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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 2:27:54 PM
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manda59
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Barnabus is Biblical, but with a rakish vampire feel about it
Barnabas is a WONDERFUL name - it means "Son of Encouragement" and has become synonymous with someone who has that vital spiritual gift.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 2:31:11 PM
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(I used to do that as a joke, when asked what my name is - "Lexie. The Q is silent" and then just watch while people try to figure out where the Q goes.)
Ohmygosh, that is hilarious. I should try that sometime.
I could never name a son Quinton because we had a neighbor with that name who precipitated a police raid on our building and tried to hide out in the yard behind ours. Every time I hear the name, I can hear the police loudspeaker in my mind, saying, 'Quinton...the dog WILL bite you, Quinton, now come out with your hand sup!' LOL
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 8:05:02 PM
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I was trying to figure out how you knew my name. I had looked enough to know it wasn't a mod but not at who it actually was...then i realized who it was and that you knew
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 9:07:02 PM
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Like I said, I didn't really look at who was posting. I'm more interested in keeping it from the trolls, lurkers, etc than most of the regulars that I have regular contact with
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 9:36:36 PM
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64 kids in my graduating class and 5 "Debbies".... 
I can remember being in grade school and thinking how cool it would be to have a name that didn't need an " initial" . You know how the teacher would decorated the classroom door for Open House , with the little apples or fall leaves, one for each student's name?
Mine was always "Debbie T." because I was never the only Debbie in the class.  
When I was in high school this drove me into rebellion. I decided that I would stand out from all your garden-variety Debbies and started insisting that my name would now and forever forward be "DEBBI".
My mother ( remember this was long before the parenting experts routinely advised 'picking your battles') insisted that she had named me and she named me Debbie and that would be my name.
Of course, being your typical mouthy teenage girl, I would reply "No, you named me Deborah and since you don't use my real name anyway..why do you care how I spell my nickname?"
It was at this point that my mom apparently agreed with me and not only started using my "real" first name but even added my real middle name for good measure 
But seriously, those of us born in the 50s and 60s and given "real Biblical names" were rarely, if ever, called by those names. Everyone had a formal name and a nickname. Today, parents just don't seem to see the need for a formal, "real" name and just name their children the name they want to call them.
The most common names when I was in school were Sharon/Sherry, Kathy, Tammy, Debbie and of course, Lisa. Certainly there were different variations of spelling, but I have no idea how many women I've known with those names. IT'S A LOT. I didn't think Lisa was quite as common as the others, but there surely are a lot on this site. 
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 9:39:18 PM
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I like your RL name too, zoebob!
We have a lot of issues with dd's name. Her name is Ilene, but people insist that she is spelling it wrong, and it is *really* Eileen. Um, no it's not. It's ILENE. She finally got beyond frustrated the one day with a Sunday school teacher who crossed it out on the paper and wrote Eileen over top of it. Miss Ilene put her hands on her hips, looked at the gal over her glasses and very politely (took a LOT of reservation) said "My name is Ilene ... I L E N E. I have had this name my entire life. I think, therefore, I have more experience spelling it than you do." (BTW, dd was 6 years old at the time)
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 10:14:05 PM
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We have a lot of issues with dd's name. Her name is Ilene, but people insist that she is spelling it wrong, and it is *really* Eileen. Um, no it's not. It's ILENE. She finally got beyond frustrated the one day with a Sunday school teacher who crossed it out on the paper and wrote Eileen over top of it. Miss Ilene put her hands on her hips, looked at the gal over her glasses and very politely (took a LOT of reservation) said "My name is Ilene ... I L E N E. I have had this name my entire life. I think, therefore, I have more experience spelling it than you do." (BTW, dd was 6 years old at the time)
I SO feel your dd's pain! I've actually had people ask me, as an ADULT, if I'm sure that's how my name is spelled.  "Um yeah I've only had it for nearly 40 years now, and have been spelling it for nearly 35 or so of those." I've had so many people and teachers tell me over the years that my name was not a real name. Even my high school principal that was formerly my elementary school principal - in other words he KNEW me for many, many years, (and he did know me since there were only 350 or so kids in the entire district grades Pre-K through 12th) got it WRONG at graduation, when all he had to remember were 56 names.
I admire your dd's spunk!
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/26/2008 11:18:38 PM
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Did that happen to you? I've noticed you call Gabby "Gabs." That is cute.
Lol, nope. We knew she would end up nicknamed because my family ALL have nicknames. My mom has called me "Gladys" for years and my sister has been "Harry" for awhile also. Neither one has anything to do with our given names, lol.
Oh, and yes. Gabriella has it's roots in Gabriel(hebrew) but it's also rooted in Italian, which is a big reason why we chose it... Our last name is *very* Italian.
Gabby has many nicknames but Gabs, Gabby, The Gabster, and Gabzilla are the most common.
Nicknames are also what makes it hard for us to choose names. For example, I love the Italian spelling of Julianna(Guiliana) but DH is convinced that people will call her "ghoul-ia"
My daughters name is Gabriella as well. With the Italian pronounciation.(Gab rhyming with cobb) We started out calling her Gabriella, then Briella, Brielle and then Brie. Brie fits.
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 12:13:08 AM
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I just blogged the other day about the names people give their children these days.
