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Regarding the article Simon linked to, there was a woman with her son at the library tonight (they were black, incidentally), and the son's name was "Druscilla". Now, giving your kid a name that hasn't been popular in a hundred years is one thing. I don't have a problem there. But it isn't a license to give a boy an exclusively female name.
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I was going to ask if the son was young enough to have been named after Dru from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But then I realised that (hopefully) no-one would do that.
(Y'know, looking throught that list made me realise what an awful lot of, well, awful names Americans tend to have, black or white. Troy? Brandon? Corey? Nathaniel? And Mical...I don't even know how to pronounce that. Is it Michael for retards?)
(Also, my dad apparently has the 18th blackest boy name. Hmm.)
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Looking at #20, and that name really is hogging the charts.
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"Nathaniel" is "Nathan" for Americans who aren't lazy sloths.
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"Nathan" is pretty much grounds for electrocution right there, though. Although it is less bad than "Curtis".
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Tanner? Wyatt? Garrett? Marquis? Seriously, some people must really hate their children. I mean why would you name a child after an Irish county (Tyrone). For one thing, Fermanagh sounds better.
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Ah, of course. That is the only logical conclusion.
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Hey I was named after a Filipino Catholic saint and a bloody planetary weather phenomenon... does that mean my parents hated me? No... just says my mother is way too Catholic for my taste.
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