"Unique" names that piss you off

[George_Bonanza]

C'mon, we all have a few! Some of the particularly "creatively repressed" parents just feel the urge to need to express their wondrous imagination by branding their child with illegible or nonsensical names, condemning them to ridicule, shame, or just a topic of whispers.

[arwalden]

1. Aquanetta, Chevelle... and I'm still undecided about "Starlett"

... all of these names I've seen on name-badges at Walmart and Kmart.

Yeah, Lady... let's name our children after bargain hairspray and a low-end car. Puhleeze!

-- Allen

[OldEurope]

25. In my daughter´s class there was a boy named Mexx, His

parents own a shop for children´s clothes.
No kidding!
:silly:

[hlthe2b]

65. Well, there was FOMICA DINETTE.........

Honestly!

Then my sister recorded the birth name for an ER delivery-- seems the woman knew she would receive a heavenly sign as to what to name her child and the sign on the wall did, indeed deliver. (she named her son NOSMO KING) REALLY AND TRULY!

[progressiverealist]

100. I know of a 16 year old who named her baby "Pikachu" n/t

[athos1126]

2. What I hate MOST are

Yuppie names. Obnoxious names that yuppies give their children, like Madison, Cameron, Dakota, Cooper, ect. The other day at work (Trader Joe's), there were three triplets, all in soccer uniforms, blonde of course, and their names were Cody, Morgan and Dakota. And they were girls! Dakota?! That is a state, a truck or a dog's name. Not a little girl.

[scarlet_owl]

3. Here's one I saw yesterday

Brooklyn. There were about four Madisons today. Surprisingly, there were two Celestes in my group. I had never seen that name on a little girl before, just older women.

[greatauntoftriplets]

54. And does Brooklyn have a brother

named Bronx? Yeeesh! What a name to stick on an unsuspecting kid.

[bleedingheart]

131. that's a good one GAof Triplets!!!

hahaha...a brother Bronx...

[CBHagman]

156. Posh Spice and David Beckham...

...named their son Brooklyn, as that was apparently where they conceived the child. No word on what they would have done had they made love in another borough or perhaps in Hackensack, New Jersey.

[George_Bonanza]

4. Me too

I dislike state or country names. Some kids are named China. It'd be pretty if the country never existed for centuries!

[arwalden]

8. In My Family We Have A "Savannah" and "Austin" and "Dallas"

Savannah's daughter is named "Charlotte". I'm still waiting for one of their children to be named "winston/salem" or "El Paso".

-- Allen

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Lotta porn stars in the family?

Sounds really interesting.

[mitchum]

14. I have a nephew who is destined to be a porn star...

Montana. That coupled with my sister's present surname guarantees him an interesting line of work.

[montana_hazeleyes]

17. Montana?

What a lovely name.:)

[mitchum]

20. That is a lovely name, but...

his full name really does have that "Jack Hammer" or "Rod Manly" quality about it.

[Character Assassin]

86. Montana already is the name of a female porn star....

Specializing in gang bangs, if memory serves.

[mac56]

45. Don't forget Montana Wildhack from "Slaughterhouse-Five".

nm

[Richardo]

55. Best porn name for a non-porn individual: Randy Johnson

..especially if he were English. ("My that's quite a randy johnson you've got there, isn't it?")

[mitchum]

107. or Peter O'Toole

oops, that's already taken

[muriel_volestrangler]

126. Line from "Diamonds Are Forever":

Bimbo: My name's Plenty O'Toole.
Bond: Named after your father, no doubt.

[blondeatlast]

152. So is Randy Johnson!

[meow2u3]

116. Why do you think his nickname is "The Big Unit"?

It's not because of his height--or his pitching.......go figure.

[Richardo]

118. I've heard that story...

...still, a fortuitous name given his purported "equipment".

[Red State Rebel]

146. There is a retired NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle....

[libertad]

48. I hope she's not here-but I know a woman named Fort Necessity

That is her actual first name.

