# North West is a totally acceptable name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929 "2013-06-26T00:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/81 "2013-06-28T00:50:51Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Yeah, I get that words convey feelings, images, emotion etc. and in that sense I guess Apple certainly isn’t the worst name in the world. The problem for me is when I hear the word ‘apple’ I immediately think of a ‘thing’, an ‘object’, the round, reddish piece of fruit, not its ‘sweetness’ or other positive feeling. Same as naming her ‘strawberry’ or ‘peach’ or ‘cherry’ (not to mention they sound like stripper names!) They’re not ethereal enough to be names of _people_ more than inanimate _objects_. > > But hey, one person’s hippie-mom is another’s trendsetter… Eh, I’ve known a Cherry. She was a first-generation American born by Japanese immigrant parents. I often wondered if she was actually named Cherry, or if her parents named her Sakura (Cherry Tree/Blossom in Japanese, a **very** common name there) and she just went by Cherry, if they decided to just translate Sakura when it came time to name her, or if it’s just a coincidence. But if I didn’t know that she was Japanese and Sakura was a common name there, I probably wouldn’t have noticed. I think it’s a perfectly fine name. ETA: But really, I don’t feel like names convey feelings that much. Sure, Jeffrey means “gift of peace” (or “God Peace” according to some places, whatever that means), but when you hear “Jeffrey” do you **really** think of the meaning, or do you just say “hey that’s a name!”? At best you might associate it with other people you know with that name. At least it’s that way for most people I know. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/82 "2013-06-28T03:31:25Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > What’s worse, I doubt their marriage will last more than a year but the kid is stuck with it for life… I’m pretty sure they’re not married. Is her divorce from the guy she was legally married to when she got pregnant even final yet? ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/83 "2013-06-28T03:39:39Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > “Apple,” while fairly unique, doesn’t strike me as goofy or hard to live with in any way. But why did they have to give her the middle name of “Teeny”? I know she was small and had red cheeks as a baby, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/84 "2013-06-28T04:06:10Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > Tell it to [Candice Agree](http://www.wdav.org/15_32_502.cfm). Totally off-topic, but that woman’s voice drives me _nuts_ (and not in a good way). Not her fault, of course, but it does. She was an announcer on New York’s classical radio station for years, so I heard her speaking all the time. Haven’t heard her in a while – either she’s left the station, or switched to a time when I’m not listening to the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/85 "2013-06-28T10:39:09Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I’m pretty sure they’re not married. Is her divorce from the guy she was legally married to when she got pregnant even final yet? That retarded looking football player? I think they were married for a short enough time that they just got an annulment. Or something. It made for [**the greatest _The Soup_ clip ever!**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5-Uoi1e0c) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/86 "2013-06-28T10:47:31Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Yeah, I get that words convey feelings, images, emotion etc. and in that sense I guess Apple certainly isn’t the worst name in the world. The problem for me is when I hear the word ‘apple’ I immediately think of a ‘thing’, an ‘object’, the round, reddish piece of fruit, not its ‘sweetness’ or other positive feeling. Same as naming her ‘strawberry’ or ‘peach’ or ‘cherry’ (not to mention they sound like stripper names!) They’re not ethereal enough to be names of _people_ more than inanimate _objects_. > > But hey, one person’s hippie-mom is another’s trendsetter… How about “Rose” or “Lily”? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/87 "2013-06-28T14:16:20Z")
eliahna: > [@](#): > > does no one else feel sorry for Moses Martin? That’s quite a name to live up to. No kidding, Moses Malone was a heck of a basketball player. ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/88 "2013-06-28T23:47:19Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Frank Zappa did this, and way better, back in the sixties. Or seventies? How old are Zweezil and Moon Unit by now? That was just wrong on a whole other level, naming his daughter Moon Unit. Everyone knows Moon Unit is a boy’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/89 "2013-06-29T02:19:08Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > How about “Rose” or “Lily”? Well, that’s just it. Flowers \*\*\*are \*\*\*more ethereal and emotional than fruit. Mainly because we don’t eat them. They’re purchased, given & appreciated as pure symbols of beauty & perfection. Fruits are more of a practical commodity like wheat & rice. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/90 "2013-06-29T04:10:43Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Well, that’s just it. Flowers \*\*\*are \*\*\*more ethereal and emotional than fruit. Mainly because we don’t eat them. They’re purchased, given & appreciated as pure symbols of beauty & perfection. Fruits are more of a practical commodity like wheat & rice. Ok, smartypants. How about Peaches? Or Rosemary? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/91 "2013-06-29T15:31:29Z")
Like I said, Peaches is a stripper name! And Rosemary (what is that, a spice?) well, that’s a fat girl’s name! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/92 "2013-06-29T15:47:28Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > For me it’s not so much any practical, future teasing the kid may or may not endure. It’s just the fact that they did this because they’re celebrities. And, in this case, the worst kind (famous for being famous). The rich & beautiful seem to believe they have to make a ‘statement’ with naming their offspring. > > Tom Cruise is a reasonably intelligent, classy guy (even if he is a prophet of the great space lizard) so I can see him picking some pretentious, pseudo-intelligentsia sounding sand-skript like Suri. At least it still sounds like a female proper noun. > > Paltrow is a ditzey, neo-hippie, bazillionaire so she picks Apple. I saw her on Letterman afterwards and hearing her gush, “Oh, when I saw her wittle, wosey, wed cheeks I just thought of that!” made me want to projectile vomit. Also, Cold Play-boy? It’s the man’s job to prevent hormone-drenched new moms from doing this, 'em kay? > > But Kardashian is just a brain-dead piece o’ tail with a fat ass. It’s like when white trash win the lottery and buy a mansion but still have a car up on blocks in the front yard. 😃 Well…what if it’s [Edward Keinholz’s car?](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/k/kienholz/back_seat_dodge.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/93 "2013-07-01T01:12:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Well…what if it’s [Edward Keinholz’s car?](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/k/kienholz/back_seat_dodge.jpg) Hmm, I’m intrigued, but have no idea what I’m looking at there! ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/94 "2013-07-01T03:15:10Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Like I said, Peaches is a stripper name! And Rosemary (what is that, a spice?) well, that’s a fat girl’s name! 😃 My neighbors have a 13 year old girl named Cinnamon Candyapple. I’d like your esteemed opinion on that name, please. Also, Tu Morrow? Like, _tomorrow_? I don’t know quite why but I think I hate that more than North West. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/95 "2013-07-01T11:02:01Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > My neighbors have a 13 year old girl named Cinnamon Candyapple. I’d like your esteemed opinion on that name, please. My condolences… > [@Zjestika](#): > > Also, Tu Morrow? Like, _tomorrow_? I don’t know quite why but I think I hate that more than North West. Yeah, that is actually even dumber. Akin to Ben & Ilene Dover! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929/96 "2013-08-01T04:02:13Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Hmm, I’m intrigued, but have no idea what I’m looking at there! [Back Seat Dodge '38.](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/arts/design/02dodg.html?_r=0) It’s at the LACMA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-west-is-a-totally-acceptable-name/661929.md?page=4)