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There is 3-month-old girl at our daycare named Marley. I had never heard this name before.
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How about actress Marlee Matlin? It seems that that “Marley” and its variants start showing up on Social Security’s top 1000 in the early 90s. Marlee Matlin was a big hit in “Children of a Lesser God” several years earlier. I knew a girl named Marley who would have been born about the time that movie came out, but I have no idea if that’s where she got her name.
How about Kevina? Or my own personal favorite: a boy and his female cousin, both named Dion.
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How about actress Marlee Matlin? It seems that that “Marley” and its variants start showing up on Social Security’s top 1000 in the early 90s. Marlee Matlin was a big hit in “Children of a Lesser God” several years earlier. I knew a girl named Marley who would have been born about the time that movie came out, but I have no idea if that’s where she got her name.
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I’m pretty sure there was a female character named Marley (or Marlee or Marly) on the soap opera Another World like 15 years ago.
Uh, my mom used to watch it. 
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How about actress Marlee Matlin? It seems that that “Marley” and its variants start showing up on Social Security’s top 1000 in the early 90s. Marlee Matlin was a big hit in “Children of a Lesser God” several years earlier. I knew a girl named Marley who would have been born about the time that movie came out, but I have no idea if that’s where she got her name.
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Oh, geez…I forgot about her! Good point! Funny how it seems to be having this surge in popularity now, though.
I have a friend whose name is Earlda. Pronounced Earl-duh. She goes by her middle name instead.
My daughter had a gymnastics coach named Mical - pronounced Michael. I don’t know if she was supposed to have been the son they never had or what.
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I have a friend whose name is Earlda. Pronounced Earl-duh. She goes by her middle name instead.
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Well, who wouldn’t.
How is this pronounced, please?
I don’t know if it’s an adaptation, but I went to school with a girl who was named James, after her dad. Not Jamie, James. She was petite and cute, so she could carry it off without drag-queen speculations.
Regarding Tygnan, did you see Bottle Rocket? Like Dignan (dig none), only with a T.
My aunt is Harriet after her father, Harry.
A friend of mine is Johnine after her dad, John.
I knew a girl named Steva. Steve-uh.
Can you guess her dad’s name?
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I knew a girl named Steva. Steve-uh.
Can you guess her dad’s name?
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Bob?
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My daughter had a gymnastics coach named Mical - pronounced Michael. I don’t know if she was supposed to have been the son they never had or what.
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I knew a couple of kids from a family where all of them–girls included-- were named some variation on the father’s name–Michael. So the boys were things like Michael and Mitchell and the girls were Michelle (okay) and Mikell (not so much.)
Not quite as bad as George Foreman, but close.
A former coworker of mine was named after her father. Her name was Earlita.
I am the third daughter in my family. Apparently, the boy name for each of us was to be Bryan. My mom decided that I was going to be the last, therefore no Bryan, so I got stuck with Brynda. Lucky me. :rolleyes:
ETA: In a class all by itself, I knew a girl named D’lorah. Harold backwards.
I went to middle school with a girl named Michael. The explanation proferred to me by a third party was that her parents were French.
My mom is named Joanne in honor of her father, Joseph. Which isn’t too bad until you learn that my grandmother a. told her that she was supposed to be a boy b. since she was a girl it’s therefore her fault that my grandmother had to have a third child (my uncle Joe) and c. began telling her both these things when she was four!
My mother is Erica, after her uncle Erik. It’s not horrible, but it’s not great either.
I know a Ronnie-Dawn, yes her dad is Ronnie.
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My daughter had a gymnastics coach named Mical - pronounced Michael. I don’t know if she was supposed to have been the son they never had or what.
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Was she Jewish/Israeli? The name Michal (I guess would work spelled Mical, as well), is a fairly ordinary girl name in Israel. It’s pronounced Mee-CHAL. The ch represents the same letter that starts the word “Hanukkah”.
BTW, my parents did not give me my name cause they expected a boy. (Had I been a boy, I would have been Gabriel, I think.) They found my name in The New Age Baby Name Book. According to my dad, every other name in the book started with an X. Thanks, Mom and Dad.
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There’s a blond little girl named Luka (I’m not sure of the spelling) who lives down the hall from me. She looks about 5. I think her parents are going for Trendy Urban Names, as her older sister is Tuleh (I haven’t caught the baby’s name yet). To me Tuleh is a fashion label, and Luka is a Slavic guy, but what do I know?
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Actually, Luka is a “real” name, she might not have a dad named Luke. It’s apparently the Hawaiian name roughly equivalent in meaning to Ruth. I know this because my sister’s middle name is Ruth, she loves the name Luka, but her last name would sound quite horrible with Luka should she have a daughter.
There’s a player on the current version of World Series of Pop Culture whose name is Kyle - and she’s not a boy! And yes, it’s pronounced just like the boy’s name.
Also, there’s a female model named James King. And who can forget Bobbie Brown, 10-time winner on Star Search, who went on to “star” in the video for Warrant’s song “Cherry Pie”?
OK … EVERYONE forgot her except me?