My daughter's name MELISSA is not uncommon to say the least, but she is the only Melissa in her whole school, and most of the girl's I meet named that are in their early twenties, perhaps it was not a very popular name at the time she was born, but who care's we like it and so doe's she!

As I was born very near Xmas everyone assumes I was named Carole because of that, not so, my mother liked it because of a person named carole anne kennedy, so I got the Carole Anne bit, and I am fairly happy with it.