less common names

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Ok, so at work today I got stuck on hold for a solid thirty minutes....so I went through the department phone list and picked out the names that I only knew one person with that name. With my job, I come in to contact with a  diverse people bunch of folks. Some of the names, when I really thought about don't seem unique, but I really only know one person with the name:) There are twice as many girl names than boy names, but I think people are generally more conservative with boy names.

Boys

Rovon
Taras
Geovanny
Melvin
Herb
Lamont(h)
Amadeus
Roccal
Lenious
Charlton
McKeever
Norris
Loren
Hugo
Marion

Girls

Elvia
Giuliana
Tillie
Denitrea
Greta
Darlene 
Devaline
LaJune
Vernetta
Ramona
Nereyda
Adela
Elsieanne
America
Ymelda (I know several Imeldas, though)
Doloras 
Naidine
Cinderella
Chezelle
LaJauana
Bernadette
Maruja
Ulisa
Priscilla
Shirel
Kenya
Christabel
Stella
Rhoshundra
Patience
Patzy
Catina
McQuetta
Romunda
Joi
Channon
Maritza
Anjanette
Shirlane
Nakish
Glenda
Audretta

Comments

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

I learned a LONG time ago that there is nobody else on the planet with my name. My first name is Crystal-Dawn. I gave my daughter an unusual name too and her name is Baylynn.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I went to school with a Misty Dawn. I love your daughter's name!

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's impossible to find anything with her name on it though. LOL And considering our younger daughter is Madison...Baylynn's NOT Happy that we can find tons of stuff with her sister's name and nothing with hers. LOL

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I can kind of relate. Growing up we always found stuff with my sibs names spelled correctly (Brian and Stephanie) but it was always hard to find something that just said Lori and not Laura, Laurie, Loretta, etc...

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

That's understandable. I used to have to buy double of everything. One thing would say Crystal, the other would say Dawn. LOL

[idrinkacidrain.livejournal.com]

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

It's great to know I'm not the only Crystal-Dawn and you present a fantastic argument for Baylynn not being a real name considering there are a few people with that name.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Baylynn is actually a name...and alternative spelling to Belen (theres an accent mark in there by I can't make it). Additionally Bay is a name and Lynn is a name, so why not Baylynn? LOTS of names are combinations of two other names.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

agreed... in a baby names book i have, there are a few names whose meanings are simply "combination name1 + name2" lol. for example: Kaylynn "combination of Kay and Lynn."

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

Her first name is Crystal-Dawn? That's pretty cool. Where is she from?

And thanks for your opinion on Baylynn, everyone that I've ever known has always loved it.

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

When someone comments to someone else and informs them that it's their daughter's name, it's pretty rude to be so hateful about the name. Especially when the first commenter to do so only commented to piss me off.

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

Well considering this started between myself and the original poster, it should have stayed that way if someone wasn't too fond of my name or my daughter's name, they could very easily have kept their comments to themselves since it had nothing to do with them and you didn't need to involve yourself either since nothing was ever addressed to you.

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

You did comment to me instead of the other commenter. I was only aware that you said anything after I got a notice in my email.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Manners are not extinct in the land of the internet; only in certain people.

[regretfulsmile.livejournal.com]

I only like Priscilla and are there people out there actually named Cinderella? Wow.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

There's at least one....

[babyjess8.livejournal.com]

Cindarella... omg... that poor, poor child.

Although there are many nicknames she could choose to use: Cindy, Indi, Ella, Relle, Ellie, Elle, Darell, etc

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

She LOVES being Cinderella. Although she does go by Cindy sometimes, she even lets the kids call her Miss Cinderella.

[link-woman.livejournal.com]

My name's Bernadette...not too crazy about it. But I do love the name Audretta!

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Um... its the preferred Spanish spelling of Giovanni and also a listed varient of Giovanni....and the guy....is from Mexico

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

So you're having kids just so they'll get beat up? That's sweet.

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

Having horrible names.

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

Were you not able to read you list you wrote?

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

...coming from someone who named her daughter baylynn? i'm not sure you have room to talk about horrible names.

[italianangel78.livejournal.com]

Believe me, I do.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

OK PEOPLE,

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

OK PEOPLE,

We are supposed to be grownups. Can I suggest that we act like them? Agree to disagree and let it go. Not everyone has the same taste in names...the world would be a boring place if we did. Its crap like this that makes people not want to share and I, for one, enjoy hearing other peoples views....when not expressed like a twelve year who hasn't gotten their way.

Feel free to disagree, but quit the flaming. Its juvenile and does nothing to benefit this community.

PS, this was my original post so I get emails every time you guys snap at each other. Quit, please.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I like Loren, too.

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

My partner is the only Coren I've ever met or heard of in my life, though I did read a book once where one of the character's secret names was Coren. I adore the name, honestly -- it's unusual without trying too hard to be different, and interesting but still very much a man's name.

Additionally, my grandfather was, at least according to some death index search I did awhile back, the only Kerswell registered in the United States since the social security index started. That may have changed, but that's how it was. As family lore goes, though, he hated his name and demanded to be called Kers.

As for your list -- my cousin is Bradford Amadeus, though that's a middle name and not a first (and poor guy, by the way). I actually know a bazillion Darlenes (seems to have been a fairly common name for Manitoban girls circa 1960-70) and quite a few Priscillas, which is in my experience popular with the Filipino community here.

Christabel is damn cute though.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I like Christabel, too.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

From the boys I like Amadeus and Hugo
I don;t like any of the girls!

Nakish??? I though it said Naked when I first read it, haha!

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Nakish is actually a nickname. She is from Africa and her given name is something longer and more difficult to pronounce. Nakish is pn Na-Keesh.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

Fair enough then!