kindergarten

[flea]

We just got home from the open house at Casper's new school. It's a little sad to see assigned seats at tables instead of Montessori work stations. I also wasn't much impressed by her teacher, but on very little grounds - basically, I didn't like her outfit. So we'll see.

But, the real excitement of this post: baby names! All with social security rankings in 2003, the year most of these kids were born:
Garrison 677
Kendrick 477
Marques 853
Joshua 3
Aiden 73
Zariah not in top 1000
Isamar not in top 1000
Jimayah not in top 1000
Jackson 52
Adrian 68
Savannah 41
Benito 986
Dynasty not in top 1000
Kimberley not in top 1000
David 14

Other exciting names from the K list posted:
Feodor
Montavious
Jaquavious
Dequavious (I am sesning a theme here...)
Avonia
Zion
Lil Rodrick (this name will be great if he's a precocious hip-hop dancer, but what about when he's 55?)
Justice Brodey
Briceyda
Athena
Japheth
Ietta
Tyvarius

Not an Emily or a Jacob on the entire 60-kid list.

Also, the father of one of the kids in our class is the Recycling Coordinator for UGA, and I got to be like, I know what that is! smonster/luluminion, wouldn't it be funny if you guys knew him?

Comments

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh -- are the -aviouses triplets??

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

No idea. They aren't in the same classes, but that doesn't say either way. Maybe it was locally trendy that year?

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I immediately thought they were triplets too!

And then wondered if Japheth was hard core Christian.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Aye yi yi! Benito?

Also, I realize it's the Deep South, but Dynasty?

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Presumably Latino, and not evoking Mussolini.

Dynasty I see no excuse for. It is not 1983, people!!

[gchick.livejournal.com]

Lil Rodrick reminds me a bit of my coworker's son whose name is Son.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

The what now? Who??

[gchick.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? You didn't know that Kirk's oldest is named Son (not Sun: Son), between the baby-naming obsession and the knowing every last damn person in the library?

There's a small part of me that always thinks, "what if you named your kid that and he turned out transgender?"

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought his name was Sun. Which did seem weird, but Son is much weirder.

The transgender child of a library staff member that I know of changed her name to Hazel. I can't remember what it used to be. (Adult child, natch).

[gchick.livejournal.com]

Now I'm going to have to double-check the next time I talk to Kirk, but I *think* I'm remembering right, because the implied "yeah, he's a boy" always cracks my shit up. Especially because the kid so totally is.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Maybe-amusing name story:

My Italian grandmother was one of ten surviving children; eight of them were born in the United States. So when each child was born, my great-grandmother would go over to her (Polish) neighbor's house and say, look, here's the kid's name, it's Italian, what should we use as its 'American' name?

A lot of the time this worked well. My grandmother, whose given name was Lucretzia, went by Lillian. My great-aunts Lucia and Gianna went by Lucy and Jane. I believe there was a Vincenzo who went by Vinnie, etc.

Then my great-aunt Dominica came along, and the neighbor threw up her hands and said "Hazel." So that's why her nickname had nothing at all to do with her actual name, the end.

(My mother has always held that Dominica being a reference to Sunday, Aunt Hazel should have been called "Sunny.")

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I knew a Benedicta in high school. I suppose she could have been Beatrice?

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I met a kid at a scholarship weekend when I was headed to college (so he was born in 76 or 77 or so) who was named "Sir". I thought THAT was freaky. But SON????

[serrana.livejournal.com]

I was astonished to see, on the list of enrollees for violin camp, that there's another child attending with the same given name as my daughter.

I have a cousin-by-marriage with that name, and know people from preceeding generations with it, but have never met another child from Herself's generation with her name.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Which I realize I do not know, and am now curious to know. Email me?

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

Kendrick was my grandmother's maiden name ... it's on my list of potential middles. Kind of meh on it as a first name because it would get shortened to Ken and I don't like that so much.

Poor Lil Rodrick.

[mightyurchin.livejournal.com]

I'm still reeling from the fact that Benito squeaked into the top 1000 (clearly, memories of fascism are fading and Mussolini didn't make a big impact on the schoolchildren of my generation), but Kimberley didn't. I recall Kimberley being very popular circa 1970 (my sister might have been Kimberley, but a local friend of my father's had a girl shortly before my sister was born and beat him to the name) - I guess the name burned out.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I think spelled -ly it still makes the top 1000. Oh, yeah, 64 for 2003. So it's just the off spelling that's off the charts.