Posted on 12/08/2012 12:50:55 PM PST by NYer
I remember being waited on by a waitress named Glee. I always thought that was an odd name.
I’m simultaneously amused and irritated by dippy parents who really think by giving their child a weird name, they will make the kid a unique individual.
The black kids mostly have fairly common names.
Blacks in Maryland, and many other places around the east coast, has some distinct subcultures. Maryland blacks who are middle class and suburban, of whom there are many, have a distinct culture different from inner city blacks, and basically want nothing to do with inner city culture, at least in mixed company. When they go to work, they dress in suits and ties. They speak with no ebonics, and they are very, very serious about education. Many of them will have master's degrees or higher. They would probably have nothing to do with these names.
Don’t forget the Jaydens, Haydens, Kaydens, Baylees, Haylees, and all the girls given last names for first names.
My husband used to worked with a man named Void.
Thank you sir. Me too.
Centuries back and even now, the mother’s maiden surname was used as a child’s first name. Though sometimes they used a grandmother or great grandmother’s surname if it had special meaning or was well know. That’s how there came to be several generations of men named Dummer Sewall. Yes, Dummer, I think it was a maternal great great grandmother’s maiden name, if I remember correctly.
My husband used to worked with a man named Void
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Guess his wife is named Null?
Madison is the made up name of a slutty character from a movie. The made up black names have more dignity.
Trayler as in Trayler Howard, the name of the actress who played Mr. Monk’s assistant. The mother of the character, Julie. What was the character’s name? Oh yeah, yeah his 2nd assistant was Natalie. Love that show.
Maybe they do...but as a group they vote for nobama and other LIB losers.
Possibly. Though Possiblee could have been their daughter.
Oh, you rascal. You made me laugh three times!
I know a
Holly Holly and Jody Jupiter
Google found it for me from “Kristin Nobel Prize”. Another forgotten Nobel Prize author.
Oh, well. We named our only daughter Mary. She’s been extremely successful and never had to justify her name.
There was a time, as I recall, that you could not baptize a child in the Catholic Church unless s/he had a saint’s name. It could have been a middle name, but somewhere in there s/he had to have a saint’s name.
Like Msgr. Pope, over the years and decades I’ve worked extensively with DC’s African American community. One older (60ish) black woman was horrified by her grand-children’s names. Only one had a ‘normal’ (and, to her, acceptable) name.
There are some well-known cases of first names that started as surnames: Jefferson Davis, Franklin Pierce, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On FNC this morning one of the programs had a Tobin Smith (a regular on that show). I wonder if Tobin is a family name. If your last name is Smith there may be an incentive to find an uncommon first name for your kid.
“Madison is the made up name of a slutty character from a movie.”
Perhaps in most cases that is true, but the only Madison I know personally is the daughter/granddaughter of very active DARs who have a familial connection with the Madison family of VA.
“I suppose this is one freedom you would all like to see go away? Quite frankly for a bunch of freedom lovers some of you don’t seem to embrace it like you claim.”
I am all for you having the freedom to name your kid anything you wish. You can name your kid “Qwerty-uiop” for all I care.
I also support having the freedom to make fun of you for it.
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