I know right? I feel really sorry for the people who name their kids something uncommon that suddenly becomes really popular when the kid is a toddler. That's got to suck.

I know exactly how you feel. Elodie has always held a special place in my name nerd heart and now it's experienced a massive (like 200%) spike in the last two years.

If you don't want Shoshana to be trendy then don't move somewhere with a high Jewish population. I live in a mostly Jewish neighborhood (and, you know, I'm a Jew) and I know seven Shoshana/Shoshannas.

I always think its kind of interesting to watch parents pat themselves n the back for giving their kids unique names, only to discover that there are five other kids with that name at playgroup. I'm guessing most of those parents thought that Noah and Libby were just so different at the time too. It shows that we all…

Yeah, I never got the idea that setting your kid up to be part of the crowd is somehow a really sensible decision. A person's name identifies them for their whole life - why should parents be side-eyed for giving their kids something a little different? I mean yeah, don't name them something stupid like Blanket. But…

Yeah, I don't get the insistence that your daughter Emma is more uniquely named than all the other Emmas because you were honoring your grandmother. Little Emma still has one of the most popular names in the US. Even if you don't name your child as part of a trend, your child's name is still trendy. I guess it's one…

I guess you'll never really know how popular your kid's name is until they start to socialize with other children. But blows my mind that parents who don't want their kid to have a super popular name don't just do some simple research. Check social security databases for the top 100 names of the past year, look on…

I agree, assuming that you're not criticizing the article for judging women (I think Lindy did a great job of not coming across as judgy, like always). I hate it when people unnecessarily try to shame women into making what's seen as the traditionally feminist choice or whatever. It's just another type of the…

I feel the same, although it's slightly different because I am a lady. My kids will be having my last name because my last name is awesome and unique and has lots of other special snowflake qualities about it. That is all.

But by that law I would never be able to change my surname! It rhymes with my first name, you guys. Rhymes.

And then write about it. Or at least I hope they will.

You could send yourself a Hogwarts letter the week before you move out.

Yup. I remember hearing that the Queen Mother was a Nazi supporter. It's weird because lots of countries love to pat themselves on the back for ending the Holocaust, even though that didn't have much at all to do with why they were fighting the war. Most people didn't give a shit about all of the Jews, gypsies and…

Huh. Guess that's what I get for going to a state school.

Nazi values were everywhere during that time in Germany. Children used to watch 'educational' movies and read picture books in school that warned them about the 'dangers' of Jews etc. I guess if the Nazi agenda was everywhere then it must have seemed normal.

Well 43% of Germans voted for Hitler the first time he was elected, so yeah. I think people just don't want to remember that a lot of Germans supported what Hitler was doing. Just like they don't want to remember that during WW2 countries like Britain turned away Jewish refugees, and the US were not actually the…

Ugh I know. It's not exclusively white guys that do this, but maybe we think of people like this as white guys because everything they do reeks of entitlement.

I weep for that beautiful friendship.

Actually no. Amanda Bynes has legitimate mental health problems. As far as we know Miley is just an asshole.