If they went to school, they wouldn’t have to put their initials after their names.
In the year I was born, my name was the 9th most popular of all the baby names in America. According toMy husband popped out at a cringe-inducing number 2: as a Christopher, he was the 1980s’ version of today’s Aiden. A decade later, his name still topped out as the second-most popular baby name in America.
Yes, people mispronounce my kids’ names. My middle son is the worst: people say Au-gust-een instead of the proper Au-gust-in, which grates on my soul. I suppose they’re channeling the city in Florida. It’s so bad that I’ve taken to spelling it without the terminal e anywhere I can get away with it: name tags, doctor’s offices. This makes life easier for everyone.
The baby in the family, Simon, doesn’t get mispronounced though. His nickname is Sunny, and everyone calls him that. As in, he was such a happy baby, he was like a ray of sunshine, so we called him Sunny. People think it’s Sonny, like Sonny JimThen they think we really out-of-the-womb named him that, so I have a Blaise, an August, and a Sunny. Notice the hot-weather theme going there. It makes for some weird ass conversations, but I swear we didn’t plan that part out.
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