The professor arrived at one of the final names on the list. She stopped. She looked up from the attendance sheet. She pulled her glasses down. No way.

On the first day of class, 60 students were buzzing at the University of Alabama. What’s going on? Then the professor spoke.

I thought this whole time you were an urban legend. Are you seriously sitting here and breathing in my classroom?

Then, the professor called the name.

Krimson Anne White.

Here.

Everyone whipped their head around to find the young woman named for the school’s colors. Spelled differently, but when read aloud, it sounds the same. She was real, and she was there.

“I could have just melted,” the now 32-year-old Hoover resident told AL.com. “I could have just crawled into a cave.”

She might have felt singled out in that moment, but she’s not alone when it comes to her first name. At least 373 babies with the name Crimson or Krimson have been born in the state since 2002, per the Social Security Administration.

That marked the first year at least five were born with the name Crimson. The trend to name children after UA’s primary color gained the most traction during Nick Saban’s tenure leading the football program. 33 K/Crimsons arrived the year after Saban’s first national championship.

In some ways, Krimson Anne White was ahead of her time. Especially with the full name paying homage to UA.

Her mother, Michele, always planned to name a daughter Krimson. She had a boy first, though, and he became Danny. Then in 1993, Michele had her chance.

Having married a man with the last name of White, all she had to do was pick a family name for the middle name. Krimson Anne White was born that year.

Growing up, Krimson remembers how other parents would react during playdates with friends or volleyball games.

Oh my goodness, I’ve heard of you.

“I was thinking, that’s weird,” Krimson said. “What do you mean?”

Young Krimson Anne White didn’t realize the significance of her name until middle school. She got pulled out of her sixth-grade science class one day and down to the office.

The rule-follower she is, Krimson was nervous. Then she saw the cameras. The superintendent explained what was going on.

We’ve already gotten approval from your parents. You’re going to do an interview on the practice field.

“That was the first time I was asked all these questions about the origin of my name,” Krimson said. “I’m pretty sure I got all of them wrong because my mom never really told me this is your name and this is who you’re named after.”

That led to some follow-up conversations with her mom.

“My first reaction was like looking at my mom and being like, ‘Why did you do this to me?’” Krimson said. “‘Like what? This is crazy.’”

Growing up, Krimson somewhat hid her full name. Or at least she tried. But her mom, grandmother and friends often found ways to reveal it in conversations.

Ask her what her last name is.

Or …

Go ahead. Tell her what your full name is.

Once people heard the name, they had all sorts of reactions. Are your parents Alabama fans? Did you go to Alabama? One Auburn fan even asked her if she’s related to Harvey Updyke, the late infamous Auburn tree poisoner.

“It’s definitely an easy conversation piece,” Krimson said. “If I go in for a job interview, once I graduated from Alabama, that became an easy way to get my foot in the door. You’re more likely to remember a Krimson than you are an Ashley.”

The same goes for the bank representative Krimson talked to one time. Krimson called about a charge on her card, and it turned into a 30-minute conversation about her name. There was also the time her name slowed her down trying to board a plane to Costa Rica for her wedding. She caught the attention of the person checking passports.

No way.

I’ve got to catch a plane.

“It just is what it is,” Krimson said. “There are days I’m like this is hilarious. It’s great. Wonderful. There are days that the small things take me 10 times longer to get through.”

Consider it the ultimate conversation starter in Tuscaloosa.

Believe it or not, her attending UA wasn’t a given. In fact, her first college application went to Auburn.

“I’m pretty sure (my mom) had to walk out of the room for a minute to collect herself when I broke that news,” Krimson said. “I got a lot of, ‘My hard-earned money is not going there.’”

But Krimson is a self-described homebody. And Alabama was closer. So off to Tuscaloosa she went.

Otherwise, she hasn’t been too on the nose with her name in other areas of her life. She didn’t marry a man named Bryant, and she didn’t name a dog Saban. Instead, she married Hunter Revis, an Auburn graduate in a family full of Tigers fans.

“When he did break the news of like, hey I’m dating a girl and this is her name,” Krimson said, “they were like, ‘What in the world?’”

Eventually Krimson married Hunter. In doing so, she ended the run of one of the greatest names in college football history. She took his last name.

Today, she’s Krimson Anne Revis.

“I decided it was time after like 26 years of dealing with it and having it on the plate for every discussion there could be,” Revis said, “it was time to retire it as much as I could.”

Now Krimson Anne White is nothing but an urban legend.

AL.com’s Ramsey Archibald contributed to this story.