[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.

[petuniasevan]

Rule #1 for baby naming:

How does it sound shouted out the back door fifty times? Good? Bad? WEIRD? Choose one, because you'll be doing exactly that for years to come.

Rule #2 for baby naming:

Can relatives/teachers/friends figure out how to PRONOUNCE the kid's name without coaching or a reference book? If not, think again.

Rule #3 for baby naming:

Does the name, along with the surname, sound awkward, suggestive, jokey, or trashy? You might want to reconsider subjecting your kid to the inevitable ridicule.

Rule #4 for baby naming:

Realize that some trendy names will be tomorrow's dated curiosities. Hazel? Born 1912. StarChild? Born 1972.

Still, sometimes kids overcome the stigma of a crummy name.
There's a successful doctor in a northern California town whose name is...

BREVATOR CREECH.


Ick.

[LibertarianLiz]

Rylee LeManne

Yikes! This does sound like a stripper.

Anyway, the WORST girl's name I have ever run across was the niece of someone I worked with over 20 years ago. The girl's name was HARLA. I kid you not. Another girl I worked with said to me, "Harla, isn't that a pretty name?" I looked at her in disbelief and said, "No, that is a perfectly awful name to give a little girl." At first, she looked at me like she couldn't understand why I had said that, but I think it slowly began to sink in.

[plinker's2sense]

bttt

[mombonn]

Years ago, I knew people who named their daughter Brandy Alexander because that's what they were drinking the night she was conceived.

I wonder what ever happened to them?

LOL, the same people used to make green bean soup - they mixed sour cream, ketchup and undrained canned green beans together, heated it, and called it dinner.

[RepublicanHippy]

But does spelling matter when the teacher calls on Julie, Jullee, Jewlee, Julliee and Julye?

Or, how about RocksAnn?

[CollegeRepublican]

I have a friend with the last name "Peacock." He wants to name his first son, Drew. True story. For those in Rio Linda, say it out loud.

[coydog]

In my face-sketching business I dealt with two little girls named Madison and Kennedy. Funny thing was, they both looked like Central Americans and their mom had a fresh-off-the-boat accent. Funny world.

[Junior]

A buddy of mine gave his wife one guideline in naming their kid: he shouldn't be asked to spell it every time he tells someone what it is.

[OldBlondBabe]

In the office where I used to work many years ago, a customer's name was Harry Dick. Not kidding.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

I wish I could remember where I have read it, but I saw a study a few years ago in which it had been determined to a fairly high degree of accuracy, that there was direct evidence showing that the newborn babies sporting the most unique/strange/trendy baby names (remember baby Iice, whose freak vegan parents starved her almost to death in NY?) more often then not had mothers with the least amount of education.

No way I am going to read through 600+ posts yet...Saving for a rainy day BTTT.

[zlala]

I went to school, 5th through 12th grade, with a girl named Merry Christmas.

[jmc813]

self ping for later

[TomServo]

Bttt for old times sake...

[RedbugXING]

If my Grandma had her way, I would be named Gladie-Lou May. If my Grannie had her way, I would be named Evediere (EVA-deer) Jean. Thank GOD my mom had already chosen a much better name.

People I have run across in my travels around the US:

Chlorinne D Algee- a very sweet old lady from FL
Gho Phuc- A business man in NJ
Eric Shawn- An unfortunate child whose christening I had the accidental pleasure of attending (HISPANIC PRONUNCIATION)
Dorcas Sprinkle- A shy Greek girl from a town northeast of Atlanta
Harry Wooley- A Florida Retiree
Raymond Graybush- An elderly man in NJ
Nellie Puss-Ann- Atlanta (real name not nickname)
Snizhiana (SNEE-zh-ana)- A FL 20-something GESUNDHEIT!

There are reports in South America that when indians "indigenous people" hear Spanish words and like the sound of them, they end up naming their children that. It would not be uncommon to hear a child called "Whitewall" or "Umbrella" if the sound of the word had a nice ring to it.

[HungarianGypsy]

Wow! I'm boring. I have stuck with semi-traditional sounding names like Justin, Katarina, Logan, Joshua, and Matthew (my oldest actually suggested his youngest brother's name.)