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Okay, pet peeve time. WHAT is with the names people give their children these days? My new bride and her late husband picked solid, biblical names for their (our) two beautiful children. However, most of the other parents of kids at our school, church, little league, brownies, etc., have given their kids trendy, new-agish names like Madison, Hunter, Caedin, Talon (TALON!), Jade, etc. One couple's especially troublesome choice was hung on a little girl in my daughters first grade class; Allura. Honestly, do parents nowadays view their children as status symbols and/or novelties? Are they on the same level as pets? Is naming a child a personal statement of one's chic-ness, a way to out-do your neighbors? What ever happened to solid, biblical names like Jonathan, David, Stephen, Mark, Timothy, Mary, Sarah, Deborah and Rachel? How 'bout Faith, Joy, Hope or Grace? A biblical name gives a child an anchor of identity as a child of God as they journey through life in a world that is increasingly ambivilent, if not hostile, to Judeo/Christian values and faith.
There may be hope, though. In doing a little research for this post, I found this article that says Biblical names are making a comeback, even with celebrities.
http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/baby-names/themes/biblical-baby-names/;jsessionid=A0EXTSCLSWMILQFIBQNR42Q?page=2
If it's true, it's a welcome trend. Maybe this is one way the Lord keeps a remnant of His people.
Am I alone on this? What are y'all naming your man-cubs?
Hi there backrow,
I'm not sure if you've read the book Freakonomics (by Steven Levitt, professor at University of Chicago), but it has a chapter in there that discusses why poor African American couples/women name their children non-mainstream type names, such as Shaniqua, Montia, Destiny, Javarias, Porshe, Ubinique, etc., knowing that those names would potentially be a racial marker against their children (from racial profiling and stereotyping in the social world and job marketplace). Levitt's findings were that these couples and single women were so socially disadvantaged (often poor, uneducated, and isolated from mainstream society) and felt a lack of power that they wanted to choose "special" and noticeable types of names for their children to show their ethnic pride, individuality, and "power" in a perceived racist and unfair world. With so little control over their own lives (whether real or imagined), these parents felt that one of the few freedoms they had was the choice over the names of their children. As such, the parents wanted to choose a name that was not dictated by society's standards and perceived and/or real racist norms. ...Sure they knew that giving their child a name like Chardonnay or Xantillion would make them more susceptible to racial stereotyping and discrimination in the job marketplace, but these parents consciously chose those names anyways as an act of self and cultural empowerment and resistance to prescribed mainstream norms.
....It's actually a very interesting study and the book as a whole is great. Levitt has won lots of awards in economics research and I thought that particular study may have interesting parallels to what you're asking.
I have also seen in non-African American families some bizarre and/or New-Agish type names....I wonder if some of them were from the hippy generation and culture and whether there was a similar reasoning for those names.
I think this is a great topic though. I am fascinated by how people choose to name their kids. I personally prefer Biblical names of people with good character myself. 
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 12:56:58 AM
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I noticed that an awful lot of folks who post here call their daughters DeeDee. They also seem to like to abbreviate it. 
Oh, and Manda, the "rakish vampire feel" was a shadowy allusion to a character on a Gothic soap opera based in Collinsport, Maine. Perhaps it never crossed the water?
When my daughter went to camp, she had five Ashley's with three spellings in her cabin of eight. I don't remember the variant spellings. There were three Heathers. (Some were middle names; one girl had one of each.)
My high school graduating class had students named Robin Hood, (who sadly did not get along with) Rob Young, Mary Lamb, and Gloria (to the) King
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 1:04:22 AM
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There was a kid named Jesse James at my school.
Ashley, Ashlee, Ashleigh...?
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 10:13:35 AM
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I noticed that an awful lot of folks who post here call their daughters DeeDee. They also seem to like to abbreviate it.
LOL!!
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 11:33:52 AM
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There are some foolish names out there, and I believe that parents should be flogged for burdening their children with them.
I have personally met a Lemonjello. The emphasis goes on the "mon"
I have also met a "Shi-thade". That is the pronunciation, the spelling cannot be put here but equates to "excrement head"
I have also seen a "Sa-fi-lus" (long I), and a "Ga-nor-ee-a" (emphasis on the "nor") They were spelled Syphilis and Gonorrhea.
Why would someone do that to a child?
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RE: What's with the names? - 8/27/2008 1:24:46 PM
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This is interesting. My dad has a file box of all the unique names (no last names, he does follow privacy rules) he ran across in his medical practice in rural Virginia. There was one man who's parents called him Zero from day one, even though that wasn't his legal name. That's what he'd went by all this life. There were quite a few Queenie's, and one Queenie Elizabeth. And then there was also the old, old lady who used pure vanilla as "perfume" and was convinced the Civil War was still on, but that's another story.
NPR aired a "This I believe" essay this weekend, and I'm wondering if anyone else heard it. It was a young woman's rant about how she couldn't get a job because she was black and had a Muslim name. On the one hand, I can see how she would imagine she's been turned down because of having a non-American name. However, I know there are immigrants in all sorts of jobs at all levels and I'm wondering if it was either her perception, or her particular area that's the problem, not her name.
My dh has a notably non-American name, not to mention a thick accent. He's never had an application ignored, so clearly not everybody trashes applications with foreign names on them.
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