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Name poll: Linden
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08.06.09, 12:16 PM [ Flag ]
- Ewww
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  08.06.09, 12:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Is this a boy or girl name?
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  08.06.09, 12:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- no
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  08.06.09, 12:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Unless you want your DC to be associated with a train station between Rahway and Elizabeth - no.
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  08.06.09, 12:50 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - i always said that if DH and i moved away from here, i would totally name one of my kids 'rahway'. i just love saying it!
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    08.07.09, 09:02 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Though "Metropark" would be an awesome name.
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    08.07.09, 10:41 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- one of my best friends names. i happen to like it
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  08.06.09, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- sounds like a good name for a corporation.
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  08.06.09, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Love it for a girl.
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  08.06.09, 12:55 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Linden, New Jersey!
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  08.06.09, 12:55 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Exactly! Maybe consider the names "Trenton" and "Camden" while you're at it.
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    08.06.09, 12:56 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - NP: My baby name book actually suggests Camden as a "hip place name". Presumably they are only familiar with the UK version.
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      08.06.09, 12:57 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- What's the fascination with making last names into first names? I had Mrs. Linden for 6th grade.
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  08.06.09, 12:56 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - the linden i know is almost 40, so surely the trend isn't new.
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    08.06.09, 01:02 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I think it's beautiful--not from NJ so I associate it with the tree or the tea, not a railway station.
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  08.06.09, 12:57 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Like it. I am not from NJ so I have no negative association with it...and who cares what people from NJ think anyway???
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    08.06.09, 01:19 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Lyndon B. Johnson...
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  08.06.09, 01:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Yep! My thoughts exactly.
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    08.07.09, 11:58 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Sorry, don't like it, maybe as a middle name?
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  08.07.09, 06:49 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I had a friend as a young child called Lindy (I think her real name was Linda) and I always loved it. Maybe you could use that for a girl. It's different without being really odd.
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  08.07.09, 09:01 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I like it. Makes me think of the tree, not NJ or any of that other crap.
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  08.07.09, 11:09 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Lyndon as in Barry Lyndon
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  08.07.09, 12:01 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]