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[thescot]

I really like the name, and I like the Gaelic spelling. I would echo the rest of Jeff's thought though. Even my own last name requires explanation every time I give it. My standard comment is, "Two Ls, like a hitman." It's worth the trouble in my opionon, and I am glad my kids (who are grown now) don't have trendy names; there must have been 4 Jasons in every class they ever had.

My own children have biblical names as well: Gabriel and Elizabeth followed by family names.

[ForresterModern]

I really like the name, and I like the Gaelic spelling. I would echo the rest of Jeff's thought though. Even my own last name requires explanation every time I give it. My standard comment is, "Two Ls, like a hitman." It's worth the trouble in my opionon, and I am glad my kids (who are grown now) don't have trendy names; there must have been 4 Jasons in every class they ever had.

My own children have biblical names as well: Gabriel and Elizabeth followed by family names.

Thanks, Jim.

With respect to your "four Jasons" comment, I remember the first day of first grade (talking 1964 here) when the teacher discovered that we had 4 boys in the same class who were named Richard but went by the nickname Rick. The teacher arbitrarily and clearly in her own interest of diminishing effort and confusion in the classroom, decided that one of them would be Rick, one Ricky, one Rich, and one Richie, despite their parents request to not do so. I was friends with all of them all the way through high school, and unfortunately because we were all also expected in the classroom to use the assigned names rather than calling each Rick followed by their last name(or at least their last initial), the three who did not get called Rick by this first grade teacher went through 12 full grades of school labelled with Rich, Richie or Ricky in school while their families and really close friends were the only ones who called them by Rick. They were even listed with their inappropriate names in class pictures, yearbooks, etc.... all because of that first grade teacher (who was honestly a really nice person from what I remember and am told by my parents). Just an example of how a name or nickname can stick with you and effect your life for great lengths of time.

jeff