Open Editorial: You Named Your Baby WHAT???

Onyx Magazine ^ | March, 2006 | Josephine Hammond

[brytlea]

That reminds me of a talking head on Fox called Megyn Kendall (I think that's her last name). Nothing wrong with Megan, but every time I see Megyn I think...Oh, yeah, I need to make my yearly appointment..." susie

[Corin Stormhands]

This guy is 100% right.

I think even in African American circles "Josephine" is a woman's name. ;-)

[najida]

Seriously,
Latrina is a Walmart employee I see everytime I go there....

[LS]

One could point to the whole "Phoenix" family of actors: River, Leaf, Twig, Moss, Pond Scum.

[massgopguy]

Look up Shirley Q. Liquor on the internet and find the songs.

[Red Badger]

I have an uncle named Shirley.......

[wallcrawlr]

A boy named Sue?

[Calvin Locke]

Black Americans aren't the only ones. I remember an earlier article abouts kids named after products. Meridian sticks in
my mind as being among the more acceptable. Only four syllables too.

However, I recall a some march on CSPAN that ended with some would-be rapper calling himself "Prime Meridian".

[BenLurkin]

"Hello, we are the Merkels; Bob and Julie.

"And here are our children. Our son -- Vioxx and little sister Cialis."

[brytlea]

I never made a list, but I guess I could....
susie

[TXBubba]

Probably fans of Ima Hogg the daughter of one of Texas governors. She never married so she never got a chance to change that name.

[Red Badger]

If you knew Susie like I know Susie........

[warchild9]

Hey, I've seen "Latrina" before, out here on the east coast. It must be more common than we fear...

[BenLurkin]

Worse yet -- a boy named 'Anakin'!

[Ditter]

I think I remember hearing that Condoleezza is a classical music term, not that I would know, I like country and western myself. ;9)

[Corin Stormhands]

That chart is ~fascinating~. What's the source?

[dighton]

“Her mother, a pianist, was thinking of the musical direction con dolcezza, or ‘with sweetness’; for her only child, she composed a variation on it.”

[Red Badger]

Dacron? Brothers Rayon and Nylon?.....

[UCANSEE2]

bttt.

A round of standing ovation to this person for 'telling it like it is'.