Robin Williams hails from the great state of Michigan. Went to Country Day and lived in either Franklin or West Bloomfield.
Names that are like Pat:
Taylor
Kim
Dakota
Madison
Tyler
Danni/Danny
There’s a bunch more that I see every time I pass a day care place that posts the kids names of who is having a birthday.
The name Beverly use to be a man’s name way back when.
A name I always liked for a girl ( and subsequently vetoed is Henri-Ann. could just call her Hank
The early bird gets the worm but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese.
And she will, and it’s no big deal, but it won’t go away. I’ve lived with a given name that most people have heard before, but only as a last name. People will try and make my (rarer) last name into a first name before they accept the way it is.
I used to know a girl named Hester (mom’s maiden name), and I also know a man and a woman named Sloane.
One of my old boyfriends wanted to name his firstborn Haight, as in Haight-Ashbury. He just thought it sounded cool.
tenn and putrid,I knew a male Dana like that too! Could it be the same one? I met a girl named Garianne.I heard someone actually named her daughter Aquanetta!
I recently found out that my grandfather’s given name was Vivian. He hated it and changed it to his middle name (Kenneth) as soon as he could. It doesn’t get brought up at family gatherings, to say the least.
I also have a friend (female) whose name is Micole, pronounced like Michael. EVERYONE who sees it rhymes it with Nicole.
I named my son Quinn, after the Bob Dylan song, only to find out afterward that approximately 24% (that would be about fifteen kids) of the newborn Quinns in the U.S. are girls.
What bugged me in school was that the school secretary would always spell my name with an “i”. “That’s how girls spell it!” I’d tell her every time. She’d roll her eyes and correct it.
I briefly went to high school (long story) with guys named:
Sputt
Winston
Alton
Tuck
Hutch
Crit (short for Crittendon)
J (it’s not an initial, his name is the letter J)
Lep
Knox
Walker
Kendall
Hazen (last name Page. Really and truly)
Julian (last name Tune, brother’s name Jet)
Bub
Houston
Cannon
Ward
Trey
Shelby
Following today’s trend, many of these could be used for boys or girls, and the list goes on and on. This giving-your-kid-a-weird-name thing isn’t new (hey, I’m TYLER!), the names are just getting more outlandish and more weirdly spelled. I recently met a woman in a focus group named Beretta. “Like the gun,” she assured me, “not like the TV show.”
Hm… I think I prefer Kendall!
StoryTyler I am too in shape! :::muttering::: Round is a shape.
It’s off the subject, but … Marion Barry’s given name is Marion too! Okay, you probably already knew that, but, what’s the deal? Were his parents incorrigibly cruel, or are marionberries a new discovery? Or a new hybrid? He could have had a brother named “Salmon” fer cryin out loud! Or maybe no one would think that was funny, if salmonberries are a new discovery/hybrid as well…?
Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.
I know a boy named Marci (his real name is Marcis). It’s confusing because my friend Imants (also my grandfather’s name) has a girlfriend named Marcie.
