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A friend from high school is due very soon, and I've seen some updates on Facebook. A lot of to-be parents keep the name they picked out quiet (honestly I'd probably do the same), but she actually already posted that she and her husband chose Nadine for their little girl. I was pleasantly surprised to see Nadine, since it's genuinely different from what I usually encounter with little kids and birth announcements. (Just checked, and Nadine isn't even in the Top 1000.)

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My main association with the name is the character on Twin Peaks, who is... very different. Like a superhero who never actually became a superhero because she got stuck in her small, eastern Washington town in a marriage built on guilt. Basically, she's a one-eyed housewife (lost her eye in a shooting accident) prone to obsessive behaviors, who is also freakishly strong.

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I've always liked the name, personally. I actually prefer it to Nadia, which is much more common (though itself not terribly common).

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