front, there is also composer Bear McCreary. He does soundtracks for Walking Dead, Black Sails, Outlander among many others. We called our youngest Bear. His name is Jeremy and we shortened to calling him Jer. Then when we saw the Star Wars with Jar-Jar Binks, it morphed into Jer Jer (his siblings added Stinks). Then it morphed to Jer Bear.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Feb 8, 2019 21:25:22 GMT -5
DS's nickname is Bear. It started as Air Bear, turned into Bear Bear. He introduces himself to people that way. I'm thinking he'll drop a 'Bear' when he gets older. His name doesn't lend to many nicknames so I don't see it being replaced. It does seem popular in the UK. Two of the British moms from my 30 person baby group call their sons Bear too. On the celebrity front, there is also composer Bear McCreary. He does soundtracks for Walking Dead, Black Sails, Outlander among many others. We called our youngest Bear. His name is Jeremy and we shortened to calling him Jer. Then when we saw the Star Wars with Jar-Jar Binks, it morphed into Jer Jer (his siblings added Stinks). Then it morphed to Jer Bear. Lol, Of course they did! Siblings are great for that kind of thing. (Jer bear is a great combination.) My youngest was nicknamed Joshie bear by his sitter. He is a bear, too. He wraps up in a fuzzy blanket coming over his head and sleeps like that. Eta: can you guess what my DB nicknamed me? 😉 I know I've mentioned it previously here on YMAM.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 22:01:42 GMT -5
Sofia the First came out in 2012. Sophia the name cracked the top 20 girls names in 2003, and by 2011 was the most popular name for girls in the US. Ah, I guess I didn't notice it until then. Seems like The old fashioned names have come back quite a bit. Sophia is pretty popular around here. DS is hanging out with one tonight. She's in their D & D )group.
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 9, 2019 16:33:09 GMT -5
I know a small handful of Sophias under 13 years old.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 9, 2019 17:09:12 GMT -5
The names of my grandmothers were Flossie Mae and Bertha Mae. I have always been thankful I was given their middle names.
On mom's side, her dad was named Oliver. He now has what would be a great-great-great grandson named Oliver. That particular family has used a lot of the family names for this generation of children as well as the previous generation. I know it made mom happy when a boy was given her maiden name as a first name.
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