Do you think people get judged by their name?

So 5 Dicks in one family eh Shirley? Lol

So, how come they keep the same names, or thereabouts? Why would you want to keep using the same name time and time again? Is that usual in the States?

Betweem relatives, we had Mary on both sides for an bit, Diana on both sides, Bill's on both sides, Karen's on both sides, Beverly's on both sides..just to name an few. I try to not judge someone by thier name, though I do find clever ways to assoicate it with other names to rember them. I was born after my father's boss, Ray Ackinson I was told, his wife was named Shirley...I was always told that they had wanted to adopt me as an baby also, but mother said "NO". It seems to be I had to stay around and have my dad's bushy eyebrows anyway..smiles*I always heard she was an very classy woman.There are no more then 319 "Shirley Lawson's" across the USA right now. I know of two of them, the one in MIssiissippi with the HIsotrical house, and she looks like an rebel raiser in her town affairs politically, and the one back in MIssouri that was out here for an bit. She part of an Country western band...called "Sugar-land" though I don't know if she still is these days.

Ron, they farm 10,000 acres back in the mid-west..I guess it started from that, they wanted to keep it in the family some how...so they named everyone after grandpa Richard..first time I was back there, I asked my aunt, how many acres they have, and she said, see the corn..yeah,.... it goes to the horizion,... yeah..well its an little furhter then that...10,000 acres. An quick hail storm went over one time, and they lost $20,000 in less then 10 mins, but they were "crop insured" that year so it helped. Good thing they have air-condtioned cab enclosed tractors these days.. because they live in them most the time from sunrise to sunset. There are no "days off" if its planting time, or harvesting time. At least not until it's done, and then there's the irrigation pipes and the fertilizer and the pestisides if needed. Quite an job.

I think that if a name doesn't sound right for someone the shortening sometimes makes it fit them better (if you get what I mean!). Eg, the name Michael - every Michael I know who works in a manual job gets called "Mick" and alot of the ones who work in offices get called "Mike" and the really clever ones are given the full title "Michael". Doesn't go for every Michael I know but interesting all the same.

My Mom hates my name shortened to Steph - she always lets Terry get away with it though!

I think another common practice is when people use there middle name when their 1st name doesn't suit them. Terry's named Jeremy Terence - not really a good name for a toolsetter in a factory!

Yes, we have "Anthony and Alex" also..brothers, from them came this computer for the kids, they own thier own computer/electronic business, and from what I understand dad is an baseball coach now also. Alex has his own car, don't know if Anthony is old enough...like Scott and Steve, have been of help to me with my grandkids. My grandaughter is the third girl amoung 17 cousins that are boys...she's been quite an "tom boy" in recent years also...though they let it be known they'd put anyone down quick enough..if they gave her an bad time. The last two had an grandfather left them 7 million dollars each here recently..though they can't touch most of it..he looked after that aspect well also..they get more of it though if they go to college here soon...even then it's doled out to them slowly by age and by occasion. Dad's been raising them here lately and they have quite matured in it for their ages...and his parents take care of them also,  they gave up thier shrub nursery business "store" recently in Fairview, an small town near by. they still have thier fields I think though, just not the retail shop they had going...this is something fairly normal to do in the nursery business, run it from where your fields are... they are nice people...or seem to be from what I know of them anyway.