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Personally, I've known a few oddly-named people that I think a girl named Michael is absolutely normal compared to (girls names Iamunique and Jazzofmine, among others) and people didn't tease them about their names because thay knew them as people. Now I have known some people who had problems; my friend's brother Galen- a perfectly normal male name- got teased because the first syllable of his name was "gay". He got teased to much that he started failing in school; then he sartd going by his middle name and that worked out fine. You never know what people are going to find to tease you about; maybe it's your name, your clothes, etc. If someone is the type of person who teases people they will tease you anyway, no matter whether they can tease you about your name or not. I'd just name your kids whatever you want to, and then if it gives them problems make sure you have something to fall back on.