The Weird, the Bad, and the Ugly: Name Discussion - Merge

[kemme]

My former boss has a grandson called Maverick. She told me about it and asked what I thought and I was like "It's....." for 2 minutes and still couldn't find a good answer, so just said "weird". She laughed/agreed.

[itsnikki05]

Also wanted to add that a cousin named her son Dallas Calvin because her husband's a huge Cowboys fan, and Calvin was the closest sounding name to cowboy they could come up with. Personally, I think I'd of lied and just told people we liked the name instead of actually telling people that's where it came from.

I understand LOL! Got a niece named Payton after Payton Manning. No joke. LOL

[E Street Fan]

Like Natashia.... Pronounced Natasha? Yeah.,... And then she nicknamed me Nikki, which I still prefer to go by. Thanks mom! *sigh *

Nit bad names, but I know a couple.. The husband's name is Shea and the wife is Shay. :)

I know a man named Erin (that's how it's spelled) married to a woman named Erin.

In South Carolina, I knew a woman named Buffie (with the i-e spelling). Her last name was something very similar to her first name, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I also know a Bambi whose parents are fundie-lite.

[Arete]

Oh my goodness, I just remembered! One day in the lab I picked up the phone and a man named Dick Ackin asked for my colleague. I hung up the phone thinking it was a crank. It turned out he was absolutely real. Richard Ackin, and he went by Dick.

[spectralScavenger]

My parents know a couple whose last name was Lear. They have a daughter. First name Crystal, middle name Shanda.

Crystal Shanda Lear.

And my mother went to kindergarten with a boy named Donald Duck.

[kemme]

Oh! Also my cousin has two daughters called Shaunlynn and Tawny...

[twin2]

Place I used to work at had a Dr. Harry Sacks. WTF were his parents thinking. We would die when they would page him.

I have an uncommon first name. Not unique (it's in the Bible). A few years ago a celeb gave her daughter the same name. Whole lot of comments about how bad it was, that it sounded old fashion and why would she name her kid that? I had a sad, I don't think it's that bad. :cry:

[PennySycamore]

There is a guy in my hometown named Phil Philips, but that's nothing compared to the guy named Juan Fowler. What's so weird about the name Juan Fowler? (well, except you don't expect someone named Juan to have the surname Fowler!) Juan was pronounced Jew-Ann!

There was a friend of my dad's whose first name was Eutah, but I always thought it was Utah when I was little.

[patsymae]

Love celeb baby names like Pilot Inspector (sp?) and the famous Geldoff girls--Fift Trixibelle, Peaches (who wrote about having a fruit name after Gwyneth Paltrow had Apple--not positively), Pixie, and their half-sister, Tiger Lily.

Then again, in the hippie days there were a lot of Amerikas, Sunshines, Harmonys and obscure historical names or obscure angels like Robespierre and Raziel. Most of those folks now go by Alan, Sue and Joe.

[Rachel333]

My parents know a couple whose last name was Lear. They have a daughter. First name Crystal, middle name Shanda.

Crystal Shanda Lear.

And my mother went to kindergarten with a boy named Donald Duck.

That couple must really get around a lot, because that's another name I see in all of these discussions. :lol:

I'm also going to need some proof for any "Le-a" variant before I believe it.

[SpeakNow]

As a teacher I've seen some odd names.

Boys:

Sincere

Tysiah (pronounced like Isaiah with a T)

Anilson (pronounced a-nelson)

Tyerence (pronounced like tyrant without the T)

Tyga

Girls:

Precious

Sparkle

Princess

Avalon

Tangeniqua

Genesis

Hallize (Hal-I-zay)

Darby

Also, one of my dear friend's last name is Frost. Her father's name is Jacob, but his nickname is Jack.

[NurseNell]

The name Sincere seems popular with West Africans in MN, always for a boy.

There is a father/son attorney practice in Wausau, WI. Last name is Crooks. Crooks and Crooks, Attorneys at Law!

Dr. Hurt was an OB/Gyn in the Navy.

My cousin's brother in law is a dentist, Dr. Paine.

[PennySycamore]

As a teacher I've seen some odd names.

Boys:

Sincere

Tysiah (pronounced like Isaiah with a T)

Anilson (pronounced a-nelson)

Tyerence (pronounced like tyrant without the T)

Tyga

Girls:

Precious

Sparkle

Princess

Avalon

Tangeniqua

Genesis

Hallize (Hal-I-zay)

Darby

Also, one of my dear friend's last name is Frost. Her father's name is Jacob, but his nickname is Jack.

I knew a Jack Frost, too. His real first name escapes me, but he was retired from the Air Force and he worked at the National Fish Hatchery up at Mountain Rest. His daughter was in my class. Her name was Crystal. Her parents named her after a family friend in Austria.

