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HelpRe: Did it bother you if you couldn't get things with your name on growing up?
in reply to a message by Kerrin
I think I saw my name on pre-made "personalized" key fobs or whatever, once. My name's like yours, a more popular name with off-spelling.
I didn't really care - it's a nice feeling to see your name on a list, but having things with my name on them is not important to me. And anyway, so many things can be personalized no matter what your name is. I had pencils and bookplates.
Also, my sister's name was rarer than mine, so when we checked the racks of personlized junks, I'd usually win. It might have bothered me as a young child if she had always been able to find hers, when I could not. But this is not an issue that's important enough to consider when naming kids. Although I think it is important not to give one child a much more unusual name than its sibling, for other reasons.
It's something that never crossed my mind when naming my children. I'd thought that pre-printed "personalized" things were passe, until I saw a rack of earbuds the other day. My son's name was there but not my daughter's. Neither of them cared at all.
It does matter a bit whether a name is familiar to people, though, IMO. I walked past a kid's birthday party the other day at the park, and they had a sign up that said Happy Birthday Anna. And I thought, well you sure don't have to worry about what people think of your name if it's Anna. You already know.
This is definitely a "name opinions board" question. Names are not the topic in the off topic board. If it's about names and experiences of bearing them, put it here. :-)
- mirfak
I didn't really care - it's a nice feeling to see your name on a list, but having things with my name on them is not important to me. And anyway, so many things can be personalized no matter what your name is. I had pencils and bookplates.
Also, my sister's name was rarer than mine, so when we checked the racks of personlized junks, I'd usually win. It might have bothered me as a young child if she had always been able to find hers, when I could not. But this is not an issue that's important enough to consider when naming kids. Although I think it is important not to give one child a much more unusual name than its sibling, for other reasons.
It's something that never crossed my mind when naming my children. I'd thought that pre-printed "personalized" things were passe, until I saw a rack of earbuds the other day. My son's name was there but not my daughter's. Neither of them cared at all.
It does matter a bit whether a name is familiar to people, though, IMO. I walked past a kid's birthday party the other day at the park, and they had a sign up that said Happy Birthday Anna. And I thought, well you sure don't have to worry about what people think of your name if it's Anna. You already know.
This is definitely a "name opinions board" question. Names are not the topic in the off topic board. If it's about names and experiences of bearing them, put it here. :-)
- mirfak
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