Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[colorcountry]

Grandmother named Agnes Serepta, another one named Aurelia Rozella and Grandfather Herbert Nello...kid you not.

[dalereed]

I went to 2 kids who got ribbed unmercifly, one was named Happy New Year and the other was Merry Christmas.

The strangest part was they were both in the same class.

[jimfree]

Mrs. jimfree encountered a woman named Yvonne. She pronounced it Why-von.

[pollyannaish]

My husband was a little ahead of his time, and I a little behind the times so we both grew up without any of those personalized things.

We were both disappointed when they started showing up.

Ironically, the same thing appears to be happening to our son who is just sick about it. Fortunately it is running about ten years back, so it doesn't matter. I think the same thing will happen to our daughter.

[NYC Republican]

So often, it's a relief when names die out. My grandmother had friends named Blanche and Gertrude

Ethel, Esther, Beatrice, all sorta died out. Good.

[orionblamblam]

Everybody knows of the Greek mythic hero Heracles. Nobody remembers his cousin, Testacles

[BruceysMom]

Huh? I thought DP was double pen.... nevermind.

[pollyannaish]

ROFLOL. Red Dwarf fan, right?

[Irene Adler]

"name is Fonda and her last name is Peters."

There was a high school girl who played basketball, on a high-performing team in Iowa (she was a strong competitor as well). Her name was Fonda Dix. Same problem.

[OB1kNOb]

Kids in our county schools:

Dilyn
Kay'Ron
Aziahnna
Marnesia
Djmore Moore (that's just wrong)
A'Kira
Marquis
Ajaylha (how's this pronounced?)
Enphyniti (how sad)
Sheverlay (is this where the poor kid was conceived?)

[colorcountry]

So.....what do you think of people with the last name Rodriguez, Martinez, Trujillo, Juaqez, Sisneros, Suarez, or Salazar?

[Amanda King]

Stupid Name #1: There's a bag boy at one of the local Publix supermarkets whose name is "NAME". He pronounces it: Nah-may (we asked him). His nametag is so stupid looking!!

Stupid Name #2: A friend of a friend taught in a nearby city's public school system and had a student in her class named "FORMICA". I never saw the spelling of her last name, but it was pronounced just like "DINETTE". Duh...

[angelanddevil2]

Madycine could very well also be pronounced like "medicine". I met a girl called Aspirini (from India).

[TXBubba]

Yes, and I've always loved the name Ashley..for a man...ever since. This may be one of those posts that I need to note again that I am a woman.

[A. Patriot]

No joke. My urologist is Patrick P. Daily ..or... P.P.Daily

[Syberyenta]

My mother's name was Madoris and she hated it.
She named her two sons after English kings.

[beaversmom]

I think Demi and Bruce also have one named Rumor--after Rumor Godden probably.

[Dianna]

OMG! I actually have a cousin named Cash! At least, I always thought that was his legal name.

I have a cousin named Twig. I did find out his legal name when he got married, but I can't remember it now.

[Irene Adler]

"There were very wealthy sisters in Texas many years ago, whose last name was Hogg. Their father must have hated them; he named them Ima and Ura. I'm totally not making this up."

You are wrong. There was no Ura. Ima was real, and a wealthy, Texas philanthropist and society woman. She had three brothers, but no sister, and there was not a child in the family named Ura.

[LS]

"Dashiki," which is Swahili for "Always Pregnant."

(From "Don't be a Menace to Society II")