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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Ravager" data-source="post: 3211711" data-attributes="member: 738">Some people are coming down pretty hard on the idea of 'different' or 'odd' names.  And I suppose they have a point.  One woman I work with used to work for the govt in child services and she came accross some horrible names, like a kid named Star Supernova Jellybean, or Pepsi Cola, etc.  Those are bad.  Also apparently you can add 'esha' to any name to make it a girls name.  But I am in favor of some different names.  Its a fine line though.  To me some names that are somewhat archaic are alright.  It should sound like a name and not be a blatant rip off of some geek thing.  Naming your kid Aquaman would suck.  Naming your kid Thor is iffy.  But plenty mentioned would be fine by me.  You just gotta be careful.  I don't think it has to be the responsible thing to do to name to give your kid a normal name.  My name is Adam and it seems to be very common.  In school there was pretty much always another kid named Adam in my class.  The pizza place I worked at for a while I was in highschool had four other kids in addition to me named Adam.  Now I don't dislike or resent my name at all, but I don't think that giving a child a mildly unique name is terrible or irresponsible either.</blockquote>