Irksome names for children

[Marley23]

Ah, there were more posts to this thread than I thought. One additional idea: nobody should ever give a girl a name ending with an i. Only porn stars have names like that, it's just not a good idea. =P

I make a lot of jokes on this subject, so this thread is just gold. Let's see:

Think someday we'll start meeting kids named DMX?
Maybe Ol' Dirty Bastard?:-D
People like to name their kids for stuff that meant a lot to them when they were younger - I think that's why, for example, Dylan is so popular (for Bob). So what will happen when people more like my age and younger (I'm almost 21) start having kids? Will we see a lot of Buffys and Angels? Austin is already big... what about Kobe?
Lastly, I say the name Nicola should be shouted by Swiss guys in leiderhosen on mountaintops. :)

[gwendee]

Originally posted by Marley23
People like to name their kids for stuff that meant a lot to them when they were younger - I think that's why, for example, Dylan is so popular (for Bob).

Sadly, I think more of the Dylans swirling around my ankles as I make my way through the aisles of the Stop & Shop are named for the guy in Beverly Hills 90210. If I'm not mistaken both of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sons have 90210 names.


A man at work became a proud grandpa to a baby girl named. . .Calyx. He would stop mid task for a few days to wonder aloud, "What's wrong with names from the Bible?"

[whiterabbit]

I have a 21-year-old friend who has a seven-month old. The baby's name is Alexandra. There is hope for us yet!

[Marley23]

Maybe so, gwendee. I only know one Dylan (approximately) my age, the rest are generally prepubescent. I'm tempted to ask 'who would name their kid for a 90210 character,' but then, who would name their kid 'Baby?' [Which, btw, is another major concern in child-naming: they're not going to be kids forever; names that are cute for a 2-year-old can become MAJOR handicaps.]

[Ceejaytee]

Originally posted by sirkle
My parents managed to get four fairly good names four my siblings and I. Well, for my three siblings at least. I was named after my father, but rather than be called Junior, or Little Eric, they called me Hoss. (The origins of me being called this are lost, everyone I've asked has a differant reason.)

sirkle it might just be a coincidence, but the nickname Hoss could be due to the fact that Hoss Cartwright, the character played by Dan Blocker on Bonanza was actually named Eric--Hoss was his nickname.

From this site: http://www.tvacres.com/nick_h.htm

His nickname was derived from an old Swedish mountain expression which meant "big, friendly man."

[Tsubaki]

Originally posted by Marley23
Ah, there were more posts to this thread than I thought. One additional idea: nobody should ever give a girl a name ending with an i. Only porn stars have names like that, it's just not a good idea. =P

NOW you tell me!

(My daughter's name is Tahli Mai; out on both counts!)

[Green Bean]

So, what do Japanese strippers' names end in?

[Marley23]

Hmm. See, that oughta tell you something about me, I think that sounds pretty cool. It's a major problem with 'traditional' English names. Your daughter, at least by this particular criteria, should be fine. ;)

[Tsubaki]

Originally posted by Green Bean
So, what do Japanese strippers' names end in?

Ko (unfortunately, so do most girl's names which were popular thirty years ago!).


BTW, that was a WAG. I've never seen a Japanese stripper. I'll keep my fingers crossed that my daughter won't be the first.

[hyperjes]

Many of you have probably read by now that I used to teach preschool. Allow me, if you will, to list my last class:

Girls first-

Regan, Ashleigh, Savannah, McKenzie, Maddison, Jaylen, Taylor, Hannah (which I like), Jordan, and Angelee

Now boys-

Harrison, Cruz, Weston, Cody, Branden, Tyler, Tyreek, Kyle, Jalen and Kalen.

:rolleyes:

I have had many "classic" names in the past (Megan, Allison, Rachel, Jim, Bobby etc.) but that class was a doosey. They were all three and four years old.

[Caprese]

I teach preschool. Here's my class for this year:
Girls:
Jordyn (yes, spelled with a y)
Madison
Elizabeth
Eliza
Juliet
Vanessa
Adrienne
Zoe (very popular)
Allison
Nina
I have been hearing about a lot of Olivias lately. Haven't had any though. Seems like I have one Elizabeth (or variation) every year. But I really like the name.

Boys:
Eli
Peter
Bryce
Jack
Not too many boys this year. In recent memory, the most popular boy's name I can recall is Jack.

