S/o: Do you have a common name?

[prettypitties]

Very. I'm Sarah, and funny enough, my brother is John and sister is Kate!

[ste]

I have a common name (there were 5 of us in my Sunday school class lol) with a relatively uncommon spelling. Oddly enough, my BFF (who was also in my Sunday school class!) spells it the same.

[eddy]

No it is unique, but IMO in a pretty way. I have always loved my name.

[gummybear]

My name was fairly common from the 70s-90s. Def. not unique but never overused. I’d never been in a class with another until college, but my schools were small.

[VillainV]

No, my name has never been in the top 1000 names. I’ve met one other person with my same name, and know of one other (she’s famous).

[notoriousmeg]

Yes, very common. Surprisingly no one else in my class growing up, but my next door neighbor and I were called #1 and #2 😂

[sandandsea]

Yes and it’s part of a group of names - like Elizabeth, Liz, Lizzie, Libby, Beth, Eliza, etc. I’ve never really liked my name but it’s not awful. It was more common in the decade before I was born and with so many nickname options there weren’t generally 2 of the same variation on my classes.

[abs]

No. I’ve never met anyone with my name. There is a famous singer that shares my name but she pronounces it differently.

No one ever says or spells my name correctly the first time. In fact even friends I’ve known forever still struggle.

[katfco]

Before a certain hurricane, it was heard of but not terribly common. I’ve been called Katherine, Kristine, Kristina, etc.

When I found out it was on the hurricane name list, I thought, great, maybe people will hear the name often enough, they’ll stop mispronouncing it when I tell it to them. And then it destroyed New Orleans.

[georgeharrison]

Yes, it is now.: Emma. When I was a kid, no. It was an “old lady name.” And now I am an oldish lady, but it is a young people name.

[devonpow]

Not for a girl, it’s more common for boys these days - so I always get things addressed to “Mr so and so”. It’s also always mispronounced on the first go. But I like my name!

[cinnamoncox0]

Not at all. I’ve never met another. There are two pronunciations mine being the less common, so I have heard of a few pronounced the other way. It’s after a book that my dad had to read in HS or college and he wanted it for his daughter.
As a kid I wasn’t thrilled everyone botched it, now as an adult I love it because it is so uncommon.

[simpsongal]

Not particularly. It was more in fashion for people born 5-10 years before me. As such, I think people probably assume I’m old when they hear it. I like my name

[macmars45]

It was common in the 20s and 30s, yes (women in their 80s & 90s now). For women born in the mid 80s and now in their mid 30s, not so much.

[thebreakfastclub]

Hats off to anyone who actually provides their name in the name thread. Hearing about a name without knowing the name itself kills me, lol.

[nsl]

My name isn't common at all, but a variation is (Caroline), so I've always had to correct how people spell/pronounce it. I've only met a couple of other people with my same name/spelling, but at one point I worked very closely with one of them and it was weird to call somebody else by "my" name.

[circa1978]

May 9, 2021 9:50:16 GMT -5 devonpow said:

Not for a girl, it’s more common for boys these days - so I always get things addressed to “Mr so and so”. It’s also always mispronounced on the first go. But I like my name!

My husband has the reverse. The ability to put his pronouns in his email has saved a lot of small talk with coworkers or clients he's meeting for the first time.

[TR]

Fairly. I think there was one other girl at my high school (maybe 1000 students?) with my name, but she spelled it slightly differently. It’s not UNusual by any means, but it’s not Jennifer, Lauren, or Lindsay either. I was born in the early 80s so there were always multiples of those just in my class.

[pandorica]

So common (Ashley). There was always at least one other in my class and I've always hated it. I tried to give DD a name that wasn't as common but it's definitely moving up the rankings.

[firedancer10288]

My name (Stephanie) was #13 for the year I was born. I graduated with 4 other Stephanie’s and now have a SIL (spelled Stefanie) with the same name.

My daughter’s name is #9 for 2007 and she was the only one in her elementary school. I usually have 1 or 2 each year in my class, but I don’t think it’s anywhere as common as my name.

[ssmjlm]

No, it’s Hebrew, so unless you’re Jewish or grew up in a Jewish area, it’s not familiar.

