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MrsWiseone
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Teachers and Name Choices
MrsWiseone
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I am relatively new here and have no clue if this convo has already happened, but as a teacher, I see so many crazy, cute, overdone names and names that have been ruined for me forever! Specifically Olivia. One year I had 5 Olivia's and that's my DH's only girl name that he has brought up! Two years ago, I had 5 Michael's in one class! I still love that name and it will be my boy's name no matter what, but the first day of school I told the Michael's that they better not ruin that name for me, and they didn't! It helped that I called all of them by their last names instead.
Along with names being ruined, I have also grown to love names because of my students. I was at a Catholic school so I had a lot of students go by first and middle names like Mary Margaret nn Mimi, Mary Katherine, and Haley Rose, John Paul nn JP and Paul Joseph nn PJ. I am growing to like the 2 names. My new favorite is John Thomas or John Patrick and for nn JT or JP, but only when they are older if it waits that long.
I really like the classic, strong names that my children won't have to spell out or sound out to their teachers. I always feel bad when I can't or didn't pronounce a student's name correctly.
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Re: Teachers and Name Choices
I am not a teacher, but my mom had been an elementary school teacher for 30+ years, so she has a lot of strong opinions on names (to say the least). It must be a lot harder to decide on a name for you.
I also love double names, though, so I just want to chine in on the double name love! One of our girl front runners is Mary Katherine (Catherine).
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My mom was the same way. Someone ruined Grace for her and I loved Grace, but she kept bad mouthing it. Not that it would have made a difference if I'd really wanted that name for my child.
I worked in a daycare and had a Christian I was worried would ruin the name - he was the sweetest, most lovable little boy. A few years later when my son was born, I was able to use the name with no reservations. I still see the other Christian's mom from time to time and told her that story - she probably liked hearing it now that her sweet Christian is entering the teen years
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OP - I agree with you about popularity. I'm Ashlee and there were about 7-8 Ashley's in my grade (out of about 50 girls). It was a nightmare at times. I was called by my maiden name from high school and even today when I run into people. When it came time to pick my daughter's name, I vetoed any top 100 names (hers is in the 300s). One or two kids sharing a name is expected, but the extreme that I experienced was a pain.
I'm not a teacher but I do have names that have been ruined for me based on other kids AND adults I know with the names. I also love the double name idea with initials as nn but I am also set on our names and that wouldn't work for us. (Benno Mathias - nn BM? Poor child would hate me! ) Maybe if we have 2 boys or 2 girls we can look at double names
I am teacher, but I haven't really had many names ruined for me. Part of that is because I spent my first 5 years teaching in a mostly Latino neighborhood (I am caucasian and looking at mostly German/English/Irish names), so there were names that I thought were beautiful, and names that I thought were terrible, or hard to pronounce, but most of them were not names I would consider. My current school is more diverse, but a lot of the names that are not ethnically out-of-bounds for me are too youneek for my style ("it's not Brittany, it's Britt-NAY"). I do find myself crossing off names that my coworkers have already used for their children (Hannah, Lucy, Peter, Sean...)
I think double names can be cute. My BIL's BIL has a baby named John Patrick, and they call him by the double name. I wouldn't use John Thomas though, because it is a euphemism for the male anatomy.
I hear ya! I am a teacher and so many names were ruined for me - especially names like Olivia, Emma, Kaitlyn, and Emily (well, still going for Olivia as a MN with Catherine). One nice thing since you seem to be like me and like a classic name? Our idea of classic names are not really all that popular right name. I mean names like Catherine, Rebecca, Sarah, Mary, etc. I'm sure you know that "Old Hollywood" classics like Ava, Sophia, Grace etc. are the rage. So you will probably be okay with your "classic" choices. When we decided we loved Catherine, I was sure it would be somewhere in the top 50 for popular girls names this year - it's Catherine! Nope! Something like 170.
Catherine is high on my list, but not sure of spelling.