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in reply to a message by Jessa
I won't be so melodramatic as to compare naming your baby "Six" to assigning slaves and prisoners their numbers, but your entire message and goal here seems quite pretentious and self-indulgent to me. You can be unique regardless of how common your name is. I could name my kids "Apple" and "Sprocket" without any fear of there being other kids with those names, but does that make them *good* names? Not necessarily.
Basically, if you don't name your daughters things like Sarah , Ann , Elizabeth , etc, you're pretty safe. Clearly, the decision is yours, but "Six" smacks of effort.
Basically, if you don't name your daughters things like Sarah , Ann , Elizabeth , etc, you're pretty safe. Clearly, the decision is yours, but "Six" smacks of effort.
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I wish Norah was here...
I definitely agree with you, Maggie , that "you can be unique regardless of how common your name is". It's not the name that makes the child unique, but rather the choice of a name which expresses the parents' wishes for their child to grow up being unique. :)
I think Norah (one of our old regulars on this board who hasn't been around much lately) said it best when she said something like (and I'm quoting from memory here): "I think a person's name tells you more about that person's parents than about the person, him/herself." :)
-- Nanaea
I definitely agree with you, Maggie , that "you can be unique regardless of how common your name is". It's not the name that makes the child unique, but rather the choice of a name which expresses the parents' wishes for their child to grow up being unique. :)
I think Norah (one of our old regulars on this board who hasn't been around much lately) said it best when she said something like (and I'm quoting from memory here): "I think a person's name tells you more about that person's parents than about the person, him/herself." :)
-- Nanaea
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