[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

May I add if I hear one more little girl named MADISON, I am going to go and slap her parents.

[APBaer]

"What a wonderful name, I exclaimed, for a future professional hooker!'

Can't hold a candle to a girl I met once named:
Merilee Fuchs

[WriteOn]

Mini-me is still my favorite name.

[Lee Heggy]

With my father's sense of humor and desire for me to be a scrapper I was very fortunate to have been born male. 'Peggy Heggy' would have been too much of a cross to bear.

[alisasny]

An old highschool friends named her two Carter and Madison..as you can imagine we laugh a lot about this. Whats next? It surely wont be Reagan or George thats for sure....LOL

[johniegrad]

Funny in an angry, cynical way. Good fit with FR.

[Bahbah]

May I heartily agree with you.

[mbynack]

I read a story (might have been a Dave Barry) about a woman who named her son "Latrine" because she liked the way it sounded. I still get a laugh out of that when I think of it.

[wretchard]

Parents can be cruel sometimes, when they give capricious names to their children, or use them as live bumper stickers. They've no idea what it means to run around a playground with a name like "Wilberforce" and have a kid two grades older make fun of you. Or maybe they do and are just trying to pass the bad memories and misery on. I read someplace that there are hundreds of kids now called "Osama". That might not be such a good idea in twenty years, though it won't be so bad in a hundred. People lighten up on anything after a long time. One of my nephews is called Jesse James, which is cool, by now.

[NorthStar03]

I agree. Naming kids is getting out of hand. A knew a Celinda, once. Except it was spelled Xelenda.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Bri and Ry? Like cheese and bread? You’re naming your kids after cheese and bread?

Bwahahahaha!

My wife is a pharmacist and sees quite a few unique names. Her favorite is an elderly lady named "Electra Dovey Bumbaloo".

[bmwcyle]

I heard one woman calling called her daughter, Misty Dawn. The nurse in the hospital asked if they had a boy were they calling him, Stormy Weekend?

[harpseal]

Female names I really dislike include Madison, Brianna, Brochi, and just about any pretentious name I can think of.

[quark]

Hillary Rodham = the worst

[Mr. Mojo]

Of course, buying a child a chemistry set and encouraging the exploration of the wonderful world of chemicals is far less embarrassing than saddling a child with the name "Cannon."

How about "Rockford", or "McGarrett"?

[Severa]

My first name is Virginia and I got teased at school because the name somewhat resembles a certain body part on a woman....I'm not kidding...

[Mark]

Moon Unit

[Paradox]

I know, it’s a gift. I’m just trying to save the kid some pain. There’s a cardinal rule in naming kids, and it is "Thou shall not mix ethnicities." Rylee sounds Irish. Your surname is LeManne. Rylee LeManne. It’s like me being Rosita Connelly. It’s not allowed.

Sigh, I did just that with my baby boy. I combined and Irish first name (Gavin) with a Spanish last name... oh well, at least I spelled it right..

[SerpentDove]

I know a real dim bulb who named her son, "Raider."

She went to Texas Tech. You know, the Red Raiders.

[egarvue]

I agree - Madison was a president, shouldn't be a little girl's name. My wife and I went with good, solid Bible names for our girls: "Miriam", "Rebekah" & "Hannah". Of course, we took a pass on "Jezebel" & "Dorcas"...

[January24th]

True story: a co-worker's dad is named Richard Tickler. He meets you, shakes your hand, and says, "Call me Dick!"