I count about 40 on the Social Security Death index. No idea how many non-deceased Arkansases there are.
Are they pluralized like that, for real?
That’s how I pluralized it. I suppose it could just be Arkansas and not change, though you’d pronounce the final ‘s.’ I think “Arkansases” follows the normal pluralization rules better (and I do find historical texts using that spelling in the plural, referencing a gun-boat named Arkansas and a wish for there to be more Arkansases.)
Nice! Always a question around these parts. I’ll let that be known the next time it comes up. *If * you don’t mind.
Utah Phillips.
His given name was Bruce Duncan Phillips.
The question was names, not legal names.
Ok. Back to Dakota.
I think alot of them got lost in the nickname Cody
I checked the Social Security Death Index and there’s no one named Connecticut or Massachusetts. Every other state is represented (if you leave off “New” and cardinal points) and count Rhode and Island separately. Pennsylvania only shows one, though, and Hawaii only has five.
A little off topic, but interesting:
Back in the 1970’s I knew a young woman named Sue.
Then one day I learned that she spelled it Sioux.
She hiked up her pants
and did a rain dance
but if it worked, nobody gnu.
Ah! That’s where the “Dak” Prescott comes from! I always wondered!
I think I have some distant cousins on my mother’s side who shortened it to “Dick.” Different generation.
Good old Siouxsie! She plays in Malaga tonight, then Lisbon on Saturday, then it’s back to London:
My younger brother was given the middle name “Daekota” by his birth mother who was (charitably) not the sharpest tool in the shed. She said that she changed the spelling so that he wouldn’t have the “duh” sound in his name. Seriously. My parents changed the name when they adopted him, thankfully.
Maybe that means that people who are named Connecticut or Massachusetts don’t die.
Elementary school there were sisters names Dakota and Ocean. Many jokes about location of birth or conception.
That reminds me of dropping off my son at a hotel kid’s activity so my husband and I could go do some adult sightseeing. Another couple was dropping of a brother and sister, and referred to the daughter as “Dallas.”
Standing in taxi line afterward, I cracked to my husband, “I wonder what Dallas’s brother’s name is … Houston?”
I had not noticed that the parents of Dallas & bro were standing right in front of us in line. Oops.The mother turned around and glared at me.
I felt kinda bad, but if you have two kids and one is named Dallas, I think you kind of have to anticipate that joke.
My cousin has a 16yo granddaughter named Dakota.
Honest to God …
One of my kids had a teacher named Mrs. Rhodes. I met her husband. I’m thinking, don’t laugh when she introduces him as Dusty
, nope. It was Rocky. I managed to refrain from laughing til I met her kids. Stoney and Canyon.
I kid you not.
I think I would’ve went Vanilla and Pistachio, myself