[alwynsw]

72. What happens if Dallas marries Debbie?

Would that be a copyright infringement during sex?

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. I second that

I've met a few too many Madisons and Dakotas for my taste.

[muriel_volestrangler]

60. Cameron is at least 500 years old

see http://www.rampantscotland.com/forenames/blnames_c.htm

Of course, it was always a boys' name. 4th most popular in Scotland in 1999 - hardly yuppy.

[athos1126]

121. as a girl's name, it's irritating

too many little camerons and cammies running around. I know it's a Scots name, but when applied to girls, it's pretensious.

[Interrobang]

162. You are so right!

Up here we get a lot of McKenzies, Fishers, Tuckers, and Taylors...on little girls. I know that it's an old Scots custom to name a son with his mother's maiden name (I have a grandfather whose middle name is Kinlay), but that's sons, and there's a familial connection. I also don't like Jordan, Tyler, Brittany, Tiffany, Amber, Kaylie, or any of those other names.

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

Here's a page that elevates this thread to an art form. :)

[CanuckAmok]

81. Look at it this way...when mummy and daddy cut them off...

...and they start stripping for college beer money, they won't have to scramble for stage names.

[bluefire2000]

145. that's pretty barfaliscious!

I can picture it exactly in mind.

[LibInternationalist]

147. I object to the characterization of "Cameron" as a bad name

as it is (a) my name, and (b) has historical provenance as the name of a Scottish clan

Dakota, on the other hand, is a RIDICULOUS name for an upper-middle class white girl

[NightTrain]

159. I'll tell jazz singer Dakota Staton what you said about her first name.

;-)

[shanti]

164. they're gender neutral

i think that's what some people like....cody is my SON'S middle name. i can't see it on a girl, tho!

[George_Bonanza]

5. I hate Euro party scene, pop-star ish, soap opera compatible names

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. Like.....?

examples please

[George_Bonanza]

12. Posh and David named their kids Brooklyn and Romeo

You get the feeling, don't you? You just know those boys will grow up to be sporting silk shirts with gelled hairs, posing outside of techno dance clubs.

[emad]

39. Someone once said it was a good thing that she didn't conceive

in London SE19 or whatever the exact post code....because they would have had to call him Peckham Beckham.....

[blondeatlast]

153. ROFLMAO!

[scarlet_owl]

10. Yeah, I know what you mean.

My name sounds like a stripper name. When my husband and I were first talking to each other on the internet, he didn't think that "Ember" was my real name. He thought I was being pretentious. I have hated being saddled with Ember my whole life. Everyone just calls me "Amber" anyway. Ugh.

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. 'Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing'

collects the worst of the worst.

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

[NJCher]

15. ouch, I am wincing in pain

Aquanetta? On no, please tell me it isn't so. Oh man.


Cher

p.s. forradalom, that site is hilarious!

[athos1126]

19. oh my god, i cant stop laughing

my roomate's sleeping, so I'm trying to stifle it, but oh my god, it hurts! the names! they burnsss usss!

[blondeatlast]

155. Great site!

[mitchum]

13. Raytron...

didn't piss me off, but really perplexed me. I had a kid in class a few weeks ago named Raytron. What was his mother thinking? Was she watching a poorly dubbed Japanese monster movie?

[scarlet_owl]

16. Here are some places that will probably never be children's names

Duluth, Sheboygan, Walla Walla, Bogue Chitto, Toad Suck... I could go on, but I'm getting pretty tired.

[NicoleM]

52. How about Bemidji?

Bemidji is a town in northern Minnesota. There was a girl named Bemidji in my sister's class (in western ND). I always thought that was a hideous name to inflict on a kid.

[mac56]

53. Especially because I've heard lots of people mispronounce it.

"Ber-mid-gee". You probably have too.

[roguevalley]

112. How about Christmas and Alaska Parker?

Their moms REFUSE to have them shortened to nicknames.

