Irksome names for children

In My Humble Opinion
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Posted by Altoid

Rhodesia- This student is African American, and I don’t think the family knows about Cecil Rhodes, the colonization of Africa, etc…

Am I the only one who is hoping Rhodesia grows up, and changes her name to Zimbabwe?

:stuck_out_tongue:

On a more serious note, I like family names for kids… if they are from YOUR family. My maiden name (wll the last name I still use, but am planning to change by the time I have a child) is a first name/last name… which I want to use. My husband doesnt agree. He likes Jackson, which I am not partial to at all. (Not to offend anyone but here are my reasons. !. Family name, but not our families. 2 The Gloved wonder. 3. An American president… we arent American. 4. J names have been done to death… Im a J name… Also it looks funny with his last name, which is Northern European, and while Im not planning on naming the kid Ragnar, there are choices that seem more balanced.

wait. Ragnar. hey!

I liked Portia for a girl, but brother in law named his kid Mercedes. It just sounds awful. Mercedes and Portia Think different spelling.)
I love my mothers name Ardythe. (Said Ard-ith). supposedly its Welsh, but my great grandmother found it in a phone book and named my great aunt that. My mom was named after that aunt.
my husband doesnt like naming kids after people. And since I wouldnt name any kid after my evil evil mother in law, I dont think its fair to insist on naming after my mom)

so far we’ve agreed we like the names Peter and Oliver, except there is some kind of in-joke among my brother and his best friends about the name Oliver. My brother gave his girlfriend a rabbit for easter /3 month anniversary. This pathetic, poop machine who destroyed girlfriends’ mom’s house was named Oliver. Then years later brother’s best friend and his wife named their cat Oliver. Apparently another friend in that group has a guinea pig named Oliver. So… Im not sure I can name a kid oliver…they won’t tell me the joke either.

Im thinking Baby X for a girl and Baby Y for a boy.

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Well, as one of the eight (Yes, really. :rolleyes: ) Daves in my department of, maybe, 50 people, I can understand the desire for a unique name. (We also have 5 Andys, which I find more surprising.) Not that there’s anything wrong with Dave (or David, but I don’t answer to that, normally), as a name. It’s served me perfectly well, over the years, and seems to suit me. It’s just kind of blah.

I actually like some of the names many people here have been dissing. I think Jennifer, Michelle, and Marlene (when correctly pronounced) are among the prettiest female names, even if some of them are overused. I also really like Ethan, for a boy. That was one of the names I had in mind, back when I thought I might someday need to name a baby. Along with Duncan and Eli (though I probably wouldn’t have actually named a baby Eli, out of sympathy for the teasing he’d get). I did actually once name a baby that wasn’t mine (long, strange, and boring story that I won’t bore you with); it was a girl, and I chose the name Kelly, because this was during the peak Jennifer/Michelle hysteria.

My personal pet peeve, when it comes to names, is people who give girls names that are male. It’s not so much that they sound bad. It just really irritates me that a perfectly good boy’s name is now, and forever more, a girl’s name. And, it’s not like there is an overabundance of really good boy’s names. Personally, I think there are more good girl’s names.

And, I think we should all just agree that some parents just really need to be smacked upside the head. Shitonya? Chlamydia? (Okay. That one’s a hanging offence.) Ima and Ura Piggie? What were they thinking? Of course, there’s always my favorite baseball player name; Coco Crisp. That one always makes me laugh.

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My mom says I’m not allowed to make fun of kids names since I named my daughter, Nico Blue. I think it’s a beautiful name, and she’s not likely to meet anyone else with it. I’ll take my Nico over a Madison or a Bailey any day.

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Actual names of actual people I have worked with:

Caressa

Princess

Quasar

Precious

Caressa was big and mean and ugly and dirty…not caressable at all. Quasar’s parents were hippies and lived in a commune when she was born. We suspected that she was using drugs because everytime she used the restroom she came out all giggly.

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Of the 8 fellow employees in my department, there are 2 Chris’s and 2 Christy’s. I’m a Chris. I rather like my name. It’s strong and simple and (work being a strange exception) not all that common. I was almost named Lark, which, while pretty just doesn’t fit me. Of course, maybe I’d be a different person if my name was Lark.

Of my nieces and nephews, I have 2 Roberts (the 5 year old goes by Robbie) & Chris, Susan, Brenda, Katherine, Elizabeth, Lara, Jamie (boy, thank you very much), and AJ (Andrew John). I think my sibs did well. I always said if I were to have a girl I’d name her Mary Claire.

StG

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Actually, “Athol” is a fairly old name. It’s just not English.

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Recently came across a youn girl named “Indiana”.

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There’s nothing wrong with Hunter except that it’s currently overused. My 15-year-old brother is named Andrew Hunter after a great-uncle. We have always called him Hunter becuase my dad wanted to avoid the nickname Andy. Fifteen years ago Hunter was very unusual and we kept having to explain that it was a family name. I was rather floored when about 8 years later it somehow became popular.

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So how is this bizarre construction proncounced, anyway?

Cauch-ROH-na is how it would be pronounced were it a Gaelic name (which I doubt that it is), or is it one of those daffy American names?

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I’m 22. All of my male friends are named Matthew or Michael, unless they are named Chris, Scott or John. All of my female friends are named Melissa or Jennifer.

My boyfriend has nephews named Michelangelo and Maxamillion. They are 5 and 2. (He himself has 3 first names. He shortened the third one and goes by that.)

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Who knew “Server Error” was a popular name?

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I never see my name in these kinds of threads. My mom did one of those name all 3 kids with the same letter, Dena, Dane, and, Darby. I have never been able to find anything with my name on it. When I was in middle school they thought it was my last name and never did fix it.

