# Names you would never give to your kid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730 "2002-05-13T01:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/21 "2002-05-13T22:00:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caricci \* > \*\*Madison, McKenna, Caitlin, Emily, Alexis, Megan - anything trendy. For boys, Michael. Even though it’s not the most popular now (that’s Jacob, I hear), it’s way too ever present for me. I also would never give a girl one of the following middle names: Marie, Lee, Lynn or Anne. I think people just use them for filler. \*\* Michael Jacob was my grandfather’s name. I can’t stand the name Madison. It’s everywhere. Blech blech blech. Icky icky icky. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/22 "2002-05-13T22:07:50Z")
Marielee Lynnanne…something about it sounds interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/23 "2002-05-13T22:07:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\* > > Michael Jacob was my grandfather’s name. > > I can’t stand the name Madison. It’s everywhere. Blech blech blech. Icky icky icky. \*\* When did “Madison” become trendy? I’ve never heard of anyone named that, and I work in a birthing center IN Madison. Perhaps there’s a local taboo against that as a baby name. ---
**Author:** ![Nonny\_Mouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@Nonny\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonny_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/24 "2002-05-13T22:38:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chris Luongo \* > \*\* > > Maybe I’m oversimplifying here…but nearly everyone I’ve ever met has been a perfect match for their name, for better or worse. \*\* Not to refute a “nearly” claim with a single example, but my name is Norma and I’m not even remotely normal. Nonny ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/25 "2002-05-13T22:44:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > When did “Madison” become trendy? I’ve never heard of anyone named that, and I work in a birthing center IN Madison. > > Perhaps there’s a local taboo against that as a baby name. According to the [Social Security Administration](http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/2001/top100_of_2001.html), Madison is the third most popular name given to newborn girls in the United States in 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Romola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@Romola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Romola)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/26 "2002-05-13T23:00:01Z")
Cutesy names any self-respecting adult would refuse to give their child: Cody, Corey, Daisy, Mindy, Paige, Cindy. The shame doubles if the names end in an i. Names that shout my parents are trendy yuppies/my parents expect me to become a porn star: Hunter, Tucker, Tanner, Dakota, Montana, Taylor, Jordan, Mackenzie, Cheyenne, Savanna, Sierra, Jayden, Makenna. I hate names that are spelled “creatively:” Includes the Caitlins, Britneys, Hailies, Courtnies, Jaidens, Madysons, Jazmins and other revolting variations. However, I am also a pretentious git who likes Hypatia, Ophelia, and Medea, so I’m not one to talk. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/27 "2002-05-13T23:48:22Z")
There’s a guy who works at my firm named Richard Less. He goes by Rich. ---
**Author:** ![Molly\_Coddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@Molly\_Coddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molly_Coddle)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/28 "2002-05-13T23:56:27Z")
**There’s a guy who works at my firm named Richard Less. He goes by Rich.** Better “Rich” than “Dick”, I say ---
**Author:** ![Tracie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@Tracie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracie)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/29 "2002-05-14T00:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Romola \* > \*\*Cutesy names any self-respecting adult would refuse to give their child: Cody, Corey, Daisy, Mindy, Paige, Cindy. The shame doubles if the names end in an i. \*\* I never thought of these names as ‘cutesy’. (Says TracIE who has a son named CasEY and a son named CodY and a sister named KellIE.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tracie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@Tracie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracie)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/30 "2002-05-14T00:43:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Romola \* > \*\*Cutesy names any self-respecting adult would refuse to give their child: Cody, Corey, Daisy, Mindy, Paige, Cindy. The shame doubles if the names end in an i. \*\* I never thought of these names as ‘cutesy’. I am not fond of Daisy or Paige though. But then I’m a “Tracie” and have a son named Cody, a son named Casey, a sister named Kellie and a niece named Kylie. 😉 A friend of a friend has a girl named, Tyfani (it’s pronounced “Tiffany” but when I see it in print, I think of “tie-fanny”), I think it’s silly to name your child a common name but spell it weird in an effort to be creative. My poor niece is named, “Mylana Nora”. We call her “Mya” for short. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/31 "2002-05-14T00:56:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algernon \* > \*\*This topic came up last week on a local radio station. I cannot verify its authenticity, but supposedly a teacher called in and said she had a girl in her class with a name that is supposed to be pronounced Shi-theed (accent on the second syllable). You can correctly deduce that it was spelled Shithead. > > Personally, I’m dubious. No. Stronger than that, I’m extremely skeptical. > > But, it illustrates my personal distaste for unusual spellings and made-up names. \*\* I was chatting with one of my online friends about this a while ago, and he said that he had heard the same story you had, **Algernon**. He and I both doubted the authenticity of the story. Then again, there was the story I heard about the girl named Female, pronounced Fe-mah-lee. I don’t know about that one, either. