Baby Names

You wanna talk about screwed up mail and identities?

I know a family where every name starts with "Do": The father is named Donald, the mother is Dorothy. The kids are Donna, Doug, Doreen and Donald Jr.

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I know a family where every name starts with "Do": The father is named Donald, the mother is Dorothy. The kids are Donna, Doug, Doreen and Donald Jr.

According to Wikipedia, all of George Foreman's sons are named George. Two of his daughters are named Freeda George and Georgetta.

Now tel me boxing doesn't cause brain damage.

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As was mentioned in another post, to do so these days will mixs up credit reports, addresses, and even the occasional criminal record. I share my dad's middle name and his whole name is an aka on my credit report. I have asked but not gotten it removed. He has great credit so I don't care. But for some it turns out bad.

Yup. My Dodge's engine grenaded and I needed $4,000 to fix it. Losing your ride in the middle of the work week, finding a replacement vehicle, and going through the stress and hassle of that plus $4,000 out of pocket is bad enough. Finding the $4,000 to be hard to get because you have an unknown $23,000 hit on your credit is a mindf**k. Luckily the next day the bill for my old man's new Goldwing came to my house and at least quelled the fear of identity theft, but it was still an unnecessary hassle we had to deal with.

With customer service quality failing and computers being so prominent, a simple "Jr" or roman numeral suffix is just asking for trouble.

I have the same name as my (late) grandfather. (We have different middle names). We were both alive at the same time for about five years. I used to get some of his mail and such, but there has been surprisingly little confusion. It is not hard to make a name for yourself even if you accomplish nothing in life; just filling out credit card applications and getting bank accounts is enough. (I still want to accomplish something, lol). I don't know how it would be different if it didn't skip a generation.

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The complete name is important. I will always remember the kid in elementary school whose name was Harry Richards. Being considerate, thoughtful young people, we, of course, called him Hairy Dick.

I used to work with an IT guy named Richard Head. He went by Rich. If that was me, I'd legally change it or add an e on the end and pronounce it "Heed".

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I used to work with an IT guy named Richard Head.

Wow. What cruel parents. Either that or they were high on something when they named him...

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I have the same name as my (late) grandfather. (We have different middle names). We were both alive at the same time for about five years. I used to get some of his mail and such, but there has been surprisingly little confusion. It is not hard to make a name for yourself even if you accomplish nothing in life; just filling out credit card applications and getting bank accounts is enough. (I still want to accomplish something, lol). I don't know how it would be different if it didn't skip a generation.

The middle name, espically if it is a different letter, makes some difference as will a differing address.

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Full name Zippyboiefinnbjørnhaktor.

I feel your pain.

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I wonder how many know how Eunuch is pronounced but not what it means.

I also was wondering how many variations of Eunich, Unik, Eunuch, etc there were...there have been many "mistakes" with people trying to be creative with names and calling their children something horrendous or offensive. Yay, education!

One of my friends told me of someone who named her daughter "Placentia" trying to be creative...oops.

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One of my friends told me of someone who named her daughter "Placentia" trying to be creative...oops.

There is a city in California called Placentia, near Disneyland.