My son's a Fruit; Parents are giving kids strange names

ABCNEWS.com ^ | 2-04-03 | Buck Wolf

[sheik yerbouty]

One's daughter should not be encouraged by her parents to be a tart.

[widgysoft]

With a name like Atom the kids will be smashing him up big time.

[areafiftyone]

I have decided to name my first born HAMBURGER and his sister will be called BUNS!

[Johnny Gage]

Hutch (7)
Starsky (6)


LOL... the parent of these kids are obviously TV Land fanatics.

[Whitebread]

I met a couple of Ladies last weekend,
Urine (your-een)
Shithead (sha-theed)
and Dinette

[Wordsmith]

Gee, and here I am thinking the names my wife and I chose for our boys were unusual:

Lysander Gabriel, Dmitri Seraphim, and Aidan Youssou

[stanz]

We have a lawyer at my firm by the name of Papaya.

[r9etb]

I've met a guy named Hercules. My son goes to school with a kid named Talon.

[Paleo Conservative]

ABCNEWS.com

At first I thougt this was an article in The Onion.

[TXnMA]

It's as if parents think they're guilty of abuse if there is another kid in the classroom with the same name as theirs."

The real child abuse is in saddling your poor, defenseless child with a name they'll hate (and/or be teased for) all their life -- just because you, the parent, think it's cute or funny.

BTW, I had breakfast at a truck stop recently, and the juke box played Johnny Cash's rendition of "A Boy Named 'Sue:" several times... ;-{

[Arkinsaw]

Now, we Americans must debate the virtues of allowing parents to name children anything they want.

My daughter is named Cheyenne. She likes it just fine. The government has no say in it.

[Jimmyclyde]

One's daughter should not be encouraged by her parents to be a tart.

I know, that's almost as bad as naming your kid Sheik when your last name is Yerbouty.

Talk about scarring a kid for life.

[areafiftyone]

Is his first name Grey? (its a New York thing!)

[Corin Stormhands]

My wife's cousin named her daughters "Summer Breeze" and "Sunshine Michelle."

We told the family if we had a girl we were namin' her "Winter Solstice."

[stanz]

It's HER first name, but the dogs are unique, too.

[MrB]

Dung? They named a girl Dung? Reminds me of the character in Unintended Consequences. Pronounced Guh noria, spelled like the disease.

[Semper911]

Well this is breaking news if I have ever seen it.

3, 2, 1.....

[Jimmyclyde]

My wife's cousin named her daughters "Summer Breeze"

I bet her daughter had that not so fresh feeling.