Lady in Car: What are you gonna name it? Alison Bradbury: What? Lady in Car: The baby. Alison Bradbury: [realizing she's faking being pregnant] Oh, the baby. Well, if it's a girl, Cynthia, and if it's a boy, Elliot. Lady in Car: Those are lovely names. Walter (Gib) Gibson: Elliot? You're gonna name the kid Elliot? No, you can't name the kid Elliot. Elliot is a fat kid with glasses who eats paste. You're not gonna name the kid Elliot. You gotta give him a real name. Give him a name. Like Nick. Alison Bradbury: Nick? Walter (Gib) Gibson: Yeah, Nick. Nick's a real name. Nick's your buddy. Nick's the kind of guy you can trust, the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car, Nick!
[Alison looks disgusted] Walter (Gib) Gibson: [to Lady in Car] Oh, vomit. I'm sorry. Vomit.
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.
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.
Yeah, I like my name but just way too many of us. And my wife and I just aren't on the names that come from 80 years ago kick. So we went after something unique, but hopefully not too strange.
Our girls will probably get tired of having to spell their names and name their kids sue or Jim or something simple.
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.
You're not who I thought you were then.
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The Jackson outbreak can now be classified as a pandemic.
It sucks because I have a five year old son named Jackson and when we named him Jackson was only a top 100 name as he has no other kids in his grade named Jackson (which is all you can ask for in this day and age) but it now appears the name has gone viral and the silly misspellings makes me feel bad we gave him a name that has been goofed on by so many parents.
Please choose National for her middle name. That way every boy in her high school can make golfing jokes when talking about having sex with her.
Imagine a group of twenty kids in a circle surrounding a bully while he beats the tar out of your son. The crowd is chanting "Weeeeeeentworth, Weeeeeeentworth, Weeeeeeentworth..." while your son contemplates that his life is ruined because his parents gave him a name from the nineteenth century.
All things to consider.
Wentworth is also a PGA tour golf course, so no matter the sex, that kid is getting 'hole in one' jokes.
In all of the 2000's, there was only one kid in Alberta named with what we named our daughter. I didn't think it would be that unique, but it turns out it was. I've got a very popular name for my generation, and I don't really like it.
