Name Popularity Quotes

I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats.

My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

At school, there were more Davids than any other name: more than 20 of us cousins out of 40 pupils. When my older cousins moved on, the school had to close.

In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Jalen is a universal name, and girls also are named Jalen.