# Stupid Baby Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273 "2009-07-07T23:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/81 "2009-07-08T19:31:31Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Neveah’s never caught on in the UK, perhaps because of a well-known brand of moisturiser called Nivea. Her sister could be named Keri. > [@IGotNothin](#): > > Oh I have worse ones. Sunshine Rush, Piper (from Charmed, thats my neice) Lee and my nephew Dakota Lynn, Deepender, Carissa (pronounced Ca-riss-a), Cannon, Afrikah, Moon, Blanket, Dewzel, Moon Unit..I could go on. Piper existed long before Piper on Charmed. It’s unusual, but hardly unheard of. Carissa is pretty ordinary. What do you think is wrong or weird about it? Sunshine is probably more common than you may think. Blanket and Dweezil have already been covered, but really, the Zappa kids have been done to death. What’s up with Deepender, though? Is there a story behind that? It sounds like an extreme form of anal sex. > [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > And there is a guy (I think) whose first name is Babalu. Seriously. Babalu. I think he was listed as a producer. Babaloo Mandel’s real name is Marc. ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/82 "2009-07-08T19:50:35Z")
Let’s see, as a teacher I have known a girl named Y, which was not short for anything. A boy named Jehovah was on my list then dropped, so I never met him nor knew what he went by. I once had a Whiskey (though he did go by his middle name). I also had a Tequila. Last year I had an Emerald, which I found I like a lot, and her sisters were Amethyst and Jennifer! One of my fellow teachers was Drexena. One day in our local birth announcements there was a Nevayah. Nice way to take the Heaven meaning out of the name! LOL And the name itself has gotten so common that the “misspelling” of Neveah (instead of Nevaeh) has ranked in the top 1000 baby names in the US. I once knew a woman that wanted to name her daughter Story-Anne Te Amo. Thankfully she had all boys. I did meet a Story once though. Oh, and I just thought of some more from school. Chicago, Seneca, Cimarron and Suede were all boys. (I am thinking that Cimarron spelled his name really goofy, but I can’t recall exactly.) For goofy spellings I’ve seen Macheala and Kyndal (who was a boy!). ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/83 "2009-07-08T20:01:56Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > I have a friend named Gage. She’s a vice president at a major university. I think this little girl isn’t going to have too many problems because of her name? I think I know exactly who you’re talking about; she’s the first person I thought of when I read the name. (We went to the same undergraduate university). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/84 "2009-07-08T20:18:24Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > That said, there’s a regular customer at my store named Honey (yes, that’s the name on her driver’s license). She’s been coming in since she was about 14, and I’m always uncomfortable addressing her by name in front of people who don’t know her for fear they’ll think I’m a dirty old man coming on to this little girl. The receptionist at the middle school I went to was named Honey. And it was ironic, because she was a viper-mean old woman. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/85 "2009-07-08T20:21:23Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > … and Dweezil was only a nickname until he had it changed to his legal name. His birth was registered under the name Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The story goes that he was registered under that name - the names of a bunch of Zappa bandmates - because the hospital refused to write down Dweezil on the birth certificate. He was always called Dweezil, it just wasn’t his legal name for a while. I wouldn’t name a kid Gage, but you could do much, much worse. It’s got some dignity and it’s not absurd or an attempt at being “look at me! I’m gorgeous!” Compared to Nevaeh or any other backwards name, or any of those melissmatic names that appear to be just made up of pretty-sounding suffixes, it’s definitely a good name. > [@RachelChristine](#): > > I once had a Whiskey (though he did go by his middle name). Tango? [Man, “I once had a Whiskey” is a great setup. I once had a Whiskey myself. Then I had another and another and I can’t remember much of the evening after that, but I woke up three days later on the outskirts of Vegas, chained to a baboon and with the distinct taste of shoe leather in my mouth. I didn’t recognize the baboon but I couldn’t help feeling he looked ashamed about something.] ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/86 "2009-07-08T21:36:48Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > My wife knew someone named Shemal, with an accent over the e, which would have been merely unusual except that instead of pronouncing it SHAY-mal as the accent would seem to indicate, it was actually pronounced Sha-MAL. That took it into a whole other realm. I bet she lost count of the number of times someone called her “She-male”. Sha-MAL is exactly how I would expect it to be pronounced. edit: oops, missed the part about the accent mark. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/87 "2009-07-08T21:50:32Z")
