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Originally Posted by Russic
My kids names aren't unique at all, so clearly I don't really understand the desire to give a rare name. Did anybody grow up with a common name and hate it? I always thought it was more cool than annoying when I ran into somebody with my name. My wife meanwhile was named after a transient hippie, so she's spent 50% of her life giving coffee baristas a fake name so she doesn't have to spell it out using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
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I found it annoying to always be "CommonName T" because there was also a "CommonName F" and "CommonName R" and a few others in my grade from elementary straight through high school. Or even worse, "Big CommonName" and "Little CommonName".
My strategy has been to give my kids names that are fairly traditional but not super popular currently.