Here’s a hilarious website analyzing the horrible new trends in baby names: “Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing.”
How surprising. Is there anyone in the USA who has not read To Kill a Mockingbird, or at least seen the movie?
There were two male Jodys at my junior high. My friend Danielle’s brother is named Jody. But I don’t know why they have those names…
There was a guy named Erin at my junior high, too… blerk.
Well, here’s another data point to add to the “Are all Elizabeth’s Opinionated, Bossy, and Insensitive?” debate: My name is Elizabeth, and unfortunately, those adjectives do apply to me. I hope I don’t “bulldoze” people, but I have been told that I have all the subtlety of a Mack truck. 
So there ya go.
GREAT LINK!!! Tears in eyes, ROFL, sides aching!Y’know, I used to joke that people should be required to undergo psychological testing before they’re allowed to breed. Now, I’m convinced of it!
Like continuity error I work in data entry and always, always it’s with the dad’s initial. The mother has something different. That has increaased my annoyance with the whole thing.
I used to skeeve at bad names but now I laugh. We need people with bad names so that those of us with names of power and presence can sound even better in comparison. Unless the kids family. I successfully sabotaged Savanah by commenting “Oh yeah, that’s the porn star that committed suicide.”
Glad you enjoyed. That is one of my top two or three websites that I can always count on to crack me up. It never gets old, either!
I’ve probably told the story of my black Mormon coworker. When his wife was pregnant with her first child, he had a dream. His wife heard him say in his sleep: “Destiny, you leave your little brother alone!” And sure enough, she had a girl, and they named it appropriately.
However, it wasn’t until recently that I learned that they spelled it “Destini”. A stripper name if there ever was one.
And a few months back, they had another child. A baby boy. Whom they named “Dakota”.
Cripes.
Haha, “Britonnee” . . .
Anyway, my idiot cousin just had a couple of little girls. The first was named Preston and the second was named Mallory. We’ve already discussed the horrors of “Preston,” and “Mallory” always makes me think of ducks.
Although it’s a good 20 years too late, I still want a moratorium on:
Michael
David
John (or Jonathan)
Daniel
Joshua
Ryan
They’re not terrible names but dang, I swear that list probably covers 90% of the guys on campus.
I also hate “Shane.” Augh, there was a horrible idiot boy in my high school whose name was “Shan” but with a line over the “a.” Did she pull it from a dictionary or what?
Me too – they’re the first thing that comes to mind whenever I hear that name.
Ha! If by some unlikely conjunction of the stars I ever have kids, I’ll give them names written in the IPA!
Ok, maybe not, but I’ll be sorely tempted to.
Oh god, not with the twee crap again… 
It’s one too twee for fine sex. And seven ate nine.
(ducks)
Peyton. For a girl. Reminds me of the Rich Chick from Facts of Life. It’s just so smug. I think it is the new Tiffany, which replaced Heather/Amber.
Oh, and I cannot stand:Lauren. could you parents try a little less harder to pick out a name for your daughter. Lauren and even Loren, which is a very nice boys name. Yes, a boys name. Like Beverly, Shirley and Evelyn use to be.
The made up name combinations that the African American Community is so good at dishing out can some times be very pretty or something very evil.
And why, she asks in her best Anthropoligical voice, is the AF-AM community so fond of the ‘La’ , "Lon’ and ‘Le’ prefixes, amongst others.
I love my cousins and their little ones but god, has it ever been the cavalcade of Early-Twenty-first-Century Names ™.
Grayson, Harrison, Hayden, and Brielle.
Too many last names, thanks.
I knew a couple who thought that calling their daughter Molly-May was clever but after I met a guy who had called his son Tremendous, I sort of gave up even thinking about the most stupid names.
Has anyone known a Rhonda (or Ronda) who wasn’t a total bitch? I haven’t.
It would be remiss of me to omit Randy Bender.
Search the Net or just visit this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/10/all_hail_randy_bender/
Ever asked, “Help me, Ronda”?
There are two Rhondas at my company, and both of them are as nice as can be.
This one could work, if the last name were something like Richards or Wang or Li-Hung or something…