# Help Name my Baby **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702 "2011-05-04T15:13:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/81 "2011-05-06T02:36:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > If I ever have a son, I’m seriously considering giving him the name Didymus, after Thomas the Apostle (aka Doubting Thomas). Well, as a middle name. Didymus sounds like it is a nickname for Epididymis. love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/82 "2011-05-06T02:37:22Z")
Bodicea is I admit an unusual name and ripe for teasing (is sometimes also pronounced BOO di cuh), woe unto the teaser if a girl or woman with this name is teased, if she lives up to her name… ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/83 "2011-05-06T02:48:47Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I’m gonna keep pimping **Darth Volvo** as a name until somebody uses it, goddammit. I feel the same way about Gilgamesh > [@Lasciel](#): > > Not to be confused with Aric, which (I think may be Modern Hebrew) and has also been showing up a lot here in this section of the Bible Belt. > My husband has seriously suggested Balthazar before. (It was his “serious” suggested name after suggesting Sephiroth.) So I’m assuming little Sephiroth or Balthazar is doing well? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/84 "2011-05-06T04:37:45Z")
Ok, you can stop looking now. One of these is the name for you, I just know it. Girls- Sasha, Dierdre (DeeDee!), Savannah, Jamie, Julia. Boys- Scott, Nathan, Jamison, Jamie, Rudy. You are welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Pliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Pliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pliam)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/85 "2011-05-06T04:42:04Z")
Apollonia ~or~ Theophilus ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/86 "2011-05-06T06:40:45Z")
Zelda. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/87 "2011-05-06T06:57:34Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > I’d never thought of it before, but ever since the Royal Wedding I’ve been dying to have another little girl so I can name her Pippa. (Short for Philippa.) So cute! Of course, I already have a Kate and a Will so if I had a Pippa I’d have to have a Harry, too, for the complete set. > > Not going to happen. _I’ve_ got a Pippa (short for Philippa as you’ve mentioned). And I still think it’s one of the greatest names ever. 😛 Having the choice to shorten the name is important I think, so that the little child can have the ‘familiar’ name, but as an adult and needing something more formal, can revert to that longer version later on. I also have a Jeremy, a Hugh and a Timothy, so it’s English turtles all the way down in this family I’m afraid. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/88 "2011-05-06T07:13:01Z")
Morphina Belladonna Mescalito ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/89 "2011-05-06T09:03:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Maydylynn > Maydysyn > Ayshlyeyiygh 😛 Someone a “fan” of those parents who not only give their girls super feminine trendy names, but also delibratly misspell them? ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/90 "2011-05-06T14:48:32Z")
Okay, digging around in my family tree, we have: Savillion Fuller ( my great…grandfather) Sedonia Clementine (called her Teenie, or by my time, Great-Aunt Teenie) Grover Hazel Reuben was my MIL’s father, a true gentleman. I wanted to name my eldest Ivy, but was voted down. I also wanted Kyliandria, but no go from my conservative husband. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/91 "2011-05-06T17:38:56Z")
> [@waynemcdougall](#): > > Zathras Bad idea. No one listen to Zathras. Zathras have very sad life. Probably have sad death - but at least there is symmetry. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/92 "2011-05-06T17:52:33Z")
Hebrew names: Chaya Chana Shoshana Rivka Yael Ruchel Zahava Gayla Batsheva Malka Eliana Dovid Natan Benyamin Efrayim Yonatan Dov Yaniv Menachem Yossi Avram ---
**Author:** ![Cabane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Cabane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabane)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/93 "2011-05-06T19:29:04Z")
Roth - boy Wren - girl ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/94 "2011-05-06T19:58:41Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > That’s a disease. Really? [blink, blink] > [@kambuckta](#): > > Having the choice to shorten the name is important I think, so that the little child can have the ‘familiar’ name, but as an adult and needing something more formal, can revert to that longer version later on. My parents deliberately chose names for me and my siblings that did _not_ have common short forms. Of course my name is 1 syllable and my siblings’ are two, so shortening wasn’t necessary. My dad is named Charles, and does not like being called Charley, or Chuck, or other short forms. Guy I know is the third of his name, goes by Trey, nicknamed his kid - the fourth of his name - “Reyth”, a variant of a scandanavian word for Four. Um, yeah. Said it will get him beat up in elementary school, but give him a great conversation starter for picking up girls later in life. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/95 "2011-05-06T20:00:47Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Really? [blink, blink] > > My parents deliberately chose names for me and my siblings that did _not_ have common short forms. Of course my name is 1 syllable and my siblings’ are two, so shortening wasn’t necessary. My dad is named Charles, and does not like being called Charley, or Chuck, or other short forms. > > **Guy I know is the third of his name, goes by Trey** , nicknamed his kid - the fourth of his name - “Reyth”, a variant of a scandanavian word for Four. Um, yeah. Said it will get him beat up in elementary school, but give him a great conversation starter for picking up girls later in life. I know two of these, Trey and Trace. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/96 "2011-05-06T20:18:08Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Allopecia (al oh pee’ shiuh) > [@Shayna](#): > > That’s a disease. > [@Irishman](#): > > Really? [blink, blink] Yes, [really](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia). ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/97 "2011-05-06T21:23:23Z")
> [@classyladyhp](#): > > Seriously? Throckmorton??? > > 😕☹ It worked for [Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gildersleeve). Names from my own family’s history: Male names: Delmar Husband Lawfeeyett (no kidding, the spelling really was this messed up IRL) Albert Darrell Cyril Female names: Olita Willie Maureen Myrna Martha Essie ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/98 "2011-05-06T21:39:16Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I feel the same way about Gilgamesh > > So I’m assuming little Sephiroth or Balthazar is doing well? 😉 Oh no, no spawn for me, thanks. Maybe later. Much later. Also: Enkidu!!! There’s a badass name for you! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/99 "2011-05-06T22:23:29Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > Also: Enkidu!!! There’s a badass name for you! Too likely to be mistaken as an [Ekidna](http://www.google.com/search?q=ekidna&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=4c9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gXTETae5FYe4sAPgo_SjAQ&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1044&bih=647) ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702/100 "2011-05-06T23:07:36Z")
There was a documentary a while back with great [suggestions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06FmDZ4kp5k)… Who wouldn’t love Baby Magic? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-baby/580702.md?page=6)