Good or Bad? Naming your new daughter Mary Christmas?

[Stinky The Clown]

A couple in Virginia are having a baby. Ultrasound has confirmed it will be a girl. They will name her Mary. The family surname is Christmas.

What do you think about this?

I'm not sure what I think, but I tend to not be impressed with giving kids names that have any potential to somehow single the kid out.

[Bicoastal]

1. Better than Felix Navidad, I guess.

[shireen]

3. oh, you are too much!

:rofl:

[Echo In Light]

13. Thanks...needed that

;)

[grassfed]

2. that's an East Vlg drag queen

[Touchdown]

35. I though that was Summer Clearance... I may be mistaken.

Maybe I was thinking of Hedda Lettuce or Ginger Vitis.

[enlightenment]

4. Kind of cruel, imo.

Wasn't there a couple in Australia who were actually forbidden by the court from giving their child a ridiculous name? Sometimes the level of stupid really does need intervention.

[SoCalDem]

10. Names should be special.. I hate when parents get "cute"

Having her middle name be Mary would be ok.. then SHE could decide when she's older..

We knew people who named their little boy Bruno Max..of course little Bruno Max was a very slight little boy with thick glasses & a slight lisp...who had ZERO interest in anything "macho"..(like his Daddy).. He loved the piano & reading..

There was a boy in my oldest son's class names Steven Seth S__<last name>

and of course that poor little guy just HAD to have a damned lisp, and could not even say his own name :(

[juno jones]

36. Let us not forget all the

Georiginas, Charlettas, and Stefanias who got their name merely due to the fact that the family was so entirely set on passing on daddy's name on that having a girl was only a minor set back to be fixed with a feminine diminuative.

What's really funny is when they go on to have a boy later. Either you wind up with two kids with essentially the same name, or there's a divorce over it when Mom wants to name the kid 'Steve' and not 'Frank Jr.'. It's funny 'cause it's true, I married two of 'em, one from each circumstance :D.

[Touchdown]

37. Co-opting names? Talk to this guy whose name is Tracy

Sometime in the 50s or 60s it became fashionable to name American girls Irish boy names (probably a Brit conspiracy... limey bastards!).

Kelly
Carrol
Marion
Sean (cleverly mis-spelt as Shawn)
Stacy

The list goes on.

"Teeheehee! Tracy? That's a girl's name! Tee hee hee!" ... No male has ever said that to me, only females. What really gets me is they mis-spell my name with an ey or ie.:grr:

[enlightenment]

38. Actually, Shaun is the English spelling

of the Gaelic Sean (and the Welsh Sian). It's a male name, regardless. The rest of them? Ouch. You have my sympathy. My great-uncle was named Audrey - he grew up to be a chemist and invented some process used in dry cleaning even today. I think he may have been trying to poison his mother . . .

[Touchdown]

39. You said it. Shaun is English. It's English, so it's wrong!

:P

[enlightenment]

48. Yeah - but you also said "Sean" . . . and that's

Irish!

;)

Happy Festive season!

[juno jones]

41. I used to sit next to a guy Tracy in my homerooms thru HS.

He was a real brain and kinda cute. ;) I don't know if he got teased for his name by others, but I never would have done that.

My name is common as dirt. Yell it out in a room and several women 40-50 odd years of age will turn their heads. That is it's own little slice of hell, sometimes and one reason I have retained my thankfully rare surname despite marriage. :D

[Touchdown]

44. Kristin, is that you?

I never knew you thought I was cute... or brainy.:rofl:

Actually I went to HS in Washington... so my imagination ran with it.

[Bluebear]

5. Only if her middle name is 'fucking'.

:)

[Boojatta]

6. "any potential to somehow single the kid out"

Do you recommend "Jane Doe"? I may have true belief about what you mean, but surely the purpose of a name is to single a kid out.

Note: I didn't say that I know what you mean because there could be an important difference between knowledge and true belief. Yes, this is a philosophical tangent.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I heard about a couple who named their son:

Christmas Joy.

:eyes:

[monmouth]

8. I think they're naming her Mary Grace Christmas, her grandmother

and an aunt are both Mary Christmas also.. I remember a guy named Jack Frost fwiw...

[blondeatlast]

9. "Hey Laurel, where's Hardy?" My parents had no intention of giving me a name

that would be mocked, even in my adulthood.

These assholes do--and I think it's just the light side of neglectful.

Edit: not neglectful, they are doing it quite deliberately. It's not quite abuse--but it's something, I just can't quire figure out what to call it.

[havocmom]

11. Only if you want to increase the odds she will join some cult in her teens

At least, that's what Justin Thyme told me

[rateyes]

12. If it was a boy, I'd name him "Warren." nt

[Blasphemer]

32. LOL... nt

[Mari333]

14. she will get her ass kicked at school

mark my words.

