Names come in and out of fashion, of course, and one of the hottest current trends is to use names that were in style generations ago. Not associating these baby names with old people, as boomers might, expectant young parents have rediscovered those classic monikers and rocketed them into popularity again. In time, they became overused, people avoided them and the early 20th-century-born babies named Ruby and Isabel, Henry and Jack grew up, became old and are no longer with us.
Parents should think hard about picking a common name and spelling it differently.
Wishing to be different, some parents deliberately choose something way off the grid. One child in our local elementary school was named Jeronimo. And that is the other warning in this cautionary tale. It’s great to go for unusual, but you don’t want your child to have a mockable name. There’s a good reason Ishmael, Ichabod, Wilbur and Orville are associated with only one person each in American history or fiction.
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