I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats.
My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name.
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.
My whole life, I was thinking of names for kids, and I had a couple of kind of different names. I just didn't want him to be one of the crowd, with a - no offense to people with these names, but I don't want him to be a Bob, Dave, Harry, Larry.
It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.
In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.
One thing I've learned is that when you shoot something in the U.K., there's always going to be somebody called Trevor on your set. And maybe a Nigel. Occasionally a Colin.
I'm actually called Bang, a quite common name in Denmark where I'm from, so it's not like me trying to come up with a very stupid name for people to remember me or something.
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
