I promise you, I know someone who named their girl-child “Katniss.”
That’s not going to get dated quickly, no sirree :rolleyes:
Maybe she can get together with the Renesmee I saw in the local paper, start a support group or something. If anything can making you feel better about being called Katniss, it’s going to be meeting a Renesmee.
Sadly, I’ve heard of more than one Camden. I believe Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo named their son that.
I was watching the doc on texting while driving and the one kid is named Xavier – but spelled Xzavier. Um, the zee sound is already represented in Xavier.
Luna is a beautiful name.
Io I agree is pretty freaking weird. Besides being one of Jupiter’s moons, she was a nymph and a priestess of Hera, who was one Zeus’ many [del]stalker victims[/del] [del]extramarital affairs[/del] lovers. He turned her into a heifer to avoid detection by Hera. That didn’t work out so well, and Hera, always the jealous type and a notorious victim-blamer, sent a gadfly to torment her forever after, forcing her to wander the world ever further from home to get away.
I’m not sure what kind of future the parents have in mind for the kid. :dubious:
My daughter has a friend at school, her name is Berkley and she has around 5 siblings, all named after colleges. I forget their names, but I can ask my daughter tonight. I remember when she was telling me the names, they were not to bad, but taken as a whole, is quite unusual to me.
How about the Juniors? I II and III names. They always, always confuse me (which is not too hard to do). I know lots of girls from my neighborhood, who were not even married, and named their child after the “baby daddy”, who never sticks around. My younger sister, had 3 boys, by 3 different men, and everyone of the boys is named after their father. So she has little Ronny, little jimmy, and little Richie. I feel bad for them.
Oh yeah, another girl in my neighborhood named her daughter Savanna, then had another baby with another dude (little Ronny’s daddy by the way), and named her Hanna. Savanna and Hanna. What was she thinking?
My old friend had a daughter she named Krystal Rose. I told her it sounded like a china pattern, but she did not understand. :dubious:
Way back in 1971 I installed a security alarm on a walkway bridge over a bayou in Houston, Texas for an older woman named Ima Hogg.
She was like over 90 years old, seems she was the daughter of a wealthy Texas business man that had a sense of humor even though he named her Ima, short for Imogene, he didn’t do it for any mean reasons.
as the story goes it seems that her father ran for office in Texas and Ima had a friend and he would introduce them as sisters Ima and Ura Hogg,
She was probably too rich to go to public schools and be humiliated.
I bet for most people, the name “Jax” is short for “Jackson” or more illiterately, “Jaxon”.
Me? Nothing fucked up for my family- one son is named Matthew, and the other’s going to be named Benjamin.
I was participating in a concert with a choir, and there was an Xzavier listed in the concert program as one of the choir members. I thought it was a typo at first, but then I met the guy, and yes, that’s how his name is spelled.
I wonder if that’s people trying to spell it phonetically. Instead of saying it “Zavier” they pronounce the X as a separate syllable?
Could be.
I have a friend named Xavier but it’s pronounced the French way, so no worrying about what to do with the X sound.
Well, Shaquille. I read once that that name supposedly comes from some African language for “warrior” but I don’t buy it for one second. I think it was just some cutesy way for his Momma to rhyme his first name with his last. 'Course, “Shaquille” now almost seems mainstream compared to some of the weird names I see coming out of certain segments of our society.
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw in a Hustler magazine back in the ‘80s. It showed an African-American man and an African-American woman with their newborn. In the frame was a book titled something like: “Stupid Afro-American Baby Names” and the father was saying, "Okay, we be namin’ her ‘Cadillac Clitoris Johnson’ or 'Labia Odiferous Johnson." (Think that’s stupid? Refer to my post about the USC running back from the '80s names ESTRUS Crayton - I kid you not) A little racist, yeah, but I’ve always gotten a kick out of that one! (And don’t you DARE call me “racist.” One of my best friends - really one of the best people I’ve ever met - is a dark-skinned fellow. 'Course he has a “slave name” [as Muhammad Ali might’ve put it]. Not that that matters one way or the other to me. He’s a WONDERFUL human being. If there were more people like HIM around the world be better by about, oh, I dunno - 10,000X)
Or to rhyme with Siboney 
I knew the late philosopher U.T. Place, originator of the mind-brain identity theory. (I was, in effect, his T.A. for a bit). The U stood for Ullin.
I also was once acquainted with a young lady (white, English, fairly posh) whose first name was Armanil.
My daughter had an elementary-school classmate who spelled his name Blaize, but pronounced it like blasé. (He didn’t care.) (African American.)
And I have just remembered that my daughter also had a friend in high school called Xavier (at least, I assume he spelled it like that) but who pronounced the X as ex: Exavier. (Maybe that is common now, but I always though the standard pronunciation was the Spanish one, where the X sounds like an H).
Newark.
Thank you for that! My full first name is “Jon,” and I was always annoyed when I had to share my name with someone whose name was really “Jonathan.”
Having “Jon A” and Jon B" was annoying when it could have just been Jon and bloody Jonathan. If y’all like the name Jon so much, put it down on the birth certificate instead of Jonathan! 
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I think I’ve shared this one before:
This was in the late 1970s. The oldest son in a family at my church had, as his first name, his mother’s maiden name. Neither he nor anybody in his circle of family and friends had any problem with the name.
Until he started junior high school and found out what “Stoner” meant. 
Fortunately for him, he was tall, good-looking, talented, and athletic (and totally not a stoner), so the mocking didn’t last long, and he ended up being quite popular in both junior high and high school.
Currently: I work with a grown woman (though some years younger than me) who happens to be of Native American ancestry. Her name is: Cheyenne? No. Her name is “Chyahne”.
I hear Io is from Greek myth :rolleyes:
Luna isn’t bad, but makes me think “crazy,” barking at the moon.
I have to ask you very specifically: is the kid named Berkeley (and your typo) or Berkley (sic)? Because if it’s the latter, then that is delicious. It would be like “why did you name 5 of your kids after colleges, and the other after a town of 344 in Somerset?”