05-13-2014, 12:18 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
We named our first son Benjamin and at the time it was barely top 20 and he's already got two friends named Ben and as you can see by the list it's gotten more popular. I was always a fan of the name and nobody used it when I was a kid and now there's going to be a generation of them.  I think you have to go out of the top 50 to get a name that's still pretty normal and you are safe from him/her having multiple friends of the same name. |
And give them a middle name that's a backup they can use if they want. Our son's middle name is Diego after my wife's dad, uncommon enough that he can use it when he's older if he wants to pursue the whole half-latino-gets-all-the-girls option.
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05-13-2014, 12:19 PM
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#22
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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^^^ uncommon in Canada, yes. South of here, not so much.
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05-13-2014, 12:27 PM
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#23
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Knowledge
Lucius-Reign
Jayden-Rayne
wow, who are these people?
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05-13-2014, 12:29 PM
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#24
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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- Aerlwilliam
- Aleczander
- Blayze
- Braxdyn
- Cloud (no one named Sephiroth, thankfully)
- Connred
- Elizabeth (as a boy name? Wow.)
- Knowledge
- Nicolo
- Nytewolf
- Paxtyn
- Thunder
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- Trystan
- Tyshaun
- Victory
- Whiskeyjack
- Zyler
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05-13-2014, 12:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by habernac
Knowledge
Lucius-Reign
Jayden-Rayne
wow, who are these people?
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They are in the Marvel Universe?
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05-13-2014, 12:32 PM
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#26
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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My kid was named before the name was cool
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05-13-2014, 12:33 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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I know someone who named his kid Manly.
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05-13-2014, 12:34 PM
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Originally Posted by fotze
Hey, parents of unplanned pregnancies are people too
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All the Whiskeyjack's of the world deserve a fair shot, right?
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05-13-2014, 12:38 PM
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#29
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazrim
Cloud (no one named Sephiroth, unfortunately)
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fyp
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05-13-2014, 12:39 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I know someone who named his kid Manly.
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Homophobic perhaps?
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05-13-2014, 12:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
My kid was named before the name was cool
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Is before the first name? and the name was cool the middle name?
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05-13-2014, 12:42 PM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Homophobic perhaps?
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Maybe. He was going to name his kid Charles and looked up the meaning. The source he looked at said the name meant "manly", so he decided to just go with that.
I know this is going to sound bad, but I knew a lot of natives where I lived used to give their kids names that they thought were funny.
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05-13-2014, 12:43 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
SO your the first Nytewolf?
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My the first.....
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05-13-2014, 12:43 PM
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#34
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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My personal pet peeve is when parents take a popular name and add their own little twist to the spelling like Paxtyn, Trystan, Aleczander, Jaxxon, etc. I mean if you want to name your boy James then name him James not Jaymes. It's just tacky and means your kid will have to put up with his/her name being misspelled on documents most of their lives.
We were at the park and there were two Jacksons and one of the mothers says "we wanted to name our son Jackson but knew it was becoming popular so we changed the spelling to differentiate him to Jaxxon". I said to her "but you still pronounce it Jackson right?" She says "of course". I guess I just don't understand the mentality here.
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05-13-2014, 12:48 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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16 different sets of parents thought that Talon was a perfectly suitable name for their son.
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05-13-2014, 12:49 PM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
16 different sets of parents thought that Talon was a perfectly suitable name for their son.
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I owned an Eagle Talon TSi AWD. Fun car in it's day.
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05-13-2014, 12:50 PM
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#37
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Nice to see Adolf is gaining traction again after all these years.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
My personal pet peeve is when parents take a popular name and add their own little twist to the spelling
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Haha doing that to ridiculous names is worse. There's 4 versions of Axel on that list...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's amazing how celebrities of the day influence how we name our children.
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And speaking of pop-culture, there's 22 "Archers"...
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05-13-2014, 12:56 PM
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#38
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We went with Quentin - it's a love/hate name but we rarely see others with it.
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05-13-2014, 01:01 PM
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And made it to E before I lost all faith in humanity. Someone named their child "Eberle".
Edmonton is no good.
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05-13-2014, 01:06 PM
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#40
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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No Jarmoe? No Fata? Come on you guys, someones gotta name a kid one of these.
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