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So, what is your most hated name? And apologies to all who have kids with these names. I have to go with Nevaeh. If only because of that stupid band that started this whole thing.
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Permalink Reply by mightyninjamom on -
sometimes it's just the one you can talk your partner into using. ; ) Which is how Little B ended up being named. AlphaGeek just wouldn't pick a name. Finally we narrowed it down to four (From a baby name book, something I swore I would never use, because really, how hard is it to name a baby? Silly me.) and decided to just pick one based on what he looked like. So B was nameless for the first hour of his life.
There is a long tradition in my parents' families, of naming children after the same sex parent or grandparent. Hence, if you get a family reunion going, you say a name and five people answer your call. My mother was very disgruntled that I did not pick a 'family' name for B. She couldn't complain when we named the Little Miss. She has the same name as AG's grandmother.
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Permalink Reply by Diggy on -
#11 is a really cool name. I wish I had thought of that.
Herasmus B. Dragon said:
And Ebay's middle name is #11. But it's been in our family for generations. :^(
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Permalink Reply by DLBK on -
Someone has named their kid after drugs? I find that very, very funny.
mcglory13 said:
The only names I dislike are ones like Marijuana or Chardonnay. Names that have drug associations with them.
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Permalink Reply by ks on -
I don't particularly like Marijuana either--I've know a few kids with that name. I also met a girl named Golden Brown (no, I'm not joking) when I was subbing. In a different school there was a girl named Shithead (pronounced Sha-theed, she told me). That one caused me to stumble on taking attendance.
As for your other point--my mom had a brother who died when he was not quite two (this was before she was born). Apparently my grandparents wanted to name him Frank, after my granddad, but this was just after FDR died in the 40s and the nurse decided that they really wanted to name him Franklin Delano Roosevelt Duba and so that's what she wrote in on the birth certificate. Granddad was pissed and swore that the name is what killed their baby to anybody who asked for the next 30 years until he died.
mcglory13 said:
The only names I dislike are ones like Marijuana or Chardonnay. Names that have drug associations with them.
I had a student in a class explain to us during an activity about our names, that in the hospital his mother had wanted to give him a very important family name, of someone (I think a child?) who had died. The nurse decided it wasn't a "real name" and wrote down a different one on the certificate. And that is his name, to this date, the random name the nurse gave him. I think names are generally bound up in the culture, the history, and the hopes and dreams of the parents. Maybe those dreams aren't huge, they're just to fit into a certain community. Maybe they're aspirational or historical hopes, to be like some other group, to tie into some tradition. Even if I wouldn't name my kid that name, I think it's interesting to think about what factors influenced those parents in that huge decision. I have roughly 400 students this semester. Some of their names are hard, but I don't mind trying to get them right. I also don't care if I don't know if they're boys or girls. I will when they get before me (Cody, Ryan, Corey, these are always a mystery until I meet the student).
Sorry, I'm a buzz kill.
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Permalink Reply by bap2 on
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I don't see my sons' names on the list..but I think we may have made a mistake with the freshly hatched one. Everyone praised our choice for son #1, Dominic Ramon. We call him Dom. Then we chose Gabriel Thomas for the second one. SO MANY people have called him "Gabrielle" (nurses, doctors, friends, little kids) and not in the "This is the proper Spanish pronunciation of it" way. Some have even flat out said said it's a girl name, or "Is this a boy or a girl?." I don't know if the Gabbys have taken it back from the Gabes, but....CRAP:).
Also as a teacher there are names I can't ever use because of....past things:).
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Permalink Reply by Kiwi on -
The names I most actively dislike are the ones that could also double as stage names for an exotic dancer... e.g. 1st Kid's former classmate Pashun (passion) or Arajonee (érogène).
I also find it annoying when people creatively spell traditional names in an attempt to be creative. I've recently seen Jason spelled Jaesion. I had a total WTF moment.
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on -
for the most part, i can't get behind misspelling traditional names. however, my BFFs name is Kaisaundra (Cassandra) and sub-teachers were forever saying KAI-SOUND-RA. we just laughed about it. i mean, it wasn't her fault that he mom decided to get creative. and it's the name she has, so why not just laugh it off when people mis-pronounce it?
and i thought there was some sort of law preventing nurses from interfering in the naming of a child. or are these cases mentioned above the REASON that nurses are prohibited from interfering maybe? my SILs mom works as a labor and delivery nurse and she witnessed a woman naming her kid Placenta because she liked the way it sounded. *facepalm*
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on
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and for the record, i don't hate gender-bending names. sometimes i think it can be cute.
but the names of kids i know that i don't particularly like are Hazen and Chelsea. I knew a drug-dealer trashy guy (the brother of a friend) named Hazen.
and funny story, kinda... My BFF asked me what I thought of the name Chelsea. we bere both pregnant at the time. well, I told her what i thought. i did NOT like it. It makes me think of Chelsea Clinton and her big teeth. Kaisie called me up a few weeks later and said, 'well, i know you hate it, but we are naming her Chelsea. you have a few months to get used to it and learn to love it. And by the way, I don't like the name Rowan, but it's the name you picked out so i'm just learning to like it." i thought, "well, you ASKED me what I thought of it (w/o telling me that they were seriously considering it) and I never ASKED you what you thought of the name Rowan." I knew I loved his name (for a boy or girl) so I never asked for any input. It was weird. the perfect storm of 2 touchy pregnant women who didn't like the names each other picked out. I thought it was going to be cool being pregnant as the same time as my best friend, but really, we were just constantly hurting each other's fragile feelings with stupid stuff.
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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When I was making my list from Spanish girl names, I really liked "Perla", meaning pearl. Hubby vetoed it because that's the name of a ghetto in San Juan, so it has really negative connotations for him. Then later I found out about La Perla lingerie. I almost named my daughter after a lace teddy.
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Permalink Reply by SweetJudyB on -
My vote also goes to normal names with ridiculous spellings....and some of the boy names that are turning into girl names.
My favorite story comes from my MIL who works at a pediatric office. A family came in an had named their daughter Genocide (probably with some horrible spelling). It took a lot of convincing from doctors/nurses/people with brains, to have them change it.
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Permalink Reply by wookie on -
WTF GENOCIDE? Why not ... I dunno, Holocaust. Or jebus, I'm stuck on genocide.
I don't mind gender bender names. I do hate strange spellings. No need for four p's and a silent q! And I'm with Kiwi on the whole stripper names thing. Who names a baby (without red hair) Blaze ... a girl baby?!
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Permalink Reply by mightyninjamom on
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People amaze me. And by 'amaze' I mean 'appall'.
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