Busted! Your friends are Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani, am I right? Although it seems a bit weird to call this week “right after the Olympics”, but I guess the Winter Olympics just finished. Anyhow, next time you see Gav and Gwennie, tell them from me that Apollo was a nice try, but Zuma is still the stupidest name among their kids.
Dallin’s a pretty popular name here in Utah. Course, there’s an LDS muckety-muck named Dallin so that may have something to do w/ it.
The rest are abominations.
Van Morrison, or Patti Smith.
How else would you pronounce it?
Sed-ryke?
Id go with seed-rye-ch, but rye-ch as one syllable, just like they pronounce it in Irestan
Wow. Maybe it just got played more around here. I heard that song A LOT growing up (like several dozen times, probably approaching 100). It’s a late 60s song by the Hollies, and my parents didn’t listen to that music, so I just picked it up form, well, pop culture and general radio, I guess. Looks like while it was a top ten song, it only reached #9 in the US, so I guess I must have an anomalous experience. To me, the song is as familiar as a Beatles tune.
That is so cool!! I would sure have fun with that one! “Omar Ohm!” “Gregory Gauss!” Ooh, ooh, “Decibelle!”
I met a woman whose name was pronounced “Aah-sil.” (Never saw it written.)
I thought maybe it was short for Ocelot, but she said it was Oscille, like in “oscillate.”
I come across this name once in a long while and every time I see it my first thought is “WTF were those parents thinking”.
Seen in one of those wedding programs: a woman whose name was Joya, which means Jewel in Spanish.
Only, they pronounced it with an English J, so it sounds to Spanish ears like Yoya… bitchslap in Spanish.
Please don’t give your kids foreign names you can’t pronounce, or you might end up calling them Bitchslap.
I knew of a kid whose parents wanted to name him after the dad, but not “Jr.” or 'II" like normal people. Instead they gave him the legal first name Deuce. How is that even supposed to be after his dad??? His dad’s name wasn’t in it anywhere.
Many, many years ago, when I was still in grammar school, the nun who taught my seventh-grade class was Sister Barbara Ann.
Poor woman couldn’t walk into a classroom without the whole class bursting into song.
She was nice, though. I still remember her fondly.
Heh. My husband runs an audio equipment business. He’s reeeeeally into it.
I dunno, I mean, them triflin’ bitches be gettin’ out my baby’s way.
Parents in the Mexican state of Sonora will no longer be allowed to name their children “Facebook,” ''Rambo" or 59 other now banned given names. Such as Calzon, Lady Di, Marciana, or Circuncision.
I had a phone conversation the other day at work with a lady with the unfortunate name of Candida. I started to think that it was kind of a cool name and then thought, “ooh, yeast infection”. And I know that’s how she spells it because I had to send her an email and she spelled her name for me.
It’s actually not that uncommon a name among Hispanic women, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have the same connotation in Spanish.
Did not know that, hadn’t heard that song before. I don’t know if this lady was Hispanic or not, but I’m sure she’d rather think she was named after the song. 
Put the accent on the “a” and you get “innocent”.