Like. My parents weren't THAT bad. I have a slightly awkward middle name that I always had to pronounce for the subs because they're the only ones who EVER called out middle names.
on a top level-related note, my parents thought they made up "Kaylin" only for their to be another girl in the school district who not only had the same first name, but the same surname and middle initial as well!
they weren't going for unique though. they'd just already picked "Katelin" only to have some family friends go with "Katherine" and the neighbors to go with "Katelin"
My mom's just younger brother (she was the oldest of 7) made fun of her for giving her daughters very old fashioned names. I'm Amanda. My little sister has the Spanish form of Alice (paternal grandmother) AND maternal grandma's name as a middle name.
My deadname got me laughed at a lot. It could have been worse. My grandfather Otto wanted me named after him, and my parents refused. Then he tried to make it my middle name, but since my dead-firstname started with a G and last name started with a D, it was generally decided that no, bad idea.
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: lol I knew someone who changed their own name. To Duncan McLeod. Apparently the judge either wouldn't change his last name, so McLeod became his middle name. Or else they convinced him to keep his last name. Probably because he had kids.
My kid has a fandom first name, but it's not highly recognizable. She gets a lot of compliments on how pretty it is, but also a lot of mispronunciations (which is puzzling. One of the reasons we picked it is because it's not that different from some very common girl's names and we thought it'd be easy to pronounce.)
I went to high school with a girl whose mom was way ahead of the crowd in naming her kid after a Star Wars character. Luckily it was from one of the early books, not the films.
In order: - Abigail (#14 in the year 2000) - Amanda (#46 in 2002) - Micaiah (which according to https://www.mynamestats.com/... site) there are only 121 people with that name in the US)
- Elisha (same site says there are 12,379 people named that and 57% of them are AFAB) - Emilia (22,678 people named that; looks like this was the most mainstream one we picked) - Elizabeth (#10 in 2012)
- Abigail (#14 in the year 2000)
- Amanda (#46 in 2002)
- Micaiah (which according to https://www.mynamestats.com/... site) there are only 121 people with that name in the US)
- Emilia (22,678 people named that; looks like this was the most mainstream one we picked)
- Elizabeth (#10 in 2012)