Would you name your kid Diezelblaze?

[u4ic]

I just saw on the news some of the 'unusual' names Albertans are giving their boys.

yep, Diezelblaze
Tyrant
Rowdy
Corvette
Boss
Ancient... :wtf:



And for a girl...Tequila. :shrug:



(a couple of years ago, there was an Emperor Phu Lac...)

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. maybe...

if my name was something like... ohhhh I don't know.... Moon Unit Zappa. Or Dweezil Zappa...

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Those are nicknames... please tell me those are nicknames..

Oh please, oh please. :scared:




Oh, hey, are you feeling any better? :hi:

[u4ic]

12. Hi Rev

Thanks for asking. Yep, I'm feeling better (still kind of weak), and had some solid (albeit soft) food for supper. Dammit, I was hungry! :-) :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

3. I would name our kid :o)

Hasenfeffer :7 :rofl:

[u4ic]

14. .

:spank:




You'll get me a reputation as a baby eater! :o







:rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

23. ..

your secret is safe with me :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I once did a story on a kid named

Jor-El.

I thought it was seriously cool. :thumbsup:

Used this same image with the story:

[Redstone]

7. You wouldn't think it was "seriously cool" if you were that kid.

Would you?

Redstone

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Yeah, he liked it

If he hadn't, I wouldn't have done the story.

[Redstone]

11. You wouldn't lie to me, I know. So tell me, what the hell was going on with

that kid, that he really LIKED a name that was sure to get him beaten up in Junior High?

Is it just a California thing?

Redstone

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Dunno

Said he liked it. Also told me he didn't get much shit about it. Mostly, people didn't understand it; thought it was "Joel" or a deviation from that. Almost nobody connected it with Superman's dad.

I just googled a bit to see if I could find him. Didn't, but I did find some other Hispanics named Jor-El, so maybe it's a cultural thing. :shrug:

[Redstone]

5. Those people should have their parental rights terminated.

In any kind of a just society, they would.

Redstone

[u4ic]

15. Perhaps

some of the kids will live up to their names.


And they will be mighty sorry they named their kid Tyrant...

[Kutjara]

6. Didn't Jermaine Jackson name his son...

Jermajesty?

Someone should really have slapped Jermaine for that one.

[Redstone]

8. Shoulda slapped him REALLY FUCKING HARD.

Redstone

[Shine]

21. NO way!! Bill Cosby named all his kids with names beginning with the letter "E"

so they would be reminded of the quality Excellence.

True story.

[u4ic]

46. We won't even get into

the Duggars. :scared:

[Lautremont]

9. Ah, but would you name your kid Perkeluks?

How about Runce Bunstile?
Ano-Genitus?
King Kong Dussy?
Bonson?
Evis? (yes, that's "Evis.")
Necktize?

You think Alberta's bad...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. I'd name my kid Lance Uppercut.

:rofl:

[Jeanette in FL]

17. Nope

[ironflange]

18. Hey, u4ic, do you have the full list?

The Alberta website has lists of every name given, back to 1990.

http://www.governmentservices.gov.ab.ca/vs/top10_names.cfm

Have fun! It's interesting to see that when we named our daughter (Madelyn) in 1990, she was one of only two. Last year there were 18 of them.

[u4ic]

24. Yes, I've seen that site before

(hence the Emperor Phu Lac...)

121 people named their girl "Baby"???


There were only 17 with my name born last year. :)

[ironflange]

31. I don't like this year's list

They've sorted it by number of brats per name rather than alphabetically. I'm going to try to rip into the pdf and re-sort it by name. I'll let you know how I make out.

I think the ones named "Baby" must be the ones who left the hospital before getting named. That's my best guess.

The name I really hate is "Neveah," Heaven backwards. It's funny, though, because I saw one from a previous year named "Naveah." The poor, poor kid. Having a strange name is one thing, but having an obviously misspelled one is something else. I'm waiting for someone to name their baby "Lleh."

My name is nearly ten times busier than yours, but it's kinda dull. Your name is really cool.

[u4ic]

38. It's still misspelled

It wouldn't be Neveah, it should be Nevaeh.


I'm sure more than a few kids in Wales are named Lleh. ;-)


Yeah, I lucked out in the name department. Having to learn that very young, as well as Mississauga, probably turned me into the good speller that I am. :P

[ironflange]

48. My mistake, I spelled it wrong

You'd think this spell checker would have caught it.

[krispos42]

62. Jeez, less than ten Albertans were given my name.

I feel unloved....

[ironflange]

19. Baby name fans, check this out

Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing

[Kerrytravelers]

66. I use to post on that site.

But the crazy right-wing nut jobs were just too stupid.

One lady was Pagan, was pro choice, pro gay marriage, yet is a die hard rethug AND a proud member of free republic.

[Shine]

20. OMG!! LOL, girlfriend.....and we thought WE had unusual names!!!

:rofl:

those poor kids.

years of therapy later......

[u4ic]

25. Not THAT unusual

:silly:


(I think we both lucked out in the name department!) :hug:

[Zookeeper]

22. *Sigh*

What the heck are those parents thinking?

How about this one:

http://www.newbabynews.net/hospitals/mmc1/public/mmc1birthannouncement.pl?babyID=h1-4161

"Aryan Justice."

