Comments on: Public Service: Name that Baby http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: queuno http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-85101 queuno Thu, 22 May 2008 03:01:53 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-85101 By the way, here's a report on the most popular names in Texas: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052208dnmetnames.1561a7a6.html Any question what impact immigration (of any variety) is having on Texas? Look at 1 and 5 on the boys' list. By the way, here’s a report on the most popular names in Texas:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052208dnmetnames.1561a7a6.html

Any question what impact immigration (of any variety) is having on Texas? Look at 1 and 5 on the boys’ list.

]]> By: ESO http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-83820 ESO Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:54:30 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-83820 Jessica--I say use them. I especially love Louisa and Samantha. Annecdotally, I believe Elizabeth to be the #1 middle name of girls I know. I really think there are a lot of classic and underused names out there--your girls won't want to be one of many hip names and they will enjoy the tie to their family tree. Jessica–I say use them. I especially love Louisa and Samantha. Annecdotally, I believe Elizabeth to be the #1 middle name of girls I know. I really think there are a lot of classic and underused names out there–your girls won’t want to be one of many hip names and they will enjoy the tie to their family tree.

]]> By: Jessica http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-83819 Jessica Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:50:06 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-83819 I pretty much appreciate everything you had to say. My last name is 10 letters long and very foreign, but sadly I am discontent with my first name. Do you know how many Jessica's there are in America? Let me give you a hint: In my 11th grade English class there were 5 Jessicas, and 2 of us were Jessica W. I was supposed to be named Jennifer (and at this point I know about... one Jennifer and 20 Jessicas, so I wouldn't have minded being named that), but my mom was very sick when I was born, and so the nurse named me... apparently all she could remember was that it started with a "j". Go figure. That's ok, it's kind of an amusing story. Also, I have a couple of names picked out, but they are mostly just middle names. I think it would be neat to be named after some one, and I love some of the names of my ancestors (and they are all "normal" names). Do you have an opinion on using older names? Things that aren't "hip." (Louisa, Elizabeth, Samantha)... I pretty much appreciate everything you had to say. My last name is 10 letters long and very foreign, but sadly I am discontent with my first name. Do you know how many Jessica’s there are in America? Let me give you a hint: In my 11th grade English class there were 5 Jessicas, and 2 of us were Jessica W. I was supposed to be named Jennifer (and at this point I know about… one Jennifer and 20 Jessicas, so I wouldn’t have minded being named that), but my mom was very sick when I was born, and so the nurse named me… apparently all she could remember was that it started with a “j”. Go figure. That’s ok, it’s kind of an amusing story.

Also, I have a couple of names picked out, but they are mostly just middle names. I think it would be neat to be named after some one, and I love some of the names of my ancestors (and they are all “normal” names). Do you have an opinion on using older names? Things that aren’t “hip.” (Louisa, Elizabeth, Samantha)…

]]> By: Ziff http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-83682 Ziff Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:47:16 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-83682 The book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Revised-Expanded-Economist-Everything/dp/0061234001/" rel="nofollow">Freakonomics</a> has some interesting discussion of kids' names. If I remember right, research the authors did (or quoted?) suggested that you could pretty reliably guess a mother's ethnicity, and perhaps her socioeconomic status, based on what she named her baby and how she spelled it. The book Freakonomics has some interesting discussion of kids’ names. If I remember right, research the authors did (or quoted?) suggested that you could pretty reliably guess a mother’s ethnicity, and perhaps her socioeconomic status, based on what she named her baby and how she spelled it.

]]> By: queuno http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-83174 queuno Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:03:30 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-83174 <i>Jennifer is the most popular name for mothers right now.</i> Because it was the most popular name in the 70s, and now they are all having children? Jennifer is the most popular name for mothers right now.

Because it was the most popular name in the 70s, and now they are all having children?

]]> By: ESO http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-83134 ESO Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:11:24 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-83134 I also love babynamewizard. Warning, though: it is a time waster! bon--best of luck. Hope the wait is over. I also love babynamewizard. Warning, though: it is a time waster!

bon–best of luck. Hope the wait is over.

]]> By: bon http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-82239 bon Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:07:24 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-82239 I am a week overdue, we have yet to choose a name and this post is hilarious. Take a look at www.babynamewizard.com; the name voyager thing charts popularity and there are funny blurbs about each name. We picked up the book a while ago and it still gives me the giggles. When you look up Jennifer, it says something like "Hi, Jennifer! Looking up your name? Jennifer is the most popular name for mothers right now." Awesome. I am a week overdue, we have yet to choose a name and this post is hilarious. Take a look at http://www.babynamewizard.com; the name voyager thing charts popularity and there are funny blurbs about each name. We picked up the book a while ago and it still gives me the giggles. When you look up Jennifer, it says something like “Hi, Jennifer! Looking up your name? Jennifer is the most popular name for mothers right now.”

Awesome.

]]> By: ESO http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-82175 ESO Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:47:27 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-82175 Oh my, Dan and Annegb! Those are some names! Oh my, Dan and Annegb! Those are some names!

]]> By: Jota G http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-82141 Jota G Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:11:22 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-82141 Wasn't Kaiser Wilhelm the emperor of Germany during World War I? That's an interesting choice. Wasn’t Kaiser Wilhelm the emperor of Germany during World War I?

That’s an interesting choice.

]]> By: annegb http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/04/10/public-service-name-that-baby.htm/comment-page-2#comment-82134 annegb Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:34:50 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=786#comment-82134 My sister named her kids: Ashley Muphin She calls her Muphin Gabrielle Pookie: Guess what she calls her Kaiser Wilhem: They call him Kaiser My sister calls herself Cooqee. We've called our youngest granddaughter Beannie since she was tiny because she was so long and skinny. I have no clue what will happen once she starts school. My sister named her kids:

Ashley Muphin She calls her Muphin

Gabrielle Pookie: Guess what she calls her

Kaiser Wilhem: They call him Kaiser

My sister calls herself Cooqee.

We’ve called our youngest granddaughter Beannie since she was tiny because she was so long and skinny. I have no clue what will happen once she starts school.

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