Marie Holmes is the parenting reporter at HuffPost. Her work has appeared in Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post and other publications. She lives with her wife and their two children in New York City.
Parents-to-be considering baby names have all kinds of reasons for excluding certain names from their list. For example, giving a child the same name as a cousin is generally frowned upon — the name is viewed as already “taken.”
People also tend to avoid names they have negative associations with, like a childhood bully or a teenage nemesis. We all have memories of friends that we’d rather not revisit every time we call our kids to dinner.Teachers, however, face a unique challenge when naming their children. They have dozens, potentially hundreds, of associations with different names, plus an insider’s view of how baby name trends are playing out in their field.
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