I bet my daughter is real happy that I didn’t name her Zamrot like the baby namer said I should!
OK I think I just got the worst one of all…
TATATA
Hahaha! That is hilarious! You don’t know how many times I’ve had to put up with comments such as, “Like the cheese? Bri?”
Guess I’ll have to find a use for that line somewhere :
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Thanks for the link!
(That’s with one ‘n’, not two, and no, I wasn’t named after the porn star, she was after my time. It’s celtic for chrissake!)
Oh, man…being female and German, I asked for same, with an S, and got these:
STANATE
STANGE
STANNIA
STANTIA
SYBILI
I’d rather make acronyms with these than use any of them in their pure form!
Or clip them:
Tania
Sybil
TANGENTIAL RAMBLING AHEAD:
I wish I had the cite, but I’ve read a couple of articles indicating that kids with “creative” spellings of unusual names tend to have a harder time in school. Maybe it’s a symptom instead of a cause, I’m not sure.
But when I become king, we’re going to standardize spellings of names, ban white people from naming their kids after tribes, and require that people follow my simple rule:
Odd last names should be matched with ordinary first names.
Ordinary last names should be matched with odd first names.
No alliteration.
No naming several kids with the same initials–my brother Greg and Garry and sibling Melanie and Michael would joing me (real name Mitchell) in thanking you.
So. Ariadne Smith and Joe Nahampemapetalan are good. Bob Johnson and Deindre Papachronis are bad.
Oh, and consider the annoyance factor of screwy spellings, the teasing factor, and the “boy named Sue” factor.
So how did I end up as “Bucky?”…
<gratuitous Eddie Izzard quote>
What shall we name our child so that he gets the sh!t kicked out of him?
Englebert Humperdinck!
</gratuitous Eddie Izzard quote>
Hey, one of my younger brothers got screwed as hard as anything that program could generate.
His name? Mahaius (ma-hai-us), they call him Mahai for short. He’s a real cute little freckled white boy, doesn’t resemble his name at all. (sigh) My mother thought he should have an ancient Lemurian name, one that hasn’t been heard on this planet for 10,000 years. :rolleyes:
Actually, it’s "What shall we name our son so that he does not get the shit kicked out of him? I know, Englebert Humperdinck!
I like Jezebel Ishtar or Satan (pronounced Say-tawn) Naparoosum (pronounced Nop-or-oz-am). But I don’t ever want the kid, so I’ll eventually give a pet that name.
Friends have proposed names like Soup Tureen (as a first name), Chlamydia, Pollux, Ite (person has a last name of Hitt, so on any forms that put last name first, kid would be Hitt, Ite), Adrenal, Ishkabibble, and Herman Muddfuddle. Just a few that aren’t from the name generator thing.
Is that taTAta or TATata?
That was a hoot. I agree with the Bitch – made up names aren’t quite as bad as new spellings for “normal” names.
But hey – did you know that when you bookmark TMB, the name that shows on the Favorites list isn’t TMB, it’s “Shaved Young Indonesian Transvestites”?
How do they do that? Make the url different in the Favorites list than it is in the address box?
Apologies for the slight hijack.
Her articles are great - especially that one in particular.
:eek: On my bookmark it just says ‘The Misanthropic Bitch’. Although I do find SYIT amusing (though somewhat alarming)
Never mind. I’m an idiot. I bookmarked the section I was reading, not the home page. [redfaced emoticon here]
It’s OK, AuntiePam. Glad you enjoyed the link. You too, XJETGIRLX.
For boys:
BENEL
FERZYLI
ILORIA
VADI
VELMAR
For girls:
MILA
SVETLA
TEFIA
YELARA
ZANIE
Non gender specific:
ALIAN
DELISH
GINE
IMA
NICITY
My kids are gonna hate me. 
“Come here, NoClueFerzyli…”
“Why can’t you be more like your sister Zanie?”
“Hello, my name is NiCity.”
I’ll go with my original choice:
Abijah T. Bindersnatch
My favorite one so far came from using the “No-Nonsense Names” criteria and ‘Q’
QUISESTH
There’s just something about that name …
A friend of a family of a friend named their baby girl Paiton. To the mother’s face, everyone gushed about the name and the baby. Behind the mother’s back, everyone retched.
Did anyone see the SNL skit where it was a camp for African-American kids and they all had names like Leukemia or Pepto-Bismol? Funny stuff.
Speaking of…
This website tackles the made-up names pretty well.
Sadly, I’ve noticed an alarming number of small Peytons around recently. What is with this “surname for given name” trend??
Certainly, it’s not a recent trend. My great uncle was given the name Macfarlane (he’s known as Mac) which was a surname from our family history. Often, important names in family history mostly enter the middle-name category, but sometimes make it into the given-name category. There are several cases of this happening within my maternal and paternal family histories, however, it does only seem to happen to the males on other side.
However, these unusual names not only occur due to family surname pride, but also out of lack of imagination. When my great-great grandmother was due to give birth, she was only expecting one child, and already had a name picked. Low and behold there were twins, and the second son (they were identical twin boys) who was my great grandfather, got lumbered with the name of the state premier of the time, whom my great-great grandparents must have admired.