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Originally Posted by GammaPhi88
I'm not a teacher, but I did work in the DA's office as an intern for a semester, and part of my job was entering new felonies in the database. I can't really reveal the names I came across due to confidentiality rules, however, I sure came across some doozies. By the end of my time there I had a running mental list of names never to name my future children.
My boss there had recently had a child, and she told me that the nurse there mentioned that she recently helped deliver a baby named RigaTony. Apparently, the mother is of Latvian descent and really likes the name Tony. Poor kid. You think these parents hate their kids or something. I once knew someone named Becca Becker.
I actually despise my own first name, though it's fairly common. Someone started calling me by my first two initials early on in college, and it stuck, so only my parents call me by my first name. I share my name with a fairly well know female political figure, and I think this contributes to my hatred of my name because people consistently make jokes about it or compare me to her. A friend of mine told me the other day that I was far more attractive than her; I guess he thought that was a compliment? I was like, gee, thanks, thats like saying I'm smarter than Snooki.
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Riga is the capital of Latvia, so maybe she's trying to honor home and a name she likes?
The two local hospitals have webpages with names of new babies. Here are some from the past month, the names that end in (den dan din dyn) are starting to slow in trend and it seems that some less common names are picking up but of course require alternative spelling. There are some names I had to say a few times to figure out what the name was due to alternative vowel and consonant usage and placement. Asher is going crazy as a first and middle name, and that's kind of funny in North Idaho since we don't have a lot of Chosen People who would traditionally name their sons Asher. Cohen and an alternative spelling are also first names in the past month. There are two little boys named Catcher, and two girls named Daisy.
There are still tons of babies now going through life with vowels, consonants, random in word capitalization (toggle case babies?) and such preventing them from being able to buy things with their name on it without a special order.
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