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Across the Fence:  How Common Is Your Name?  |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 1:15:50 PM
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Well friends, LINDA is about as common as they come but I am grateful for my name as my Mother had a list of wierd names like "LIZBIT" which was the number one choice. Thank God I was early and she forgot the list!
My daughter's name is Elora and we have only met 2 others with the same name which is really nice for her. She loves it!
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom |
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emma.birdwhistle
True Blue Farmgirl
187 Posts
Elizabeth Ann
Ontario
Canada
187 Posts |
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
2195 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 1:54:27 PM
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Yes, another Maryjane! My first name is Maryjane and my middle name is Lee. I was named after my Swiss Great-Great Grandmother. I am meeting more and more Maryjane's all the time.
Hugs, Maryjane Lee
Farmgirl Sister #44
The Beehive Cottage~est. 1971
Sisters on the Fly #595
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 2:01:07 PM
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Oh no Elizabeth!
Aren't we lucky to have dodged those name bullets? LOL!
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9398 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9398 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 6:49:08 PM
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Originally posted by kydeere40744
. Anyone get called another name besides their own name by others?
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Yes, I call all of my kids by each others names. What mom doesn't? I have one sister and my parents always call us by the other one's name.
farmgirl sister #43
Kind hearts are gardens
Kind thoughts are roots
Kind words are blossoms
Kind deeds are Fruits
www.torismimi.blogspot.com
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QueenofQuiteAlot
True Blue Farmgirl
865 Posts
Dalyn
Milk 'n Honey Ranch
Central, WA
USA
865 Posts |
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chicken necker
True Blue Farmgirl
509 Posts
Sherry
Eastern Shore
Maryland
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 7:27:05 PM
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Oh constantly.... I'm MicSherry and my sister is Shemel. Sherry and Michelle. My grandmother would go down the list, Shir, Jud, Nan Sher Mic Oh who ever you are! LOL
My own girls are MiCaiti and CaMimi. Caitlyn and Megan.
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ~anon |
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PlumCreekMama
True Blue Farmgirl
730 Posts
Heather
Iowa
USA
730 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2008 : 7:48:18 PM
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| My mom usually calls me JiAliHeather. Ha ha! |
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emma.birdwhistle
True Blue Farmgirl
187 Posts
Elizabeth Ann
Ontario
Canada
187 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2008 : 07:09:10 AM
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Yes, I'm rather glad to have escaped being named Poem. Though it might not have been so bad as a middle name, now that I think of it...
- Elizabeth Ann
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White
http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2008 : 10:53:30 AM
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No you're right Elizabeth as a middle name it is quite lyrical! My middle name is Susan. sigh. Nothing particularly magical about that one! LOL!
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom |
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2008 : 11:26:21 AM
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My girls are Shelby and Maggie. We just named their new beagle Shaggie for convenience's sake. :)
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2008 : 2:04:40 PM
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elizabeth...i would have loved to be named Poem! what an awesome name! as it is, i am named after the first recorded female poet.
What we write today slipped into our souls some other day when we were alone and doing nothing.
-Brenda Ueland
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theoanne
True Blue Farmgirl
282 Posts
teddie
CARROLLTON
GA
282 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2008 : 6:36:17 PM
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I did not google my name yet...but I'll bet there are not many Theoanne's out there!
My #4 son ( as he calls himself) says he thought his name was SeJPA Casey( short for Sean, JJ, Patrick, Casey!) I guess Sean was the only one that knew his name ...LOL
TEDDIE
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 12:26:45 PM
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Well, according to my mum, when she named me Meghan, it was a very uncommon name! Lol. It must have been the same for MaryJane's Meg. I've met a very few Meghans older than me, but younger - phew! There's loads of them. I've always gone by Meg though, because when I was little everyone used to spell it wrong, or mispronounce it. My middle name is Jane - passed on through the family for a few hundred years. And my last name - let's just say if I went to Wales, it would seem like everyone was related to me. =;-)
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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chessie
True Blue Farmgirl
403 Posts
Karen
Vista
CA
USA
403 Posts |
Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 12:55:26 PM
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Well, my folks thought they were being unique in 1959 when they named me Karen, boy were they wrong. the really Silly thing is - my pop's 1st cousin, in the same town, named her first daughter Karen a couple years earlier and pop forgot. In kindergarden i was with 2 other karens in a small class and in college there were 4 karens just on my dorm floor (about 40 girls, so 10 percent were karens) My neighbor across the street is a karen and when i work the lavender fields harvest festival each year 2 other workers are named karen... on and on it goes... my best friend from college (one of the karen's on my floor) married a david (as did I, just a different david) so when the four of us go out to din-din it is "Hi, this karen and david and that is karen and david..." goofy.
My middle name is unique, Lisette. I have always wished i was named for either of my Grandmas - Lisette or Mattie lora. Anything but karen.
When i google myself, i come up as a opera singer back east and other karen england's around the nation before my business and magazine articles, etc... comes up. I will have to work on getting to the top of the karen google search heap...
good question!
love, karen
www.edgehillherbfarm.com "where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind"
blog http://edgehillherbfarmer.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
happy farmgirl #89 |
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
2460 Posts |
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