I get the occasional odd look, as my wife and I named our littlest boy “Reilly”. It is her father’s family name, and we thought it would be a neat way to honor him. We will be warning him to expect a lot of “Riley” mail, of course. In (and shortly after) High School I dated a girl named “Urania”. Apparently was the name of a grandmother who was “an artist”. Now that she’s a professional in the Phoenix area, she goes by her middle name, Christy. My ex-brother in law is named Tarl Odin. Neat guy. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/88 "2009-07-08T21:56:18Z")
> [@BlakeTyner](#): > > Sadly, I think I might win this thread. My last year as an undergrad, the girl I was dating was doing her student teaching (elementary school level.) She had a pair of siblings, both girls, named: > > Kotex and Clitoria > > The first was pronounced “COT ex” and the second was “CLIT or ee ah” > > I don’t think the mom realized that you’re not supposed to eat the crack pipe. :eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/89 "2009-07-08T22:34:26Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Isn’t a gage a kind of plum? [Ding! Ding! Ding!](http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Agage) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/90 "2009-07-08T22:56:31Z")
I’d think the girl whose name was Heaven backwards would grow up to be “the girlfriend from Hell.” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/91 "2009-07-08T23:45:57Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ve a patient right now with the first name of Okaythen. This is AWESOME in a cosmic level. Then again, considering where you work, is it a surprise that he ended up there. There are two sets of twins in a local preschool named… Mia and Mya. (Mee-a and My-ah. It is still a bit MUCH, dontcha think?) Maverick and Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/92 "2009-07-08T23:53:51Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > There are two sets of twins in a local preschool named… > > Mia and Mya. (Mee-a and My-ah. It is still a bit MUCH, dontcha think?) The parents were hoping for triplets so they could name the third “Miyo.” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/93 "2009-07-09T00:40:55Z")
[Obligatory linkage](http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/)to Not Without My Handbag Bad BabyNames. It is so awful, it is awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/94 "2009-07-09T00:44:53Z")
I was perusing a High School year book and one of the graduating seniors is named **Tiffany Angel**. Angel is her last name. Future stripper. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/95 "2009-07-09T01:19:15Z")
Used to work with a “Selena Showers”. Porn star in the making. (at least, I hope so. Damn, she was hot.) ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/96 "2009-07-09T01:36:07Z")
I know a girl named Ferrell. Ferrell. I hear her all the time, “Like Will Ferrell.” It’s very close to a name I love, Ferrin, which has always made me uncomfortable for some weird reason. She once introduced me to a friend of hers named January. I actually kinda liked that. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/97 "2009-07-09T01:42:29Z")
> [@BlakeTyner](#): > > Sadly, I think I might win this thread. My last year as an undergrad, the girl I was dating was doing her student teaching (elementary school level.) She had a pair of siblings, both girls, named: > > Kotex and Clitoria > > The first was pronounced “COT ex” and the second was “CLIT or ee ah” > > I don’t think the mom realized that you’re not supposed to eat the crack pipe. You are joking ,right? ---
**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:** [July 9, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/98 "2009-07-09T02:19:32Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > I get the occasional odd look, as my wife and I named our littlest boy “Reilly”. The odd looks might be because Riley has shot up the charts as a girl’s name, and was the 38th most popular name for females born in 2008. As a boy’s name, it peaked in 2002 at 99. I hate Riley for a girl, and love it for a boy (moreso the spelling you’ve chosen, Reilly) so I loathe this trend. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/99 "2009-07-09T02:32:32Z")
> [@IGotNothin](#): > > Oh I have worse ones. Sunshine Rush, **Piper** (from Charmed, thats my neice) Lee and my nephew Dakota Lynn, Deepender, Carissa (pronounced Ca-riss-a), Cannon, Afrikah, Moon, Blanket, Dewzel, Moon Unit..I could go on. Hey! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273/100 "2009-07-09T02:57:08Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I was perusing a High School year book and one of the graduating seniors is named **Tiffany Angel**. Angel is her last name. > > Future stripper. I’ll top that. I knew a Scarlet Angel. Sweet girl, though. Couldn’t imagine her becoming a stripper. Also add to my list: Plymouth Rock (guy) and Velvet Night (girl). I always felt if ol’ P. Rock ever went on a shooting spree, it would be justified. Amazingly normal guy, all things considered (but a little weird by “ordinary” standards). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-baby-names/502273.md?page=6)