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ecib  ·  3948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Baby Name Wizard

You would have had the third young Jude among people I know. As it is you've got the second Atticus :)

I never particularly cared for my name as it was a quintessential 'dad' name as well as literally my dad's name. Then Twilight came out and named a vampyre after me and I now get young baristas cooing "Ohhhh, I LOVE that name!" on enough occasions that I find it nhumerous. Actually that's died down a bit as the series has pretty much run its course, but for the past few years it happened multiple times.

The only hard and fast rule I have for naming kids is you must attempt to mercilessly mock the name in rhyme and near rhyme. If it doesn't pass the Playground Test it must be discarded.