hilarious... I have a friend with an Atticus also. what's the genesis of that? [EDIT: feeling sheepish. I should have remembered To Kill a Mocking Bird]
Maybe because we all grew up loving to kill a mockingbird...and are now not opposed to semi-weird names. My mom always said she wanted to name my brother Atticus but felt that it was too weird and he would be an object of ridicule. Times have changed and now everyone has weird names. I have worked for a kids beach camp for 7 years now and the list of weird names I pull get more and more unique every year. And not "culturally" unique. Just plain different to be different. It started slowly with the e's and i's turning to y's: Kevyn, Justyn, Austyn. Here's some from this year: MAESUN. TEYMOUR. AIDRIC (sounds badass). AMBERLYNN. AISLIN. AYALA. AYIDA. Brothers Sawyer & Finn. LEIGHTON. TILLIE. JRUE. STODDARD. MALYN. COSMO (with an awesome very jewish last name.) Brothers Crispin, Asher, and Tafton. I could go on all day. We even have two Sebastian's and a Montgomery. Those are healthy, oldschool badass names. AINSLEY. I kind of like that. I also quite like the name Sawyer. But not with a brother named Finn.