Over the years, I have seen names come and go in popularity. Sometimes there are upwards of 3 kids with the same first name in each class!
Apparently, Caitlin (or Kaitlin, Caitlyn, Katelyn, etc.) was quite popular about 20 years ago.
Avery was very popular 8-10 years ago. Most of them are spelled traditionally, but I do have an Avri (poor kid). Why do parents do that?! Cursing their kid to correct every schumck who can't figure out how to pronounce it (like me).
In fact, there are plenty of idiot parents out there who choose a common name and torture it into such imaginative spellings that it is no longer recognizable and the poor kid has to defend the pronunciation to all and sundry. It is almost a relief to get a student with an unusual name rather than a common name with a dumb spelling!
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I laughed when I read this because as we've been thinking of names for the new wee one, I've been coming across some... ah, shall we say, unique? names? Yikes!
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