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My ex SO's cousin has nine children. My SO had nicknames for all of them. The seventh child, whose name was really Borshay, he called Seven because he is the seventh child.

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I always thought of it as just a silly nickname, akin to the others he coined--for instance, he always called the oldest girl "Foots" because when she was an infant she appeared to have disproportionately large feet.

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Now I hate Steven, but Seven, although visually close to Steven, sounds a lot different because the T sound isn't there and the E sound isn't a long E.

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It doesn't sound bad, really, but I just can't help thinking that giving a number as a name is silly.