There’s a kid at my school named Luke Skye Walker.
This will come as no surprise to the Coloradoans here, but a few years ago there was a baby born at Boulder Community Hospital whose given names were Mahatma Bambi.
True story, I’ll try to find a cite.
Lady Topaz, I see your Kenzie MacDonnell, and raise you a baby girl named MacKenzie Taylor. Based on my steep knowledge in Celtic, Gaelic, Irish and other names that come to us from that small litle set of islands in that area called Great Britain (“Wesley Stuart McGee”–For some reason, it screams white!), I know that their little lotus blossom is the son of a Kenneth.
But girls have been purloining boys names for years now!
But I’m thinking that Ceili “Kayleigh” McGee would be a beautiful name for a future daughter. I’m going to thank someone here in five to ten years. And the cadence is in keeping with what is turning into family tradition.
From Green Beam’s list:
Heaven-Leigh Angel: Because it is different and if i had a child named it i beleive they would grow up and be proud of their name
Maybe I need to stop watching these kinds of videos, as I seem to be the first person to point out the Heaven Leigh is the name of a porn star. There’s something to be proud of, huh? I think I’ll name my daughter Seka, just Seka, no last name.
My name happens to be Han. This is the first i’ve heard it being called a “scoundrel name”. Hrm.
But it’s actually the first half of my korean name. Nothing to do with “Star Wars”.
I’m sure there isn’t anyone on earth who’s heard more stupid wookie jokes than i have.
Sometimes when i read the obituaries i come across an occasional silly name, Dinasti, someone’s niece.
I have met a Velveeta, she is a nurses’ aide, and she was named for another Velveeta. I cannot remember her last name, though.
My parents are public school teachers, so I’ve heard a few
stupid names over the years.
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A girl named Placenta, because her mother heard it while
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A boy named Semaj Trebor, which is James Robert spelled
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A brother and Sister named Pink and Pinky, respectively.
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I cannot vouch for the validity of this one. Because
this was one that my parents only heard about at school,
there is no actual proof, but there was a child whose
name was pronounced shith-e-odd, spelled - “Shithead”.
Hey! Oh my God! I’ve actually seen this yearbook! My friend graduated from Jennings High School, and sure enough, they are in there. Pretty creepy stuff.
My 5 nominations: Konstanz, Tangela, Precious, Princess, and Arkella. But I think that the worst thing that a parent can possibly do is to name their children after inanimate objects. These are names of people that I’ve actually met: Candy, Bunny, Blue, and Diamond. Unless you want your child to be a stripper, then you shouldn’t use any of these names.
I don’t think current generations hold any monopoly on really odd names. In the course of doing some family research I’ve come across the usual biblical boatload of names, but scattered throughout are some more interesting ones. Such as Lerter (short for Alerter, apparently), Bummer and Doine. Some even smack of the classics, like Orlando and Leonidas. And would you believe I found not one, but two Napoleons?
(The time period isn’t hard to guess on that one.)
I am from Louisiana too and my mother is an educational speaker that speaks all over the state including several engagements in Jennings. She told me about Lemonjello and Orangejello over Christmas. I guess the are getting quite a name for themselves.
Few things to add:
Popular culture, especially movies, is a terrible, terrible place to choose names from. That’s because it’s constantly changing; hence what’s hot today could be old hat tomorrow, and a name is something that person will have to live with for a lifetime (barring court proceedings, which not everyone is up to, you know). Case in point, Xena, which I hear has actually become popular among a certain group (ahem…). Aside from the fact that it’s a totally made-up name…c’mon, isn’t it obvious?..it’s just a TV show. Which will eventually be replaced, like all other TV shows. It’s also worth noting that there are reasons a girl would not want to be associated with someone like Xena…say, if she didn’t like violence?
It’s important to keep context in mind. The reason Anakin Skywalker didn’t mind being called “Annie” was that he lived on a planet where that was not unusual (and apparently “Ann” and its equivalents did not exist). Not the case for mother Earth, my friends.
And of course, it’s just as important that the name is appropriate for a person. Bambi, for example. Bambi was a freaking deer. I would not name a girl Babmi any more than I’d name a boy Fido.
