Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[ConservativeBamaFan]

On the other hand, with 20 other Madisons in her middle school class, I suppose it makes her stand out, eh?

Kinda like my son's little league team: 3 kids names Logan, 3 named Dillon, 2 named Ryan. A team of 11 kids only has 6 names among them.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well . . . since the Septuagint was the version used in Israel in Jesus's time (and quoted by Christ himself), that's good enough for me! < g >

. . . I really DON'T want to start a religious war on this thread though . . . other than to say that Bible names are common in my family and we have some doozies - like all the guys named Nimrod . . . I have four cousins named Nimrod. The tradition in the family is to name the first child Nimrod if it's a boy. When we were pregnant for the first time, my husband was pretty adamant that "no son of mine is going to be named Nimrod!" -- fortunately she turned out to be a girl, so she was named after her two grandmothers and that was AOK.

[oldbrowser]

Hey it isn't just limited to "African"-Americans. I have plenty of caucasion friends who give their kids seemingly "normal" names. Then you find out they are spelling it some really strange way. Poor kid is going to be correctly people their whole life. Idiot parents.

I have also seen some young people change the spelling of their name to differentiate themselves from others with similar names.

These people invariable are insecure or egotistical.

[OB1kNOb]

My daughter came across a boy's name at school that just goes to show that the pendulum can swing too far both ways.

His first name: J That's it, just J

[rintense]

I am Shekwan. ALT: ShaQwan.

[Verginius Rufus]

That Khalil Greene...perhaps named for the Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), whose book The Prophet was very popular at one time.

[stands2reason]

Sokay, I, too, used to be less open minded about names until I started doing genealogical research and realised parents today have nothing on the generations before when it comes to odd names. These things go in cycles.

[7thson]

How about Regnad Kcin? A no-prize to the first one who figures it out.

[7thson]

How about Major Major from Catch-22? And if you want some strange names, look at the Senate and the Congress. John Kerry? Oh wait, that's a strange person, not a strange name.

[7thson]

Once on Howard Stern, he said he met a guy named Nosmo King. Said his mother saw it at the hospital. Never really knew if he was joking or not.

[doubled]

That's Nick Danger reading his name on the door of his office in Firesign Theaters "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When Your Really No Where at All?"

[twippo]

"male patient named Didymus"

What is the sexual meaning in that? I know Didymus was one of the names of the biblical Thomas. There was Didymus the Blind.

www.newadvent.org/cathen/04784a.htm

[7thson]

You have won a no prize!

[DejaJude]

Don't bogart that name my friend, what is it?!

It is Kaden. Think cadence with a K. Or Dade County with a K. We always called him Kade.

And of course hubby and I have fun with the LAST names of NFL guys, like Thrasher, etc.

At that time, we were big Oakland Raiders fans. I haven't kept up with the NFL since then except to notice that some of the last names are so large that they seem to require a wrap around on their jerseys.

[DejaJude]

He sounds like a wonderful man. You must have been wonderful, inventive parents

He is a wonderful man. Don't know if we can claim the credit for him. At some point, they grow up and chose their own path.

[TeddyCon]

Buquita Krahq Mckinney

[bootless]

The daughter of Bill Lear, developer of the Lear Jet, really is named Shanda. She is a lovely lady and a beautiful singer.

This whole thread reminds me of the line in the movie "Coach Carter," when one pregnant high school girl, who was black, is chided by her friend when she ran down some names for her baby (such as Laquisha, etc.). The friend said, "Why don't you just name her Food Stamps?!"

[Budge]

Couple here in town named their boy...here's how it's pronounced... she-'ted

He's an adult now.

I'm not going to post how it's spelled, I might get kicked off for talking dirty!

[RhoTheta]

bump'Quita

[Budge]

Just know Ima was the never married daughter of Gov. Hogg. Her estate has left some gardens and house somewhere around here. Houston?

Yes, in River Oaks. The home is on River Oaks Blvd. as a matter of fact.

She and my Dad were good friends.