In a restaurant I was waited on by a young woman whose name tag said, La Sonya. Okay, but then I realized, “Your mother named you Lasagna??”
I want to use at least two of these names in my next novel. That’s the advantage of writing fantasy–you can inflict almost any name you want without feeling guilty.
TY. I like Lampblack, myself. It would be a good steampunk name, too. Corset Lampblack, Steampunk burlesque star!
My checker at the grocery is named “Shena”:dubious:
No,I didn’t ask. I have some cooth.
Not gettin’ the connotation. ??
(Is it just that it’s more commonly “Sheena,” making the “long e” pronunciation more obvious?)
That’s a weird name for a utility company, let alone a person.
Yeah, Kai is an old Germanic name.
King, well, I guess it worked for King Faraday.
Ripley is pretty cool, I think.
Isis isn’t that weird, is it? It doesn’t seem that strange to me.
Now, if she had a brother called Dash, that’d be funny.
That list has the perfectly respectable Justus on it, as well as Honour. I think they went overboard.
I’m amused that Tatiana and Aleksi are “unusual.” Those seem like incredibly ordinary Russian names to me. But in the English-speaking world, I guess they’re a bit more unusual.
Isis, like ISIS aka ISIL aka IS = the terrorist group highly active in the Middle East at the moment. Though I wonder if people who are bothered by that also shun the name “mark” because it’s a word that refers to a discoloration, stain or area of damage.
…so are Lucifer, Christ, and Messiah IMO (though i don’t like ‘Messiah’ personally).
Just heard a new one today.
Empire. A little girl named Empire.
Screw Princess, Queenie, etc. We’ll just go for the whole shebang.
Could it be because of the new hit TV show?
That’s no excuse.
Saw this on the news: a little girl named “A-million”.
Maybe mom misheard someone named “Amelia”?
“My baby’s not one-in-a-million, she’s A-million.” :rolleyes:
(Coincidentally, the story was about CPS coming to take the baby away, the mom has 3 or 4 other kids already taken from her.)
It would have been even worse if the show was around then, though. Imagine if Mike Rowe had fallen in love with her and married her. She would be named Tannery Rowe.
My daughter’s school is full of “unusual” names (including hers) but only because there’s a huge immigrant population and thus there are lots of foreign names. So she’s got friends named Olurinu and Sanjana and Zainab and Eleri and Addien and Serwa and Freya and Amarachi. To be honest, they’re easier to remember than trying to keep all the Olivias straight (she had three in her class one year).
More on topic: my niece (a self-described redneck) has named her daughters Makenzie and Kalysta (Kenzie and Kaly for short) but since they seem to be turning out fine I don’t mind. Not sure what their teachers think though.
The correct response to an unusual name is to take delight in diversity and wonder, happily, about the story behind the name.
Laughing at a person’s name is childish.
Laughing at a child’s name is worse.
Hey everybody how’s it going?
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But Frylock, giving kids unusual name will saddle them for problems for life!
My reply to this is that you are correctly pointing out that most people are assholes. But the important question is, are you one of them?
I will admit to an involuntary chuckle upon meeting a man named “Wonderboy”. I suspect he got that a lot.