I’ve met others that have changed the spelling and when I ask if they’re Jewish, they look confused. So many be some have tried to make it American? 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s very close to a country singer, so I am forever having the “i” put in the wrong spot when people email me. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Jalapeñomel]

May 9, 2021 9:55:33 GMT -5 thebreakfastclub said:

Hats off to anyone who actually provides their name in the name thread. Hearing about a name without knowing the name itself kills me, lol.

It’s like the worst of vaguebooking!

My name, Melanie, is not unusual but I don’t meet a lot of them. And everyone calls me Mel, so I’m sure there are folks that don’t know my real name or think it’s Melissa.

[jlt19]

Yep, Jessica from the 80's. Hell, my SIL shares my name. DH has a similarly popular name and goes by that professionally and in his family, but since his middle name is actually pretty awful (Leroy), his fraternity brothers started calling him by that and I met him through that group, so that's what he goes by with our friends and my family.

DS is Patrick, so while it used to be popular, it's not so much in his age group. DS is Mallory, and I'm really surprised it never gained much traction in the 80s because I think it's a beautiful name (obviously).

So now that you know my whole family...guess you could stalk us now, lol. No need to, we're boring and not rich, so it'd be a waste of anyone's time.

[thebreakfastclub]

May 9, 2021 9:58:31 GMT -5 TR said:

Fairly. I think there was one other girl at my high school (maybe 1000 students?) with my name, but she spelled it slightly differently. It’s not UNusual by any means, but it’s not Jennifer, Lauren, or Lindsay either. I was born in the early 80s so there were always multiples of those just in my class.

PDQ: For thebreakfastclub , it’s #####

YESSS.

[TR]

lol thebreakfastclub, glad you liked it, but do you mind deleting my name from the PDQ part?

[TBM]

Apparently my name was super popular in the years around my birth year, but I didn't know anyone else with my name until high school, and it was just the one other girl in my class.

As an adult, once I hit my forties or fifties, it seemed like practically every other woman I met had the same name...so weird.

My eldest daughter was the one who first discovered how popular my name was my birth year, thanks to a quiz online. She said it made sense that it didn't feel like it fit, since I have always been more of outlier, and "should have a weirder, or at least not such a common name." lol

My father had an aunt with the same first name, but his aunts all went by nicknames (in Spanish) that had nothing to do with their real names, and my mom hadn't remembered that was her name. The aunt was so flattered that I was named after her, that my mom didn't say anything to make her think otherwise. My mom really named me after her best friend when she was a kid. She remembered her as being pretty and sweet, and she had always thought that her name was pretty.

[cjcouple]

No. It's not exactly unique, I occasionally will come across someone with my name but not often.

[thebreakfastclub]

May 9, 2021 10:10:20 GMT -5 TR said:

lol thebreakfastclub, glad you liked it, but do you mind deleting my name from the PDQ part?

Sorry I got lost in the moment!

[BicycleBride]

May 9, 2021 9:56:43 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

May 9, 2021 9:50:16 GMT -5 devonpow said:

Not for a girl, it’s more common for boys these days - so I always get things addressed to “Mr so and so”. It’s also always mispronounced on the first go. But I like my name!

My husband has the reverse. The ability to put his pronouns in his email has saved a lot of small talk with coworkers or clients he's meeting for the first time.

My H has the same problem. His name was in the top 100 for both boys and girls in the decade he was born but for some reason it seems to be more associated with girls. And what’s extra confusing is my nickname that I go by is frequently misread to be H’s name so when we get a call or mail for Ms H’sFirstName OurLastName, we never know who is being addressed.

To answer the original question, my name was somewhat popular when I was born and has become much less popular. My high school class of 250 girls had one other person with my name but her full name was my nickname. I was named after my great grandmother who was named after her grandmother.

My mom and MIL have the same first name. It was very common in their age group.

[devonpow]

May 9, 2021 9:55:33 GMT -5 thebreakfastclub said:

Hats off to anyone who actually provides their name in the name thread. Hearing about a name without knowing the name itself kills me, lol.

lol mine is my username so I figure everyone knows!