Ezymay - well, he does have an Irish surname? Hmm
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Ezymay - well, he does have an Irish surname? Hmm
Marlene- I ahve only taught lovely Mitchells!!!
When I was pg with Riley I wanted to call him Harry or Max cause they were two gorgeous boys in my class at the time LOL
I agree with most of this, but wow, this lady is seemingly VERY judgmental! Of the Erin's I know, what she wrote couldn't have been further from the truth. If I was an Erin I would be completely offended she even wrote that and it is a great thing she's not my sister, I doubt I'd speak to her about anything after an such an outburst.
As for the American state refernce, I think she needs to have a look at how a lot of them got their names!!! I think she may find they came from people... I could be wrong though??!
My family is very opinionated about my children's names. I didn't want anything completely out there, but on the same token I didn't want "Jane" to be called out in class and 3 other girls answer. I do believe a name should be decently, so I did my best to keep my childrens names simple to read, spell and pronouce (which I wasn't 100% successful in doing, but if you say it as it reads, not as you think it says, you'd get it right!).
I wouldn't care to read any further articles of Susie's!
The funny thing is some names you can have 2 or 3 in a class and they aren't that common! This year we had 2 Jaspers start kindy - I have never thought that a common name! We also have 2 Poppy's- again not what I would consider common. Last year I had 2 Luca/Luka s in my class.
Annalise, Melanie, Jessica. I'm completely blanking on the boys names I've had multiples of, but I have NEVER taught a Jane.
I figure it's a generational thing. When I was growing up, there were always plenty of Angelas, Rebeccas, Jessicas and Karlys. Nowadays they're practically unheard of, and 'uncommon' names like Poppy, Cooper and Bailey are a dime a dozen!:
My own name was a little unusual, a very old-fashioned Irish name that is a feminine version of Brian - I found the problems associated with "different" names or those with tricky spellings/pronunciation is that you will never get called by your actual name. It would almost immediately be shortened, unfortunately for me to a type of very tasty soft cheese.
Ultimately I changed it by deed poll to reverse the positions of my first name and second name (much shorter, easier to pronounce) because I was sick of having my name shortened or mispronounced every time I met someone.
So now when it comes to naming my children, I've leant towards quite traditional names, although DD's father insisted on varying the spelling slightly on Rachelle (pronounced Rachel). I think it stems from not wanting to put them through the constant headache of having to spell their name out or correct people every time their name is mispronounced.
I do agree with this to an extent. Although not a teacher I use to work in a child care centre and had a few names come throught that I thought were a little different, then there'd be more... And yes I know young girls names Jane, Betty, Elsy, Esme, but not a lot. Thankfully I live in a small town... There are about a 1000 Ava's around, but haven't yet come across a Tiera or a Hadley! Not in Music classes, preschool, kindergym, swimming or mother's group.... So far so good!:
I was just thinking about this earlier (I believe I was peeing at the time lol, needed something else to occupy my brain!) and I wondered, maybe 'Erin' was a creative version of 'Aaron'? Just a thought, as I agree with the others who have referenced this - all the Erins I know are women :):
No its not, its the old name for Ireland, its very traditional actually!!!!
Tiff+2 - I taught a Hadley about 6 years ago in Yr 5, it was a boy though.
Yeah Mrsmac, I have deinfately heard of male Hadley's and I have no doubt there are plenty of Hadley's out there, both male and female, but in this town I am yet to meet one. I got the name out of a baby name book, this is just getting back to what I said earlier, I like less used names, not anything out there.
I know thats what you meant, I was trying to say how uncommon it was, I see 100s of children as I have been teaching for a long time and that is the ONLY Hadley I have met.