# Baby name: Foccacia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725 "2020-01-20T22:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/21 "2020-01-21T01:09:35Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Is the family upper-crust? Family name was Panettiere. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/22 "2020-01-21T01:19:26Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Can we ever forget Olympic gymnast: Nastia Luiken? Anastasia/Anastasius has to do with resurrection. For Russian girls it is literally one of the most popular names. Not sure how you get there from foodā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/23 "2020-01-21T01:59:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Iā€™m still waiting for a girl named Chlamydia or Placentaā€¦ Bingo, we have a winner! My grandfather was in on a delivery where the mother declared that her daughterā€™s name would be \*Placenta: - ā€œI heard a nurse in the hospital room, she was talking about someone with that name, and I thought, ā€˜Thatā€™s just beautifulā€™ā€¦ā€ Now, itā€™s hard to verify that, since my grandfather was born in the 1800s and was practicing during the first World Warā€¦ \* (True. Iā€™m old, and my momā€™s family always takes their time procreating. Over a century between gramps and my kids. Oh, and great-gramps barely escaped being massacred in a [Sioux/Dakota Uprising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wi*ki/Dakota_War_of_1862) in Mankato, MN)\* ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/24 "2020-01-21T08:39:33Z")
Back in the '70s I briefly lived in Fort Lee, NJ. There was a gynecologist there named Seymour Kuntz. I donā€™t know which came first, the name or the profession. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/25 "2020-01-21T09:20:09Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Anastasia/Anastasius has to do with resurrection. For Russian girls it is literally one of the most popular names. Not sure how you get there from foodā€¦ Donā€™t think weā€™re strictly comparing names to foods. I apologize, I did not know Nastia was a nickname for Anastasia. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/26 "2020-01-21T12:35:39Z")
> [@Swampwolf](#): > > Iā€™m waiting for ā€œElloelle.ā€ Iā€™d google it to see if anyoneā€™s named their child that, but my faith in humanity is low enough, thankyouverymuch Now that youā€™ve suggested it, someone might find your post and think itā€™s a good name. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/27 "2020-01-21T16:40:21Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Donā€™t think weā€™re strictly comparing names to foods. > I apologize, I did not know Nastia was a nickname for Anastasia. If it is just names that sound like other words you want, weā€™ll be here a while. I know a Mr Bong, Mr Katz, Mr. Miao, Ms Person, and of course Mr Tits, Kuntz, Gaylord, Fucks/Fuchs (and more in that vein)ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/28 "2020-01-21T18:01:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Donā€™t think weā€™re strictly comparing names to foods. > I apologize, I did not know Nastia was a nickname for Anastasia. One of the bartenders at my local pub is named Anastasia. She goes by Ann to the public. She does uses Stacey among friends but I call her Stasy. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/29 "2020-01-21T18:27:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Is the family upper-crust? Need a lot of bread to become upper crust. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/30 "2020-01-21T19:06:18Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Can we ever forget Olympic gymnast: Nastia Luiken? anastasia has many nick names from anya to tasya. it is very poplar across quite a few cultures now. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/31 "2020-01-21T19:25:15Z")
Iā€™m expecting parents to start naming their babies in the manner of racehorse breeders. Sooner or later there will be kids named Fuhgeddaboutit and Theresakillerontheroad. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/32 "2020-01-21T19:32:34Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Iā€™m still waiting for a girl named Chlamydia or Placentaā€¦ Apparently there _have_ been children named Placenta and Syphilis, [at least in Jamaica](http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20150817/my-name-placenta-rgd-questions-appropriateness-some-baby-names). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/33 "2020-01-21T20:20:43Z")
Come on. Yā€™all know **Nastia** sounds bad. What young girl wants to be called that? I realize now itā€™s a nickname. The other Anastasia nicknames sound ok. But, **Nastia**?? Really? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/34 "2020-01-21T20:23:44Z")
The news interviewed some kid on a story a few weeks ago with the name Anakin. Isnā€™t Placentia a feminine name in Spanish-speaking countries? Itā€™s also a city in California. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/35 "2020-01-21T21:36:19Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > The news interviewed some kid on a story a few weeks ago with the name Anakin. A friend told me about an old tree planting crew whose cook had a toddler named Unicorn Over The Rainbow. Iā€™d take Focaccia over that one. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/36 "2020-01-21T23:42:39Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > The news interviewed some kid on a story a few weeks ago with the name Anakin. > > Isnā€™t Placentia a feminine name in Spanish-speaking countries? Itā€™s also a city in California. Also a town in Newfoundland, Canada. ---
**Author:** ![MollyCatherine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@MollyCatherine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MollyCatherine)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/37 "2020-01-22T00:37:49Z")
You can download ā€œbeyond the top 1000ā€ lists from the name section of the SSA website. That will answer the question of whether there have been at least 5 baby girls or 5 baby boys named Foccacia in one year in the US. They donā€™t release data on names used 4 or fewer times per sex per year. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/38 "2020-01-22T03:05:51Z")
We baptized a sweet little baby girl Lilith. The pastor didnā€™t try to talk the parents out of it or nothing. I donā€™t know where they got the name, whether the Jewish demon, Adamā€™s first wife, or Frazier Craneā€™s wife, but I smiled and nodded. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/39 "2020-01-22T21:12:44Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Isnā€™t Placentia a feminine name in Spanish-speaking countries? Itā€™s also a city in California. > [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Also a town in Newfoundland, Canada. Nobody has mentioned ā€˜Placentiaā€™. ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725/40 "2020-01-22T22:36:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Come on. Yā€™all know **Nastia** sounds bad. What young girl wants to be called that? > I realize now itā€™s a nickname. The other Anastasia nicknames sound ok. But, **Nastia**?? Really? Do we know that it sounds bad in Russian? (Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow; both of her parents competed internationally for the Soviet gymnastics teams.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-foccacia/846725.md?page=3)