on 2004/08/15 8:20 AM, Wayne Harridge at wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Dunno if this is just an Oz phenomenon or not, but there seems to be a
> fashion here for naming children (particularly girls) after USofA
> states. Is this widespread, does it happen in the USofA itself ?
>
> A bloke I worked with named his daughter "Indiana" (I thought that was a
> boy's name anyhow !), another bloke I worked with named his daughter
> "Montana" and I heard a woman talking in the tea room last week, she
> said her sister was naming her daughter "Dakota" (South/North - I'm not
> sure !).
Haven't seen that in Canada, but I know someone called Victoria...
There's also a kid in the neighborhood called Kenya, and I've heard of boys
being called Chad.
:-)
Andrew
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