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Hello everybody, long time no see!
Well, well, I'm at home with a bad cold and reading A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman. A great book, mostly correct. But some of the names listed as "American" sound so strange to me. I'm from Sweden, so I'm not really updated about what names that are used "over there", but those of you who live in the USA or Canada, have you heard any of these? (Of course you can just comment on the names if you want to, wherever you live! :))

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"AMERICAN" BOYS' NAMES
Archer
Arnel
Banner
Bannock
Bay
Bear
Brazier (yes, seriously!)
Camus
Case
Cack
Deston
Duran (Duran Duran!?)
Everest
Finch
Fleet
Free
Jaxson (ick ick)
Jededish (a jade dish!?)
Jerran
Jevin
Kalen
Kipp
Kivi (this is Finnish for "stone" and definitely not a Finnish first name!)
Kodiak
Lawyer
Lucky (ick ick)
Pardee
Parish
Park
Pepper
Powell
Rand
Rider
Smokey
Tanier
Tannis (tennis!?)
Tannon
Teger
Trail
Trout
Tupper (ware!?)
Turk
Wesken (almost sounds like the Swedish word for "the bag", väskan)
Zethus (sounds like a disease, I think)

This message was edited 8/31/2010, 1:39 PM