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Subject: [OM] Re: What's in a name - really OT
From: Andrew Gullen <andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:38:54 -0400
on 2004/08/15 8:20 AM, Wayne Harridge at wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> Dunno if this is just an Oz phenomenon or not, but there seems to be a
> fashion here for naming children (particularly girls) after USofA
> states.  Is this widespread, does it happen in the USofA itself ?
> 
> A bloke I worked with named his daughter "Indiana" (I thought that was a
> boy's name anyhow !), another bloke I worked with named his daughter
> "Montana" and I heard a woman talking in the tea room last week, she
> said her sister was naming her daughter "Dakota" (South/North - I'm not
> sure !).

Haven't seen that in Canada, but I know someone called Victoria...

There's also a kid in the neighborhood called Kenya, and I've heard of boys
being called Chad. 

:-)
Andrew


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