Brand names: Some Americans are naming their children after consumer products

WORLD ^ | 11/15/03 | Gene Edward Veith

[TRY ONE]

Johnny Cash: "My name is Sue" --- In honor of lawyers all across the plains!

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

PS. The strangest name I've heard in a while: Latrina.

Obviously her dad was never in the Army.

[squidly]

I know of a girl named Chlamydia. I'm not joking.

[Publius6961]

As the pop culture—the world of entertainment and commercialism—drives out traditional culture...

To say nothing of self-centeredness.
Don't tell me, let me guess.
This new practice is most prevalent among the segment of society that never left the tribal mentality.

[Amelia]

For the teacher's sake, let's hope little Courvoisier Hennessey (why stop with one cognac?) prefers to be called C. H.

The thing that really gets on our nerves is when the students get MAD because we don't know how to pronounce the name their mother invented....

[Publius6961]

What makes the author think that this name has anything to do with cameras?

Are you suggesting that they also might be spelling challenged?

For shame!

[Calvin Locke]

I guess the parents of these poor unfortunates are counting on the either the government largesse to continue with the next
generation, or they think the job market will value the 15 minutes of attention the parent(s) get for naming people like this.

I do hope it builds character - and job motivation, because these kids will certainly need it.

"No, President Condombroke, that went out of style in the Oval Office with the President Clinton..."

[Publius6961]

In Costa Rica I met a fellow in a small eastern village with the name of Usnavy. Pronounced: Oosnahvee

[aruanan]

I was hoping after Pachelbel's.

Perhaps the child was conceived on a Canon color copier at an office party?

[Mark Turbo]

The name that really bugs me every time I see it is Washington Redskins wide receiver Laveranues Coles.

I have both him and LaDainian Tomlinson on my fantasy team.

[Publius6961]

With apologies to all, I am saving this thread under "Humor".

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I graduated with a boy named Pete Moss. No kidding.

Becky

[Celantro]

Huh! I should have named my sons Ruger and Winchester.

[jaime1959]

I wonder what the demographic breakdown is on these names? Is naming your kid "Celica" any goofier than N'Tarsha?

[monkey]

In other tribal societies, people are sometimes named for animals ("Sitting Bull") or for something else in nature ("Red Cloud").

Nowadays, with parking garages and walkways between buildings, there are probably people living up-to-date lives who haven't been outside in years.

Hyperreality has replaced nature, so the naming trend is to be expected. One would think the parents could arrange for an endorsement fee from the companies. Probably the next big thing.

[RipSawyer]

"I knew a kid whose family name was Pullen. The parents named him Peter."


I think I posted this on another thread but there was a story in the local newspaper about an industry a few miles from here and one of their executives was named "Dick Puffer".

[ntnychik]

There oughtta be a law that you can't give a kid an obscenity for a name!

There's a law you can't put an obscenity on a vanity license plate.

[RipSawyer]

So THAT's why my parents named me Backseat Dodge!

I wonder if that explains the "Sandy Fields" I once met.

[BlackRazor]

I have both him and LaDainian Tomlinson on my fantasy team.

At least "LaDainian" is pronounced the way it looks!

[ntnychik]

Garret, Connor, Mason, Taylor, etc.

We call them soap opera names.