I’m referring to names that are so common, they are likely to know several people with the exact same name as them. Anglophone examples include: Tom, Oliver, James, Sarah, Emily etc.

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  4. What’s in a name

    They don’t need some shiny, catchy name to garner people’s attention. Their character will be sufficient

  5. Because names with three random syllables thrown together are annoying as fuck.

  6. Not a dad, but a lot of that stuff is family names. My brother in laws family is all peter, charles or John. But now they can’t uses their own names so you get jack, jim, chazz, chuck, pete, petey, trip, quad, and chip.

  7. First son was after my childhood best friend who died at 15. Rip Micheal.

    Second son was after my cousin who was more like a brother at 22. Rip Jimmy.

  8. Wow, so original. I bet your child will never be able to find a personalized keychain with their name on it. But hey, at least you won’t have to spend extra money on a custom name plaque for their bedroom door.

  10. My brother and I were born in a time where civil rights were a thing, but racism was still very prevalent. To ensure that we would have as few obstacles as possible, our parents gave us all very popular Anglo sounding/originating first names, in order to offset our foreign sounding last names.

    They thought it would help us to socialize better, people wouldn’t tease us about our hard to pronounce names, and they thought it would probably help us out once we grew up and needed to apply to a job.

    They also refused to teach us their native language, they came here to become Americans, so they wanted us to speak English without any accent.

    I know it may sound silly now, but it made sense to them a few decades ago.

  11. Just names my wife and I liked. We made our own lists just for fun and compared them. They were all “conventional” names as it turns out

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