Popular and Unpopular Names

[Jenny]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer Piersol" 
<jenP_97 at y...> wrote:
> Well... Jennifer was the #1 girls' name in the '70s (thanks, 
Cindy)...
> and boy, don't I know the effects of that.  I lived in a small town 
of
> 14,000 (now about 21,000 ten years later) in high school, and once 
had
> an algebra class with 2 other Jennifers.  We ended up being Jen, 
Jenny
> and Jennifer (I was Jennifer).  
> 

Here's another Jennifer checking in on the action ;)

I know exactly what you mean.  One year on my skating team, there 
were four of us - a coach named Jen, myself (captain Jenny), and two 
teammates - one named Jennifer and the other a Jenna.  That's not 
nearly as bad as one year (the year of the K's).  We had Kelly, 
Christy, Christina, Kristin, Carolynn, Carrie, and a coach named 
Kate.  Whew!  Talk about confusing.

Speaking of pre-natal names as well, there was a professor at my 
college who wanted to name his kid Frodo or Bilbo because the due 
date was on their birthday.  His wife put a stop to that and they 
ended up calling the child Booger until he was born.  

As for myself, I was known as Ralph and, 11 years before me, my 
brother was Scooter.  In the end, my parents decided to go the 
alliteration route with James and Jenny.  Needless to say, I get 
called Jamie once and a while.  And a few Jenny-Lynn's because people 
don't realize it's my first _and_ last name.  And as for the Jennifer 
craze in the 70's, I got hit with the wake in the 80's (actually, my 
mom was naming me after a cousin of her's, but little did she know 
I'd end up with the same name as Jenny Lind, the Swedish opera 
singer!)  I've met a lot of Jennifer's who have their middle name 
Lynn, but, for me, that's my last name (my middle name is Noel).

>-Jen, who wishes JKR read these boards and would use that name in her
> books... ;)

Hear, hear, Jen!  I'm for that one too!  :)

Yours in Gryffindor,
Jenny