Cruel and Unusual Naming?

[romantic_always]

I don't get what's wrong with traditional names!! I also hate when a name is spelled so oddly: Jane becomes Jaynee or something.

 

[satindesire]

I don't get what's wrong with traditional names!! I also hate when a name is spelled so oddly: Jane becomes Jaynee or something.

Nothing's inherently wrong with traditional names, but common names are frustrating.

I didn't get called "Megan" when I was in school, I and the rest of us Megans were all called by our last names to avoid confusion.

To avoid this, when I was in high school I went by my nickname "Kitty". I was, to my knowledge, the only "kitty" in that school so it was much easier.

 

[silverwhisper]

honestly, my name isn't exactly uncommon. to me, that's an opportunity to demonstrate how i'm different from other people who share that name.

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[annayarnkitten]

My husband and I spent much time on our children's names. Me my anaogram is a marshmellowy treat! One odd one around here is child #12 (yea I said 12) Pistachio Neut (?)! I typed it phonetically! yes a nut and nuogut!!

 

[SweetErika]

My husband and I spent much time on our children's names. Me my anaogram is a marshmellowy treat! One odd one around here is child #12 (yea I said 12) Pistachio Neut (?)! I typed it phonetically! yes a nut and nuogut!!

Sorry, but you pretty much lost me after the first sentence.

Are you saying you had the munchies when you were coming up with names for your twelve children?

 

[MisterSir]

My husband and I spent much time on our children's names. Me my anaogram is a marshmellowy treat! One odd one around here is child #12 (yea I said 12) Pistachio Neut (?)! I typed it phonetically! yes a nut and nuogut!!

...

...be right back, off to shoot myself.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Kikori]

I'm in the boat of "My name is too plain." Seriously, my first name is in the top 3 most common male names in america, and my last name is THE most common out there. Persephone Elektra is odd, but compared to little Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation, it's at least workable. Kids can at least be called by their middle names, or shortened versions of their first names, so at least Persephone isn't as deep in the water as she thinks. Most of the teasing would probably come from middle school, anyway, before people get used to her enough to not bother with the joke.

At least her name isn't one of those "Seymour Butts" jokes. -.-;

 

[juicywet21]

Persephone is one I actually kind of like. Not necessarily one I'd chose, but I like it. Growing up there were always 3 other girls in my grade with the same name. I had always imagined it would be nice to be "the only one," but really I don't think it matters much either way.

That being said, a friend of mine honestly wants to name her kid, if she ever has a girl, Sunspray Honeysuckle.

 

[irishwoody]

Heard of a couple in the UK who named their child ...

 

[Eilan]

Are you saying you had the munchies when you were coming up with names for your twelve children?

If that were the case with me, I'd have one daughter named Lipton Rice 'N' Sauce and another named McDonald's Fountain Coke!

 

[Sarojaede]

My parents gave me an uncommon first name for the time I was born, but now it's more common.

Our son has an uncommon, but not weird, first name and a very common middle name--a middle name that he shares with his father and grandfather and that is also the first name of his great-grandfather.

We thought carefully for a long time about what his first name would be because we wanted something that would sound right with the middle name. We consider the flow of the whole name together and even what the initials might spell or sound like. The initials did still come out to where the pronunciation could be "cue", but that's not too bad given other combination of initials I've seen.

I've been teaching for 17 years now, and every summer while I read placement essays for incoming freshmen, I'm always amazed at some of the names. The most recent one that left me shaking my head was Tricksie (yes, spelled that way) Hooker.

 

[KarennaC]

I had a student once named Jade Green. Not such a horrible name, given some of the ones that have been posted in this thread, but still.

 

[satindesire]

I had a student once named Jade Green. Not such a horrible name, given some of the ones that have been posted in this thread, but still.

That sounds like a superhero name.

 

[smoochmycooch]

Have... well actually, had.... 2 girls in the office pregnant, once of which has given birth in the last month, so we've had a lot of time to look through books of traditonal/non traditional names and given each other a good laugh over some of the stuff people come up with. That said, I got an email last week about a mother in Louisiana being upset because no one could pronounce her daughters name correctly (and honestly, it could just be a joke email, but you never know anymore). Anyway, the girls name was spelled Le-a..... I'll give you a minute to think about it..... ok, times up. Her name is pronounced Ladasha.... you say the dash! WTF?!? But the icing on the cake was talking to another friend who has an aunt who is a nurse in Mississippi and was present at the birth of Vagina, pronounced Va-Jeen-ah.

Personally, I'd say my name is more on the 'traditional' end of the book, but certainly not uncommon. I hated it growing up, but soon realized the uniqueness was a beautiful thing. The name has been growing in popularity over the last few years, with a couple well known actresses sporting it.

 

[glasspenguin]

That sounds like a superhero name.

... or maybe a stripper/ porn star...

 

[Eilan]

Here's a site that some of you might be interested in.

 

[RuneBlade]

My first name is a name that is usually reserved for last names only, and isn't that common even then. I've never met anyone else with my first name. I really love it, despite inevitably having to repeat it almost every single time I introduce myself. My last name is fairly uncommon too, especially with the way it's spelled.

Not sure if I'll have kids, but if I do, I'd like to shoot for something uncommon, but not blatantly out there, and will definitely look out for easy to pun / insult combinations. Kids are cruel.

 

[satindesire]

My first name is a name that is usually reserved for last names only, and isn't that common even then. I've never met anyone else with my first name. I really love it, despite inevitably having to repeat it almost every single time I introduce myself. My last name is fairly uncommon too, especially with the way it's spelled.

Not sure if I'll have kids, but if I do, I'd like to shoot for something uncommon, but not blatantly out there, and will definitely look out for easy to pun / insult combinations. Kids are cruel.

*nods* Good thinking, 'cause that's so true.

 

[pplwatching]

In my wife's culture the oldest living paternal relative chooses the name. In the past, the names were chosen based on some great lunar forumula that I do not understand. My wife's name translates to "Fertile Fields" in her native tongue. I guess if everyone has the same screwed up naming scheme nobody really loses.

I wanted our kids to have a direct link to that culture, because families loose their history after a generation or two in this country. I convinced my wife to ask her grandfather to name our kids (with the caveat that I could veto names ;-). He chose names that we love, and our kids do not have what other folks in the that culture like to call "American names".

ob-brag : Both kids speak their mother's native tongue, and understand what their names mean. Both will be getting their black belts soon (age 10 and 11), and can easily dispatch with any name-calling nonsense. Both kids are well liked in school.

 

[cryptictravler]

I used to work at school. We had many, many children named diamond...with probably 5 different spellings.

The most unfortunate name was 'Furious'.

It belonged to a very quiet, very smart little boy who was a really happy little kid.

His mother however, was a nutter. I feel bad for that kid.

 

[Vielle]

Friends of a friend I know, named their daughter Angelique Leigh. Really. Truly sick and wrong.

 

[satindesire]

Friends of a friend I know, named their daughter Angelique Leigh. Really. Truly sick and wrong.

*blinks* am I missing something there?

 

[Vielle]

they pronounce it "angelic lay"

 

[MisterSir]

...oh glorious day. I figured it was just because Angelique is a stupid name in of itself, that didn't occur to me