That's a long name, Average and Boring. Of course, my name is Complacent and Irresponsible. ;)

(Should we ask why UT is perusing baby name sites?)

It never went completely out of style, though. I know a few little girls who share your name. I like it. My name is derived from it ;)

I'm a big fan of quality visual display of quantitative information. When people get it right, as they did with that flash tool, it must be studied.

I named my daughter Gillian (I was a huge X-Files fan). I thought it was such a beautiful and unique name.

Until I realized that most people are illiterate.

Not only does she get people pronouncing her name with a hard "G" rather than soft "J", but god forbid someone actually reads her name off of a form - they inevitably call her "Gilligan". Where the hell they get another "g" to throw in there in the middle of her name, I don't know.

As for my name, I make everyone call me "Chris". My full name, Christine, sounds so pretentious, especially for a tomboy. And no one ever calls me by the correct name: it's always Christie, or Kristen, or Christina, none of which are my name and it really irks me. And guaranteed - if you have a southern accent, you're calling me Christina.

I would have gone by my middle, but it's "Ann", and that's just HORRID.

My name was in the top 10 from 1966 to 1991, and held the number 1 spot from 1970 all the way through 1984. I hate my name.

And I had a very, very common maiden name too! I don't know what the hell my parents were thinking. It's no wonder I went by a completely unrelated nickname from fourth grade all the way through high school.

Was pretty well used in the UK when I was a kid. I must've known 4 or 5 -one spelled with a J, the rest G.

I have a biblical name and those are everywhere. The thing is I have the name that I use the professional world and then I have the name(s) that my family and friends call me.

My full given name can be pronounced two different ways. My parents chose the less common way, resulting in a childhood of having to correct both peers and adults in authority as to how I said my name.

That said, although I wanted to change my name for years I'm glad my parents stuck with it - it certainly taught me that the majority is not always right.

We didn't had any problem in choosing our babies names, I picked them out when I was 16.

Why the link? Do you have a webpage devoted to your kids' names? Couldn't you just reveal the secret here? :rolleyes:

Oh look, your other two posts also link to this site. It's not even high quality spammage.

well, how'd you like to go through life named Lum?

I noticed that too Monster - maybe the link should be pulled from those posts as well?

back on topic, my names, all three of them came right outta the bible -
not that it helped any. :p

No, the first two times were timely and appropriate to the discussion. The third was :dedhorse:

well I mentioned in that thread that, after following the link, I couldn't find what she was referring to, even through the site search. No biggie.