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[arbus.livejournal.com]

i just took this quiz on facebook, 'how original were your parents in naming you?' and it gave me this idea to look up what you might be named today.

here is the link: http://apps.facebook.com/parentoriginality/

here is how it works... if you arent on facebook or cant, or dont want to, take this quiz, you can find out the rank of your name in the year you were born on the social security website. find your ranking and then find what name is at the same ranking on the most current listings (which i assume is still 2008 at this point) post your results and what you think of that name.

anyway, here are my results from the quiz:

Carrie's parents get a C- for originality.
Ranking: 'Carrie' was the 55th most popular girl's name in her birth year.
Rarity: 60% of girls had rarer names that year. (Grade: C-)
Peak year: 'Carrie' peaked in popularity in 1977.
Current rank: 'Carrie' isn't currently one of the top 1000 girl's names.
Current name: Carrie's parents might name her 'Layla' today (current #55).

(personally, not a fan of layla, and dont look at all like what i picture a layla to be)

ETA: holy crap i am so sorry. i just scrolled down and saw that this was already posted. sorry sorry sorry. me = fail.

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Ranking - 'Melissa' was the 16th most popular girl's name in your birth year.
Rarity - 79% of girls had rarer names that year. (Grade: D-)
Peak year - 'Melissa' peaked in popularity in 1979.
Current rank - 'Melissa' is currently the 134th most popular girl's name.
Current name - Your parents might name you 'Alyssa' today (current #16).

My parents would probably not name me Alyssa... I don't know of any songs by that title so they definitely wouldn't. That's cool though.