Take it easy, bella, he wasn’t dissing your boy’s name. That list is from the Simpsons. It’s the names of all of Cletus’ children. 
And BTW all, my son’s name is Diego. And no, neither I nor his mother are Spanish or Hispanic.
One of the things I enjoy about bad baby naming is the rationale people have for doing so. When I was pregnant, I went on a baby naming message board and read that a woman was naming her daughter Sierra because it was so petite and feminine sounding. When I asked if she meant petite and feminine like the Sierra Nevada mountains, it didn’t go over well.
Sounds like she really wanted to name the kid Sarah - it sounds like all these other ones, and it’s an actual freaking name!
As someone with an unusual (but “real”) name, I know what a pain in the ass it can be to be constantly misspelled. Names should be, if nothing else, comprehensible.
I started a thread with this one a few months back, but I once came in contact with a woman whose name was Lolita. :eek:
This reminds me of a site I found on names in Utah
It was set up by a woman who heard some other womans name on a TV ad, and guessed that because of the name (Odonna) she had to be from Utah, and whoopie do, she was.
Some of these are classics!
“Abcde” - “Allora LaLovi” - “Ann-Toy” - “Antrim Zeezrom” - “Ara-Om” - “Apathy” - and those a just a few choice pickings from the A’s!
Well, based on the origin, they could always go into advertising when they grow up.
At least they didn’t name them after the mermaid’s real name. “Come here, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
Err. My niece’s is Jayden, for the exact same reason. In my brother’s defense, however, he grasped onto Jayden in a blind panic, because his wife’s choices were Axl Rose or Phaedre Love (both for a girl) and Axl Rose or Wolfgang Love (for a boy)… and my brother’s last name is very obviously Italian. They were watching Star Trek and the wife said, “Oh, Ja(y)den… that’s kind of pretty, and it would work for a boy or a girl” to which my brother said, “YES! It’s perfect! I love it!” His other two daughters are (mercifully) name Victoria and Abigail.
On another note: I know of two families who have done horrible name things to their children. One family’s kids are Maris, Ainsley, Briar, Camden and Vail. The other family has four boys: Apollo, Demetrius, Omnipotence and CURLY.
Oh my god…
I just found the names “Chinchilla Zest” and “Tugdick” on the above mentioned site (my last post)!
hee hee heeeeeeeeeeeee
oh, and apparently “Confederate America” is a good girls name, and stuck on what to name your new son, why not “Iron Rod”
what goes through these peoples heads! 
Hey, originality isn’t everything. Didn’t Bob Geldof’s exwife – the one who died – name her kids some awful names? I believe they were three girls, named . . . um . . . well, I think one was named Peaches and I know one was named Fifi Trixibelle, and I can’t remember the name of the third. But I have always remembered the horror of “Fifi Trixibelle.”
And Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’s daughters are named Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah. Tallulah??
I’m not pulling for boring names, but on the whole I’d rather be a Jennifer.
Wow - those Utah names are terrific, ** Tir Tinuviel ** ! Simply incredible.
My favorites:
Girls: Bree-N, Chinchilla Zest (Is that what you get when you peel a chinchilla?), JaNe’e (no, it’s not “Jane!”), and Saunsceneyouray
Boys: Tugdick (was this intended as a dirty joke?), J’Dee, DavidO, and Vernal Independence (nonsensical, but catchy)
Kn(LMAO)ckers
What we whisper passing a cow-orker’s office door:
Run Floris… Run!
I swear, I listed my favorites before I knew ** Tir ** had posted again.
I stand by Chinchilla Zest and Tugdick. If I ever have kids…
Kn(please, God, no!)ckers
The only reason Jaden’s popular now is some celebrity has a kid named Jaden. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, I think. (Of course, “Jada” is as bad as “Jaden.”)
Hear hear! Do you know how funny it is to hear of kids named Trenton and Camden? Horrid places, both of them. Whats next? Bayonne and Perth Amboy?
Well, it’s not as bad as Grover’s Corners or HoHoKus.
Or French Lick.
I’m sorry but any woman who’d name a baby girl Axl Rose needs to be beaten with a clue stick.
it was the law.
(my sister got “Ann”, I got “Lynn”)
My poor son (Benjamin), while I was pregnant, his dad wanted to name him:
Ryder
Boston
Austin
or
Denver.
I won.
Many of my clients have odd, unusual names as well. combinations, odd spellings etc. And my boss used to make snide comments about them. Of course, her name was made up from a combination of her father’s and mother’s names.
At this point I’d like to thank my parents for the normal names they gave me and my siblings, a practice that was thankfully continued with my son and my sister’s kids.
Unfortunately, if my brother reproduces any time soon, things will probably go straight to hell.
Well, dammit, I want to stand up for the goofy names. I like Madison. I like Sierra. I really like Siyerah. Cram as many superflous "y"s into that name as you possibly can. We don’t use that letter nearly enough as it is. It’s not going to ruin their lives. Y’know why? Because by the time they’re grown up, everyone is going to have names like that. I even like Axl Rose as a name. C’mon, by the time the kid’s old enough to care, who’s going to know who Axl Rose was, anyway?
Hell, I think most people want creative, original names. Look at the people who are posting to this thread. None of them picked screen names like Steve, or Carol. We’ve got wring and Zappo, Green Bean and Gundy, Coldfire and unixrat, Mystery Dog and… Jeff Olson? Who the hell let him in here?
Anyway, my point is I think these names are all pretty good. (well, maybe not Tugdick) Variety is a good thing. And if the kid really hates his name, he can always change it later. What’s in a name?