# More Khree'atyvve \[Creative\] Names, Anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660 "2010-04-01T23:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wombatinspats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@wombatinspats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombatinspats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/41 "2010-04-03T05:04:02Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Welcome to the board, **wombatinspats**. Until somebody posts a birth certificate for N-a or La-a, I’m not going to believe this. Nothing personal, I’ve just heard it too many times. It’s todays Oranjello and Lemonjello. Damn it! All that snorting indignation I’ve wasted on nothing. Fair enough, and, to be honest, I can’t actually remember what he said the relationship of the girl to him was, which leaves more space for urban myth insertion. Never heard of the Oranjello/Lemonjello thing, but that’s prob. because they’re too American to catch on as an urban myth where I am (they’d just sound unfamiliar). To make up for this lapse, I offer the case of Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html) ---
**Author:** ![wombatinspats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@wombatinspats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombatinspats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/42 "2010-04-03T05:06:28Z")
> [@gang\_green](#): > > Ah, thought of another one! Surinder. As in surrender. But he’s from India. I knew a Sikh bloke called this; it’s a legit. name, just not English… ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/43 "2010-04-03T05:10:10Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > I once worked with a man named Harry Butt. How could his parents do that to him? That rules. But only because it’s not my name. > [@Perciful](#): > > My ex bf’s step daughter had a thing for odd names. She has 4 kids, Darshawn, Romeo, Justice and the baby is Rain. I tried to get her to name the baby Juliet but she thought that would be silly..😉 She thinks Juliet is silly even though one of her kids is named Darshawn? Uh…:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/44 "2010-04-03T07:59:32Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Yeah, I’m not buying it either, but I actually did know a guy whose last name is Sithole, pronounced sit-OL-ay. Just one letter away… That one’s a coincidence, there’s [a few people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithole) with that name. A Thai name is Kittiporn; that “porn” string turns up a lot in names. Indonesians have interesting names, like Megawati, Suparman. I feel like there’s some I should add but I can’t really think of much now. I know of a girl named Marquis, thankfully pronounced correctly. I can’t help but think that an “e” should be at the end of that, though, and pronounced accordingly. In the film _I Love You, Man_, there’s a douchy guy named Tevin. I can imagine the writers sitting around, saying “Let’s name him Kevin, that’s an asshole’s name.” “No, Travis!” and finally coming to a compromise. My standard semi-fictional “WTF were the parents thinking!?” name is “Pashleigh.” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/45 "2010-04-03T14:53:27Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > A Thai name is Kittiporn; that “porn” string turns up a lot in names. A friend of mine worked (or perhaps still does) with a Tittiporn. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/46 "2010-04-03T15:06:42Z")
Yes, when you get into non-English names, a lot of combination show up that are strange to our ears. I used to work with a Kittiporn (I work with a lot of Thais and a lot of Chinese, who also end up with names the sound obscene to us). My kids go to school with kids who have names that I don’t know how to spell, but sound like Me Moo and Hoochie. But both of the kids in question are first generation Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/47 "2010-04-03T15:22:33Z")
My next door neighbor’s grandson is named Griffin. And my grandmother gave each of her children two middle names. She was an uneducated prairie woman but apparently well read as the middle names include Cyrus, Thoreau, Cinderella, Emmanuel and Marie Antoinette! It wasn’t uncommon for pioneer women who had precious little of beauty in their lives to give their children names which created some idea of elegance for them. I think, as we become increasingly more populated and diverse, and as popular culture calls for less focus on our cultural heritage people may be seaching for some individuation/identity in naming. If nothing else it gives any ignoramus the chance to retort to authority, “Hah! You can’t even pronounce my name right. And you think you’re so smart!” Hee, hee. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/48 "2010-04-03T15:40:00Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > I saw these first names on somobody’s kid’s class photo and had to share. Some of them are just bad spellings, and some of them I don’t know how to pronounce: > Dasjah > Anijah > Tre’Len > Caege > Za’Lin > Amarie > Erionna > Khristian > Quevon [pronounced like “Kevin”] > > Any more new good ones to share? I refuse to deal with these names. I’m still in shock from all the Mykynzy-Cydnee-Brytynee generation. We’ve used a busniness here locally several times: the person who answers the phone is named “Memory”. I wonder if her brother is called “Experience”, or possibly “Doggiestyle”. . . ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/49 "2010-04-03T15:49:16Z")