[TJay]

Is Tyler a very common name in the US then? My eldest son is called Tyler (or Ty), and I don't know anyone else with that name. My youngest son is called Jay, and that doesn't seem to be a very common name in the UK either.

I'm a Rebecca, and my mum (whose name is Sylvie) said she thought it was really unusual when I was born, but by the time I got to school there were 4 of us in the same class! My brother's name is Toby, named after a tortoise (!) my mum had when she was little.

My husband is Greek, so everyone in his family have lovely names - my nieces are Liana, Toula, Sofia, and Amara, and he has aunts with wonderful names like Electra, Pelagia (pe-la-hee-a?), Lemoni, Morphea etc. My father-in-law is called Aristides, which is our eldest son's middle name. So all these wonderful Greek names, and what name did my husband get? Mark! It's about as common as you can get round here!

I would say, judging by the names of the kids at my son's nursery, that Jordan, Lewis and Harry are the most common boys names in our area at present, and Ellie, Erin and Yasmin are pretty common for the girls.

Just remembered something that made me laugh - a woman I saw while out shopping, she was really scruffy and greasy-looking. She had a boy and a girl, and she was screeching at them "Giorgio! Armaaaaaaani! Get your bums over here now!!!" Well, it amused me :D

[Marley23]

I think Tyler was ranked the #9 most popular (used) boys name in the 1990s. If I recall, I found the stat on behindthename.com.
My youngest brother as born in that period. It's certainly become popular here, yes. I recall two other Tylers, and perhaps three or four Dylans, in his Little League a few years back. I've never been mistaken for another Marley, since I've never met one - though occasionally problems arise; at school I work with a Molly - and the middle brother, Jonah, doesn't often get that problem either.

[ShibbOleth]

FWIW, here are the names from my daughter's soccer team (in alpha order):

Aisha
Alexis
Allie (short for Allison)
Arielle
Carly
Emily
Jayne
Jenny
Maddie (short for Madeline)
Megan

They are all six and seven years old. A lot of As, no names I would consider to "weird", and no repeats. Don't know all of the names on my sons soccer team yet, but there is an Asher, which is a pretty interesting name. Every time I hear it I think of the song "Brim Full of Asher".

[KarlGrenze]

The only time I've seen the name Asher is in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry.... It's a pretty name, although uncommon.

[SpazCat]

Sorry to resurrect this after it's long sleep, but I thought this site (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html) might prove amusing for those of us who are amused by horrible baby names.

[SpazCat]

Originally posted by ShibbOleth
Don't know all of the names on my sons soccer team yet, but there is an Asher, which is a pretty interesting name. Every time I hear it I think of the song "Brim Full of Asher".

1. I knew a kid named Asher who played soccer when I was a wee SpazKitten. His father was the pastor of the Lutheran church across the street, so all his kids had Bible names (Asher, Luke, Silas, and Grace.)

2. Actually, the song is "Brim Full of Asha." Fatboy Slim did a good remix of it. Better than the original.

[Green Bean]

Isn't there a Chaim Potok book called "My Name is Asher Lev?"

Originally posted by Tsubaki
[B]Ko (unfortunately, so do most girl's names which were popular thirty years ago!).
Interesting. I'm 31, and among the girls I grew up with (in the U.S.) were an Akiko, a Masako, and a Hiroko. Are those common Japanese names?

[/\/\etalhea|)]

Star.

A couple of jobs ago I had to call and ask for Star all the time. Worse, her last name was alliterative with her first, so it was like "Star S.....", weird.

Also, any name where I'm required to violate normal pronunciation rules according to how it's spelled, like Sade is pronounced Sha-day. I hate that.

[MoronosaurusRex]

Look on the bright side -- in a country where English is spoken by almost everyone, there are people called Typewriter, Coins, Cloudy, Foreach, Grammar, Headache, Horsegrine. Morelight, Simplicio, Wireless, Okay, Astonishment, Duty-first, Editor, Newline, Climate, Stylish, and -- I shit you not -- Notagain.

The names were collected over the years by a friend who spent the long hours at the annual graduation ceremony hunting for interesting names in the list of graduates. You can google up the above names for the full list.

[Tsubaki]

Originally posted by Green Bean
Interesting. I'm 31, and among the girls I grew up with (in the U.S.) were an Akiko, a Masako, and a Hiroko. Are those common Japanese names?

Yep. My MIL's name is Masako (so is the Crown Prince's wife), and I know two Hirokos in my close circle of friends.

On another topic...my female cousin is called Asha.