What's wrong with Mason as a twin boy name? And I don't get the Dixon thing. I mean, I know a Dixon, but what does his name have to do with Mason?

Three pronunciations: pah-OH-la POW-la pay-OH-la There's a girl in my fourth period class named Paola, and she pronounces is the first way (pah-OH-la).

HOORAY! I read the whoooooole list, and I'm glad to say that many of my favorite names were below the top 1000 (or if they were in the top 1000, they weren't high enough to be considered common). WOO-HOO! BOYS Bronson Galen Clarence Daren Wendell Lee Emmitt Virgil (YESSSSSS!) Constantine Vito Dale Rick Donny Schuyler Kent Kenton GIRLS Beth Isobel Gisele Viridiana Darcy Justine Violetta Belle (shocked!) Rochelle Lorraine Annemarie Valencia Louisa Pauline Terri Sherry

Adam - Adeline Austin - Austine (os-TEEN - real name!) Brandon - Brenda Chase - Charity Colton - Coletta Connor - Constantia Cooper - Piper Ethan - Anthea Gavin - Lavinia Ian - Iola Isaac - Risa Jackson - Jeannine Joshua - Jocelyn Kevin - Kathleen Landon - Lyndon/Linden Lucas - Lucia Owen - Opal Wyatt - Wynette Those aren't the only names I can think of. They're just the only names I would actually use that resemble the masculine name.

My name is Lidewei -- EVERYONE mispronounces it the first time! Another misspelled name is Meka'la. I know a girl in both my advanced English class AND my choir class with that name, and it's always pronounced as "MEE-ka-la" or "MEK-a-la", never as "mi-KAY-la", how she pronounces it, and how it was intended to be pronounced. To make matters worse, the apostrophe wasn't entered right in the school system, so her name looks like "Meka La" on official school documents.

Lidewei!

I know a girl named Mika'la, pronounced "mi-KAY-la". It's always mispronounced, even more than Lidewei, which is MY first name.