All these examples, however, pale in comparion to all of the <<<ABSOLUTELY FREAKING INSANE>>> names (sorry, folks, but BS is BS) I’ve seen on this board. Good lord, some of them look like they were typed out by monkeys! Forget the real Xena’s pressure point attack; does having a child cut off the flow of blood to the brain? :mad:
I was talking to a paramedic once who claimed to be responsible for several children having the name ‘Placenta’. In the poorer Hispanic neighborhoods, some pregnant women will wait until they are about to give birth before calling the paramedics, so that the children are delivered at home and their medical bills are greatly reduced. The paramedic got very frustrated with this practice (doctors should be delivering babies) and whenever the mother asked what his name was, he would tell them ‘Placenta’, because they would always name the baby after the person who helped deliver it.
My cousin Joanne is married to a six-foot-three Dutchman named Anne (pronounced Uhn-ee, roughly). I imagine on paper they look like a lesbian couple.
There is a Russian surname (not that common, but still) that transliterates as Vagin (pronounced with a hard g); given the Russian practice of adding ‘a’ to most surnames for the female variant (i.e. Igor Ivanov and his wife Natalya Ivanova), I can just imagine what Ms. Vagina experiences when travelling.
I have also met a Russian named Mr. Fakov. He spells it Faekov when travelling; I wonder if that helps.
And then there is a Russian name which under certain transliteration systems is spelled Semën (actually pronounced Sem-YON)
I once worked in a government office where I encountered a woman whose name, when written out in full on her record for, “Lamb, Mary Ada Little.” I don’t know whether this was her own name or whether, by sheer bad luck, she married a man named Lamb and took his name on marriage.
There were also people with the surnames (OK, not quite what is being discussed) D’eath and Pine-Coffin.
And a woman named Jessie Garcia, which I thought wonderful.
My sister went to high school with a Lasagna and a Starchild.
Given my job as a sports editor, I have to spell a lot of names right. I find that many common names are more of a problem than the weird ones. I mean, if someone says her name is “Siobhan,” that’s great, because I have yet to encounter that name spelled a different way (and people with weird names will generally spell it for you without you asking). But take a name like Christy … or is it Christie? … or is it Kristy … or is it Kristie? And there’s Katherine or Catherine or Kathryn.
Heh…didn’t mean to rant all over you back there, Stella…just got a little annoyed.
I’ve seen some doozies in my time. Some people don’t have any understanding of what words might make appropriate names. I’ve know girls named Destiny, Buffy, and Fairy.
There was a coach at my high school named Sandy Claus.
During the Gulf War, I remember a news interview with a US Air Force F-15 pilot named Maj. Klaus J. Klaus.
The University of Texas has a quarterback named Major Applewhite. What the hell kind of name is “Major?” I might name my kid “Colonel” so he outranks this guy…
I could go on…my friend’s half-brother has a son named Thor and a daughter named Raven.
I went to high school with two brothers named Colt and Hunter. I wonder if they have a cousin named Remington or Winchester. ("…and this is our daughter, Shotgun…")
I don’t have a problem with cross-cultural names, such as the actor playing Jango Fett in the next Star Wars movie named Temura Morrison, the great American Indian actor Iron Eyes Cody, or Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, etc…but people need to understand that adding T’ or La’ to the beginning of a European name does NOT make it more ethnic. I feel sorry for all the little kids named T’Kevin or La’Sandra…
One of my roommates in college had the last name Linn. It was his goal to sire three children he caould then name Hob, Wob and Gob. I pray he never found a woman to breed with him.
Another guy I knew in college had the last name Bautile (pronounced BOW-til). He wanted to name his children Pepsi and Coke.
BTW, someone posted about Phoenix Channel 12 weatherman Sean McLaughlin (pronounced Seen) having a twin brother Sean (pronounced Shawn)… That’s correct. They’ve even done broadcasts together a couple of years ago when the station thought it would be amusing to have the weather Sean do a week’s worth of remote weathercasts from his hometown in (I think) Iowa in the dead of winter. I was mortified.
For a truly great rant on bad baby names, check this link to the Misanthropic Bitch site: http://bitch.shutdown.com/briandrye.html
Too late. At the VA hospital where I work we’ve had a patient whose first name is General. I’ve always wondered how he got along in the service as a private…
My all-time favorite name from a previous hospital though has to be the elderly lady whose first and middle names were Alpha Omega.
I have a sister named Rebel. That’s the name Mom decided to give her. She read a book with a female named Rebel and hoped it would give my sister spunk or something. My uncle begged her to name me Yankee but she refused. Instead I got a middle name that translates to hard headed. I named both my kids nice normal names. My son got a complete normal name but I did give my daughter Ireland as a middle name. I did it because it sounds really pretty and gives her an alternative when she gets older.