# Should you give your baby a unique name?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-you-give-your-baby-a-unique-name/959017 "2022-02-07T00:36:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-you-give-your-baby-a-unique-name/959017/208 "2022-05-15T03:59:52Z")

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My post from a related thread of the days of yore.

> [@Weird, pretentious, or bizarre names...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-pretentious-or-bizarre-names/696566/43):
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> A writer’s first name is “Icess”. [Here’s how she “explained” it to someone](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/04/starbucks-write-names-correctly?commentpage=1).
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> > [@](#):
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> > “I-c-e-s-s. You know like the goddess, but spelled like ice”, I explained.
> > 
> > > “What?” she asked again.
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> > > Maybe she needed another reference. Here’s a popular one: “The cartoon? Oh, Mighty Isis?”
> > > 
> > > Silence and a farrowed eyebrow.
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> Actually, “Icess” looks like “female ice” to me.
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> And what the heck is a “farrowed eyebrown”? Maybe she meant “furrowed brow”. Some writer.
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> It’s one thing to have a “creative” name. It’s quite another to blame other people’s difficulty with it on THEM.

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