Young Isis’s mum is regretting her name of recent times:
http://mobile.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/isis-leskien-the-eightyearold-sydney-girl-whose-name-is-tearing-her-family-apart/story-fnet085v-1227073914415
“It’s ruining our family and it’s ruining Isis’s future. I’m heartbroken for all the families being affected (by Islamic State), the journalists, the different people who are suffering, but my family is suffering too.”
Good to see she’s keeping it in perspective.
Apparently some people are friggin idiots. And I don’t mean that girls’ parents. I mean the folks who are treating them like pariahs for having the audacity to name their daughter something that would one day get used as an initialism for a terrorist organization.
I suppose cheering “Go Isis” at the soccer game rubs some people the wrong way, that they think someone is cheering on the terrorists. People apparently can’t separate contexts.
So you believe their friends have started shunning them and their acquaintances are horrified that their eight year old daughter shares her name with a terrorist group they first became aware of in the last six months? I was leaning toward them being ridiculously hyper-sensitive to mild ribbing and jokey comments.
I think names ending in a “Leigh” or “lee” are super lame. Like Kayleigh, Kaylee, Marlee, Miley. All sound bratty to me for some reason. Too cutesy. Jayden, Hayden, Hanson, Hudson - all super lame and quite frankly, dorky. Again, makes me think of some rich spoiled brat wearing polo who will never support himself in life and who has his mommy (or a nanny) wipe his butt for him till he’s 30.
I can’t help wondering if someone whose parents named her Isis was insufferable to begin with (I’m a goddess!) and the other kids were happy to see the name taken down a peg.
I went to school with siblings named Venus and Vesta. Venus was a pain in the tuchus, and Vesta went by her middle name. It’s probably a good thing, because once kids learned the phrase “Vestal virgins,” she never would have heard the end of it. Come to think of it, Vesta and Venus was kind of a weird pairing-- “My daughters, the virgin and the sexpot.” The parents were probably just attracted to the alliteration and the goddess theme, and didn’t even think about (or know) what the goddesses were matrons of.
KEYE TV in Austin,Tx has a weatherperson (female) named Chikage Windler. I have heard her pronounce it a couple of times,and I still have no idea how to say it.
How about white-trash names? You’ll like this trailer from Ted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UTnE6DVLq0
There someone in my office with that first name. I assume it’s Asian, chick-AH-gay. Maybe? Pretty sure it’s not CHICK-aj. 
In the news: following the death of nine month old Avarice Alexander, her parents have been charged with felony child neglect. No charges have been laid over naming their child Avarice, but if you had to name a child after one of the seven deadly sins I guess that’s probably one of the better ones. Lust and Sloth would invite a lot more teasing.
I wonder if they had no idea it was an actual word. Ava has been a top name for several years; maybe they tried to be cre8ive by tacking an ending onto it. They could have borrowed it from Beatrice, or something. Maybe they pronounced it “Ay-vah-reese.” Heck, maybe her mother’s name was Ava, and her father’s name was Reese.
Or maybe they just name her a deadly sin. People used to name their children Filth back in the Puritan days, on the theory that the angel of death wouldn’t bother with Filth. I met a 15-year-old once with a daughter named Tequila, not making that up. As good an argument as any for free condoms in the nurse’s office. Tequila and her mother were living with foster parents who were Apostolic Pentecostals. Half the people in their church stammered something idiotic upon hearing the baby’s name, and the other half didn’t know what Tequila was.
I’m still thinking of the people who named their son Zachary Taylor, eschewing making him Whatever Taylor III, because the father didn’t like being a junior, and wanted his son to have a name “all his own.”
After I delivered my Asa, I was in a maternity ward with a 16-y-o girl who decided she would name her baby “Le Son.”
Please tell me she had a boy.
Oh, yes, it was a boy. But when I asked her how she would spell it, she didn’t know.
This was inner-city Boston. I was 40 and all the other mothers were around 15.
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My daughter went to school with a girl named Tequila. As far as I know, no one even blinked at that. Lol I have a daughter-in-law named Brandy.
When I was in Labor and Delivery clinicals, a young couple named their son with about 12 names including Axl, Elvis, and oh, hell I can’t remember what all. It was a hot mess, trust me on that. 
My son’s name is John. People are always asking us how to spell it, and acting surprised, but a little relieved, when we tell them. His Hebrew name is Yochanan, but unless he moves to Israel, he won’t use it except at his bris, bar mitzvah, and when he’s called to Torah.
I was watching a programme on CI last night and the victim was a girl named Johnia (I’m guessing her father’s name was John) but they kept pronouncing it Jonna (or Johna). I’m puzzled at the purpose of the letter i.
Conversely, OJ Simpson’s first name was spelled “Orenthal,” but he pronounced it “o-REN-thee-al,” with an extra syllable that was not present in the spelling.
I got a good one yesterday. My mom married a black baptist minister, so they get invited to many many special occasions. I was perusing a wedding program, and came across Herstitine. She’s in her late 60s, those.
I have also seen birth announcements online for Apollo, Merlin, and Elliett (a girl).
Which is why my given name is pronounced Syn-thee-ya. People screw up both spelling and pronunciation of a reasonably common name. And it’s not just me – it’s people with names like Mark and Marie. I blame this on all of the parents who named their kid Marie but spell it with a y, two e’s, and a silent h.
When the trend of giving kids nouns for names began among my crunchier acquaintances (no doubt inspired by the Phoenix clan), I threatened to name any spawn I created Lampblack, Mailbox, and Corset (obviously, Corset is a girl).