Baby names

[Dead Cat]

My grandma used to have a weird name that she hated. While she was a teenager, she took up a variation of her adopted father's nickname as her own and it's since been made her legal name. While I think people should try to accept their name as their own, if they hate it they should be able to change it. The trick, of course, is convincing everyone to use it .

[UffishThought]

Hee! Twins named Lester and Vester!

[Katya]

Historically the female name pool has been much more varied than the male name pool, for what I believe are reasons mentioned in the question.

I wonder how long that has been true. E.g., look at Cotton and Increase Mather. (Although maybe those were weird names even for the 17th century.)