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I always wonder what my mom would have named her kids if she wasn't so concerned with how people viewed them. She originally wanted to name my brother Joshua, but was told that it was "too old fashioned" and "an old man name." (This was in 1972.) She went with Christopher instead. I know that she had serious issues naming me Haven, she had planned on naming me Elizabeth Haven first. However my uncle used the name Elizabeth first and she loved Haven too much not to use it. She talks about how she wishes that she had more faith in herself when she named her kids.