[scarlet_owl]

82. My husband used to live right next to Bemidji!

I didn't even think of that one!

[Mal]

18. Blade.

I have no idea what the mother was thinking.


(Edit - Poor timing made it look like I was adding a name to the above "Would never be" list)

[kodi]

21. never understood why someone would name their kid "Chlamydia "

even though it might have sounded nice when the obstetrician mentioned it during childbirth.

[carpetbagger]

161. I've met such a person. Don't ask.

I think most of the rumours of Chlamydia are urban legends and bigotted jokes (see Twinna and Twinba, Lemonjello and Orangello), but I've met one such person (who, btw, was white).

chew on this in the meantime:

http://www.kabalarians.com/female/chlamydia.htm

[HEyHEY]

22. Atlantis...oceania....Brendall...if your named your child these...

get a life

[BigDaddyLove]

23. Sophie..................

Nothing wrong with the name per se, but my ex-girlfriend ruined it for me.

[SoCalDem]

24. A guy in my jury pool was named Donald Duckey

We could not help but laugh when they called out his name :)

[SoCalDem]

26. A hospital roommate, named her son Urea..

My guess is that she could not spell Uriah..:shrug:

[youngred]

27. Truly......Placenta

Not even kidding.

[Nay]

42. I met a woman who had named her little girl "Placenta."

You just have to cry about the abysmal ignorance.

[dreissig]

117. Vagina Thompson

Yes, there is a Vagina Thompson. It's such a pretty first name, too. No doubt she's been told what it really means. Her friends call her .... nah, I won't go there.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Anything named after geographical locations

or American Indian tribes. Also traditional names spelled in some new and unique way so as to be practically unintelligible. So many names are so off-the-wall, it's no wonder so many kids have complexes, these days!:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

29. I knew a girl names Kelyee

pronounced..Kelly..

also knew a girl named Kevin.. Her Dad really wanted a boy named after him.. She was number 4 girl..I guess he gave up on the boy...but 4 years after she was born, they had a boy.. her brother was named Kevinn. :stupidpeople:

She went to court at 18 and changed it to her middle name Anne.. We always got the impression that she was pissed at her Dad for ever naming her that..

[Rhiannon12866]

30. I went to summer camp with a girl named Keven

and my cousin went to school with a girl named Michael. I agree that your case is much worse. Two kids with pretty much the same name is just plain stupid, I agree!:-(

[Piperay]

31. Dallas...

my cousin named her little boy Dallas and they aren't even from Texas. My cousin was born right here in Los Angeles, her husband is from England and the little boy was born in CA, I just don't get it. :shrug: x(

[Rhiannon12866]

32. Maybe she's hoping he will strike oil

Or take after J.R. Ewing!:shrug:

[Piperay]

134. LOL...

yeah, that has got to be the reason. :-)

[electricmonk]

33. Funny article about baby names

Don't, I repeat don't go to this site if you are easily offended by bad taste, vulgar language, non-pc comments or anything along those lines.

Bad Baby Names

snip: Along with creative names come creative spellings. Maybe the parents weren't clever enough to invent a name. Maybe they liked the sound of a traditional name, but they still wanted their child to have a leg up on the Lakens and Teagans.

But does spelling matter when the teacher calls on Julie, Jullee, Jewlee, Julliee and Julye?

"Rylee" is but one example of misspelled monikers. Traditional names become undecipherable.

Mayghan? Is it pronounced like the more traditional "Megan"? Or May-ghan? May-gun? My-gun? How can anyone tell in a country brimming with Brinleys, Hollyns and Kestins? Where Matthew becomes "Matthue," a too-trendy Carson becomes "Karsyn" and an overdone Taylor transforms into "Teighlor"?

[Sentath]

129. Maygin Meggon

Just to add to the list

[eileen_d]

34. The unnecessary "Y" factor

is what usually turns me off from a name. Exhibit A: Lysa. Even though an acquaintance of mine whom I respect has that name. It just drives me nuts.

