Should we only slap the women who pick out stupid names, and not the men?
What’s wrong with Gage? I wouldn’t choose it myself, but in a world of Cadens and Mykkahleahs, it’s refreshingly normal.
I went to school with a kid who’s last name was Blob. (He was skinny, fortunately.) He and Rotunda should totally get married.
Correcting myself - Gage became popular around 1990, a bit later than I thought, which correlates suspiciously with a character by that name in the 1989 movie “Pet Sematary.”
BTW, I know someone born in the 1920s with the middle name Gage - and his father had the same middle name.
How is nevaeh pronounced anyway? I’ve never been able to figure it out.
Another great user name / post match.
Apparently the fathers only contribute sperm, and then wander off in a fog after that.
I was going to make jokings about Gage coming from the character on Emergency!, only to find out that it’s all too true.
My son went to preschool with a kid named Ghavynn.
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”.
I dunno, I know one woman who named her child that but I haven’t heard her say that name (or don’t recall her saying it). I’ve always assumed it’s “Nev-ay-uh”, short e for the first syllable.
There was a guy at my high school named Gage. He would have been born in the 70’s. Of course, being that my high school was in Minnesota, there was also a guy named Bjorn. And about a billion guys named Justin and Jason.
A friend of a friend just named their daughter Corallus. Yes, they are hobbyists. I wonder how their girl is going to feel when she finds out she was named after her father’s pet snake when she grows up.
I dunno, some people seem to thrive in spite of their odd monikers.
One word: Condoleezza.
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 do think when giving a child a “trendy” name, one should go with an old standby for the middle, so that they can be N. Caroline Smith, JD. instead of Nevaeh the lawya.
I had a few classmates at Harvard with… interesting names. One was named Delight and one was named Precious. I wonder if the capital accrued by an elite education negates the issues emanating from their given names?
Gage is a real name that has nothing to do with the word gauge, even though they are homophones and almost homographs. It’s really not one to complain about. Boston’s also probably not going to stand out at school at all. I doubt they’re even the kind of names (like Neveah) that would be any kind of class marker.
Neveah’s never caught on in the UK, perhaps because of a well-known brand of moisturiser called Nivea.
Unfortunately that didn’t work here - Nivea is a well-known brand in the US as well.
Give it time. It’s chav-tastic and WAG-esque.
Isn’t a gage a kind of plum?
At any rate, I was with the OP up through the first sentence, but… “Gage” is your worst example of a “stupid baby name”? Really?
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Oh dear. 
I believe I mentioned, in a previous “unfortunate baby names” thread, the case of young Courvoisiervalentino and his older sister Hennessy.