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in reply to a message by Caprice
...I'm guessing she means they've been used in America more often than anywhere else, even though they're actually really rare in America, too.
The only one I've seen used in real life is Stormy, and I've come across a couple dogs named Dixie.
On TV, I've heard: Bay, Hoyte, Phoenix, Smokey, Arizona, and Wednesday.
Beck is an American musician.
Charisma Carpenter is an American actress.
I like Kodiak and Cameo. They wouldn't surprise me; neither would Cinnabar, Cozette, Guthrie, Crosby, Cricket, or several of the others.
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Supposedly the first baby (of European colonists) to be born in Virginia was named Virginia Dare, and I tend to think of that as the quintessential example of an "American" name:
place name + word/virtue name + it vaguely references a celebrity
Add nature names, surnames, made-up/combination names, and literary/historical references, and that's "American" names in a nutshell.
The only one I've seen used in real life is Stormy, and I've come across a couple dogs named Dixie.
On TV, I've heard: Bay, Hoyte, Phoenix, Smokey, Arizona, and Wednesday.
Beck is an American musician.
Charisma Carpenter is an American actress.
I like Kodiak and Cameo. They wouldn't surprise me; neither would Cinnabar, Cozette, Guthrie, Crosby, Cricket, or several of the others.
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Supposedly the first baby (of European colonists) to be born in Virginia was named Virginia Dare, and I tend to think of that as the quintessential example of an "American" name:
place name + word/virtue name + it vaguely references a celebrity
Add nature names, surnames, made-up/combination names, and literary/historical references, and that's "American" names in a nutshell.
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