[CoffinEd]

15. I grew up with a girl named...

Noelle Mary Christmas. Honestly.

And of course it goes without saying that many people were incredulous when she told them her name for the first time.

[Motown_Johnny]

49. I like that better than just Mary,

[Greybnk48]

16. bravo to rateyes and bluebear! First big laugh of the day. : )

I had a girlfriend who was born on the 25th and her parents named her Carol. I always thought that was cute. This kid, Mary, will grow up hating her name because everyone will have a comment.

[asdjrocky]

17. I have an opinion on this,

because I was blessed with one of those, quirky, interesting names.

Eventually it will just be her name to her. There will be days she wished she were named Sally, or June, or Sarah (okay, maybe not Sarah). Just like there were days I wished I was named Bill, or Steve or Dan.

But in the end, I think she'll just learn to deal with it. It does make it kind of tough on resumes and emails, so you learn to use initials. And yes, when she is a teenager, she will hate her parents, but she would hate them if her name were Sally, June or Sarah.

[Libertas1776]

18. Are they going to name the son

Lloyd?

[Jack Rabbit]

19. I once read in a name the baby that . . .

. . . girls with names like that often marry as teenagers.

If the parents want to be cute, they should name her Jo, after the character in Faulkner's Light in August.

[bridgit]

20. What? They didn't go for Ho-Ho-Ho or Holly Jolly Christmas

:(:)

[Tesha]

21. Mr. Tesha and I used to work with a Mary Christmas.

I don't remember having any strong feelings about her name
one way or the other. Or maybe she'd just gotten past them all?

Tesha

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Beats Gladys Happybottom.

[StarfarerBill]

23. Not my cup o' tea, but they could have done worse, I suppose.

[slackmaster]

24. I've always been fond of the name "Jeeminy" for girls

:nuke:

[Vinca]

25. I hope she doesn't turn out to be an atheist.

[baldguy]

26. I once knew an aspiring comedian whose real name was Joe King.

[bigwillq]

27. It's their kid

they can name it whatever they want.

[notadmblnd]

28. When I was pregnant I told my family I was going to name my son Handsome

It was just a joke though. I named him James.

[TlalocW]

29. Parents, in their rush to make sure their sprog are extra-extra-special from day one

Do more harm than good. So many kids are going to live their lives with stupid, cutesy names, trendy names that only strippers should have, common names like Jennifer but spelled Ghennyphur (I've seen that spelling), names that will require the kids to waste a significant amount of their lives spelling it (Shia LeBeouf), and stupid names like this that will make the kid turn around to see who's calling her everytime she hears someone say, "Merry Christmas."

TlalocW

[Gwendolyn]

30. Lol, true... and sometimes they choose it for themselves.

Like when Elke Lipschitz married Barry Seltzer and actually took his name.

True story.

[Blasphemer]

31. Very very bad. I hate that sort of thing

People think they are being cute but it's just stupid.

[Alexander]

33. It would have worked better if the family's last name was Jane.

At least, it would have explained a lot.

[Touchdown]

34. I suppose it's better than Ima Twitt.

:shrug:

[Stevenmarc]

40. I hope Santa brings the child a trust fund for therapy

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. I knew a girl named Holly Day. No joke!

[Berry Cool]

43. The kid will grow up to kill her parents.

They really should think twice about cursing the poor girl this way.

For the record, I have a niece born on Christmas who doesn't have a Christmasy name at all, and she has grown up normal so far.

[madmom]

45. There was a Dr Ameter around here years back, named his son Tac.

[Drifter]

46. I went to school with Ronald McDonald ...

He would have been born in the mid-60's.
I always wondered who came first.
Was it an unlucky break, or a cruel joke ?

Cheers
Drifter

[Book Lover]

47. What do I think? I think the kid will make people call her something else

and that the world will continue to revolve around its axis.

And, just curious, but you got a source?

[phasma ex machina]

50. Bad. nt

[waiting for hope]

51. I think that little girl is going to

grow up to hate Christmas ... parents just don't think sometimes. There was a newborn in the daycare where my kids went, they had an older child about the same age as mine and the newborn was in the infant room with my youngest, they named him Jaysun. Like Jason wasn't special enough, this poor boy is going to go through life correcting everyone that tries to spell his name.

[Raine]

52. Good thing their name isn't Hogg

otherwise they'd name them Ura & Ima ... which someone in Houston actually named their kids. x(

[gleaner]

53. I think that the kid ....

is going to get a lot of ragging and teasing over this. That stuff may not seem like much when you are looking back as an adult, but it is very hurtful when you're a child.

[sakabatou]

54. ::facepalm::