There are other examples but I am not caffeinated enough to think of them now.

[On the Road]

104. I Knew a Guy Name "Mychaal" in High School

[blondeatlast]

157. Or the use of "I" for "Y." Either way it makes mi wysh the kyds could

rename mommi and daddi!

[mbartko]

35. Rush. Newt. Condoleeza. Orrin.

n/t

[hlthe2b]

66. I have an instinctive reaction to Condoleeza, even before

I ever knew of one. It just seems contrived. (with apologies in advance if this is a traditional name that I have not previously encountered)

[scarlet_owl]

83. I heard somewhere that it is derived from

an Italian musical term. I think I saw it on 'Jeopardy'.

[NicoleM]

119. "con dolcezza"

Ready to vomit? It means "with sweetness" in Italian.

[It was not a pretzel]

36. Movie names

There's a new trend here in Germany. Name your kids after movie characters or pop stars

Kevin - Home Alone
Dennis - Dennis the Menace
Kylie - K. Minogue
Britney - B. Spears


You can usually guess the age of the kid if you know the release date, or when they had their first big hit.

Oh yeh, can't stand Mercedes either.

[OldEurope]

37. Mercedes was a name long before cars were invented.

In fact, the car was named after the daughter of the engineer!
:toast:

[It was not a pretzel]

38. I know

but it's soooo pretentious :D

[Quahog]

68. Lexus

I kid you not, my son has a girl in his 5th-grade class named Lexus. Not Alexis, or Lexis, but Lexus.

Good thing they weren't a fan of upscale SUV's, or she would have been Land Rover.

[CO Liberal]

71. Could You Imagine a Girl Named "Hummer"???

She'd have a hell of a time going through high school.......

[eauclaireliberal]

123. Sort of like "Stretchin' Gretchen"

er...

[blondeatlast]

158. Thanks--our friend's beautiful daughter is named Mercedes.

I was gonna point that out, glad you caught it first.

[jmm]

168. I guess it depends on the movie.

My mom was named after Laura and I have an uncle named after Shane. Neither was picked-on growing up because of it. Now if a child was named Gigli I can only image the torment they'd suffer }(.

[emad]

40. I was at school with a girl who got named 'Pheasant' instead of

Roberta, because she was born 12 August - the 'Glorious Twelfth' - start of the British grouse/game bird shooting season and her mother had just been accused of adultery by her husband, who'd had a vasectomy and claimed he couldn't have fathered 'yet another girl'....

[Rhiannon12866]

41. How perfectly horrible!

She was marked for a complex from day one!:-(

[emad]

43. Funnily enough, she became a Jungian analyst and married

a man whose surname is Fox.....

[baldguy]

44. In the building I work in . . .

There are two women named "Tequila".

Funny, I haven't run across any "Bourbon"s or "Vodka"s so far . . .

[mac56]

46. I worked with a woman named "Margarine".

She pronounced it "Mar-ja-REENE".

My wife worked with a woman named "Secretia" (se-KREET-cha). Who'd name their kid "secrete ya"?!

The famous ones (probably urban legends) are "Oranjelo" and "Lemonjelo", named for the hospital's desserts.

[libertad]

49. I was in the Navy with a guy whose first name was Punkin.

No kidding!

[Fuzz]

47. Allegra

That one was weird. Named after an allergy medication.

[Castilleja]

87. Our dentist named his daughter Allegra

But it means friend in Spanish. Also, geographical names, but especially city names. My worst; Dallas or Austin, or combination of those two = bad.

[OldEurope]

136. Allegra is a traditional Greek name , means: cheerful girl

:toast:

[Fuzz]

141. Actually, I know the name was there before the medication, but

it's kind of ruined now, I think.

[ScreamingMeemie]

50. Just went on a field trip with my son's class...

His name is James...his classmates? Griffin,Chadd,BreEnna and BreAnna, Mea,Austin,Aliyah,Mikayla...oh there is another Jimmy and an Andrew. Tell me I didn't have a hard time pronouncing some of those names.