[Lillybee]

Names my clients gave their children.

Erotica

Jack Daniels

twins Chabis and Chardonnay.

[eightykatie]

I went to church with a Gay Mann. She was older (and married, so it's not like her parents saddled her with that name!). I felt bad for her, once I got old enough that the penny dropped. She was a lovely lady, and I'm sure she was married before "gay" was really used to refer to anything other than joyfulness.

[znthahmed378]

There are two women at my work: one named Baby and one named Vanilla.

They are both old.

[Mary C Doates]

Chone Figgins, the baseball player. That's Chone, as in "Sean".

I know a person whose parents refused to name him (he was born with significant physical and cognitive disabilities, and they were told to leave him in the hospital at birth). He kept the name Baby Boy well into adulthood, when his caretakers decided he deserved a "real" name.

[EyeQueue]

Ha! That was one I thought might actually be true.

I've read Jaycee Dugard's girls are Starlight and Angel? I think that's right, Starlight is new to me. Didn't a celeb recently name a kid Rainbow?

I know a Burn and a Byrn, both girls.

I have a co-worker named Rainbow. She's super intelligent, kind, and is a yoga instructor. :)

[Gil]

Growing up there was a kid in my sister's class named Indiana Jones. His older sister was allowed to name the new baby and, well...

I'm reading a book on 19th century gay male sex written by a man named Willie Peniston, which sounds like an awful punchline to an awful joke.

[EyeQueue]

There's a chapter in Freakonomics that discusses the issue of baby naming. The saddest one in there was a girl named Temptress, who was (wait for it) a troubled juvenile delinquent. The judge asked her mom WTH did she name her daughter Temptress, and she was really clueless, because she thought she had named her daughter Tempestt (a la Tempestt Bledsoe). :?

[Rachel333]

I have a co-worker named Rainbow. She's super intelligent, kind, and is a yoga instructor. :)

Holly Madison (Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend from Girls Next Door) named her daughter Rainbow--Rainbow Aurora Rotella.

[EyeQueue]

Holly Madison (Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend from Girls Next Door) named her daughter Rainbow--Rainbow Aurora Rotella.

:lol: :lol: :lol: I'll take mine with pesto sauce, please!

[Rescinded and Mended]

Love celeb baby names like Pilot Inspector (sp?) and the famous Geldoff girls--Fift Trixibelle, Peaches (who wrote about having a fruit name after Gwyneth Paltrow had Apple--not positively), Pixie, and their half-sister, Tiger Lily.

Then again, in the hippie days there were a lot of Amerikas, Sunshines, Harmonys and obscure historical names or obscure angels like Robespierre and Raziel. Most of those folks now go by Alan, Sue and Joe.

I wonder, is Apple truly such an usual spin on a fruit name? I have heard of women named Peach, Plum, Pear, etc. Is Apple really that different? Many Americans thought the name to be odd, but since Paltrow has a British husband, maybe it is more acceptable on his side of the pond?

Actor Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda, after the princess in the Legend of Zelda game series. My son went to school with a child named Ganon, named for the villain of the same series.

[Shoes Grace]

Used to be a girl who worked at the Saint Louis Zoo named Pornesia, or at least, that's what her nametag said, but I don't think they would've let her use that unless it was actually her name.

Went to school with a kid named Sir Knight, he was pretty badass and could pull it off.

I work in a theatre box office, there's a woman who calls occasionally who always says her name right off, but I have to do a double take because it sounds like she's saying Sha-lang-a-lang, like some kind of greeting. Her first name is Shalaina, last name is Laine. We also have a Linda Blair, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe and Julia Roberts. Marilyn & Julia come together.

I think Bethany is a weird name. Hear me out here. There's a lot of scholarship done on the word Bethany because it doesn't appear in the Talmud in that form, so where did the Biblical version come from? Probably from a Hebrew or Aramaic phrase very similar in design that means "poor house," or "house of affliction." It's even more likely when you consider that Simon the Leper lived there and that's where Lazarus was when he died. To name your kid Almshouse or (more charitably) Hospital just because you get Beth and bypass any opportunity for Liz, it just strikes me funny.

[EyeQueue]

I wonder, is Apple truly such an usual spin on a fruit name? I have heard of women named Peach, Plum, Pear, etc. Is Apple really that different? Many Americans thought the name to be odd, but since Paltrow has a British husband, maybe it is more acceptable on his side of the pond?

Actor Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda, after the princess in the Legend of Zelda game series. My son went to school with a child named Ganon, named for the villain of the same series.

When I was in high school (which was back in the late 80s), a friend of mine who went to a private Catholic school had a friend there named...Apple. She was Asian-American.