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > > \*\*I wouldn’t name a boy “Hortense,” just for the sound of it. > > > > And I wouldn’t name any kid “Yes,” just for the discipline problems it’d create. “No, Yes! Don’t do that, Yes!”\*\* > > “No” would suck too. “No, no”. “Yes, no.” “You” has a kind of mass appeal to it, but… no, don’t saddle a kid with it.\*\* You know, this reminds me of _Ramona Forever_ by Beverly Cleary. One of the stories concerns the impending arrival of a new baby in the Quimby family. Ramona is trying to come up with names for her new baby sister, who eventually is named Roberta. She comes up with the name “It”, but her parents and sister Beezus say that it’s not such a good name. They explain to her that every time someone says, “I don’t like it”, the child will probably cry, thinking that they are talking about her. Yes, I am aware that I remember the weirdest things, but that’s just me. 🙂 So let’s not name our children “It”, shall we? We don’t want them to develop an inferiority complex of extremely massive proportions! :eek: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > \*\*When did “Madison” become trendy? I’ve never heard of anyone named that, and I work in a birthing center IN Madison. > > Perhaps there’s a local taboo against that as a baby name.\*\* I remember thinking siomething along the same lines a few years ago. Near my brother’s house, there is a road called Ryan Rd. One day, I was looking at it and thinking how odd it would be if there were actually people named Ryan (little boys, most l9kely) living in one of the houses on that road! You know, “It’s very easy to remember where I live. The road’s name is my name too, so all I have to remember is the numbers on my house!” Oh, and I found my thread; it’s [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109977&highlight=Janet+Schwegel) one. ---
**Author:** ![ThreeLeggedBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThreeLeggedBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreeLeggedBob)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/32 "2002-05-14T01:03:17Z")
Purely to be mean, one could name a child “VOID”. He (or she) would never be able to cash a check… ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/33 "2002-05-14T01:05:03Z")
You want a list of big “no-no” names for your daughter? Just look at any James Band movie. “Well Mr. Galore, have you decided on what to name your little girl?” ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/34 "2002-05-14T01:28:57Z")
So what is wrong with being a stripper? I don’t like Biblical names, and would never intentionally give my child a name that was closely associated with the Bible (or any religion, most likely). Also no “clever spellings” of regular names. Blah! Also no names that make phrases when you put their first and middle name together (or last name). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/35 "2002-05-14T01:44:04Z")
I like the name Daisy. It’s old-fashioned-it has a 1920s aura to it. Of course, it would be better as a nickname, or a middle name. ---
**Author:** ![catdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@catdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catdog)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/36 "2002-05-14T02:49:50Z")
I think this would be pretty cool: Kid #1: Juan Kid #2: Deuce Kid #3: Trey My girlfriend vetoed me down. Hard and quick. I figure I have some time to break her down though as I don’t see us breaking up anytime soon (or having kids). I was willing to compromise though… All I wanted was unrestricted naming privileges on number 2. She can name the rest. –Nate ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/37 "2002-05-14T03:45:26Z")
When Airman and I started considering names, we took the Baby Name book and leafed through it. Unfortunately, Airman’s last name is Cartwright, so that pretty much did away with Ben, Adam, Joe, Eric, Hoss, and Hop Sing. We also weren’t crazy with some of the trendier names. Almost independently, we came up with Aaron, and my mother threw in the Justin. There has been some dissent within my immediate family over the baby’s name, but we like Aaron Justin, and we’re sticking with it. We wanted to avoid cutesy or trendy names. We went with traditional names because they’re just that: Traditional. The added bonus is that Aaron means “enlightened”, and Lord knows that’s a good thing. 🙂 Robin ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/38 "2002-05-14T04:12:24Z")
I have friends who wanted to name their child Ebeneezer. Unfortunately, they asked my opinion. I told them the child would either be a brawler, or a cry-baby. I reminded them kids could be so mean. After a brief, but heated, argument they decided I was right. The kid’s name is Robert. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/39 "2002-05-14T04:18:11Z")
Bocephus. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730/40 "2002-05-14T04:27:06Z")
A neighbor I once had named her son Fabian. A woman I saw while shopping, was talking to her kids Rhett and Scarlett. When my SIL was pregnant, she decided to name the baby Sable if it was a girl. I think the whole family was relieved that it was a boy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-would-never-give-to-your-kid/108730.md?page=3)