[Hubert Flottz]

51. Dumbya!

What kind of sinister mother would name her little monkey Dumbya?

[northzax]

57. er, I think we all know that

the wicked Witch of the East, of course.

[Seneca]

56. a friend's kid just started Kindergarten

Classmates' names included Kobe (d'oh!), Knowledge, and Honor! :wtf:

[Monte Carlo]

58. Ashley and Caitlin... I'm sorry, I can't stand these names.

What a cruel thing to name a little girl. George Carlin wrote a really funny piece on these names and others like them. Thanks to yuppie parents and the passage of time, our nursing homes will be filled with Ashleys, Caitlins, Meghans, Kaylas, etc. Pretty soon those names will be associated with old age.

[northzax]

59. there was actually a really good op-ed in the Post

about a year ago, I think by Courtland Milloy, but I could be mistaken, about how the proliferation of made up names causes children to lose their roots. Most people have either their first or their middle names (or both) to share with someone in the family (my middle name is my Grandfather's favourite Uncle, my sister's is her Grandmother who died in childbirth) There is a connection there, across generations. I only met my Great, Great Uncle once or twice, as a very young boy, but I still hear stories about him, I feel as if I know him. Names have a history, they should represent something like that (both our first names are bilbical, for some strange reason, my Parents are UUs?) Trendy names are stupid. name your children after something they can be proud of, something to ground them.

[NicoleM]

61. Unique.

I can't remember how many kids are named Unique every year, but it's more than one.

We used to have a local reporter here named Yanick Dalhouse. Pronounced Unique Dollhouse.

[mac56]

62. A friend just told me about someone she knows of -

a local game warden - named his sons Hunter, Fisher, and Trapper.

Good lord.

[roguevalley]

114. my mom was a librarian and here are real kid names:

Major
Sargeant

Valiant For Truth
Maranantha Jubilee
Hallelujah Amen
Fire In The Belly of the Lord
(there are two more but I forgot. I will post them when I
remember. Their last name is Lee. These names are real. I
swear.)

[mcar]

63. Honey

I actually know a woman whose actual real name is Honey. She is a tough-as-nails, corporate type and if anyone asks if that's her real name, she just glares them into submission.

Along with Honey, I'd vote for Bambi or any other type of porn-star name.

In my son's 1st grade class, there is a kid named Rules. Rules has a brother named (I kid you not), Justice.

[pdx_prog]

64. lol...

Kmartina, shithead (shi theed), climitia champagne, captain morgan, cracker jack, cinderella snowhite, nosmo king (no smoking), osha...lol

[spinbaby]

143. You may want to check this out

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm

[CO Liberal]

67. "Kunte Kinte Jackson"

My kid sister used to be a substitute teacher back in the '80s. Kunte Kinte Jackson was an African-American boy in a second grade class she subbed in. Aapparantly, he was born around the time "Roots" was on TV for the first time.

[Philostopher]

69. I won't spell the names, but ...

I have run into two women whose first and middle names, combined, are pronounced 'Tijuana.' As far as I know, neither of them is Hispanic. They are both in their mid- to late-twenties.

I wonder if the girl named Margarine has ever heard Frank Zappa's 'St. Alphonso's Pakcake Breakfast (Where I Stole The Margarine)'? That's how Frank pronounced the word all the way through the song, 'mar-ja-reen.'

I doubt it, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

85. What's the normal American pronunciation?

'mar-ja-reen' is the standard British.

[mac56]

92. Standard American is "mar-ja-rinn".

[MissMillie]

70. Seems now the most unique names are the old-fashioned ones....

and I happen to like those.

[Whitacre D_WI]

73. Marijuana Pepsi

When I was in college, there was a local high school student named Marijuana Pepsi. From what I understand, she's done pretty well for herself (especially considering her name).

[scarlet_owl]

84. My mother-in-law works at the adult ed. center here

and she registered a woman named Pepsi Pearson. Jeez.

