re: I know it's been discussed over 1000 times here, but what happened to classic names?

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My 3 year old has an old lady name. Have a son coming in a few months that will also have a "normal" name I'm doing my part

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Which one of the Golden Girls is she?

Look, not everyone can be John, David, Michael.

I'm a fan of finding classic names that just aren't used often.

If someone wants to name their kid Taylee, who cares. Just don't name your kid something awful like Chair or Apple or something because eventually it will be on a resume.

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My first name comes from 800s England. I'm a true cracker

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The English version of mine is from the middle ages, the Hebrew version is from BC.

Chair or Apple > Taylee

They’re coming back. Lots of little Henry’s and George’s and Oliver’s running around now.

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Let us not forget that Michael Jackson named a child "Blanket."

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No he didn't.

The media called him blanket because of the balcony dangling incident.

Names around here are either way out there or completely normal, about half and half. There were four Carolines on my daughter's team of twenty last year.

My first name is unusual and I don't hate it but growing up, nobody could pronounce it right the first time, no one could spell it but the worst of it was I never had a personalized bike license plate.

Because of my experience my two kids have normal names with traditional spellings. First one we just liked and the second is a feminized version of my husband's name. Was really pushing for another name when pregnant with our oldest but gave up when people kept pronouncing it a different way even after I had just said it.

You know the quotation marks mean that's a nickname right?

My kids all have traditional names. Not in the "Biblical" sense but they all have names that wont get their resumes tossed in the garbage

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You know the quotation marks mean that's a nickname right?

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Until about 5 minutes ago, I thought that was his real middle name.