Comments on: Friday Fun Thread: What’s In A Name?

By: Mackey

Mackey — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:12:36 +0000

The male name “Nigel” just conjures up the childhood taunt “Nigel No-Friends”..
The female name “Monica”.. I dated a big bag of drama in the shape of person called “Monica”.. that name takes me back there..

so the names Monica and Nigel would be the only time I judged by people by their names and not the content of their character. (Though those other names listed in the article certainly have the potential to do that as well.)

By: emilyanne

emilyanne — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:30:13 +0000

As a Brit I have a problem with surnames as first names – Travis, Taylor, Jackson, Carson etc, I’ve just always found them a bit odd.

I actually am not at all fond of my husband’s name but found that that was irrelevant when I came to marry him. (Come to think of it I didn’t like my long term boyfriend prior to my husband’s name much either)

I love my son’s name but it’s Irish and confuses the hell out of most people in the US so I do occasionally regret it.

In my life I have been out with an awful lot of Ciarans, Daves, Euans and Patricks for some reason.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:06:39 +0000

@PhDork and bookworm81 – My first crush in school was also Chad. He did not feel the same.

I had a middle school boyfriend named Fred that I knew could never turn into True Love because….Fred.

The whole conversation reminds me of When Harry Met Sally. Do me big Sheldon!

By: C

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:32:27 +0000

Isn’t there a chapter about American naming conventions in Freakonomics? IIRC, usually the rich come up with a name, then it filters down to the middle class, and from there the lower classes pick up on it.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:52:57 +0000

In college I dated six guys in a row named Chris or Kris. Christopher must have been the #1 name given to baby boys in the early 70s. Hey, at least if I yelled out my ex’s name in the throes of passion…

One of my girlfriends dated a guy whose name was Earth (he had some hippie-dippie parents). She reported that it took some getting used to.

@Anna: I have friends who are a (hetero) couple who are named Karol and Carol. They joke about it, but she deliberately kept her own last name when they married because she foresaw a bureaucratic nightmare if they had the same last name and merged finances, etc.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:15:31 +0000

I certainly have names that lose points by association. For example, I have yet to meet a Gavin that didn’t make me want to roll my eyes. Other than names with poor associations I’m just 100% with Es. It’s got to sound good in bed! This is actually a problem with my current sweetie, who might end up being my spouse… so we’ll see.

By: annajcook

annajcook — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:52:39 +0000

Well, Hanna and I get regular comments about the similarity and Hanna admits she worried we might never get together because our names were too similar …

By: pilker

pilker — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:37:53 +0000

I have a predisposition to like anyone with a warm two-syllable old-fashioned somewhat working class name of Howard, Roger, or Walter. I have no idea why.

Anyone named Steve starts with a deficit; every one I’ve known has been… a problem.

By: Ms. M

Ms. M — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:57:38 +0000

I don’t have a problem with many names, esp. unusual ones are beautiful, but Larry, Vince, Candy, and Tiffany make the hairs on on my neck stand up.

By: Es

Es — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:24:56 +0000

I am 100% dudes with four-letter names (or the abbreviation that they go by), so far. Which is weird.

Despite never being one to call out someone’s name in the throes, I am a bit of a snob about people having a name that is call-outable without losing the moment and dissolving into giggles…

I do have aversions to names belonging to people I don’t like. I used to know an awful Lexy and the name Alexia is forever tainted!