[bobja]

74. Fluorine!

I went out with a young woman from Newark named Fluorine. It's got a nice sound to it and if you don't think about a poisonous pale yellow gaseous element when kissing, she was alright.

[bif]

75. Dejunique

Heard a woman talk about her granddaughter Dejunique yesterday on the radio. Another one a friend heard is a girl wth the name Chateaubriand. The partnes no doubt thought they were naming her after a wine label rather than a cut of beef.

[Richardo]

76. Ha! My wife and I used to joke about a sultry ingenue named...

"Chandon Vouvray".

[alwynsw]

77. I just love those names that seem as though Momm used a dart board.

Let's put the alphabet on a dart board and toss darts until we get something about 8-10 letters long. We'll just write them down in the order we hit them with the darts.

Once worked in a penitentairy. Got a new inmate named Pimpfunta. Is it any wonder he turned to crime?

[DS1]

78. Arizona

or any state name

Nebraska

:eyes:

[omshanti]

79. Last names pretending to be first names

like Cooper, Carter, Gibson, Mason....

[Richardo]

80. ...Campbell's another one.

Campbell Brown (news babe)
Campbell Scott (son of George C.)

[mr blur]

88. Chastity

the name given by Greg Allman and Cher to their unfortunate daughter.

[CO Liberal]

89. Actually, Chastity is Sonny Bono's Daughter

The child Greg Allman fathered with Cher was named Elijah Blue.......

[Rich Hunt]

90. another one...

Didn't Grace Slick's kid used to be named God?

My generation had all of the hippie names - I knew people named Rainbow, Leaf, Bliss, Tree, Moon, kids named after days of the week, etc.

ON EDIT: This site can't be serious:

http://www.hippy.com/hippynames.htm#alpha

"Doobie" - ROFL!

[CO Liberal]

91. Yes, But With a Small "G"

Grace named her daughter "god" - she didn't use a capital because she didn't want to seem pretentioous.

:-)

[catzies]

108. I was lucky to be an early-60s hippie kid with a normal name.

I was born in '62 but if I had been born in '68 I would have been named "Sunflower Moonbeam."

My mom had friends who named their son "Maitreya Motorcycle."

And my favorite is the Getty scion who was named "Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramaphone Getty." Best hippie name ever.

[bif]

93. Clitoris

Or is this an urban legend like the "Female" thing?

[CO Liberal]

96. Almost as Bad as "Hyman"

I used to rent a room in Boonton NJ, before I married the lovely Mrs. CO Liberal. One of my housemates was an older Jewish gentleman named Hy - his full name was Hyman.

[baldguy]

125. like Hyman Rickover?

[On the Road]

94. It Doesn't Annoy Me at a Distance

but if my mother had named me "Fartina Green", I would be seriously pissed.

And if Frank Zappa's first child had been a boy, instead of "Moon Unit" he would have been named "Motorhead." That would be tough fo a corporate job.

I would also have a hard time with the name of one of my grandmother's friends, "Ima Menke" (pronounced "MEN-kee").

I have a whole book called "Remarkabilia" with pages of this stuff. My favorites are the absolutely repeatable ones like "Theanderblast" or "7/8 Jackson."

[bif]

99. Sounds like a great book

Is it still in print?

[Richardo]

102. Don't forget the famous Texas socialite "Ima Hogg"...

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fho16.html

...another daughter of a Texas Governor, BTW

[muriel_volestrangler]

128. My father knew someone called

Justin Offa-Hoare (say it).

[Piperay]

135. and Ura was the other

siblings name....Ura Hogg, geesh.x(

[geniph]

95. Saw a new one the other day

Young lady about maybe 23 working at Sam's Club - I'd heard one of the other clerks call her Heather, which is a perfectly nice name. Then I happened to look at her name badge - Hythyr. Made me want to hunt her parents down and slap them.

