# Bad baby name....Oh my!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 16, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157 "2008-06-16T21:51:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/41 "2012-05-15T20:09:18Z")

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I knew an astronomy professor whose wife was German (but they lived in the US). They named their baby Willy. Didn’t think _that_ one through too well, for someone who is supposedly as smart as he is…

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**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/42 "2012-05-15T21:55:13Z")

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Did our grandparents say things like “What the hell kind of name is Jennifer?”

I have not yet met any Talons.

Will my son and his contemporaries be exclaiming “ZzYyXx!?!? What’s wrong with normal names like Talon?!?!?” ?

The SS list of most popular names in the US for 2011 just came out and has been popping up on talk shows. The gentleman said that Jayden and Aidan (4th and 9th respectively) would both have ranked much higher if they included alternate spellings.

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**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/43 "2012-05-15T22:32:48Z")

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Talon’s not bad.

Among my friends and friends-of-friends, the following real children exist:

Ozma  
Corwin  
Eris  
Arya

Why yes, we _are_ a bunch of SF/Fantasy nerds. Why do you ask?

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/44 "2012-05-15T22:50:11Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> Power Peter should take a backseat to no one.

No one cuddles with Power Peter, you strap yourself [del]in[/del] on and feel the G’s!

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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/45 "2012-05-15T23:35:37Z")

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He’ll be Max and he’ll be fine. Talon, on the other hand (or claw as the case may be)… IMO, it’s not a bad rule of thumb to avoid names that rhyme with “felon”, including lazy rhymes like Fallon. Also Jaylor. Just avoid the whole prison scheme altogether.

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**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-baby-name-oh-my/453157/46 "2012-05-16T00:03:47Z")

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My sister’s cousin just had a baby boy not long ago whom she named Otis. That’s the worst recent name I know of personally.

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