I'm torn between June-Bug, Jamal, and Mohammed.
I always wanted to name a daughter Cosmoline.
and then there are the perhaps-even-fiercer more retarded names like Breaker, Ranger, and Wilder.”
Strange ... there were not many names containing ‘kk’ or ending in ‘qua’. Whz up wit dat? :)
My dad worked at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in the 60s & 70s. There was a woman who gave birth there. She liked the sound of one of the words she heard during her delivery and decided to use it as her daughter’s name. Her daughter was named Placenta.
4. Modern hero surnames. Satran says Mariah Carey nailed it when she named her daughter Monroe, to honor her heroine, Marilyn Monroe. Other examples of surnames or heros in movies, life and literature used as first names: “Landry (as in football coach Tom), Gatsby (as in fictional hero The Great), and Palin (yes, as in her).”
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Friend of mine had a boy 2 years ago. Named him Ripken. As in Cal.
Goes by Rippy.
(I’ve been nice. I’ve never spoke my mind on THAT.)
Yes, she can--and will--thank me later.
As I do whenever I see a baby-naming thread:
http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html
“Baby’s Named A Bad, Bad Thing.” Enjoy.
I’ve worked with a Tequila and a Cinderella.
Mark my words, they’ll be some Levitras growing up in the ‘hood soon.
My first name is that of a famous Revolutionary War battle, my middle that of a Dutch painter. (yea, I know, “WHAT WERE YOUR PARENTS THINKING?”) [I’m a “Junior”] My first name has two vowels together and, to those unfamiliar with it as a place name, looks like it might be pronounced in several different ways.
We moved a lot when I was a kid, so I was always in a new school, labeled either a Yankee or a Redneck (depending on which way we had just moved) and stuck with an invariably mispronounced first name. Not quite “A Boy Named Sue”, but you get the picture. I was a runt, to boot!
My surname is very, very common, but a Google search shows only about a dozen folks with my first and last names. None with my middle initial, let alone middle name. So, I guess there are some benefits to having a strange name.
My half-sister was an administrator in a dental office. A woman came in with a baby named “First Time In.” I kid you not.
Le-A is pronounced LeDashA. Or food stamps for short. Or for sure.
Potato.
Potato is a fine name in any language.
seems time for THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ
If I have a son or daughter, I will name them “Butch.”