[mathprof]

They're all Meatheads!

[proudofthesouth]

I think Moxie would be a cute name for a dog, cat, rabbit or bird but I just can't see it for a kid.

[msnimje]

Is the Martin girl's middle name Pie?

[YOUGOTIT]

Because most are uneducated idiots.

[Savage Beast]

"Moxie CrimeFighter, a name chosen last year by the comedian and magician Penn Jillette for his daughter..."

You have to wonder if she'll see the humor and appreciate the magic when she's older.

My mother hated her (old Saxon) name all her life. I can't say that I blame her.

I love the name she and my father gave me. I'm lucky.

[cripplecreek]

LeMongello and O'Rangello

[Doctor Raoul]

A very smart woman once observed that to these kinds of people, it's not a child, it's a pet that talks.

[ContraryMary]

Some therapists said the celebrity impulse to foist odd names on their children amounts to simple narcissism by the parents, and the resulting status comes at the child's expense.

I thought it was simply because today's celebrities have brains the size of a pea.

[Doctor Raoul]

$10 to the first person who can prove somebody named their kid "Trecel". You KNOW that's happened.

Once went through "www.anywher.com" when you could search on only first names. Tried geography and got hits on Dayton, Boston, Austin, Savannah, Dallas, Albany, even Atlanta.

[mikrofon]

Some rules-of-thumb in naming kids:

- Give them a name that you won't be embarassed with when they make it into the news.
- Make sure they will have an easy common nickname, so they'll know that when you use their given name, you mean business.
- If you must, make the middle name the oddball so when they get to be a big shot they can go by their first initial and middle name.

[ShandaLear]

I wonder what Tomkat will name their baby. L.Ron?

These people name their kids like they are pets.

[CindyDawg]

I haven't heard of Apple before but Moses is a very common name where I live.

[fortunecookie]

"It's like having a mini me," said a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles. "The child is a part of them, not an individual. It's an appendage."

It really is all about them. Heaven forbid, then, that little CoCo Arquette or Apple Martin or 'enter name here' become prettier or more famous than mom and/or dad. And if they do, it's surely because of their famous parents, not on their own merit. At least they'll have the bucks for the continued and separate therapy for all to ease them through this angst...

[mewzilla]

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
And I called him my pa, and he called me his son,
And I came away with a different point of view.
And I think about him, now and then,
Every time I try and every time I win,
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name!

[elc]

Coming up with a baby name is so stressful. We are going through it right now. But I would never even consider some of the names these stars have chosen. Moxie Crimefighter? Pilot Inspecktor? Want your kid to be beat up on the playgroud?

Apple has kind of grown on me. But only because the pictures I've seen of her, she is very cute.

Mr. elc had one rule. We couldn't use an Irish name (with Irish spelling) - he's from the north of Ireland and many of our Irish friends here in the US have chosen Irish spelled names and the kids are having a hard time with it during school. No one knows how to pronounce them. And since he pronounces his last name funny - not like it is spelled - he didn't want her having to spell both names.

Of course as soon as he laid down that rule, I fell in love with the name Aoife (Irish for Ava/Eva). But I can see people having a hard time with that one.

So we settled on Neave (shh, its a secret) - the English spelling of Niamh. Since then I've learned the story of Niamh of the Golden Hair and since I'm praying she comes out with my blonde hair and not her fathers dark hair, I now really love the name.

We'll see in a few days (hopefully!!) if the name fits her.

[hinckley buzzard]

But as regular people — the sort who wait in line at restaurants and pay for their own clothing — try to catch up,

LOL! This poor schlepp needs to get in from the coastal provinces. "Regular people" don't "try to catch up." Regular people have lives of their own. The kind of wannabes who care about movie stars "try to catch up" and while they may actually "wait in line at restaurants" (god only knows why) they are in fact rather irregular sorts.

[Lorianne]

What is wrong with the name Moses? People are making such a big deal about it ... I don't get it.

I think it's a perfectly fine name.

[Zack Nguyen]

Hollywood baby names like Pilot Inspektor, cooked up by Jason Lee, the star of "My Name Is Earl," or Banjo, the inspiration of the "Six Feet Under" star Rachel Griffiths, or Moxie CrimeFighter, a name chosen last year by the comedian and magician Penn Jillette for his daughter.

Are they truly insane?! "Moxie Crimefighter?!"