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13601. Jenerator - 2/2/2005 3:37:33 PM Thanks all of you.
Pretend that my last name is Hartley.
My mom says that according to Social Security, last year's most popular boy name was Jacob and for a girl, Madison.
My daughter's name would be Faith Elizabeth "Hartley"
For a boy.... I was thinking about Dane Thomas.
I don't know, though. Nothing is really striking me as "the one" yet. 13602. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 4:41:36 PM Dane? Will he be Danish? Or is that as in Great?
Friend's grandson is named Tanner. He asked, is he going into leather working?
We did have a family of 3 girls in the area...named Patience, Faith, and Hope.
Funny how there is a fashion to names. Rarely hear the old standards like Jane. Great aunt Mabel had siblings Alice, Fred and Elmer. Rarely hear those any more. Then there are the celebrity-based fashions...lots of Diana's and Sarah's after the Brits. Does anyone name their kids Cotton anymore?
Then there was that Dr. Frank Field TV meteorolgist who named his kids after weather...his son Storm was a weatherman too. 13603. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 4:57:58 PM Jen, Howard Dean Hartley has a nice ring to it! Oh, I forgot--how about John McCain Hartley or Taft W. Hartley> 13604. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 4:59:23 PM Then there was a friend of mine who spent time in the south...fellow he knew was named General. Last name Washington...no joke. Like major major major major from catch 22
13605. Jenerator - 2/2/2005 5:03:34 PM Wonkers,
My dad's name was John, so that is a possibility. Howard is always a no. Taft sounds like Daft, no thanks.
Howzabout Mortimer Fortesqieu Reginald Hartley I?
;-) 13606. Magoseph - 2/2/2005 5:11:24 PM You are correct, Mac. My younger son’s name has IV attached to his name, a fate required in the state when the great grandfather, grandfather, father are alive at his birth. The family called him Baby-H for years, that is, until this very determined little boy severely said to whomever addressed him like that ” “My name is Harrison”.
13607. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 5:22:15 PM Mags--Re Joe versus Joseph. I have friends who prefer to be called Peter, Richard and Robert rather than Pete, Bob or Rob and Dick. I've become accustomed to their preferences, but they seemed a bit stuffy at first. I can see why your son preferred Joe to Joseph. He wanted to be a "reglar" guy. 13608. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 5:23:44 PM I have a cousin who led a very troubled life, pathetic really. Always wondered if it would've been different if he weren't named for his father. He was always called "junior walter".
My uncle was also named for his father, and the day his father died he dropped the 'junior' from his name. He had a long wait though as his father died at 99. 13609. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 5:25:37 PM Aside from your parents occasionally opening your mail and confusion over bank accounts, etc., a problem with being tagged with your father's first name is the inevitable diminutive "ie" or "y" being added to your name in order to distinguish between child and father. Long after my father's death many of my relatives continued to add ie to my name. Some probably still do. I didn't particularly like my name in the first place, and I liked the diminutive form even less. Such is life! 13610. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 5:27:17 PM another friend named her son Dave. Not david but dave.
But even if you don't like your name, you can always call yourself something else. Went to school with a kid who called himself "flip" whose real first name was hoyt.
Mother was called Albee for years rather than her long-handled Marguerite. Now she likes Marguerite and always introduces herself as such though family has called her marg or marge for years, with a few insisting on calling her margaret. 13611. Jenerator - 2/2/2005 5:49:47 PM My grandma's name was Martha and she hated it, so she went by Jane. 13612. Ms. No - 2/2/2005 6:53:04 PM My brother was the fourth generation to carry his name. Technically he should have only carried the III since our great grandfather was dead by the time bro was born, but Big Daddy's presence lingered for years after he was gone so I think people were afraid to offend him.
So, bro got Alonzo Dean Namenhammer and we had to actually move away from the family in order to preserve his dignity. His grandfather was "A.D." and his father was "Dean" and everyone wanted to call him something frightening -- "Little A.D." and "Little Dean" being the two front runners.
My mother absolutely refused. My father took no sides and we actually called my brother "Boy" until he was a year old. When he was about 6 mos old we left the family hometown and went on the road so there were only the three of us calling him anything at all. He answered to Boy.
We were on some kind of family outing when he was about a year old and my mother got chastized by this older black man that heard us talking to Boy. He said it was shameful and she should give the child a name and my mom says, well, he does have a name and the man said well use it and from that day on he was Alonzo although when we were kids it was often shortened to 'Lonzo.
When he got into his 20's particularly after he was out in California rather than North Carolina a lot of his friends called him "Alan" mainly because they were too lazy to learn to pronounce his real name. It's not hard but I think they all expected him to be Mexican or something so they'd look at this blonde green-eyed guy and stutter over it.
Now he's Alonzo again but he does have friends who call him 'Zo. Even I do it sometimes, but it's an occasional nickname not like a replacement for his name. 13613. alistairconnor - 2/2/2005 7:02:07 PM He should come to France.
Everyone will say to him, "Allons-y, Alonzo"
and smirk. 13614. PelleNilsson - 2/2/2005 7:11:51 PM We all remember Major Major Major, don't we? Him you could only see when he was out. 13615. Ms. No - 2/2/2005 7:28:06 PM I don't know that he'll ever get to France. Maybe French Canada, though. 13616. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 7:30:03 PM One of my generation's all time favorite books. Too bad Heller never scored another equally big hit. I've visted the site where the movie, "Catch 22" was filmed near San Carlos, Mexico which is near Guaymas on the Sea of Cortez. 13617. Magoseph - 2/2/2005 8:23:05 PM I was called la pimbęche (affected; stuck-up) and my sister la bigote (devout; churchy), both nicknames wholly undeserved as it turned out. I'm not stuck up (at least I think so) and Maryse is not a nun anymore. My brothers had nicknames also, but they were derivatives of their given names--Jeannot (Jean-Paul) and Pierrot (Jean-Pierre). 13618. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 8:26:56 PM my girlfriend's family was big into nick names....
called her dad 'head' a pun on the head of the family as well as the naval term. Naturally they called their place Head Acres. She was called Rolfe after some german general and her brother was called Ben after benedict arnold...some unfortunate event in his youth when he tattled. 13619. Ms. No - 2/2/2005 9:04:59 PM My dad was the great giver of nicknames in our family. The year we entered the Tar River Raft Race we all got semi-pirate names. Bombs Alonzo, Frisket (me) and my grandmother was Boots although she refused to set foot on the raft even when it was still on dry land. 13620. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 9:20:26 PM Frisket is cute.
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