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I the Crystal I know is the peppiest little girl ever.
British names and American names
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Quackers
The Frog
From my experiance anybody from East Asia is known as "Chinese", even if they're not
East Asian is one too many words for an average Brit tbh The problem with a name like Crystal and the previously mentioned in humor names that end with "i" instead of a "y" or some of the Charity, Hope etc... names is that those are commonly perceived as stage names for various...professions, a bit unexpected to be a person's actual name.
Also I just felt like commenting because I donn't know why people got the idea that Ian is that uncommon or weird of a name in the US. It's not, I've known a few people named Ian too. Sources say it's in the top 300 male names, not obviously abundant but not unheard of.
Also I just felt like commenting because I donn't know why people got the idea that Ian is that uncommon or weird of a name in the US. It's not, I've known a few people named Ian too. Sources say it's in the top 300 male names, not obviously abundant but not unheard of.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Maybe it's a regional thing? It would be interesting to compare maps of the prominence of the name to maps of historical Scottish settlement.
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
In 2009, Faith was #73 in England and Wales, and #79 in the US.
Hope was #233 and Charity was #877 in the US (UK list doesn't go past top 100, if it did then they might have had some interesting names on the list as well).
Crystal was #283
http://www.behindthename.com/top/
Fun to compare. Harry is #3 in the England/Wales, but number #645 in the US. Potter-mania doesn't hit the US as much.
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
the only Ians I know are American, all my British friends have Welsh names.
If you lived in North Wales, Celtic, that's really not a difficult thing to say. All my friends talk with West Country accents, but then that's where I live!
Considering the third in line to the throne is called Harry, I'd imagine that's Royal-philia as much as Pottermania.
Considering the third in line to the throne is called Harry, I'd imagine that's Royal-philia as much as Pottermania.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Wait, is that list saying that the most common names are actually "Harry", "Jack" and "Aflie", or is it just arbitrarily assuming that everyone is going to call "Henry", "John" and "Alfred" by those names? 
(Also, that's a surprising number of Alf-whatevers. I always took that for a bit of an old manny name.)
(Also, that's a surprising number of Alf-whatevers. I always took that for a bit of an old manny name.)
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
Wait, is that list saying that the most common names are actually "Harry", "Jack" and "Aflie", or is it just arbitrarily assuming that everyone is going to call "Henry", "John" and "Alfred" by those names?
(Also, that's a surprising number of Alf-whatevers. I always took that for a bit of an old manny name.)
Henry is #37, John is #83, Alfred isn't in top 100. And it is of babies born that year, so it shows current trends, not most common names of adults born decades ago.
source said:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=184
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
I actually lived near Cardiff.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Huh. That's going to end up getting on my wick in a few decades, when all these people are adults and I have to deal with people whose honest-to-god given name is "Alfie".
Oh, I got that, yeah, I just mean that I always thought that Alfred/Alfie was regarded as a bit of an old-fashioned name, so I was surprised to see that it was that popular.
So did I at one point. Newport is more English than England itself!
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
They sound cuter and more urban-friendly.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
When I meet people whose given name is Jack or Katie or Chuck it makes my blood boil.
I don't think Alf would be popular in the US because of the TV character.
The ultimate stripper name is Tawny. I don't like people naming their kids after countries but the absolute worst is Chyna. It's not just the WWE gal who I think her real name isn't Chyna but one of the gals from Wilson Phillips (am I the only one who remembers them? ) had the name Chyna. And another one was named Carnie, she was the fat one. Who names their kid Carnie? Like she's a carnival worker.
When I was a kid I knew someone who had a boyfriend named Ian. She had this really strong country accent and for a long time I thought his name was In and she was just pronouncing it like EEan because of her accent. You know, the kind of accent that turns the word pen into two or three syllables.
The ultimate stripper name is Tawny. I don't like people naming their kids after countries but the absolute worst is Chyna. It's not just the WWE gal who I think her real name isn't Chyna but one of the gals from Wilson Phillips (am I the only one who remembers them? ) had the name Chyna. And another one was named Carnie, she was the fat one. Who names their kid Carnie? Like she's a carnival worker.
When I was a kid I knew someone who had a boyfriend named Ian. She had this really strong country accent and for a long time I thought his name was In and she was just pronouncing it like EEan because of her accent. You know, the kind of accent that turns the word pen into two or three syllables.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
That reminds me that my dad's old Sunday schoolteacher (he left to found a new church at the start of the month) goes by Frank, but is legally named Frankie. (He happens to be a black man who, before growing a goatee a couple months ago, looked as well as sounded eerily like Herman Cain.)
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
Ray Charles.
I heard this story from a friend of my mother's, there was a black women she knew who got pregnant, I guess under strange circumstances, and she kept saying, "don't tell Charles, don't tell charles" and when her son was born she named him Dontel Charles.
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