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Is Esme pronounced S-may or Ez-may, or both? Either way, I like it.
I always wanted to use Isabella for a girl. My mother had a friend named Isabelle, and her nick was Diz, which I just loved. She also had a friend named Polly, and I asked her once if I could call her Polly instead of Mrs. B, because I loved her name so much. Sadly, my mother nixed that idea.
One of the other parent sets in our childbirth class for Casper had a Ginger - a black-haired, blue-eyed one, which I found funny for some reason.
My friend is dating a Kip.
My name was utterly outre in the late 70's in my part of the country, and to this day, I meet people who can't wrap their mind around the Erin/Aaron difference. I was put into boys gym classes and things like that, based on my name, until the 7th grade.
I didn't like my name as a child, but then it started to get more popular and I became very proprietary.
Also? There are at least 2 more Erin Elizabeth LAstNAmes in the US. One was Miss New Mexico, and the other is a chemist. It cracks me up.
Is Esme pronounced S-may or Ez-may, or both? Either way, I like it.
I tend to say Ez-may, though I think it was supposed to be Ez-mee.
Marguerite
My beloved middle name. It was the name of good friend of my mom's from the LWV. That Marguerite was French, and probably in her sixties/seventies at the time.
I had an Aunt Marguerite. And my grandmas were a Hazel and an Agnes. Grandpas were Clark and Clarence. I would have been Clark if I would have been a boy.
There are at least 2 more Erin Elizabeth LAstNAmes in the US. One was Miss New Mexico, and the other is a chemist. It cracks me up.
Heh. There's another Matilda Azalea in the world. Some woman contacted me on LJ after I announced her birth. Low odds.
My grandma was Tarsilia. That one was never considered. Love my abuela, but... no.
I went through a time wanting to name a boy Rhys. But the whole "how do you pronounce that" issue made me keep looking. I spent too much time growning up answering to Suzi Ummmmmmmmmmm, as people would get stuck on my last name.
There is not anyone else with my same first/last name combination. I've done a bunch of genealogy research, and as far as I've ever been able to tell, everybody with the same last name as me is related. And I know the names of just about all of them.