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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Further, as the bearer of a not highly popular name (it's actually climbing now, to my amusement), it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Many days in elementary school I wished my name were Jennifer. All the Jennifers in my class were so pretty.
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Avoidance of popular names is a topic on which the SFC and I differ. I've never met anyone with my name. The SFC, on the other hand, pretty much always had at least one other boy in his class with the same name. I place a pretty high value on unusualness, the SFC not so much.
And even avoiding the nationally-common is not a guarantee of unusualness, especially in places like Stumptown proper where literacy is above-average and the weird is prized. There are two little boys in our neighborhood named Solomon. And while neither Magnus's real name nor a current leading contender for No. 2's are in the top 1000, friends have friends with kids with those names. Sigh.
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