Friday, January 14, 2022

My Kids Have Weird Names — So What?

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My Kids Have Weird Names — So What?

In the year I was born, my name was the 9th most popular of all the baby names in America. My husband popped out at a cringe-inducing number 2. From kindergarten on, both of us had to put a last initial after our names, something that seemed grossly unfair to a five-year-old, to differentiate us from the two other kids with the same name as us. I swore I would never give my kid a name that had to come with an initial or some other distinguishing characteristic.

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