December 22, 2006

What's in a name?

Question: I lived the first 39 years of my life having never met an "Aidan" in person. Now, culling through the Christmas cards, there's ten of them. What's up with the sudden popularity of that name in the past three years?

(I have a thing about this, having been named "Stephen" in its peak year, and having gone through elementary school upwards with 6-7 other Steves, Stevens, etc. in class.)

Posted by Steve-O at December 22, 2006 10:02 AM | TrackBack
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Steve-O, I understand your chagrin, as all the Michaels and Daniels do too...I have not had to face that problem, it seems to be me and Mr. Rathbone (I got nervous when Basil Exposistion showed up). I have a brother named 'Doak' after Mr. Walker (SMU/Lions), the only two I have heard of, and my son is named 'Haydn' after Papa Josef...So we have licked the 'same-name problem' in my family...

Posted by: Basil Seal at December 22, 2006 11:07 AM

As have we with The Lad's name, Chay (a Scottish diminutive of Charles). Though here in Little Berkele.... er... Eugene, we do have to explain that no, he's not named after Che Guevara.

Posted by: Boy Named Sous at December 22, 2006 11:11 AM

We named our son Andrew and in Hawaii (where we are from) this is not a common name. 6 months later we moved to Maryland and discovered just how very common his name is: in his pre-school class all 6 boys shared the same name!

Posted by: LeeAnn at December 22, 2006 11:20 AM

//I lived the first 39 years of my life having never met an "Aidan"//

Sheesh, could you get any WASPier? ;-)

Posted by: Dan at December 22, 2006 12:17 PM