Spread a Little on Me ( Stupid baby names)

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[angcat]

My mom did mention who he was but I did not know the facts. Wow what an exciting life! Thank you for the interesting reading! Most people poke fun that I was named after a sinking ship:)

[GWfan]

Dr. Wink was the optometrist in my home town. I loved that name!

[angcat]

You have to hear the names in my daughter's school, Dallas, Tyler, Cody, and Blaze. Ok I named my daughter Mia Rose. If I ever have another kid and it's a girl I just love the name of the American Air base in Italy...Aviano. I would change it to Aviana.

[Loyalist]

Austin is also the old English short form of Augustine (hence St. Austin).

[Dick Bachert]

A friend once worked in the records office of a large inner city charity hospital. She thought she'd seen it all until a copy of a birth certificate crossed her desk with one of the strangest names for a little girl she'd ever seen.

She was so taken by the name, she called the parents to see how it came about. The mother told her that the daddy was reading the paper in the delivery waiting room while trying to figure out what to call their 6th child. Two words he read instantly captured his fancy and that was it.

Anybody on FR ever run into a woman named "FORMICA DINETTE SMITH?"

[GOPJ]

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[Osage Orange]

From the title:

"Spread a Little on Me ( Stupid baby names)

Posted on 02/14/2003 11:27 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs

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Please....don't ever make me read this, "Spread a Little on Me"...followed by this, "Hillary's Lovely Legs" again..!! Turns my stomach.

[Ciexyz]

Is there a black family in America who has given their kid a normal name in the last fifteen years?

Unfortunately, these names clue the public as to the race of the perpetrators in the crime news. "Dontay Johnson" robbed a bank. "Tameeka Shontelle Jones" was arrested for prostitution.

On the other hand, "Geoffrey Alford Smith" was named CEO.

People make assumptions about others based on their names. A traditional name will never hurt a child (unless it's Bertha or Ulysses!)

[Grig]

"Utah is the only place I've lived with a significant Mormon population, so I wouldn't have know that!"

No problem, I just wanted to set the record straight. Only about 10% of Mormons live in Utah, but that is almost the only place where Mormons form a significant segment of the population, so it's common for people to think all of us are like them. The other 90% of us like to poke fun at their quirks a little bit now and then. Us non-Utah Mormons blend in with the culture of our area pretty well.

[T Minus Four]

Us non-Utah Mormons blend in with the culture of our area pretty well.

That's true, I've had neighbors and friends who were Mormon almost everywhere I've lived, and I don't remember thinking they were particularly "quirky", except for the food storage thing, which was pretty impressive.

[Tall_Texan]

The Houston Texans have a receiver by the name of Atnaf Harris. We think his mother must have seen a can of Fanta soda pop in a mirror in the delivery room. That's our theory and we're sticking with it.

[unspun]

And I was in a meeting a couple days ago in which I was told that the director of logistics of a major international company was a Ms. Scattergood.

[demosthenes the elder]

This actually happens, a lot.
One of my great sources of amusement at the clinic is the high incidence of incredibly stupid names.
We have...
Jerry Curl
Orangelo and Lemongelo
Shithead (pronounced: SHUH-theeed)
Odonta
Placenta
at least 50 ways to spell Lakweisha, (etc...etc... ad infinitum et absurdum)
(discovered recently to gales of laughter) some poor kid saddled with "Anthrax"
Some poor slob tagged with "Yudumbas"

Some kids are walking around with names that are totally adequate excused for paricide

[surrey]

Neighbors of ours in Cleveland had a baby boy and didn't know what to name him so they just called him Duke. When he was ready to be enrolled in Kindergarten he still had no name on his birth certificate. At age 5 they had to come up with a proper name for him.....John it was but he's still Duke.

[demosthenes the elder]

"Duke" is not a bad name at all - at least it has a definite meaning (medieval nobility, roman military rank) and is spelled correctly.

[Cyber Ninja]

Jihad Valentine?

From the Iraqi Interior Minister of Women’s Rights:
Sheikh Shakee Offyoor Brah-Zeer.

[WaveThatFlag]

No one cares.

Would it be fair to say a few people care? This thread was the perfect rememdy for a very stressful day. As you have seen for yourself, a lot of people care. It is you who feels him/herself to be the center of the universe.

[WaveThatFlag]

At age 5 they had to come up with a proper name for him.....John it was but he's still Duke.

You got a problem with "Duke" Pilgrim?

[Brandy416]

Sure people care. I care so much that I had to establish a Freeper account so I could chime in. In no particular order here are some reactions to what I read yesterday:

1. All of this is VERY subjective and driven by personal preference and culture - it's a free country. There are countries where names must be approved by the government. Those who cannot tolerate contemporary naming practices are welcome to relocate.

2. There are clearly some members of the Flat Earth Society writing here. I wonder if some of you John's and Mary's still have black phones and cars? The good news for you is that we seem to be returning to some of the 19th century names {Sarah, Grace, Abigail, etc.}. I've been bracing myself for Maude, Eunice, Hortense, and that old gem: BERTHA!

3. Gender Benders: I do think it's easier for a girl to live with a guy's name than vice versa. But names have crossed back and forth throughout history, think 'Ashley' for MALES. Yeah, right! But, not so long ago it was a dignified male name; read "Wuthering Heights" or "Gone With The Wind."

4. The Bible: You think the Bible is a reliable source for conservative name choices? How about 'Michal' for FEMALES {like my 6 year-old granddaughter}? Check out 1st & 2nd Samuel. Michal was King Saul's daughter; she married King David {of David and Bathsheba fame}.

5. Adjectives - Some of us have given names that seemed ok with our maiden names, but upon marrying things changed: I became Sandy Meadows, I am friends with one Sandy Hill, and we corresponded with a June Snow. I gave some half serious thought to naming my children things like: Brook Meadows, Summer Meadows, Spring Meadows, . . .

And don't forget Gay - My youngest sister, along with many others, was named Gay, back when it meant things like: happy, cheerful, exuberant, lively . . . I haven't heard any little girls named Gay lately. Times change!