A while ago, I got a book from Chapters entitled The Baby Name Countdown by Janet Schwegel. I am not going to have a baby, but I had borrowed an earlier edition of the book from the library about a year and a half ago, and all my friends loved all the crazy names in there. So I decided to buy the book, figuring that the names and such would be good for a laugh. It has some baby name meanings, some historical data about name usage in the 20th century, and tens of thousands of names.
However, there are some really crazy names in there! This is but a small sampling of what you will find in this book:
For Boys:
Jennifer, Sarah, Melissa, Emily, Catherine, Erin, Hannah, Nicole, Stephanie, Lara, Lisa, Marilyn, Zoe, Megan, Tiffany, Mary, Dawn, Margaret, Mavis, Erica, Denise, Katelin-Bradley, etc.
For Girls:
Ryan, Bradley-Nicole, Ryan-Michelle, Aaron, Andrew, Brian, Ian, Graeme, Kevin, Scott, Douglas, Robert, Eric, Ross, Neil, Kent, Mark, Darren, Christopher, David, Arthur, etc.
For Both Boys and Girls:
Curry, Downy, Chicago, North, Western-Li, Weyekin-Ilp-Ilp, Safe, Safari, February, Coy, Coven, Newborn, Stillborn, Infant, Precious Angel, Cash Money, Jelly, Joel 2:2, Northstar, Zork, etc.
I am excluding what are obcious ethnic names, because while they might sound weird to me, they may be very special to people of other cultures. Nor am I including the dozens of misspellings (or “creative spellings”, if you will)… those are just nuts, and I don’t wnat to encourage the parents-to-be among you to get zany with your child’s name! It is your child’s name, and he/she will have to live with it for the rest of their life! (unless they get it changed) Then again, I’m not encouraging you to go and name your child one of the gender-inappropriate names (or the weird ones) that I’ve noted above.
This is just to laugh over, and to thank your lucky stars that at least you didn’t go that route when naming your child! (for those of you that might have gone this route, I apologize) I mean no disrespect toward the children that have these names, or their parents… this is just for humor purposes!