Then again, there's a Vietnamese fellow that works there whose badge reads merely: PHUC. Now, if you moved to another country and found that your name was an obscene word, wouldn't you pick a nickname or something that was less subject to ridicule?

Wonder if the DMV would let him get a personalized license plate that said PHUC, or would they have a conniption about the "obscenity"?

[On the Road]

101. I Was in a Store Once

and saw a Korean employee with a name tag that said something like:

HELLO! I'M HUNG!

[geniph]

106. Didja ask him for proof?

Guy was lucky he wasn't working in an adult bookstore. Then again, maybe he was...you never did say what type of store it was.

[Kat45]

97. I almost flipped when I heard the name "Latrina"

Didn't the mother know what a latrine is? I wouldn't want to be a little girl named after a crapper.

[sleipnir]

98. I hate people named Steve and Dave, too weird for me....

[Bake]

105. Hey! You're talking about my brother and me!

Bake

[SoCalDem]

103. I was reviewing applications at work and came across this doozy

Phuc Yu Long

Woouldn't thst name look good on a name badge.. There was a copy of his Drivers license, or I would have thought it was a joke

[catzies]

109. This link from the Inquirer lists names celebs gave their kids

Some doozys in there.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/feature.cfm?instanceid=53359

[eauclaireliberal]

111. RE: This link from the Inquirer lists names celebs gave their kids

Sounds like they've been taking up too much of that Warm California Sun.

[ronnykmarshall]

110. Woodstock!

I worked with a woman that named her son "Woodstock".

[mlawson]

113. How about "Key-shawn"?????

Unbelievable....

[roguevalley]

115. Sir Flinders Petrie (Wore a ballerina costume analyzing the Pyramids

Lavender Sidebottom

[kixot]

120. I went to grammar school with a girl named Valleyofpeace

All strung together like that. Who would have guessed her parents were hippies?

Also ran into a few Sky's and even a kid named Rocket.

Oh, and I've heard it from a former teacher that there were twins named Orangello and Lemonjello, prounounced kinda like "Michaelangelo".

[Rhiannon12866]

124. I know a couple with a daughter named Skye

Skye Mariah. I believe she just turned six last week. Cute kid.:shrug:

[JanMichael]

122. "Joe". I hate that weirded out freak label.

"Bob" too:mad:

[1a2b3c]

127. Wesley

Who the hell would wanna be named wesley?

[Dulcinea]

130. A friend of mine's niece is named Sky Soleil.

Ugh! I don't have the heart to ask if her sister-in-law knows she named her kid "Sky Sun."

I also detest trendy yuppie names like Madison, Ashley, Shelby (cringe) & McCall. I actually worked with a McCall (female) & I called her Nicole for a long time because it never occurred to me that anyone would inflict such a name on their daughter.

Those are names for English sheepdogs, not children.

[roguevalley]

132. Dawning Star

Gypsie Jolly

The last name Lipschitz gives me the willies. :)

[Rhiannon12866]

142. My friend does have a dog named Shelby! LOL!

I believe she already had the name because she was adopted from a shelter! She's a little spaniel.:-)

[Sean Reynolds]

133. My brothers name: NEPHI!

:shrug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

140. Those crazy Mormon names...

could be worse...they could've named him Moroni (or you, for that matter)....

[WillParkinson]

137. A friend at work...

Has a mother named "Reville"...as in Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy!

[maxanne]

138. in NH

we have a politician named "Dick Swett." :shrug:

[tsakshaug]

139. having taught for several years

there have been several names I don't like, It was tough naming kids, many names brought up memories of former students.

I did have a Telephone one year- she pronounced it Te-lif-a-nee, I used Tele-fone. one class I had three Shawanas, all spelled differently. Name that start with La or Ta, had a TaTaNeisha (called by her friends TaTa) also had a LaTaneesha.

Last names as first names. Had a Smith one year.

One person I worked with claimed there was a Syphilsis in his class (Suh-Phylisis), But I doubt that story.

