Yeah. We all know exactly what Laz would do.
Posted on 06/15/2018 5:05:19 AM PDT by Simon Green
Naomi Tomky was still laid out on the operating table after an emergency C-section when the earliest pangs of regret kicked in.
“The baby was being lifted over my head,” the 34-year-old freelance writer remembers, “and the anesthesiologist was like, ‘what’s her name?’ I started explaining and was like, oh God, what have I done?”
Tomky’s now 8-month-old daughter is Tove (pronounced TOH-vah), a Swedish moniker that’s typically said like TOO-vah, but in this case, the expectant parents from Seattle changed the pronunciation for a twist.
“My husband has Swedish heritage and then Tova, or Tovah, is a common Hebrew name, which I liked because I’m Jewish,” says the mother of two, laughing. “When I was pregnant, we loved the idea of combining them. Now we know we doomed her to a life of spelling it for other people.”
Would-be adventurous parents, take note: The name that calls out like a siren’s song from the page of a baby book might turn strident upon repetition. Baby name shame is real, and with unusual appellations such as Kairo and Zayd (for boys) and Oaklynn and Paisleigh (for girls) on the rise — per the Social Security Administration’s most recent fastest-growing baby names report, released in May — it’s likely to become an increasingly common phenomenon.
“People are working a lot harder to come up with a name that is really distinctive and has a lot of personal meaning,” says Pamela Redmond Satran, co-founder and CEO of baby naming site Nameberry.com.
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And have “dope” as a nickname! :)
I used to work with a black woman years ago named Melon. No joke. She was a super nice lady and people just called her Mel.
Myrtle was my grandmother’s name. She hated it because everyone called her “Myrtle the turtle.”
My aunts and uncles all had unusual names, as did their kids (my cousins).
They were all named after ancestors, and my aunt and uncle’s parents though.
Boots, Jeeter, Evola, etc.
Aylish could have siblings named Deelish, Churlish, and (the black sheep of the family) English.
That’s perfect! Lol
I enjoy subbing, but calling roll is not my favorite part. I only subbed in prek through 5th grades. Those children stare at you waiting for you to mess up a name so they can snicker and correct you when you mess up a tricky name. They were usually shocked when I got all the Hispanic names right. They would ask how I did it. Well, I lived in Tucson for years and learned some things. Then they wanted to know how I was able to pronounce some of the creative spelling names of certain ethnicities. Well, I’m from Mississippi. And sometimes the teacher would put the pronunciation next to the name on a special roll created for subs. It is always an adventure!
Years ago on the Macy's bridal registry list, the couple ahead of us had a groom named Nebuchadnezzar Stamps.
My kids loved finding their names in the Bible.
Oholah and Oholibah would be great for twin girls.. Ha!
Checker at my local Walmart ~. Speshelle....
Fad names are just that... there is a pig in the pipeline of Danica from the early that woman’s racing career. A name I never heard before now seems the 2 or 3 in every grade from 3-6th these days.
Then there is the former Governor of Texas named HOGG who is said to have named his daughters IMA HOGG, URA HOGG, SHESA HOGG.
Yeah. We all know exactly what Laz would do.
Ask one of the forty-year old Farrahs running around out there.
I always thought if I were a rapper, I would take the name Brownie Skidmark.
Beelzebub and Jezebel prolly aren’t good choices.
Shaniqua is still in the running.
My black children used to use it as code.
“That cashier thought I was some sort of Shaniqua!”
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