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.
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
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Emily - Sep 09, 2005 4:01:32 pm PDT #2129 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 4:02:03 pm PDT #2130 of 10001
What is even happening?
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.
Anne W. - Sep 09, 2005 4:13:01 pm PDT #2131 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
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).
Glamcookie - Sep 09, 2005 4:18:40 pm PDT #2132 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I like my weird boy name.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 09, 2005 4:22:34 pm PDT #2133 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
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.
Ginger - Sep 09, 2005 5:13:58 pm PDT #2134 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
(The A was for "Adolph," but that got dropped right quick in the late 'thirties).
My German-immigrant neighbor when I was a kid had his name legally changed from Adolf Rudolph to Rudolph Adolf in the late '30s.
askye - Sep 09, 2005 6:28:02 pm PDT #2135 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
One of the PE teachers in middle school was named Adolph. I can't remember his last name, we only ever called him Coach Last Name, but somewhere I saw his name was Adolph.
I thiought it was a very unfortunate choice for him.
I was asleep and very happy and then my download finished and started and startled me awake. I hurt my thumb somehow in the waking up process. Since I was awake I watched part of the download and now I'm not sleepy.
Laura - Sep 09, 2005 6:34:47 pm PDT #2136 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
And then Tom would have cried and cried and cried.
My Uncle Tommy was the best and the first Tom in my life. It gives all the subsequent Tom's an advantage with me.
Beverly - Sep 09, 2005 10:02:52 pm PDT #2137 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I was supposed to have been named Velvet. No, really. Small favors, huh?
Neither of our kids ever complained about their names. If they had, I'd just have shared the info that they avoided being named Volodimyr by this much.
dw - Sep 09, 2005 10:42:29 pm PDT #2138 of 10001
Silence means security silence means approval
Hey Plei, do you have any interest in the Web Computing Specialist position that's posted on the UW site for the Preparedness Center? If you do, I know the person doing the hiring at the center, and I'd be more than happy to demand that he give you an interview.