Why is my kid Rudy? That was my godfather's name, he died about two months before Rudy was born.

I'm sure people have reasons for the names they give the kids.

[Wickerman]

144. I saw the start of this about 12 years ago

I was working for a marketing firm and we were trying to test product in a particular region of the country so we blanketed this rural area with consent forms so we could try our product on people's kids. We got back about 300 from this one town that I could barely find on the map.

The kid entering them called me over and told me I had to take a look at them. Not a single one in bunch had a name I had ever heard of before. Guess it was a town trend - bizarre spellings, wierd combinations of two or three names, etc. I called our rep in that area and he confirmed they were real consent forms. A very poor area, everyone wanted their kid to be unique...

Never saw anything like it again or since, and I have seen tens fo thousands of consent forms. There is a real trend to make unique the name of your kid - hopefually we won't go as far as those folks did.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

148. my friend knows a man named Brooke.

isn't brooke kind of weird for a guy???

[Torgo]

149. Xyclone (teenage boy) & Zenath (elderly man)!

I have always felt sorry for both of those East Texans!

[RichardRay]

150. Some people don't like easy

I had a friend years ago who was given the perfectly reasonable and easy to get along with name of 'Jon'. As he grew older he found that too easy, so he had it changed to 'Jo3n'. Still pronounced 'Jon' he explained, since the '3' was silent.

Richard Ray - Jackson Hole, WY

[jmm]

167. I know somebody like that.

Her name is Kimberly but she started to spell it Kymberleigh in a pathetic attempt to be special:eyes:.

My name is Jessica and I've seen a ton of different ways to write it but I think I'll stick with the original.

[blondeatlast]

151. This is true--TRUE! My sister works at a hospital pharmacy.

One day they got an order for antibiotics for a girl who's first name is (I kid you not) LaTrine.

Poor kid; poor, poor thing. That was about 4 years ago, she would be in school now. Man.

[CBHagman]

154. Parents who think "Elisha" is "Alicia"

Elisha was a prophet in the Old Testament (And NO, I'm not thinking of Elijah. Different guy). Famous Elishas include the actor Elisha Cook Jr.

So various parents think it would be clever to name their daughters "Elisha," thinking it's an alternative spelling for Elisha. NO, IT WOULD NOT BE, and NO, IT ISN'T.

Frankly, I think that the authors of the baby-naming book "Beyond Jennifer and Jason, Madison and Montana" have it right: It is cruel and thoughtless to invent a new spelling for a common name. You'll subject your child to years of confusion, frustration, and possibly ridicule, with the added possibility that there will be confusion as to which gender your child is. Believe me, it happens.

[NightTrain]

160. Actual names of '50s-era doo-wop, R&B and blues singers

Off the top of my head....

Overton Lemon (better known as Smiley Lewis)
Maithe Marshall (tenor lead of the doo-wop group, the Ravens)
Traverse Crawford (of the Delta Rhythm Boys)
Umpelyia Marsema Balinton (a/k/a Sugar Pie DeSanto)
Jamesetta Hawkins (a/k/a Etta James)

[Clete]

163. Tiffany, Brittany and Kayla.

[NashVegas]

171. Ugh

Relatives just adopted a girl-child named Tiffany and refuse to change the name.

[name not needed]

165. tee hee

i cant wait for the day someone names their kid ''rammstein''

[alfredo]

166. told my parents that our first born will be named

Blister Dipstick.


They were not amused.

We thought it was funny

A girl on my mail route was named laTrina. The guys are going to crap all over her.

[mvd]

169. Winifred, Chamique, Eugene, Tabitha, Dot, Horace, Bart, Georgia

To name a few.

[stanwyck]

170. I am so disappointed in you

I can't believe I'm reading this from DUers. You guys must really dislike foreigners. Those difficult names! All those consonants! And the underlying racism here is appalling. Can you really not learn someone's name? Have we gotten this ridiculous that someone's name is just too much of a challenge?