Name Question Form
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What first name did your parents give you?
Please list the name they gave you at birth, even if you later changed it
(Americans only) What rank was your name for your gender the year you were born?
Go to https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ , scroll down to the section marked Popular Names By Birth Year, put in your birth year, ask it for the top 1000, and then Ctrl+F for your name. Don't include variants (eg Catherine is different from Katherine)
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How happy are you with your name?
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Would you have preferred a more traditional or more unusual name?
Suppose that we can send just this one bit of information - whether you wanted a more traditional or more unusual name - back to your parents just before you were born. If you say traditional, your parents will choose a more traditional name, based on their own traditional-name preferences. If you say unusual, your parents will choose a more unusual name, based on their own unusual-name preferences. Assume your parents are moderately smart and well-intentioned and won't do anything too horrible in any case (even if your real parents aren't like this).
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a very common older name?
For example (in the US), John, Michael, Sarah, Mary. For this and all following questions, please use the same rules as the question above - your (well-intentioned) parents get to decide the specific name, not you.
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a very common newer name?
For example (in the US), Shawn, Tyler, Jennifer, Amanda
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a name that sounds unusually old-fashioned?
For example (in the US), Roland, Winfield, Beatrice, Virginia
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a name that sounds unusually new?
For example (in the US), Grayson, Jayden, Madison, Raelynn
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a name that suggests a famous historical figure?
For example Pericles, Augustine, Hypatia, Victoria
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a name from mythology?
For example, Odysseus, Sigurd, Athena, Guinevere
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a name from scifi/fantasy?
For example, Tyrion, Caspian, Hermione, Arwen
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a name that strongly suggests your ethnic origin?
For example, naming an nth-generation Irish-American child "Cormac", or an nth-generation Jewish-American child "Rifka"
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How would you have felt about your parents naming you after a deceased family member?
Consider a specific member of your family (grandparent? great-grandparent?) who died before you were born and who your family has generally positive feelings about. How would you feel if you had gotten their name?
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How would you have felt about your parents giving you a cute matching twin name?
Suppose you have a twin. How would you feel about your parents giving you some kind of cute set of matching names, like Alex & Alice, or Dan & Bran, or Pearl & Jade?
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