Her sister could be named Keri.
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.
Babaloo Mandel’s real name is Marc.
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!).
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).
The receptionist at the middle school I went to was named Honey. And it was ironic, because she was a viper-mean old woman.
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.
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.]
Sha-MAL is exactly how I would expect it to be pronounced.
edit: oops, missed the part about the accent mark. Nevermind.
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.
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I’d think the girl whose name was Heaven backwards would grow up to be “the girlfriend from Hell.”
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.
The parents were hoping for triplets so they could name the third “Miyo.”
Obligatory linkageto Not Without My Handbag Bad BabyNames. It is so awful, it is awesome!
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.
Used to work with a “Selena Showers”.
Porn star in the making.
(at least, I hope so. Damn, she was hot.)
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.
You are joking ,right?
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.
Hey!
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).