# Interesting baby name
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 1, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001 "2009-08-01T21:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/1 "2009-08-01T21:47:11Z")
During one of my periodic bouts of random netsurfing I googled “Lyssa”, even though I already more or less knew its meaning.
People reading [books of baby names](http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Lyssa) might be well advised to double check with [other sources](http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Lyssa.html) before picking a name!:eek:
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/2 "2009-08-02T04:24:33Z")
HA! I actually have a friend who uses this nickname.
While she resembles the latter source more often, I’m sure she’ll blow her top if I tell her about it. She’s got a quick temper.
Pardon me, gotta go compose an email… 😃
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### Author:  [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/3 "2009-08-02T04:39:02Z")
Hah, that’s sweet. I have a cousin named Alyssa. 😃
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### Author:  [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/4 "2009-08-03T01:18:53Z")
Try [these](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/Story?id=91766&page=1)for weird baby names.
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### Author:  [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/5 "2009-08-03T02:39:21Z")
If we can talk nicknames, my sister called her son “Kinsey” from the time he was a baby until he was five or six. She hadn’t heard of the famous sex researcher.
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/6 "2009-08-03T03:00:25Z")
Heh. I put in my son’s name and got “did you mean…”
I guess it’s rare.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/7 "2009-08-03T21:29:44Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#):
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> If we can talk nicknames, my sister called her son “Kinsey” from the time he was a baby until he was five or six. She hadn’t heard of the famous sex researcher.
Nor, I suppose, the fictional detective Kinsey Millhone.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/8 "2009-08-04T15:04:27Z")
Hmmm…I know a Lyssa. She gets very mad when you say her name, because she pronounces it Lisa (Lee-suh) and everyone…EVERYONE…pronounces is Liss-uh. She’s forty-something…you think she would understand by now why people are confused about how to pronounce it.
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-baby-name/505001/9 "2009-08-04T22:41:56Z")
> [@kittenblue](#):
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> Hmmm…I know a Lyssa. She gets very mad when you say her name, because she pronounces it Lisa (Lee-suh) and everyone…EVERYONE…pronounces is Liss-uh. She’s forty-something…you think she would understand by now why people are confused about how to pronounce it.
Does she foam at the mouth?