sometimes you'll be at an event where there are weirdly a lot of people who share a specific name and at that name was "matt." i have no explanation for this whatsoever but my god were there a lot of matts
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oh great question! peak matthew was apparently 1980-1990 which checks out, the matts i met were all in their 30s i think. no idea why. sometimes these things correlate w/ a popular TV / movie character or actor but i have no guesses who it might've been
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my name, meanwhile, is almost totally unique; the only other qiaochu i've ever met was, bizarrely enough, also a qiaochu yuan and also a math grad student at UC berkeley; she works at facebook now and i periodically get recruitment emails intended for her
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Yep. The name “Nathan” has a similar etymology (verb form rather than noun form) and essentially the same meaning.
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