My daughters name is Tara Belle. Belle was my grandmothers name and I thought Tara sounded very southern with it.

My sons name is Cameron Dane. Dane was my brothers name and Cameron is the only thing we could agree on.

The name I will always hate with a deep burning passion is Amber. I have spent many summer afternoons at the laking hearing mothers screaming for AMMMMBERRR.

Apoligies to anyone named Amber.

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Here’s a working version of that link: Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names.

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What, nobody bitching about Michael, the most-overused name in North America?

I busting for Gerhardt, Johan, Wilhelm, and D’Nile for whatever offspring I end up with.

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I think we need a club for those of us whose previously unusual names have become the nom du jour and are now accustomed to turning around every time a mother calls out to her toddler with our name.

I’m a 23 year old Briana (that’s right, only one ‘n’) who grew up not knowing another soul with her name. My teachers always looked at me strange, and would ask if my parents were expecting a boy. (Did they mean Brian?)

Now it seems wherever I go there are legions of 4 and 5 year old Briannas, Breannas, Briannes and Brianas. Add to that most of them are of African American descent. I’ve gotten some might strange looks when I turn around as my name is called, or when I show my I.D. to people.

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When I was a kid, my neighbor had a niece (a bit younger than me) whose name was Ember (girl).

My best friend named her daughter Keara Payton. (In high school, she always thought she’d use Alora.)

My husband once had a cashier at Wal*Mart named She’Wonderful.

A woman in my neighborhood (growing up) was named Sha’Nelle. So she named her daughter Na’Shelle.

My ex-bf’s sister is Tina Renee. Her daughter is Tianna Renee.

My former across-the-street neighbor had a son named Ethan Allen.

My unreligious parents ended up with Joshua, Matthew, and Leah. (I’ve met VERY FEW Leahs in my life.)

I like Madeline Ellen (Ellen is a family name) and Maxwell Philip. Although I normally VOMIT at the families with same first letters, I just really like those names!!

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When you look over my cousins names you can often see the fads… very few are actually ‘original’ names that aren’t heard very often. In order (oldest to youngest or thereabouts)

Boys: Jonathan, David, Aaron, Cody, Lucas, Alex (Alexander), Rhys and Ewan

Girls: Jennifer, Emily, Megan, Brittany, Marinna, Kenzie

The most original ones of my cousins I’d have to say are Marinna and Lucas, though Lucas is swiftly becoming a popular name. Their father is Lithuanian and wanted to name them more Lithuanian names…

Ewan is actually named after my Grandfather (Hugh, Ewan is the Gaelic(?) version of it) and both my Brother and I were named after our Great Grandfathers, and Grandmothers respectively.

Surprisingly enough I’ve seen my name turn up in this thread a few times as a good name. I have only met maybe a handful of Claire’s (or Clair or Clare) in my life and the majority of them are related to me. My first name was also disparaged on Friend’s as an ‘old lady’s name’. I found this out when my friends told me they had watched the episode and immediately thought of me when they discarded Ruth that way… My brother has pretty much escaped the wrath of having multiple people with his name, and I have met maybe 3/4 people who share either his first or middle name (James Adam)

If I ever have kids I have no clue what I would name them. I definately think I will name a daughter Amara, as for a son I have no clue. One friends told me to name him Damien, and I might… it’s a nice name but we’ll see how popular it is.

But no matter how much I dislike my name, I’m really glad I didn’t end up as Mary Rose like my Mom considered naming me. It’s a nice enough name… but it’s really not me. Actually, more often then not I go by RC and have been debating changing my name to something like Arcee or maybe just Clarice which my friends think it’s funny to call me up and greet me with the Lector voice and that name… I probably never will change my name but I have considered it.

btw Antares is a really nice name, I read somewhere that it’s supposed to bring courage to the namee? I dunno…

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Oh and as an aside, I was surprised to learn that my Aunt Sherry’s actual name is… Sherlynn.

Funny how I found that out too. I borrowed a sleeping bag from Grandma to go camping and a friend asked who Sherlynn was. I had no clue and asked why she had asked… it was written on the sleeping bag in one of the corners (first and last name, same last name as mine) and totally confused me as I had never heard of this elusive person! At least until I got home and asked Grandma about it…

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How 'bout Glary? Yep, that’s a real name, one of my nephew’s classmates. And the kid who used to live across the street from my nephew? ETHER. No joke. I harbor a strong supsicion that when the mother was asked “What do you want to name the baby?” she heard “What kind of drugs would you like to be on?”

XJETGIRLX - I have a friend whose daughter is a one ‘n’ Briana, too, but the reasoning there was that her mother claims Brianna is pronouced Bree-ANNA, and her daughter is Bree-AHHHHNA. In my entire life I’ve never heard either variation pronounced Bree-ANNA (although according to Jamie Fraser of the Outlander books, it’s actually BREE-ahna.)

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I’m Lindsay Kerr, which is a good name. I don’t know very many other people with my name (and none with it spelled the same.) Kerr is a family name, and it’s a tradition to give the first child the middle name of Kerr, so we have Clyde Kerr, Nan Kerr, Kate Kerr, and Lindsay Kerr.

My brother is Peter Nichols. Peter because that was the only boy’s name my parents could agree on, and Nichols because it was also a family name. I don’t think there are any other Peters in his class, and I don’t think there are any at my school either.

Christina is one of the overused names at my school, along with Brittany. I know a bunch of kids with “nice, old fashioned names,” though. Noah, Deborah, Jeffrey, Emily, Hannah, Tommy, and Sam all come to mind.