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Do you like it when someone has the same name? (LG's first name isn't really Lobster)
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smetchie
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Mar 12, 2010 11:27AM
Whenever I meet another Gretchen it goes like "OH! My name is Gretchen too!" "Wow! I don't meet too many of those!" Then I usually feel weird because I don't want them to have my name. They usually say something snotty or make a face like they don't want me to have their name either. I'm wondering if this is the same for others or if it's just the nature of having a unique name. It could also be that the only Gretchens I've met are sorta bitchy. (I am too.) There was a Miss USA who seemed pretty nice but that's the best I can do.
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This is an excellent question. Do you think the name's commonality or lack thereof (did I use that right?) plays a role, like you said? For example, if your name is "Bob" you can't be mad at every other Bob in the world. But Gretchen, sure, I can see that.
My husband's name is Chris and he doesn't seem to get pissed off that he works with like 5 of them. His step-brother's name is Chris too. It cracks me up when is step-dad introduces people to his sons Chris and Chris.
i know two different couples where both the husband and wife are named kelly. spelled exactly that way. one set are prominent biz owners. when you call you ask for "girl-kelly" or "boy-kelly" wonder how they feel about having not only a semi-common name but the same name as their spouse?
My name is unusual enough that I don't mind sharing it with a select few. My best friends in high school were Gretchen and Mindy. You'd think we sought out the other girls with unique names, but it was just coincidence. I think.
My best friend from highschool is named Georgette! Jackie, is your friend Gretchen sorta bitchy at all?
Why, yes, she is, Gretchen. She's a great best friend, but I wouldn't want to work with her. Why?
Actually my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl and I all have pretty unique names, for the most part.
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Why, yes, she is, Gretchen. She's a great best friend, I wouldn't want to work with her. Why?"
see my original post. I said all the other Gretchens I've met are sorta bitchy. (and I am, too)
I knew a Gretchen in suburban Pittsburgh. We called her the midnight mower. She would mow her lawn until late at night, for some strange reason. I don't think she was bitchy, though.
So, does being called Gretchen bring out bitchiness? Or is that a quality that parents see, and then decide that Gretchen is the perfect name for their new, somewhat annoyed looking offspring?
Apparently the early 80s were all about the Amanda naming. I don't really have any instant dislike for others with my name. My best friend since junior high is also an Amanda E. and I've had other close friends who were also Amanda. It DOES gets annoying constantly hearing your name or having to be known by a description. (Big Amanda, Little Amanda)
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I'm glad I don't meet many other people with my name.
And Gretchen, there was a a Gretchen at my high school too: Gretchen Beaver. I never realized how awful those names sound together until a new girl Katie moved to town and was incredulous that was really her name. But Gretchen Beaver wasn't very bitchy. A little snotty and kind of spacey, but not mean.
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http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
In my quest to pick a name that is unique, not trendy, and somewhat classic.
I ♥ the internet.
1973: year I was born!@sally: I mean snotty, not mean.
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Jacqueline's highest rank, 37th, was in 1961 and 1964. Thanks to Jackie Kennedy, I'm sure.It's never been a trendy name, and I like it that way.
I have never met anyone else with the name Shana (pronounced Shawna)who spells it the same. I've known a Shauna and I now work with a Shayna. I also went to school with a Shanna. I think my parents chose the worst way to spell my name. People consistantly read my name and call me "Shanna" It's all very annoying.
i don't think i have met more than two people with the same name as me, other than my grandmother who i was named after. i know there are more out there, just not very many and most of them probably live in one country. i did name a cat (male) and a cow after myself. of course my brother, sisters and parents would talk about the crazy things these animals did and i would be very confused because i never knew for sure if they were talking about me or the animal. i have had a few friends with the name petra. the first one turned me off all petra's, but that was made up by petra II who was a great friend and showed up just when i needed her. the petra's were all a bit messed up though, petra I was sexually abused by her father and petra II suffers from depressions/borderline.
Sally wrote: "It reminds me of a Cake Franz Ferdinand song.http://www.lala.com/#song/50468463783..."
Sally,
You're a Lala gal! Me too. I used to love to listen at work, then the jerks downtown blocked it.
I don't run into too many other Phils. When I do, they're generally okay guys, not assholes, which has helped develop a solid reputation for the name.What I didn't like was that on one episode of "House" there was a guy named Phil, whose LAST name was also the same as mine, and who, it turned out, was cheating on his wife. Jerk. I wasn't sad when that character died - he was tarnishing the rep!
I knew you looked familiar Larry ;) . And Gretchen I know two Gretchens, very interesting, one was a very short blonde, a little bit cocky spit fire total hoot, but pretty and regarded by most girls to be a bitch (you know how girls are *shrug*) . I personally didn't think so, she was one of my best friends. Now the other one is so serene, subdued, quiet, sweet and gentle, actually annoyingly sweet and caring, you kind of want to shake a little personality into her. She is so nice you can't dislike her, but she is most definitely the COMPLETE opposite of the other Gretchen I know, but both are blondes :)
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Why?"
see my original post. I said all the other Gretchens I've met are sorta bitchy. (and I am, too)
A Gretchen lived in my dorm at college and she was a major bitch.
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My name is Brittany....very popular
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It was most popular in the years 1989-91.
The other Kens I meet tend to be either wieners or pricks, which I suppose are only modulations of the same meat product.
My real name is Amy and I always had at least 1 to 2 other kids named Amy in my class at school, so I had the dreaded last initial tacked onto my name when a teacher would address me.I won't even use it on Goodreads because there are always at least a couple of people with this name in each group.
Gretchens are usually trouble, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
To all your parents' credit, I don't personally know any Barbaras, Kens, Gretchens, Brittanys, Stacias or Kevins other than you people. I know a few Rachels meself, but I dinnae hang out with them too much because I find people start comparing us.
no, i've never known anyone else w/my name. the only problems i've had are things being addressed to ''mr.'', and once i was turned away from a certain college because it was "only for women" (by mail, they didn't see me !!). i have often thought though, that it is better to have a name that can be softened by a "Y", or an "ie". ex: stacy, amy, sandy, slurpy, sloopy, etc.
Rachel-y wouldn't work.. Nor would Gretchen-y. Hey! Sally!
smetchie wrote: "Rachel, are you Scottish?!?"No, I'm not, but I like switching dialects and accents sometimes even in speaking. More colourful!
Rachel wrote: "Rachel-y wouldn't work.. Nor would Gretchen-y. Hey! Sally!"But Smetchie does!!
Lobster.(ETA: In answer to "LG, what's your name?")
smetchie wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Rachel-y wouldn't work.. Nor would Gretchen-y. Hey! Sally!"But Smetchie does!!"
Lucky!
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I cannae reveal.
So is girl her last name?
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