Frank Zappa’s kids over the years both hated and loved their names over the years: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Muffin, but the story goes when Dweezil found out his real name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa, he got so upset that his parents had it legally changed to Dweezil. When Zappa was asked wouldn’t people think his kids weird because they had weird names, Zappa replied that once people find out that weirdo Frank Zappa was your father, people though they were weird anyway. :smack:
Actually, it sounds like Caitrín, which is a popular name where I’m from, where we’re a bunch of Irish immigrants. Many people chose to keep their Irish names and heritage. Caitlin, is of course, Irish in origin, and pronounced “Kathleen”, though Americanised, people pronounce it “Kate-lynn”. The hell?
So, I don’ t know the parents motives for naming their child Caitrín or how they pronounce it, but it’s not* that * unusual. It’s quite old.
I think it was Bob Geldof’s daughter Peaches Honey Blossom who was commenting on how much she hates her name, and wishes her parents hadn’t named her that.
My aunt mentioned she knew a couple who named their song Brighton. Their last name? Early.
My mother made a slight goof with my sister that’s not a big deal, but mildly annoying. She and my father chose the name Colleen. Okay, fine. Except my name is Kathleen. My uncle started calling us the “Leen Sisters.”
Yep, and the name for the younger sister matches.
Don’t get me wrong, it actually is pretty. The problem is, whether Irish folk like it or not, there are zillions of Caitlins, pronounced “Kate Lynn,” so almost everyone will jump to that conclusion. Now I’m curious. If Caitlin is pronounced “Kathleen,” is Caitrin pronounced “Katherine?”
FTR, I’ve always love, love, loved the name Siobhan, but I just couldn’t do that to my child. Come to think of it, I quite like Niamh too, but same problem.
You could always spell it “Shevaun”.
KAT-rin or KAT-reen, where I’m from. Think “Katrina”, without the “a”. To be honest, I’m not sure about Katherine, but I suppose it could be. The first two pronunciations are what I am familiar with.
I do see where you’re coming from, I just start rambling away with my own thoughts on the matter, sometimes. 
Then there’s Penn Jilette of Penn and Teller, who named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter Jilette.
Really.
Back when I used to move military families from one location to another, I’d run across odd names.
One family’s travel orders had mom’s name listed as “Dennisse”.
Her daughter’s name was “Essinned”.
…yes, that’s right!
Or should I say “!thgir s’taht ,sey”
As for me… I’ve got two bothers names “Arthur”.
As a Siobhan, I have to kill you for that now
I spoke to a guy the other day who was called “Shady”. And he was born in the '70s, so this wasn’t some eminem related or anything.
I think some of the old Gaellic and Celtic names quite pretty, especially for girls. Trouble is, theyr’e very trendy now. Rhiannon being one that is becoming the Ashley of a few years ago. IMO, I wish those who take older names would spell it in the established way. I see no point in adding another “n” to Meaghann, for example. I don’t like endings that change a “y” to “ee” for example–it seems to just burden the child and the folks who have to write his/her name.
I know a boy named Tasker. I have no idea why he is named that. I know a few girls named America and Asia–they’re all in jr high, so perhaps that was trendy for awhile. I know an Ianthe–which I think is quite nice. It’s pronounced Ee-yan-te. Why not? We have Diana, afterall.
Anyone here read the book, Freakanomics? There’s a chapter in there about kids’ names–interesting.
I both like and sometimes shudder at the variety of naming. It’s such a big thing, and yet in a way, it’s not big at all.
Angernetta…I think I’ve found my new user name!
Phelan Lo. His family runs Lo’s Market in Kerman, CA. Went to school with mrAru.
Pity the girl named Eileen in his class … the same year that “Come on Eileen” was so popular …
Ah ok, I just talked to him earlier. I know who you are now
p.s. Hopefully that doesn’t come off creepy.
Actor Rob Morrow named his daughter Tu.
Tu Morrow. :rolleyes:
I very nearly escaped being named a combination of my parents’ names: Vivid. :eek:
I went to school with a Syhalla and a Shequanna and Carson Larson. There were actually no less than five people in my middle school with rhyming first and last names. Also Jason and Jeremy Johnson, James and Julia Brown, and Sky and Merica Jensen.
I live down the hall from a Kelsie (nauseatingly popular here in Utah) and LaShel.
I’ve told this one before…
There was a woman that worked on the assembly floor of the factory where I did production control. She wasn’t all that literate, but she said she liked to page through catalogs. One day, she saw a word that she thought would make a nice name for the child she was expecting, so she decided on it. The boy’s name is pronounced:
PADGE-uh-muss
but it’s written as:
Pajamas.
We had an intern named Lady. Hallgirl 1 went to school with Sparkle.
A neighbor has a son named Jordan River (Smith).
I went to school with a Candy Cane and a Candy Cotton and met twins named Rose Mary and Mary Rose.
I think I’ve told these before, but they’re worth repeating…
At the University I work at, students can put money on their student card and pay with it like a debit card. We have to type the full name that appears on the card into the terminal at the time of sale. There have been a couple names I’ve encountered that nearly made me laugh right in front of them.
One girl: Carmen-Garmen
Another girl: This might not have been too unusual otherwise, but the fact that her middle initial was on the card made it hilarious. Her name was Dea. D. Blagerhoff. At first glance it looked like Dead Blagerhoff.