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

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

[Oorang]

Great googley moogley!

[Oorang]

I knew someone once with the last name of Bauley, pronounced Ball-ee. Everyone in the family pronounced in Ball-ee, except for her. She had to say "it's French and pronounced Boo-ley". Yeah, right.

[T Lady]

So what's next, a kid named 'Drano' or 'Comet'? (after the declogging liquid and cleanser, respectively) Perhaps we'll even see some girls named 'Downy', 'Charmin' or 'Snuggle'. One thing's for sure, they'll all have 'household' names (Heh, heh).

-Regards, T.

[carpio]

Another reason to kill your TV.

John Prine fan??? :-)

[Allegra]

We also have an Allegra and a Ford.

HEY! What's wrong with that? That allergy medicine didn't come out until the late 80s. LOL

[Held_to_Ransom]

Social Security??? I didn't know they even kept a publicly viewable list-of-citizens.

They probably publish abstracts of their data. Probably even a list of all the names used and how many times they occurred in their list. A mere simple database query.

So much for the depth of what passes for research.

[linn37]

I have a nephew named Denim. I thought he was joking when he told me what the babys name would be. :(

[Hildy]

Twenty three years ago when my brother was having a child, his wife chose the name Brooke if it was a girl. My brother put his foot down because our last name is Linn and he didn't want to saddle a child with the name: Brooke Linn. Fast forward to the present. I own a store which hosts many children. So far this year I've seen three girls named Brooklyn. That's their first name. It's so incredibly stupid I feel like slapping the parents.

[Fzob]

John Prine fan??? :-)

Not a clue who he is. Fill me in

[T Lady]

I also know someone who named her daughter Brooklyn. Small world, isn't it?

-Regards, T.

[Hildy]

I can't hear the word cashmere without thinking of that hysterical Seinfeld episode where George gives the cleaning lady whom he had sex with the cashmere sweater meant for Elaine. Her story about growing up poor in South America and admiring the rich North American men who came to her small town wearing cashmere is one of the funniest monologues ever.

[wtc911]

Went to school with a girl named Cherry Vanilla Goldstein...born in '51 in Brooklyn where that was the Breyers flavor of the week down the corner...We called her Cheri.

[boris]

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

See The Pangs of Aphasia

--Boris

[ColdSteelTalon]

Well any those was better than my name....

When I was a kid my name was "stupid"

:(

[Not A Snowbird]

And the kid who never quite completes toilet training is named Hallmark.

I'm laughing so hard I'm almost crying. Since I just finished wiping a really bad miss off the bathroom wall, can I rename my husband?

[boris]

"I don't plan on having any kids, but if I do, I have two names: (A) girls name-- Juicyfruit (B) boys name-- Big Red"

I tried to talk my vet into naming her baby daughter Vulnavia in honor of the "Dr. Phibes" character. The name itself appears to be a contraction (sorry) of the words "vulva" and "navel".

She named the kid "Sarah". No imagination.

--Boris

[hispanarepublicana]

There is a mega-politically incorrect (read: HILARIOUS) website/disc jockey entertainer who is named Shirley Q. Liquor "Tell you momma how she durrin." (www.shirleyqliquor.com), whose fictional children include K-Martina, Saskatoon, etc.

[Redcloak]

You could name his little brother "Nopar".

[SeaDragon]

I have read through all of these waiting for someone to mention the famous Texas billionaire by the name of Hogg. He named his two daughters Ima and Ura.

True story.

[Sofa King]

To be fair to some of these, alot of products are named after a person, so 'Ford' for example is an actual name. Most of them are last names, though.