Comments on: Parents Choosing Unusual Baby Names http://www.kidglue.com/2010/02/25/parents-choosing-unusual-baby-names/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:28:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.kidglue.com/2010/02/25/parents-choosing-unusual-baby-names/comment-page-1/#comment-6859 Peter Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:53:46 +0000 http://www.kidglue.com/?p=20781#comment-6859 Or it could be that parents don't want their kid to be lost in a sea of Jennifer's and John's which was the case 20 years ago. Jen, Jenny, Jennifer, Jen S, Jen P, and so on just to tell them apart. (Of course, you get that with Emma's now, so it's not that wide-spread yet.) We chose a name partly based on that, but also chose one that wasn't way out there and meant something. Our choice didn't have anything consciously to do with individualism, but with wanting a meaningful name that was distinct enough that we didn't have to resort to some sort of distinguisher to pick one out of a crowd. :) Or it could be that parents don’t want their kid to be lost in a sea of Jennifer’s and John’s which was the case 20 years ago. Jen, Jenny, Jennifer, Jen S, Jen P, and so on just to tell them apart. (Of course, you get that with Emma’s now, so it’s not that wide-spread yet.)

We chose a name partly based on that, but also chose one that wasn’t way out there and meant something. Our choice didn’t have anything consciously to do with individualism, but with wanting a meaningful name that was distinct enough that we didn’t have to resort to some sort of distinguisher to pick one out of a crowd. :)

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