I read Potty Mouth's blog about her name and it made me start thinking about names. My blog name has to do with one of my favorite hobbies...photography. But throughout the years I've always been interested in names.
I hated the first day of school; the calling of the roll. Yuck! I always knew when they were at my name. The look of confusion. The sounding it out under their breath. Geez!! You'd think it wouldn't be that hard. Yes it's spelled different but come on. Lesleigh...Vivian Leigh...Raleigh...Lesleigh. You wouldn't believe the strange variations of my name I've heard. Some I can't even make come out of my mouth and others I don't remember. A few of the most notable ones..."Les-lay" "Lis-lay" "Les-ele" and my favorite "Lisa" !!!! I know, it doesn't even look like my name. But you wouldn't believe how many times I was called that. Amazing.
I have a niece who's name is Elleigh (pronounced El-lee). My sister said she's heard so many variations on the name already. The most common one...Elijah. Go figure. She thinks it's just laziness. They look at the first few letters and guess the rest.
My husband hates his name. His name is Kim. He hates it. He said he was teased quite often growing up kids and siblings (shame on you!). It even took him a bit to tell me his name when we first met (if you don't know how we met that sentence may sound strange...but that's another post!). To me he's Kim...the man I love. I can't picture him with any other name.
But names....you see everything now a days from classic to popular to "totally made this up myself when the birth certificate was in front of me" names. The office I work in deals with children and let me tell you I think I've seen them all! I mean some names are so "What??" that if I put them in this blog and they were your neighbor or your child's friend or a relative you'd instantly know who I was talking about. It's crazy!
Now I'm not talking bad about any one's name so don't get angry and think I'm dis-ing on your kids "unusual" name. I think names are cool. One of my favorite parts about being pregnant was coming up with names. Most of mine were shot down by my ex...but it was still fun.
Some names I think "Whoa" and some I think "Nice." Usually what I think is "How would that look on the top of a resume?"
