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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
My granddad's name is Homer. I don't think I know or have heard of another one...in real life.

I had a great Uncle Elmer

He was a farmer.

Makenzie, Makayla are a couple that come to mind.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Emma. My grandmother born in 1885 and my granddaughter born in 2001.

My G-grandmother, born in 1858, was Emma. Nice name.

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
I used to live in Nebraska. In the old farm / ranch areas you will hear: Earl, Otis, Milo, Murl(Merle) & Edgar.

A second cousin of mine, now gorn, was named Earl. He had a long life of public service in social medicine, and was awarded an OBE, pinned on his chest by Prince Charles, whose mom was off gallivanting around the Commonwealth at the time.

For the rest of his long life he was known. within the family, as Earlobe.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

You forgot... Shirley.

I've known two women, in their late 50's and mid 60's now I'd guess, who both went by the nickname "cookie". Both their real names is Shirley.

I thought that rather an unlikely coincidence. Maybe there's some cultural reference from before my time that I'm missing?

I once met a fellow whose first name was the Upper case letter “J”. Not “Jay” but J.

I recall the first time I encountered the name "Annalease". Saw the name on someone's door at work. Said to myself "What were her parents thinking?"

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Originally posted by PKFan:
You still don't see a lot of Adolphs these days.

Too soon.

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by PKFan:
You still don't see a lot of Adolphs these days.

Too soon.

HAHAHA!

Farmer, friend of mine named their kid Rope.

Anything with one or more apostrophes.

My older cousin's kids are named Camdyn and Cayden. He lived in L.A., so...

IIRC Camdyn is the girl and Cayden is the boy. But I have to check my notes on that.

Now, Camden New Jersey is a shithole, and Camdyn recently moved to NYC. Unfortunate coincidence.

Other cousins have named their kids Griffin, Trevor, Evie. A coworker has a Spencer which I kind of like in that it is classic (Spencer Tracy).

For my son, we thought about it a while back in 2003. I'm Italian/Irish and my ex is English/Mexican. I was OK with Antonio, but we settled on Anthony. It works in all ethnicities, and with his middle name James (my father's middle name) he has a lot of options - Anthony James, AJ, Tony J, TJ, etc.

I went to school with a lot of Rebeccas (I was born in 83) but I can’t think of a time ive seen the name associated with a younger person.

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Seven or Soda (if you know, you know).

A 30 something lady working in local pet store is Clem. I had to ask, short for Clementine...after her grandmother....geesh

I did not recall going to high school with anyone named Owen out of a graduating class of 435. My older son Owen Lachlan, has a friend named Owen on his little league team of 18. My barber’s son is also named Owen. Owen certainly seems to be more popular this generation than the previous one. Fortunately my Owen’s middle name has not yet been copied by any other Owen that I know of.

My younger son Quinlan, is the only Quinlan in his elementary school. There have been Quinn’s but no other Quinlan’s. Although he has a middle name (Keith), I haven’t needed to invoke it to identify him, just to get his attention in classic parental first, middle and last name admonishment !

On a more critical note, hyphenated last names and first names with apostrophes were rare, not so anymore.

My Dad's name was Clarence. Not many of those these days. I was named Evan in 1944. I was 20 years old before I heard someone else named that. More of them these days.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
... and was awarded an OBE ...For the rest of his long life he was known. within the family, as Earlobe.

I acknowledge what they did, there.

I was almost named Clarence, after being born on my granfather's birthday. I often wonder what life would have been like as a Clarence.

I know a guy named Shawn from work. I always misspell it when sending him an email and have to correct the email address to get it to populate.

When I was growing up Sean or Shaun were the common spellings, depending on how Irish the family was.

Shawn I think got started partly by Shawan Dunston, and I always assumed his parent(s) just mispelled it.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Emma. My grandmother born in 1885 and my granddaughter born in 2001.

My G-grandmother, born in 1858, was Emma. Nice name.

Several of my wife's friends have named their daughters Emma. It seems to be experiencing a bit of a surge in this area.