First impression

[Porter]

How do you feel about Taylor? 

Faaaaaaar too popular.

[Brinestone]

He is pretty popular, isn't he?

[BlackBlade]

How do you feel about Taylor? 

Faaaaaaar too popular.

I don't meet many boy Taylors.  I can probably count them on one hand, even with two fingers lopped off.

[pooka]

It may not have been a girls name when you got it, is the thing.  And it's one thing to be against bestowing gender ambiguous names as a parent, different to be against names already posessed by adults.  To me, the trouble with Taylor is not that it is gender ambiguous, but that it crossed over to being a girl name. 

[Marianne Dashwood]

Clem got it right. I was Morgan for most of my life. Now I'm Anneke, which is indeed Dutch, but which my Mom decided to Anglicize as /æ'nəki/. It does sound a lot like the Japanese word aniki (older brother) but I prefer to go by aneki (older sister) in Japanese because, well, I am the universal big sister after all.

[Marianne Dashwood]

Also, I like that Clem pointed out to me the other day that one of my qualities is that I have "ethnic flava."

[Marianne Dashwood]

Anneke is dutch, though.  I'm not sure why you'd pick up a Japanese name on a mission.  Aren't you supposed to go by Elder or Sister?

Yes, but many missionaries still get full Chinese/Japanes names and then use them after their missions.

edit: Also, Anneke sounds like a Japanes approximation of Annie.  This probably doesn't help but there's an anime where the older brother is called Anneke which means older brother in Japanese, with a bit of a twist on the pronounciation.

And actually, most missionaries don't get Japanese names. Because in Japan they just use katakana to write your English name, which is usually not too flattering. Most people will have someone pick kanji to approximate their name but I don't know of anyone who ever uses it.

Chinese is all kinds of different because they don't have enough phonemes to get anywhere close to most of our names