# My grand daughter will be named Echo Marie. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411 "2004-02-04T01:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/21 "2004-02-04T06:45:53Z")
Kids teasing can be so unbelievably cruel, why set her up as a victim? I wanted beautiful Gaelic names for my boys, but I decided that it might be more for me than for them. So I am mom to Zack & AJ! But I am godmother to Frankie Sage (a girl), Jean-Luc Patrice (boy) and Chani Paris (girl). Yee haw! Besides, I think Echo is dumb. But that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Quint\_Essence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/54ee81/32.png) [@Quint\_Essence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint_Essence)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/22 "2004-02-04T07:16:19Z")
NO. Just no that would be a cruel name to hang on a kid ---
**Author:** ![Quint\_Essence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/54ee81/32.png) [@Quint\_Essence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint_Essence)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/23 "2004-02-04T07:22:02Z")
aubrey chanel (pronounced like the perfume with a sh sound) ---
**Author:** ![Nately\_s\_Whore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nately\_s\_Whore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nately_s_Whore)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/24 "2004-02-04T07:38:36Z")
I actually have a friend named Echo so it’s not super uncommon. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/25 "2004-02-04T07:42:08Z")
Echo Johnson is a playmate from the early 90s. Probably wont help but it’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/26 "2004-02-04T07:51:09Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > \ > It could be worse. She could have been named A-ko… 🙂 > \ Well, according to the credits, it’s not exactly as bad as all that; her name is Eiko, which I understand is a MUCH more common name (just as the other characters are technically Biiko and Shiiko), but the title spells it that way as a nickname, and to emphasize the joke. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![KismetRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@KismetRose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KismetRose)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/27 "2004-02-04T07:53:25Z")
I wonder if the mother is going with a Greek mythology sort of thing. If she is, you can suggest a whole host of beautiful names from mythology that are much more flattering. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/28 "2004-02-04T08:04:30Z")
Like Clytemnestra. (Don’t hurt me.) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/29 "2004-02-04T09:16:18Z")
Actually I just met a waitress in indiana named echo and I thought It was unusual … Just be careful on using the middle name unless the parents or child wish it as this caused a division in the family and confused the child since she was refered by two names in two diffrent places (her mother won the battle and everyone uses her first name these days …) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/30 "2004-02-04T11:18:20Z")
> [@Quint Essence](#): > > aubrey chanel I think you’re onto something here! I vote for Food Network. > [@](#): > > (pronounced like the perfume with a sh sound) Oh ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/31 "2004-02-04T11:48:55Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > “Echo” sounds kind of cheap. Maybe you can convince her to go with “Camry”, or at least “Corolla”. I think as a name, it’s more of an Edsel. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/32 "2004-02-04T11:51:27Z")
We don’t want our children teased. In addition to giving her a “normal” name: 1. Make sure she has all of the latest designer clothes 2. Always let her watch the T.V. Shows and Movies that “all the other kids get to see” 3. Buy her a nice car for her 16th birthday 4. If her breasts don’t develop as soon as the other girls’, start with the steroids! 5. Advise her to drink at parties where the other kids are drinking 6. Scold her whenever she earns a test score higher than a “C+” 7. Don’t allow her to pursue Art, Music, or Drama Above all, keep her away from all character-building experiences!!! “Echo” is a cool name. The Teasing will start about third grade and will fade by the end of Junior High. The Teasing will only be severe if she is socially awkward in other ways. If your daughter raises a confident child with a good self esteem, then the teasing won’t even be that bad when it is at it’s peak. For the whole rest of her life she will be blessed with a unique name that she can truly own. She might not make many friends among the **RickJay** ’s of the world, but do we really need people like that in our lives? Of Course, if your daughter is going to raise a bland wishy-washy child then go with “Susie”. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/33 "2004-02-04T12:17:26Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > The Teasing will start about third grade and will fade by the end of Junior High. I doubt that. I’m 50, most of my coworkers are in their 40s, and mockery of names is a favorite pasttime among some of them. Every person who makes a joke about an unusual name thinks he’s the first one to think it up, much to the chagrin of the holder of the name. Either “Echo” will grow up with a great sense of humor and learn to deal with the never-ending series of jokes about her name, or she’ll have many miserable years in school and after. I wouldn’t do that to my child, but then I’m old and grouchy. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/34 "2004-02-04T12:56:23Z")
**Echo** was the name of Bob Dylan’s girlfriend in Minnesota, back before he got famous and all. Just saying. I think it’s a cool name, but then I’m weird. ---
**Author:** ![Kiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiger)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/35 "2004-02-04T13:20:21Z")
Could be worse. My neighbors named their new baby Kamyla Ester. The parents are obviously on the “cutesy” misspelled name bandwagon. Poor kid can’t even use her middle name either - I mean, Ester?? Just awful. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/36 "2004-02-04T13:36:10Z")
> [@peri](#): > > If she MUST call the child Echo, perhaps she could be nudged into using a more traditional name, with Echo as a nickname. Rebecca would work. This is a brilliant idea. Name her Rebecca, but call her Echo as a nickname. In one instant it makes the name very cool! And it gives her an out when she is sixteen and doesn’t want to be called Echo anymore. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/37 "2004-02-04T13:37:38Z")
I’m for a “go-with-the-flow” approach, Reeder. Do you really want to spend your daughter’s last month of pregnancy disputing this with her? I would, of course, bring up the issue of teasing (I’m sure she’s already realized this), but I wouldn’t go on an all-out anti-Echo campaign. Finally, everyone feels differently about their name. I have an unusual name and love it; I couldn’t imagine myself as a “Susan,” “Ann,” “Jennifer,” or any other more common name. Was I teased? Yes, but only some of it had to do with my name. Kids will tease each other about how they talk, what they wear, how they walk, what’s in their lunchbox, etc., etc., and to me the name-related teasing doesn’t stick out much from the rest of all that. I’m now in my mid-20s, and it’s been ages since I can last remember someone using my name as a joke. People do express curiousity about it, but that’s no bother to me. YMMV, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/38 "2004-02-04T13:48:31Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Above all, keep her away from all character-building experiences!!! > > “Echo” is a cool name. The Teasing will start about third grade and will fade by the end of Junior High. It has nothing to do with building character. It’s annoying. My name IRL is Lee Bruce. Get it? Not _a_ _day_ _goes_ _by_ without hearing one of an infinite number of idiot responses I get from Blockbuster clerks, bank tellers or whoever. When the girl is 42 years old, some idiot, somewhere will think he’s the first person ever to go “Echo…echo…echo…” or “Come again?”. And it will be annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/39 "2004-02-04T13:53:23Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Middle name suggestion: Lalia No, no… middle name should be Foxtrot. Even better if the family surname is Golf. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411/40 "2004-02-04T13:54:51Z")
Echo is such an ugly sounding word, I can’t imagine why anyone would want their daughter to be called something that sounds like a cross between spitting and coughing. Ekko. Icko. Yucko! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grand-daughter-will-be-named-echo-marie/227411.md?page=3)