Regarding the references to “Griffin”, it is a not uncommon surname of Welsh descent. In the American South, it is also not uncommon to bear a family surname as a given name. Griffin appears as both given name and surname in my family. Neither usage is associated with class or the mythical creature (or cartoon patriarch). ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/50 "2010-04-03T15:57:30Z")
I work with a guy named 3ric. ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/51 "2010-04-03T16:45:11Z")
> [@wombatinspats](#): > > To make up for this lapse, I offer the case of Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html) I remember reading about this on yahoo news. I couldnt stop talking about it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/52 "2010-04-03T16:55:44Z")
Not a creative name, but I’m working with a client right now whose last name is Assed. Pronounced ‘ass-head’, which I intentionally mispronounce as ‘ass-HED’. ---
**Author:** ![Doody\_Pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@Doody\_Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doody_Pants)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/53 "2010-04-03T17:19:06Z")
wow… I can’t believe there is more than one Kittiporn walking around! There is a client at my job with that name. We also have a client with the first name Titty. My all time favorite though is the guy with the first name Waffles. I am assuming that is his legal name because it is on his W2. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/54 "2010-04-03T17:22:13Z")
> [@Doody\_Pants](#): > > wow… I can’t believe there is more than one Kittiporn walking around! It sounds like a Thai name. I doubt it sounds so odd in Thai. One of my classmates last year is Tanyaporn - but her parents intentionally gave her a name that could be shortened to something that sounded more Western. (She does usually go by Tanya.) ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/55 "2010-04-03T17:58:21Z")
> [@CateAyo](#): > > Regarding the references to “Griffin”, it is a not uncommon surname of Welsh descent. In the American South, it is also not uncommon to bear a family surname as a given name. Griffin appears as both given name and surname in my family. Neither usage is associated with class or the mythical creature (or cartoon patriarch). Nonetheless, I can’t look at the cute little soul without expecting him to extend a paw, flash a toothy grin, spread his wings and soar away.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/56 "2010-04-03T18:10:02Z")
Griffin is the least weird name I’ve ever heard. Dijonaisse is the name of one of the characters on _The Proud Family_, a Disney channel cartoon with predominantly African American characters. A FOAF on Facebook is naming her soon-to-be born child Heaven; so much for the backward spelling. For some fun names, look no further than the Appalachian Mountains. I recently ran across a man named Grethal. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/57 "2010-04-03T19:52:22Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Griffin is the least weird name I’ve ever heard. Dijonaisse is the name of one of the characters on _The Proud Family_, a Disney channel cartoon with predominantly African American characters. And isn’t the little Hispanic girl’s name Lacienega Boulevardes? Like La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles. That show has some terrible character names. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/58 "2010-04-03T19:58:37Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > How to spell baby names the N’Hampsha way: > Bear in mind that most people in NH don’t have the traditional NH accent, because more than half of us weren’t born here. But, some people do. You know the type, they eat blueberry pie for breakfast… > > Anyway, here are a few guidlines > > - if the name traditionally ends in **vowel+r** change that to an **ah**. That gets you names like Connah, Spencah, and Skylah. > > - if the name traditionally ends in **on** or **an** change it to **in**. For example there’s my name, which is always pronounced Shannin, and then there are my friends Brandin and Ryin… > > - if it’s a female name that traditionally ends in **a** change that to **uh**. Andreeuh, Lauruh, Annuh… Are these meant to be spellings or merely pronunciations? Because who the hell _doesn’t_ pronounce the last group that way (and the middle group is fairly common in pronunciation as well, and the first group is just old-hat non-rhoticity)? ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/59 "2010-04-03T20:01:17Z")
A friend of mine is a math tutor at the local community college. One of his students has a son named “Antoine II”. Now, even taking into account that this is the kid’s first name — so it’s “Antoine II [Smith]” rather than “Antoine [Smith] II” — it doesn’t sound so bad, right? It’s pronounced “Ann-toyn two”. I wish I were kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/60 "2010-04-03T21:18:14Z")
> [@CateAyo](#): > > Regarding the references to “Griffin”, it is a not uncommon surname of Welsh descent. In the American South, it is also not uncommon to bear a family surname as a given name. Griffin appears as both given name and surname in my family. Neither usage is associated with class or the mythical creature (or cartoon patriarch). Yeah, but you don’t spell it “Ghryphyn”, now do you? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660.md?page=4)