I think we should be able to slap women who pick out lame ass names and stupid spellings for their babies. How badly do they hate their children and want there asses kicked in middle school? For example, there is a girl that I’m friends with that is going to name her baby Gage. First of all my ex named his DOG Gauge and she didn’t even spell it right! Her sister named her baby boy Boston Keoni. What the hell is that? People are freakin’ retarded and I feel they should be punished for passing their stupidity onto there off spring.
Gaudere’s Law, anyone? :dubious:
I would pronounce Gage “gag-ee”
“Angel” and “Heaven” are beautiful words, but whenever I hear someone with either of these names, I assume she (or he) is an exotic dancer :rolleyes:
What’s wrong with the name Gage? It’s not my favorite, but it’s a pretty typical name…
ETA: I’d pronounce like it’s written- to rhyme with Sage.
Yeah, of all the stupid baby names out there (Moxie Crime Fighter? Apple? Jermajesty?), I think Gage is the most normal. He’s also the little kid in Pet Sematary! Ooh, spooky.
I’ve a patient right now with the first name of Okaythen.
The word that rhymes with “sage” is written “gauge”. “Gage” isn’t written to sound like anything.
And on the subject of stupid baby names, my sister named her kids “Angelia” and “Gloriana”. She calls them “Angel” and “Glory”, which is pretty frikking pretentious (and/or optomistic) on it’s own, but when actually naming them she just went nuts.
I think she should be beat with a stick, and am continually tempted to refer to the kids as “Lia” and “Anna” in retaliation.
No wonder he ended up in prison. I woulda, too.
My patient named her baby “You-Nique”.
“Angelia”? Not even “Angelina”? :smack:
I’m not a fan of naming a girl “Nevaeh” - “heaven” spelled backwards.
Yes, gauge is pronounced that way. However, what I meant is that if you just looked at it phonetically, following basic rules of English, it would be pronounced to rhyme with sage, wage, cage, page etc. Name pronounciations don’t have to be complicated either.
Sure it is.
It’s written perfectly well so that it can sound like “cage” or “page” or “rage” or "wage or “stage.” Just because there’s a separate word spelled “gauge” doesn’t mean that Gage “isn’t written to sound like anything.” It’s like saying that Jim isn’t written to sound like anything, because the word that rhymes with “dim” is actually spelled “gym.” Completely pointless observation.
“Nevaeh” just sets my brain on edge, and it’s sooo trendy among the young mothers and young mom wannabes that I know.
When my niece named her latest child Summer Rain, my eyes almost rolled out of my head. I hope she spelled it correctly, at least.
Well, ranting about names based on the suffering that is produced in CHILDHOOD is lame. Many perfectly marvelous names are a little (or a lot) odd on a child. But childhood is a brief and ever-changing moment in our lives.
My parents gave me a very unusual name (unusual now, it was very usual 150 years ago) that was and remains the source of much confusion and frustration. I hated it for the first quarter-century of my life.
Now I love it and I’m eternally grateful to them for having the foresight to understand that my life was really only going to happen in a major way after the first 20 years were over, and the decision about my name was based on that.
Now, if you want to trash names because they suck at any time in life, feel free.
Gage could be a family name. It is a last name.
How about Neveah? Heaven spelled backwards. Seems fairly popular in the birth notices published in my local paper. My prediction is that Neveah becomes so commonplace that parents start spelling it with a random “y” or two in order to make it different. Nyveah. Or Nevyah. Yeah, that girl is either stripping or handing you your Biggie Fries at the drive through.
OTOH, who am I to judge? Maybe Heaven/Neveah is headed to MIT or Stanford and will be nominated for the Supreme Court someday. I totally understand the OP’s stance, but as long as Boston Keoni’s parents love him, nurture him, and help him become a happy and productive member of society, I see no harm.
Gage has been a fairly common name since the 1970’s, possibly inspired by John Gage, the popular character from “Emergency” who was always called Gage.
According to this website http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi it was the 144th most popular name given to male babies.
As far as the word “gage” it’s a common alternate spelling for “Gauge” (according to this website, Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data “gage” is the American spelling of the word.
I work with a woman named Rotunda which I think is hilarious as she’s not even fat.
Gage, (sounds like gauge) is fine with me. But I prefer Caje (sounds like cage) and his bro’s Kirby, Littlejohn, Doc and Sarge.