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

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

[general_re]

I read this story to my children, Nike and Beemer, and they agreed that some of these names are pretty outrageous...

[MissEdie]

Don't laugh - at the school I teach in we had a set of twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello. They were pronounced Awngjalow and Lamonjalow. We also had "Fa ma lee" (Female); the parents thought the hospital had named their daughter for them. This year we have Hermajesty. Before you ask - yes this area is in serious need of a new source of genes; and no I am not from here.

[banjo joe]

The people who named their baby 'Del Monte' are allowed to vote!

They are probably multi-generational lifetime entitlements receipients (ahhh... "clients" to the multitude gainfully employed in that industry) as well.

[Sender]

This is horrible. I'm glad people weren't doing this when my little Abercrombie was born!

[randog]

The trend I've noticed these days is to give your kid a last name as a first name--Garret, Connor, Mason, Taylor, etc. I guess it's better than the '80's when everyone was giving their kids names that started with 'J'.

[JZoback]

Do you remember seeing the Olsmobile car commercial where the kid realizes for the first time why she is named "Aurora"?

[MissEdie]

Had a child that was stuck with that one last year! We also have an Allegra and a Ford.

[Ulysses]

My all-time favorite is the little girl my sister-in-law taught..."Oprylandria."

[paulklenk]

Meet my daughter, Clorox.

[The Louiswu]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

William Shakespeare

[oldironsides]

That baby was born in Pennsylvania decades ago. I knew the nurse that was in the DR. Can there be two Placentas?
The Loreal name is probably from the movies and cartoon and the many dolls on the market and not the hair products.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I worked in the insurance industry for awhile and some of the names that passed my way were:

Rose Bush
Polly Parrot
Susie Sunshine
Nimrod Buber
Merry Noel
Holly Bush

I suppose these aren't as bad as some names but can you imagine any parent who would name their kid Polly Parrot?

[P.O.E.]

Stupid Baby Names

A long thread, but worth the perusal....

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Still, I think the two worst names I actually ever encountered in my -own- life were both last names for girls that I knew. One poor girl was named Updegrove, which lends itself to about 10,000 different horrible distortions. One open to less creative manipulation, but potentially even more damning, was a girl with the last name of Suchavich. >>>

Once knew a girl whose last name was Schitmaster.

She, I have it on good authority, now uses her husband's last name. No hyphenation for her....

[BADROTOFINGER]

There was a guy from the Philadelphia Eagles, a halfback (but he might have been a defensive back) named Siran Stacy. His mother named him after Saran Wrap, no joke...JFK

[M Kehoe]

Ok then, what about Dweezel or Moon Unit?

R.I.P Mr. Z.

5.56mm

[rhema]

The Bard did have a way with names, he did. Shakespeare aficionados ought to consider giving their offspring monikers like Touchstone, Pinch, and Dogberry.

[mhking]

I know this doesn't lend itself to race on the surface, but I've seen my share of "creative" naming that falls in this category within the black community.

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[MoralSense]

Remember Johnnie Cochrane's brother, Rolonza Philectron Cochrane, who was shot in L.A. two years ago?

Lessee, I think I'll have a whole brood of kids and name them after my stock portfolio: American Movil, Aeropostale (that fits), Best Buy (so does that), Cray, Rofin-Sinar, Bradley, Hovnanian, and Symantec.