baby!

[flea]

Born early this morning, to Laura and Joel, a daughter, Kate Frances. Two weeks late; had to be induced!

I was thinking recently of the popular names of my generation (I am 34) and came up with: Jennifer/Jen, Heather, Jessica, Melissa, Stephanie, Alison (various spellings). I have known lots of these in my peer group. Boys are harder: Michael, Brian?

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[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes on the Lisa and especially Christina/Kristen/Kirstin/etc. I've known some Seans, but then, I lived in Boston, where the Irish hang out, so that may have skewed things. I don't think I've ever known a Scott!

[susanw.livejournal.com]

Scott was probably the most common boy's name in my class--I wonder why it was more popular in our area. And, now that I think of it, we had lots of Erics and Jasons, too.

Since we weren't in a particularly Irish area, we had more Shauns and Shawns than Seans. I remember thinking as a 6-year-old that Sean was a stupid way to spell it because the H was missing and it looked like it should be pronounced "seen." Now there's no WAY I'd name a son Shaun or Shawn, but I'd consider Sean if I didn't already know there's no way I could ever convince Dylan to go for it.