I found it at this site:

http://www.davezilla.com/2006/11/01/what-not-to-name-your-children/



:eyes:

[u4ic]

26. Yikes!

:scared:

I wonder if it's supposed to be pronounced in French? Ehhrrie-enn? Still, if so, they could have spelled it Arienne...(and left out the Justice)


Oh good grief. What awful names at that site. :-( Brook Rainbow Trout?

[MonkeyFunk]

27. There was a story recently

about a cool kid who's blind, and navigates using echolocation. Very interesting.

But his mom's name was "Aquanetta".

People, don't name your kids after products found in the bathroom. I guess she's lucky she wasn't named Vagisil.

[u4ic]

28. I've heard about that kid!

It was last fall I heard about him - unbelievable story.

Google that name, and quite a few come up...(is it a Latino/Hispanic name?)


Or...is she paying homage to VERY big hair? :rofl:

[Zookeeper]

30. Acquanetta....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/imdb/actor/nm0010270/ref=imdbdpccs_cast_6/002-6977362-0980055

:shrug:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

59. I (sort of) knew an Aquanetta in college

She was roommates with a girl I dated for a while.

I always wanted to ask her about her name, but I refrained as I thought she might take offense.

[Guaranteed]

29. I still like "Lucifer." Absolutely beautiful name. Ruined by fundies. nt

[Shell Beau]

32. I have known a couple of Takeylas (that was the spelling they used)

[u4ic]

36. That's taky

:P

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

33. Heck No!

Have you seen some of the names that celebrities give their kids. They need to get off of whatever drug that the're on.

http://www.rateitall.com/t-21102-strange-celebrity-baby-names.aspx

:wtf: were they thinking.

[u4ic]

40. They weren't

x(


Amongst their peers, I guess their names wouldn't seem so strange. :shrug:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

43. Would you

give any of those names to your kids? I mean the really wacked ones.


Here is the vh1 wacky baby names list:

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/vh1_all_access/93352/episode_featured_copy.jhtml

[u4ic]

45. No way!

:scared:

Then again, I'm not a celebrity, except in my own mind...:rofl:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

47. And I have known some everyday people that gave their kids some wacked names.

Nine Tay: went to school with my daughter
Lady Ashley: Mother lived in the projects
JaWalter: Named after her parents (Walter & Jackie)
Brandisha Chardonnay: My cousin

[zanne]

34. I knew a couple in the early 70's....

They called their son "Riverdove".

[u4ic]

41. 70's

'nuff said. ;-)

[Orsino]

35. Not possible.

I could only rename a child that, after s/he had gotten old enough to perpetrate a crime terrible enough to justify such a regally stupid moniker.

[leftyclimber]

37. My brother plans to name his kid "Rowdy"

...although apparently his wife put the kibosh on that one if it's a girl.

[u4ic]

42. Welcome to DU!

:toast:


I wonder if the kid will live up to his name...

[leftyclimber]

44. I think that's why his wife

wouldn't let that name get attached to a daughter. ;)

If the kid's anything like dad, Rowdy wouldn't even begin to describe him!

[Left Is Write]

39. No.

[ironflange]

49. Here's the ultimate bad baby name. End of thread.

http://www.newbabynews.net/hospitals/stf33/public/stf33birthannouncement.pl?babyID=h33-440

[redwitch]

50. UK for short?

Penn Jillette (sp?) and his wife named their new kid Moxie Crimefighter. Honest.

[ironflange]

51. I understand that "Urhines" is pronounced. . .

"Your Highness"

[redwitch]

52. Oh dear

poor child!

[Mad_Dem_X]

53. "Icy Eight Special K"???

Why would you name your kid after a cereal??????

[Spider Jerusalem]

54. You could string some of those together...

"Rowdy Tyrant" has a bit of a ring to it.

So does "Boss Corvette".

(Personally, assuming I ever became a father, I'd stick with names that people would actually recognise as names, but that's just me.)

[Madspirit]

55. Fucked names...

I am a woman and my parents named me "Jeffrey Lee". It was hell as a kid but I have defended it so long I feel kind of protective towards it. They didn't want a boy either. They had one. They wanted a girl and they wanted to name her "Jeffrey". I go by "Lee" online in my Yahoo Groups because I got so fucking tired of having to explain all the time that I am a female. "Lee" is fairly androgynous but even so, better than having to explain every two minutes. Now, at least, it's only occasionally. I go by "Jeff" in RL and on here...Madspirit.

People should really think about what they are doing to their kids before they name them crap names.
Madspirit

[Spider Jerusalem]

56. One of the teachers at my high school was a woman whose given name was Orville.

And her husband's name was Ivy. So at least you're not alone.

[skygazer]

57. I've always thought Fifi Trixibelle was one of the worst

Bob Geldof's kid.

[billyskank]

58. You love Alberta, don't you?

;)

[u4ic]

63. You've noticed

;)




So what did you name your gopher? :)

[billyskank]

64. He wasn't mine

he only wanted me for my carrots. :D

[krispos42]

60. Aneal Mistrie

Real customer at an old job of mine. You can imagine what his childhood was like...

[Initech]

61. My bro said one of his students is named Tequila. No joke, either.

[achtung_circus]

65. I ran into this name in Mayerthorpe/

Pronounced Suzanne;

Spelled Sioux-Zane.

Western theme, I guess/