Mom was going to be Susan, except the woman across the street had a baby just a few months before Mom was born and named the girl Susan. My grandmother didn't want to have two Susans so close together. Then Susan and her family moved.
Several people tried to talk Mom out of my brother's first name. One uncle was dating a girl with the same name and Mom's sister had a dog with the same name. Mom told them the relationship might not last and the dog would die and when my brother was an adult no one would care about the dog or the girlfriend.
She's right.
I came close to being Michelle Leanne. I don't feel like a Michelle.
For a long time I resisted being called Ali, it rihymes with my last name and god I had enoug problems in school. However, I'm moving more toward Ali , especially with my invisible internet friends. I would do it more in my meatspace life, but then I forget.
Susans are always smart, ime.
Well, someone told me Julia was an old lady name.
Huh? I know a million Julias around my age, and not a single old lady one. (Though, this is also true of Emilys and Hannahs and Rachels and Lauras, all of which I've heard are supposedly old lady names.)
Huh.
My baby likes Paul Anka.
I'm not sure what to do with that information. Aside from make a note on her Christmas list that Rock Swings would not go unappreciated.
Aside from make a note on her Christmas list that Rock Swings would not go unappreciated.
Ooh, I could send her this.
all of which I've heard are supposedly old lady names
Emily's been the most popular baby name for four or five years, I think. Not that it can't be both. Just saying.
Oh, I love it when they show their love for music. What's she doing, Plei?
Huh? I know a million Julias around my age, and not a single old lady one. (Though, this is also true of Emilys and Hannahs and Rachels and Lauras, all of which I've heard are supposedly old lady names.)
Per the Social Security site [link] it's been ranked in the 30s and 40s for popularity, since 1996. Prior to that, it was less common, except for back about a 100-150 years ago.
I was very nearly named "Carla," after my grandfather A. Carl. (The A was for "Adolph," but that got dropped right quick in the late 'thirties).
I like my weird boy name.
PS, lest any Toms feel dissed, I got over my issues (which are totally related to how freakin' many there are in my family, and shit, I was forgetting all about my cousin Tom in that count--no, really, there's a fuck of a lot of Toms), and the Chosen Boy Name that doomed us to having a girl per the ultrasound tech was Gabriel Thomas.
OK, I won't tell on you. then.
I was gonna, too! And then Tom would have cried and cried and cried.
