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[Games] Create a Class - First 10 Judged
This is a class of 39 (I think, lol)...a little bigger than usual, just because I'm not asking for mns. Have fun!
Al-Ghazali, BOY = Arabic name with a religious meaning
Austin, BOY = word and/or place name
Birkline, BOY = very popular in the 50s, not common today
Borja, GIRL = religious word name
Cabrera, BOY = top 100 of 2006, surname-as-fn
Caruthers, BOY = very unusual Biblical word
Castellano, BOY = top 10 of 2006
Czernovski, GIRL = top 100 of 2006, word name
Dufresne, BOY = celebrity-inspired trendy name
Dye, BOY = long, upper-class name with lots of history
Guo, BOY = top 5 of 2006
Gilbert, BOY = invented, based on dad’s name (you pick dad’s name, it must be top 10 of all time)
Gorlich, GIRL = top 100 of 2006, simple, pretty name
Haas, GIRL = combination of parents’ names (you pick; both must be top 10 in the 1980s)
Hallaway, BOY = English classic
Hamidou, BOY = moderately popular name with a Q, X, or Z in it
Jaramillo, GIRL = invented name that sounds pretty and exotic
Jenkins, GIRL = invented name with an apostrophe, a trendy sound, and a Q, X, or Z in it
Keene, BOY = combination of 2 names popular among black boys in the 1980s
Khoshoo, GIRL = Indian name, doesn’t end in A
Lansford, GIRL = fairly popular, long, classic name
Leal, BOY = trendy invented name that first made the top 100 in the last 2 years
Lee, BOY = combination of 2 one-syllable Korean names
Lum, GIRL = one-syllable Chinese name
Madison, BOY = creative spelling of a fancy-sounding classic
Mata’afa, GIRL = very popular in the 1890s
McAusland, BOY = quirky, old-fashioned name due for a revival
Montalba, BOY = one of the most common Spanish names
Morgan Jr., BOY = peaked in popularity in the 1960s
Ogilvy Jr., BOY = a classic Biblical name
Price, GIRL = double name: fn is an invented name with a trendy end sound and an apostrophe, mn is an unusual virtue name
Rodriguez, BOY = top 10 of 2006
Saez, BOY = classic, but slightly old-fashioned, Spanish name
Samborski, GIRL = Russian name that’s easily pronounced by English-speakers
Simkins, GIRL = respelling of a classic girl name
Spofford, GIRL = mythological name
Yu, BOY = seemingly old-fashioned name in the top 250
Zaragoza, BOY = trendy name among white people in the 1970s, now more trendy among Hispanic people
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Create a Class - First 10 Judged  ·  molly  ·  9/21/2007, 11:00 AM
Re: Create a Class - First 10 Judged  ·  Genevieve  ·  9/22/2007, 2:50 PM
Re: Create a Class - First 10 Judged  ·  dollypop  ·  9/21/2007, 3:33 PM
Re: Create a Class - First 10 Judged  ·  YMPvt  ·  9/21/2007, 2:18 PM
Re: Create a Class - First 10 Judged  ·  Rachel  ·  9/21/2007, 1:29 PM
Re: Create a Class - First 10 Judged  ·  Nikki  ·  9/21/2007, 12:36 PM