Teachers and Baby Names

We went to Jieun’s school’s holiday party last week, and I realized that it’s really hard for teachers to pick names for their kids. Every single teacher I talked to, when we discussed potential kid names, all say how they had a student with that name before, and how because of how those kids were, they associate that name with the kid and wouldn’t be able to use that name for their own kids. Prior name association eliminates those names from consideration. The problem is, teachers have so many kids through the years, it eliminates a ton of names. I have no idea how they end up choosing anything. It’s come up for us also, Jieun’s had too many kids that cover names we’ve been interested in. I guess we’ll see what we do.