(Try to be objective and not just put your own first name at the top! You wouldn’t want to tell your name to strangers on the internet, would you?)

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      James laughs at Robert

      You can be James when you meet the king, Jimmy to your mates or jimbob when you want to be a tool. Jane if you want to be female, though not a lot of good songs about Jane. Like the band Janes’s addiction or Janey’s got a gun

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    Judas, Trismagistus, Skrillex, Hideo, Jamboree, Moonbeam, Barry, Ganon, Hadjar, Boromir, Grendel, Jesus, Annana, Jone, Bess, Roger, Sugarloaf, Ponder, Basil, and Ernest. Those are the best ones, but there are many others.

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    The best are like James and Mary. Names so common they help you blend in and commit crimes.

    (Okay not actually my reasoning but I think common names are usually a good choice. Don’t need to be that special you get a unique name)

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      This can also have the opposite effect. There are a number of cases where the wrong person has been arrested simply for sharing a name with someone else that has a warrant for their arrest.

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        They’re so common in America and Europe because religion mostly if I had to guess. Then from there people often use names from their family and it just kept growing.

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          You are correct, biblical names stick around because they are written down and people like familiar things.

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    Kayhla, but spelled in very complicated ways for zero reason. A machine wouldn’t do that even if it was trying to force an awkward acronym.

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    The real question is, why do people pick the names they pick. Probably some positive experiences with those names.

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      When I was a baby punk I was an insecure try-hard and got dogged on for it by the older punks. I was bequeathed a nickname that while not a total insult, was not the best and sort of an inside joke about my desperation to be “punk”. A lot of those older punks left the scene in their early 20s, but I kept on and discovered that people I didn’t know knew me by that name even if they didn’t know it was originally an insult. It’s still with me 30 years later, simultaneously cringe because it’s so, so “nehhh, PUNK ROCK!” sounding, but at the same time, punk as fuck and kinda badass. Overall it’s been a positive experience, but knowing its origin helps keep my ego in check when I lean too hard into “punker than thou”.

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      Yes, and I actually have a mental list of names (for my hypothetical children) that I wouldn’t touch with a flagpole because of bad experiences with people of those names. Just feels tainted for me. Can be fixed by meeting a good person with that name. There’s one name where everyone I’ve met with it - like five different people - has been an asshole.

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    If you can go with multiple names, I do like my parents’ reasoning: pick one interesting/local name that we like, and one that works in many cultures/languages. Something like Pierre Henry.

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      I love calling various Lizzies “Lizard.” And Sally is short for ‘Salamander.’ Bill is short for ‘Billiards,’ ¹ Leo is short for Leopard and maybe Lee is short for Leezard as well. Penny is short for Penguin.

      That said, we do have a lot of funny animal first names.

      • Arthur, Bjarni, Ursula and Orson all mean ‘bear.’
      • Robin and Robyn
      • Rudolph is a type of wolf
      • Rana means “beautiful” until you go to a spanish speaking country, where it means ‘frog’
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      Billiards is not an animal admittedly. Sometimes it can be short for Shoebill