Posted on 04/16/2011 11:46:10 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
When we named our kids we decided to skip the trendiness; aside from one very popular Biblical name, I have never met a kid among all the Nevaehs, Bishops, and Pipers with the same name as one of mine.
I call them “Ouija Board” names. Seem like a bunch of random letters to me.
It could have been worse.
She could have been called Suk won Jo
I once had a CSR named Panda Cox. She married a Brown.
Dated girls named "Bright", "Charity", "Erma"....
This is true. Unfortunately too many families decide to perpetuate the names Booger, Bubba, and Tater
Someone mentioned the name Junior.
I am proud to bear the moniker. I come from a long line of Juniors. It’s kind of a badge of honor in my family to be called Junior
I call my little brother Junior Jr. LoL
We named our daughter Kehaulani- and we live in West Texas. I’ve not heard any reports of other kids making fun of her name. The family calls her “KK” (which is also her initials).
The teachers and kids all call her “Kayalanee”. We think it’s a beautiful name, she likes it, and we never have to explain which Kehaulani we are looking for!
If we’d had a boy, we were planning on naming him after his grandfathers- “Clark Alvie”. :)
Those aren’t names, they’re nicknames. Those “rednecks” likely have a very historic family name with three surnames, like Carter Randolph Wrenn or something.
Antigone Porphyrios Betsy-Wayne Ng
A common mistake is to sound out the whole name—first, middle and last—and never consider that people are not usually going to say the middle name when they say the name. It’s good to consider the initials, too, and any possible nicknames or shortened versions of the name.
I would avoid “Jeeves.”
Mle?
My wife and I view with great amusement the names given babies in our area printed in the local rag every week. For a while it seemed there was an endless amount of babies named Kayden, or Ayden, or Caden, or Bailee, Baylee, Kaylee,etc. In short, all the supposedly liberated new parent baby-namers followed the herd. We both like traditional names. They never go out of style.
Was her last name Mockingbird?
A friend whose kids are are the same age(s) as mine, named them with it in mind: what will his name look like on a law firm letterhead.
I recently went skiing and I can’t believe the name the parents gave to their kid, they put his name on his skis, his name was ‘Rental’. - Steve Martin
I had a girlfriend in high school whose last name was Dicker. I don’t recall anyone using it as a straight line.
I thought mine was 'Jesus Christ.' Then one day my dad said, "Dammit, get in here." and I said, "No Dad, I'm Jesus Christ!"
And before I forget, I knew a man named
Forney Huckeba
Of course, everyone referred to him as “Horny”
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