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"For one of the online parents&amp;#039; groups I belong to, you&amp;#039;re supposed to sign your e-mails with your name and your kids&amp;#039; names. (So I sign off, &amp;quot;Kim, mom to Emmett.&amp;quot;) Over the weekend, a fellow member signed off, &amp;quot;Richard, father to \u2026  &amp;quot;Lennon.&amp;quot;  AND  &amp;quot;McCartney.&amp;quot;  Did anyone else groan aloud?  Look, I like The Beatles as much as the next person. And as a Kim growing up in the &amp;#039;80s, I can see how a dad named Richard would want to give his kids names that wouldn&amp;#039;t need a last initial tacked to the end to differentiate them from five or six same-named classmates. (I&amp;#039;m pretty sure there was a Rick F. and a Rick L. in my fourth-grade class, as well as a Kim R. And there were TWO Heather Websters!) But still, every time Lennon introduces himself for the rest of his life, the conversation&amp;#039;s going to go like this: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m Lennon.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Leonard?&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Lennon.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Lenny?&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Lennon. Like John Lennon.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Oh! Do you have a brother named Ringo? Haha.&amp;quot;  And don&amp;#039;t get me started on poor McCartney.  I&amp;#039;m sure Lennon&amp;#039;s parents were hoping, &amp;quot;Oh, Lennon? Cool name,&amp;quot; would be the gist of it. But I have a best friend named Petra (pronounced &amp;quot;PEA-tra&amp;quot;)\u2014and I grew up with a Skyye, a Sterling, a Storm, and a Yes\u2014and trust me, it never goes that well.  Are super-unique names a good idea or a bad idea? How unique is TOO unique? Or is it no one else&amp;#039;s business?  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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