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Post by Sandafluffoid on Aug 10, 2009 16:56:12 GMT -5
I have never met someone with the same name as me, however, it turns out through google that there is someone with not only the same first name, but the same surname as well. He even has similar hair, it's scary.
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Post by cagnazzo on Aug 10, 2009 18:18:22 GMT -5
I don't think hearing your name in public is as bad as having someone in your 6th grade class named Nate when your name is Kate. Trust me, it's pretty annoying. Conversations get interrupted all the time, because I think someone wants me.
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Post by yojetak on Aug 10, 2009 19:04:52 GMT -5
I don't think hearing your name in public is as bad as having someone in your 6th grade class named Nate when your name is Kate. Trust me, it's pretty annoying. Conversations get interrupted all the time, because I think someone wants me. Whatever! Kate is totally common too! <--winnar
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Post by cagnazzo on Aug 10, 2009 20:32:29 GMT -5
Trust me, it's pretty annoying. Conversations get interrupted all the time, because I think someone wants me. Whatever! Kate is totally common too! <--winnar Do... do we have a crappy name-off now? This sounds like the best type of duel ever.
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Post by yojetak on Aug 10, 2009 22:09:14 GMT -5
Whatever! Kate is totally common too! <--winnar Do... do we have a crappy name-off now? This sounds like the best type of duel ever. *dons my dueling gloves*
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 10, 2009 22:30:06 GMT -5
Do... do we have a crappy name-off now? This sounds like the best type of duel ever. *dons my dueling gloves* Takes one & bitchslaps somebody with it. You forgot that part.
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Post by Mira on Aug 10, 2009 22:40:27 GMT -5
Do you know how many people there are named Matt? A lot. It gets annoying. I am going to start insisting that people start using my full name all the time.
Also, I was going to be Kate until I turned out to have boy parts. My parents were bent on commonality.
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Post by Mira on Aug 10, 2009 22:42:28 GMT -5
Also, having one syllable makes me confuse other people's names for mine as well.
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Post by yojetak on Aug 10, 2009 22:49:11 GMT -5
Takes one & bitchslaps somebody with it. You forgot that part. Thanks. On guard!
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Post by lonelocust on Aug 11, 2009 1:48:37 GMT -5
Thank you. I rather like it too other than hearing it a million times a day when no one is talking to me. I'm Laura from laurel crown/crown of leaves, and my brother is Steven, which means crown. I thought my sister should have been Corona to keep the theme going, but she is Carol.
Cagnazzo:
I usually hear Sharon/Susan and the other derivatives of that name translated to "rose" or "lilly" which I believe came from "flower of Sharon", though "Sharon" itself was the plain, the word came to mean whatever the flowers were that it was famous for. But this could all be post-facto weirdness with trying to make the name meanings more palatable. "Laura" gets a meaning of "Victorious" on a lot of sites and books. I assume because you are "victorious" at something if you get the laurel crown. The meanings of Sharon and its derivatives could be like that.
Hmmmm... I am not familiar with a related name that people's grandmothers would have other than Dorothy(or Dorothea or whatever other variations). Are people's grandmothers maybe named "Nathan"? Or "Nate"? Those are just variations of Nathanial. Which is also related to Matthew. And apparently the internet tells me "Zebedee" also means the same thing. WTF Hebrew, WTF? (I refrain from guessing that your name is Zebedee.)
There were like 12 girls ON MY HALL my freshman year of college in the dorms named Laura. It was the most common incoming freshman name both my freshman and sophomore years.
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Post by Mira on Aug 11, 2009 10:46:28 GMT -5
In my year of birth mine was the third most common given name. If I had been a girl I would have been 29 (Well, I would have been Katlyn. Katherine was the 29th most popular. Same short form, though.)
Edit: Actually I don't know if I would have been Katlyn or Caitlin. Or even some other spelling. I have just heard it out loud.
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Post by Mantorok on Aug 11, 2009 11:00:48 GMT -5
My name means "bearing Christ inside". It's not terribly hard to guess what it is.
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Post by canadian mojo on Aug 11, 2009 18:05:02 GMT -5
Also, I was going to be Kate until I turned out to have boy parts. My parents were bent on commonality. I was initially going to be Lola, after the song. Then my mom listened to the words a bit more closely. Being born with dingly bits rendered it moot anyways. I ended up with Morgan (my middle name, we have a history of not actually going by the first name) which was pretty much unique... except for Morgan Fairchild the actress which I was reminded about on a fairly regular basis.
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Post by Jebediah on Aug 11, 2009 18:14:11 GMT -5
If I were a boy, I'd be either Nathan or Robert. My parents hadn't decided, but it didn't really matter because they knew my sex months before I was born.
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Post by lonelocust on Aug 12, 2009 2:54:19 GMT -5
Also, I was going to be Kate until I turned out to have boy parts. My parents were bent on commonality. I was initially going to be Lola, after the song. Then my mom listened to the words a bit more closely. Being born with dingly bits rendered it moot anyways. Wouldn't that have actually made it more appropriate?
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