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.

I had a second cousin with the same name, but different middle name. But then she changed her name when she got married.

I work with a Kip. Only one I have ever met.

One of my college roommates is a Buffy. It's not a nickname (apparently common for Elizabeth [?]); like the vampire slayer, college!Buffy is a birth Buffy. t edit I meant to say -- she's the only Buffy I've ever met.

And Buffy recently had daughter #2, named...

Lily. (The birth announcement said Lily, not Lillian or any other spelling.)

Chatty!co-worker has an uncle named Voyd. Hand to god.

Voyd? Seriously?

My grandmothers' names are Iva and Mildred. There was no way I was going there. But I do think Ivy is pretty.

Voyd? Seriously?

Swear to god. Apparently all the uncles on that side are V names; less-common ones, too, like Varne. And Virgil.

And good old Voyd.

My grandmothers' names were Alice and Mary. If I had had a girl, I wouldn't have minded calling her Alicia Marie after them.

Grandfathers were Ambrose and Bror, which would have been...interesting to use.

Man, when Virgil starts sounding melodic...