Explaining your child's name.....

Why is it that when I say her name is LEAH people respond with "oh, like the Princess from Star Wars?"

Uh, no duhh - that was Princess "Leia" (lay-ah) not LEAH (lee-ah)

Why do I always have to EXPLAIN to people what her name is and how to say it?

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In NY I am constantly asked why I chose a Jewish name I had never even thought about it.

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Posted by Janice

In NY I am constantly asked why I chose a Jewish name I had never even thought about it.

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These are not exactly difficult names we are working with here

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Joshua is #2 most popular name, Ethan is #3...I would say that there are a whole lot of Christian Joshs out there

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all my life i have to say my name is like the basketball player kareem abdul jabar or like the stuff you put in a pool chlorine but prounounced coreen. its frustrating.

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I swear this actually happened to me. I was in my local ASDA supermarket when Noah was an infant and an old lady asked me what his name was, when I replied Noah she said...thats an original name, did you make it up? I said...no, its from a book. (the bible you silly old bat) Noah is quite an unusual name here in the UK (although now there is another one in Noah's class at nursery)

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Posted by Corinne

all my life i have to say my name is like the basketball player kareem abdul jabar or like the stuff you put in a pool chlorine but prounounced coreen. its frustrating.

I think I am guilty...I always read cor-rine.

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And yes, I do have to explain Logan's name all the time.

They think his name is Moby for crying out loud.


Of course, my explaination is that I liked the name from Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars, and my husband liked it from Wolverine. So it's not much better.

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Posted by Janice

Posted by Corinne

all my life i have to say my name is like the basketball player kareem abdul jabar or like the stuff you put in a pool chlorine but prounounced coreen. its frustrating.

I think I am guilty...I always read cor-rine.

Yep. Me too.

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thats ok im so used to being called (core-in) i respond to both.

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Ok...well Gillian gets called "Gillian with a hard G at times"
And me...i get called Colette, Paula, Pauline....Ummm hello.....No....Paulette.
The other day we were signing a contract for Gillys b-day and the man screwed up my name and says "it doesnt matter"...ummmm....yes it does

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Awww - what a cute liitle BOY!

Thank you! He's a cutie alright!!!

I love HIS little socks!!!

Thank you!!

How old is HE?

HE is 6 mts old!!!

Awww... Whats HIS name?

Cailen.

I'm sorry... I thought he was a boy....

(Yup - jokes on you. I have a weird thing about dressing my daughter up in blue and calling her a he all the time. I'm gunning for the most F*d up kid in the world award.

DUMB A S S.)

No, you were right. His name is Cailen.... Have a nice day...

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I get this with DS's name, but it's unusual, so I expect it. His name is Asher, people always think I'm saying Ashton. They always look perplexed and I explain that it's a very old biblical name, one of Jacob's sons, one of the tribes of Isreal. Funny thing though, I have met a few (very few) people named Asher since he was born.

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Sorry Corinne--I always thought ca-RIN too!

DD's name is Katherine--so no explanations there (although several people assumed she was named after a grandmother--is it that old of a name??), but her middle name is Emer. OMG, you should have seen the puzzled expressions--and that's putting it lightly So yeah, when she was first born, we explained a lot.

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I get asked all the time why we call him Christopher. And when I say he is a III, I get SO many opinions abotu how people would never do that, nad how a child needs their own name (gee thanks )

People are dumb.

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Childs name please...

Jaedyn..

How old is Jaclyn???

Her name is Jaedyn...

Oh sorry Jocelyn is how old???

JAEDYN!!!!!

How do you spell that?????

J. A. E. D. Y. N.

OH....Jaden...

UGH!!!!!


Oh what's the babies name..

CADEN

Oh that is unusual...Jewish isnt it???

No

Are you sure????

Yes I am sure...DH is Jewish...

Oh well then Im sure its Jewish..

UGH

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I always have to correct people bc they say Nay-thaniel. I'm like no it's Na-thaniel and then they ask me if I"m sure.... Ummm Yes.

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I have that with all my kids names sometimes
Juliet.......oh whats her name Julia No Juliet oh like Romeo and Juliet (that is the worst)
2nd DD.....Kayleigh......oh Katie NO Kay-LEE
Hayley nooooooo KayLEE

3rd DD I hate when people call her BriOnna its Brianna NOT BriONNA