Comments on: You know you’re awesome when your mom needs your advice

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:16 +0000

I was always told that Jaime is a girl, and Jamie is a boy. I understand though, I had a friend in college named Evan (girl). Some company provided 'welcome to college packs', and she ended up with a boys one becasue of her name.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:57:32 +0000

My sister's name is Elizabeth Claire, but she goes by Betsy (we tried Liz or Lizzie for awhile but it didn't stick. With a last name taht is pronounced 'bohn' you have to be careful on names. They spent 5 days decideding (we thought she was a boy), and the 3rd person they called said 'oh you can call her E-claire!'

By: JRae

JRae — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:16:51 +0000

Hey. My name is Jennifer, but for some reason it never bothered me. I like Jen and Jenny as well. Jenny was childhood, Jen early adulthood, but now I like when people call me Jenny because it seems affectionate…

I’ve pretty much always contended with other Jens. I started a Jen club in high school (I was the Prez, natch).

Embrace your namehood, sisters! We are united in our limited selection of monikers!

By: Soire

Soire — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:41:20 +0000

My Daughters are Lily Elizabeth (Middle name for my mum) and Amy Rose (Who was supposed to be Samantha Dawn, but it got changed because she didn’t look like a Sam.) and when Lily was born, I didn’t know of a single one… now I know of atleast 5 her age. Dangit.

.. I’m an early 80’s Amanda. There was 13 other girls of the same name on my FLOOR in dorms. There were 5 more on the 2nd floor, and 3 on the top floor O.o

By: Melinda

Melinda — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:41:34 +0000

I like Amy and Ivy. I’m Melinda Grace. When I had my second, we named her Grace Elaine, which is my middle name and his middle name (Lane). Now, every where I turn, there is a Grace. But I had the name picked out in 1996, so…

Hugs,
Melinda
(Who was almost Mildred)

By: Jasi

Jasi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:09:10 +0000

Amy is kinda cool as Amelia can take you to Lia, Milla, Emily, Emele, Mel, Mimi, Lili. Just rock out a nickname and it’s no thing.

And in the 80’s.. Everyone wanted to be a Heather (and with Christian Slater!). So that’s a cool name also.

But please tell me what’s so cool about “Jaime”. Such a kids/boys name. I’ve been called “Himay”, “James Earl Jones”, “Jimmy”.. my MIL can’t say my name so it sounds like “Jimney” . Also, most of my mail comes “Mr. Jaime ___” . Fun, fun, fun.

By: dolphin

dolphin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:09:36 +0000

My first name. Incredibly common.

My middle name, not so uncommon that it sounds wierd or unexpected, but uncommon enough that I’ve known a grand total of ONE other person who shared it (and known OF only 2 or 3).

I could never make the switch growing up because by the time I had decided I wanted to, everybody already knew me by my first, but when I went off to college, I made sure to introduce myself by my middle name, and have gone by it ever since.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:49:41 +0000

Seriously, I hate being named the same thing as everyone else. Currently in my mom’s group, we have a total of EIGHT Amys running around. It is a joke that if you don’t know someone’s name in our group, just try Amy.

PS- Hilarious that your mom asked a question. LOVE IT!

PSS- If you tell me your name is Amy, I will have to put together a little present for you as a welcome gift to the Amy Club

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:41:15 +0000

You’ll always be Ivy to me!
When I was little I wished for a good 80s name like Stephanie or Christina.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:37:53 +0000

I was wondering if were going to admit what your birth name is. Personally, I think Amy is a fine name, but Ivy has a certain amount of intrigue to it since it is unusual.
I have a slightly different problem with my name. For some reason people always want to call me Jennifer. I guess because it is the more popular “J” name.