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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
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Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

136.0. "Names based on heritage" by 39682::MANDALINCI () Wed Sep 30 1987 18:18

    How are people reacting to unique or different names these days?
    We are expecting our first in March and, since my husband is 
    originally from Turkey, we have decided that it is extremely
    important for the children not forget their heritage, especially
    when the rest of his family is still in Turkey and we do vacation
    there. My step-children's names are Ali (as in Mohammad ALI) and
    Sibel (pronounced C-Bell, not Cybil). We are currently looking
    at Ayse (pronounced Eye-Sha) for a girl and cannot agree on a boys
    name. Do you know how difficult it is to find a name the people
    can pronounce, never mind understand?!?!?  In my family we don't
    have any "common-place" names like Mary or John. We all have vastly
    differnt names, like Julia, Stephanie, Shannon, Kimberly, Pamela
    or Andrea for the girls and the boys are Andrew, Francis, Edward,
    Christopher, Michael (not Mike), etc. I feel people are trying
    not to use simple names but return to unique or uncommon (not
    unheard of) names. Just an observation.
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